"New introduction and bibliographic essay by the author"--Cover.

The eye of the other: images of the Black in Spanish literature / Sylvia Wynter -- Afro-Arabs, Blackamoors and Blacks: an inquiry into race concepts through Spanish literature / Martha Cobb -- The Negro in Spanish literature to the end of the Siglo de Oro / Howard M. Jason -- Attitudes of the Iberian Peninsula (in literature) / Carter G. Woodson -- The Negro in Spanish literature / Valaurez B. Spratlin -- African footprints in Hispanic-American literature / John F. Matheus -- The concept of Black awareness as a thematic approach to Latin American literature / Antonio Olliz Boyd -- Negritude in Latin American culture / Adalberto Ortiz -- Fact from fiction: another look at slavery in three Spanish American novels / Shirley M. Jackson -- La poesia negra: its background, themes and significance / Leslie Wilson -- The image of the Black man in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén / Constance Sparrow de García Barrio -- Social lyricism and the Caribbean poet/rebel / Miriam DeCosta -- El tema negro: the nature of primitivism in the poetry of Luis Palés Matos -- The Black woman in Afro-Caribbean poetry / Ann Venture Young.