Color by Countee Cullen

"Color" by Countee Cullen is a poetry collection published in 1925 when the author was just 22 years old. His first book explores the African American experience through poems addressing race, heritage, and identity during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen grapples with the painful separation from African culture caused by slavery and examines the psychology of being Black in America. The collection includes "Heritage," one of his most celebrated poems, which wrestles with ancestral connections to a distant motherland known only through stories passed down through generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
LoC No. 25021678
Title Color
Original Publication United States: Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_(Countee_Cullen_book)
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject African Americans -- Poetry
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EBook-No. 70543
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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