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Color

Gelesen von Michael MacTaggert

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Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their ancestors were kidnapped and rooted in the white supremacist society where they live. With poems about love, tradition, the intertwined lives of Black people and whites, and the experience of a "Negro in a day like this," Color is a profound early work of the Harlem Renaissance. The collection’s most famous poem is "Heritage". (Summary by Mike Overby) (1 hr 32 min)

Chapters

To You Who Read My Book

3:15

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[Color] Yet Do I Marvel

1:07

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A Song of Praise

1:18

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Brown Boy to Brown Girl

1:13

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A Brown Girl Dead

0:47

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To a Brown Girl

0:55

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To a Brown Boy

0:59

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Black Magdalens

1:09

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Atlantic City Waiter

1:08

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Near White

0:37

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Tableau

0:58

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Harlem Wine

0:56

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Simon the Cyrenian Speaks

1:10

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Incident

0:59

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Two Who Crossed a Line (She Crosses)

1:28

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Two Who Crossed a Line (He Crosses)

1:15

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Saturday's Child

1:27

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The Dance of Love

1:22

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Pagan Prayer

1:52

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Wisdom Cometh With the Years

1:10

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To My Fairer Brethren

0:52

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Fruit of the Flower

1:45

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The Shroud of Color

13:11

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Heritage

5:52

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[Epitaphs] For a Poet

0:48

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For My Grandmother

0:33

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For a Cynic

0:34

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For a Singer

0:32

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For a Virgin

0:35

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For a Lady I Know

0:36

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For a Lovely Lady

0:35

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For an Atheist

0:36

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For an Evolutionist and His Opponent

0:34

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For an Anarchist

0:35

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For a Magician

0:34

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For a Pessimist

0:34

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For a Mouthy Woman

0:38

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For a Philosopher

0:36

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For an Unsuccessful Sinner

0:40

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For a Fool

0:35

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For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats

0:39

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For a Skeptic

0:36

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For a Fatalist

0:38

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For Daughters of Magdalen

0:38

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For a Wanton

0:38

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For a Preacher

0:37

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For One Who Died Singing of Death

0:38

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For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty

0:37

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For Hazel Hall, American Poet

0:38

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For Paul Lawrence Dunbar

0:38

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For Joseph Conrad

0:41

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For Myself

0:39

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All the Dead

0:40

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[For Love's Sake] Oh, for a Little While, Be Kind

1:15

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If You Should Go

0:42

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To One Who Said Me Nay

1:07

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Advice to Youth

0:46

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Caprice

0:46

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Sacrament

0:48

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Bread and Wine

0:52

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Spring Reminiscence

0:56

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[Varia] Suicide Chant

1:06

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She of the Dancing Feet Sings

1:14

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Judas Iscariot

4:39

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The Wise

1:08

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Mary, Mother of Christ

0:44

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Dialogue

1:44

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In Memory of Col. Charles Young

1:13

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To My Friends

1:22

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Gods

1:00

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To John Keats, Poet. At Springtime

2:38

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On Going

0:56

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Harsh World That Lashest Me

2:13

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Requiescam

0:51

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