Perspectives.--The first forty years: 1900-1940; [W. E. B. DuBois and others]--Migration: William Attaway and Blood on the forge.--Richard Wright: Native son and three kinds of revolution.--Race and sex; the novels of Chester Himes.--The Negro church; James Baldwin and the Christian vision.--History as blues: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man.--The new nationalism: Malcolm X.--The expatriate as novelist: William Demby.--Prospects: LeRoi Jones?--Bibliography (p. 201).