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Published Genres

 

Fiction

Short Stories

• "John Redding Goes to Sea" (1921)

• "Drenched in Light" (1924)

• "Spunk" (1925)

• "Under the Bridge" (1925)

• "Magnolia Flower" (1925)

• "Muttsy" (1926)

• "Sweat" (1926)

• "The Gilded Six–Bits" (1933)

• "The Fire and the Cloud" (1934)

• "Cock Robin, Beale Street" (1941)

• "Story in Harlem Slang" (1942)

Novels

• Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934)

• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

• Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)

• Seraph on the Suwannee (1948)

Poetry

• "Poem" (1922)

• "O Night" (1921)

Drama

• Color Struck: A Play (1926)

• "Spears: A Play" (1926)

• The First One: A Play (1927)

 

Non-Fiction

Articles

• "The Hue and Cry About Howard University" (1925)

• "The Ten Commandments of Charm" (1925)

• "On Noses" (1925)

• "The Eatonville Anthology" (1926)

• "Communication" (1927)

• "How It Feels to be Colored Me" (1928)

From Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard (1934)

• "Characteristics of Negro Expression"

• "Conversions and Visions"

• "Shouting"

• "The Sermon"

• "Mother Catharine"

• "Uncle Monday"

• "Spirituals and Neo–Spirituals"

• "Fanny Hurst by Her Ex–Amanuensis" (1937)

• "The 'Pet Negro' System" (1943)

• "High John de Conquer" (1943)

• "Negroes Without Self Pity" (1943)

• "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience" (1944)

• "The Rise of the Begging Joints" (1945)

• "Crazy for This Democracy" (1945)

• "Negroes" (1946)

• "The Negro in the United States" (1947)

• "What White Publishers Won't Publish" (1950)

• "Court Order Can't Make Races Mix"

• "The Trial of Ruby McCollum" (1956)

Autobiography

• Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)

Journalism

• "Race Cannot Be Great Until It Recognizes Its Talent" (1934)

• "Lawrence of the River" (1942)

• "The Last Slave Ship" (1944)

• "The Conscience of the Court" (1950)

• "I Saw Negro Votes Peddled" (1951)

• "Why the Negro Won't Buy Communism" (1951)

• "A Negro Voter Sizes Up Taft" (1951)

From the Ruby McCollum trial:

• "Zora's Revealing Story of Ruby's First Day in Court" (1952)

• "Victim of Fate" (1952)

• "Ruby Sane" (1952)

• "Ruby McCollum Fights for Life" (1952)

• "Bare Plot Against Ruby" (1952)

• "Trial Highlights" (1952)

• "McCollum–Adams Trial Highlights" (1952)

• "Ruby Bares Her Love" (1953)

• "Doctor's Threats, Tussle over Gun Led to Slaying" (1953)

• "Ruby's Troubles Mount

• "(1953)

• "The Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum" (1953)

• "The Juvenile Delinquency" (1958)

• "The Tripson Story" (1959)

• "The Farm Laborer at Home (1959)

• "Hoodoo and Black Magic (1959)

Reviews

• "Full of Mud, Sweat and Blood" (1935). Review of God Shakes Creation by David Cohn.

• "Star–Wrassling Sons–of–the–Universe" (1937). Review of The Hurricane'sa Children by Carl Cramer.

• "Rural Schools for Negroes" (1938). Review of The Jeanes Teacher in the United States by Lance G. E. Jones.

• "Stories of Conflict" (1938). Review of Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright.

• "Bible, Played by Ear in Africa" (1946). Review of How God Fix Jonah by Lorenz Graham.

• "Jazz Regarded as Social Achievement" (1946). Review of Shining Trumpets by Rudi Blesh.

• "Thirty Days Among Maroons" (1947). Review of Journey to Accompong, by Katharine Dunham.

• "The Transplanted Negro" (1947). Review of Trinidad Village by Melville Herskovits and Frances Herskovits.

Review of Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant.

• "At the Sound of the Conch Shell" (1949). Review of New Day by Victor Stafford Reid.

• "Some Fabulous Caribbean Riches Revealed" (1951). Review of The Pencil of God by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby Marcelin.

Musical Compositions

• Cold Rainy Day (1939)

• John Henry (1939)

• Caribbean Melodies for Chorus of Mixed Voices and Soloists (1947)

 

Folk Tales/Anthropology

• "Possum or Pig" (1926)

• "Cudjoe's Own Story of the African Slaver" (1927)

• "Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas" (1930)

• "Hoodoo in America" (1931)

• Mules and Men (1935)

• Tell My Horse (1938)