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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONTRACT. (FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND REBUILDING OF PATERSON), by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flesh, and cars, tar, dug holes beneath stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


A FAIR NYMPH SCORNING A BLACK BOY COURTING HER, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand off, and let me take the air
Last Line: Than wash thy ethiopian skin.
Subject(s): Blacks; Courtship; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


A LITANY OF ATLANTA, by WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O silent god, thou whose voice in mist and mystery hath left our ears
Last Line: Selah!
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bois, W. E. B.
Subject(s): African Americans; Lynching; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


A RECENT DIALOGUE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bishop and a bold dragoon
Last Line: "his nose the cue) ""amen."
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Quarrels; Racism; Reason; Arguments; Disagreements; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A RECONSIDERATION OF THE BLACKBIRD, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's call him jim crow
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


A SONG FOR SOWETO, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the throat of soweto
Last Line: With the song of soweto
Subject(s): Soweto, South Africa; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


A SOUTHERN SCENE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in the land of sunny south
Last Line: On those who doth on thee believe?
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


AFTERIMAGES, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However the image enters
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Jackson, Mississippi; Till, Emmett (1941-1955); Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


AJAX' CONCLUSION, by FRANK BARBOUR COFFIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My friends, our race is ostracised
Last Line: The future's on our shoulders staid.
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ALIENS (TO YOU - EVERYWHERE! DEDICATED), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They seem to smile as others smile, the masquerader's art
Last Line: While peace shall spread a rainbow o'er the earth from pole to pole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


AMBITION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought the mighty chief to town
Last Line: "me heap big chief, me look like hell."
Subject(s): Comedy; Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ANGELINY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come right hyar, yo' angeliny
Last Line: Tink yo's irish too?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Blacks; Ireland; Racism; Irish; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


AT THE CLOSED GATE OF JUSTICE, by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To be a negro in a day like this
Last Line: "merely a negro"" - in a day like this!"
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how it was:
Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema


BABY VILLON, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tells me in bangkok he's robbed
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown
Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BARTOW BLACK, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas when the proclamation came
Last Line: There was no need to stay!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Racism; Antislavery Movement - United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BIGOTRY'S VICTIM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind
Last Line: What remains, but to curse him, -- to curse him and die?
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BITTER FRUIT OF THE TREE, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said to my grandmother: 'please do not be bitter.'
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BLACK FOR THE PEOPLE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man I am with is black
Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BLACK WOMAN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I must not give you birth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BLUES FOR BESSIE, by MYRON O'HIGGINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let de peoples known (unnh) / what they did in dat southern town
Last Line: Wid de blood (lawd) a-streamin' down
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Racism; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Social Protest; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BOCAS: A DAUGHTER'S GEOGRAPHY, by NTOZAKE SHANGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a daughter/ mozambique
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette
Subject(s): Blacks - History; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BONDAGE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many cages round me
Last Line: My garden walks lie inwardly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BROTHERS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air
Last Line: "brothers in spirit, brothers in deed are we?"
Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


CAPTAIN KIDD, by T. B. HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A buccaneer, a bad man
Last Line: "I'd knife ye!"" and I would."
Subject(s): Boats; Racism; Sea; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Ocean


CLAUDETTE COLVIN GOES TO WORK, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Menial twilight sweeps the storefronts along lexington
Last Line: Whenever sleep comes down on me
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


COLERIDGE JACKSON, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coleridge jackson had nothing to fear
Last Line: Away, lurking at something else
Subject(s): Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


CONTINUITY AND DIFFERENTIATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whenever in america
Last Line: Bhjushkst zwmstk rstk pbjunsk pjbrs
Subject(s): Ignorance;racism; Dullness;stupdity;racial Prejudice;bigotry


CONVERSION, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: African guardian of souls
Subject(s): Blacks; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DE NIGGER'S GOT TO GO, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear liza, I is bin down town
Last Line: "wez not a gwine to go."
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DEAR OLD DICK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said dear old dick
Last Line: "to wait on st. Peter world without end."
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Waiters & Waitresses; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DEEP SOUTH, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are savannas bluer than your dreams
Last Line: Of bones in museums, where the black boys yawn
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Louisiana; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DISCRIMINATION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't mind the human race
Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism; Human Race; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DR. SAMUEL ADOLPHUS CARTWRIGHT ON DISSECTING THE WHITE NEGRO, 1851, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: To strip from the flesh
Subject(s): Racism; Cartwright, Samuel A. (1793-1863); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DRAFT OF A RAP FOR WEN HO LEE, by JUNE JORDAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Asian Americans - Chinese; Racism; Chinese In The United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


EPITAPH FOR A BIGOT, by DOROTHY VENA JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life to the bigot is a whip
Last Line: And cringed to death -- a refugee.
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FAITH, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The faint lose faith
Last Line: And yet—
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Faith; Racism; Belief; Creed; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FOR ANY UNBORN NEGRO, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brush / his lips lightly, life!
Last Line: But death
Subject(s): Africna Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America


FOR MALCOLM X, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All you violated ones with gentle hearts
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FOREDOOM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight
Last Line: Her soul, a bud,—that never bloomed
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FREEDOM TRAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read in the papers about the / freedom train
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Railways; Trains


GANGRENE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One was kicked in the stomach
Subject(s): Racism; Torture; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HAPA - HAOLE, by BIM MELGAARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a half-caste, young but unwanted
Last Line: Go with hibiscus blooms red in my hair.
Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HARDBALL, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the raped and beaten black body
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happens to a dream deferred
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred;lenox Avenue Mural;harlem: 2;from Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2)
Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HAROLD, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the west comes harold, with a bitter smile
Last Line: And six-cent stamp for home
Subject(s): Hospitals; Jews; Racism; Judaism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HAUPTMANN, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jean christophe called to him out of the night
Last Line: Fall crumbling on the beaconless world shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Racism; War; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HYMN FOR LANIE POO, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O / these wild trees
Last Line: For that mayyer, by god
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


I MUST BECOME A MENACE TO MY ENEMIES, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will no longer lightly walk behind
Last Line: I must become a menace to my enemies
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


INCIDENT, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once riding in old baltimore
Subject(s): African Americans; Baltimore, Maryland; Racism; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


INCIDENT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We tell the story every year --
Subject(s): Racism; Gulfport, Mississippi; Klu Klux Khan; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


JASPER TEXAS 1998, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a man's head hunched in the road.
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


JIM CROW, by SAMUEL L. SCHIERLOH    Poem Text                    
First Line: They've set a bounty on your head
Last Line: Old jim crow.
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


KEF 24, by HENRY DUMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay sixteen bales down in front on the plank
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


LINES, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I love my country you have heard
Last Line: And blind to your faults as to mine.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Racism; Spanish-american War (1898); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


LINES TO CASTE, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The things I love I may not touch
Last Line: Of wanton, faithless infidel.
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


LISTEN CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Children; Racism; Childhood; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


LOOK WITHIN, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, let me not be silent while we fight
Last Line: While worm-infested, rotten through within!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; Racism; United States; World War Ii; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America; Second World War


LYNCHED NEGRO, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your downcast, harlequin, defenceless face
Last Line: Corrects the tongues of bungling, churlish men.
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


LYNCHERS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the moon's down-going, let it be
Last Line: On the quarry hill with its one gnarled tree.
Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MAN BIGOT, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who is a bigot
Last Line: You simply smiling anymore
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MENTAL HORIZONS: 5. PROFESSOR WHITEPRIDE-RACE PREJUDICE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Anon approaches a critical sage
Last Line: "whether jap or german, swede or kurd!"
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MINOR MIRACLE, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which reminds me of another knock-on-wood
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Regret; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who never sang for my father?
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose is this horrifying face
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Second World War


MISSISSIPPI, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death surrounds itself with the living
Subject(s): Names; African Americans; Racism; Mississippi; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MULATTO, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I am the white man's son - his own
Last Line: To gain the utmost freedom that is life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Mulattos; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


NEGROES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night in april or may
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Cruelty; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


NIGGER, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the nigger
Last Line: I am the nigger.
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


NIGHT, DEATH, MISSISSIPPI, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A quavering cry. Screech-owl?
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


NIGHTMARE BEGINS RESPONSIBILITY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I place these numbed wrists to the pane
Last Line: Nightmare begins responsibilit
Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


NO MATTER, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight it matters not to me
Last Line: And I am here without a world.
Subject(s): Indifference; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


OLD LEM, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I talked to old lem
Last Line: "but they come by tens."
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ON A HIGHWAY EAST OF SELMA, ALABAMA; JULY 1965, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sheriff remarked: I had no business being there. He was
Last Line: And still he refuses to swallow.
Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Prisons & Prisoners; Racism; Selma, Alabama; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ON A PRAYER-BOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ary scheffer! When beneath thine eye
Last Line: Making all burdens light, and breaking every chain.
Subject(s): Blacks; Christianity; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ON THE FIGURE OF A NEGRO SUPPORTING A DIAL (IN FRONT OF ARLEY HALL), by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To those critics one word, who the reason implore
Last Line: A negro of course should be near an egress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Blacks; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ON THE LOSS OF ENERGY (AND OTHER THINGS), by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the chicken and the egg come
Last Line: And so do I
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Racism; Social Commentary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


OPPRESSION, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a question of strength
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


PARSLEY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a parrot imitating spring
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Language; Parsley; Racism; Trujillo, Rafael (1891-1961); Words; Vocabulary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


POEM ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me something
Last Line: You think the accident rate would lower subsequently
Subject(s): United States - Race Relations; Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Negroes; American Blacks


POEM OF DISCONNECTED PARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At robben island the political prisoners studied.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Racism; Social Commentaries; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


POEM, SMALL AND DELIBLE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have been picketing woolworth's
Last Line: Picketing woolworth's.
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Social Protest; Racism; Women; Women's Rights; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Feminism


PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hair--braided chestnut,
Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Georgia (state) African Americans - Women; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


PREJUDICE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These fell miasmic rings of mist, with ghoulish menace bound
Last Line: The fire of whose furnaces may sleep—but never dies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


PURPLE VEINS, by MILDRED FOWLER FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: He dreamed - just once - of touching a white woman
Last Line: Reeling trees and rippled purple silence!
Subject(s): African Americans; Colors; Racism; White (color); Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


QUESTION, by CHARLES ELMER HUBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can you tell
Last Line: Or of shifting sand?
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


QUESTION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the brave men, where are the strong me?
Last Line: Of prejudice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


RIGHT ON: WHITE AMERICA, by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This country might have
Last Line: Gun/shells on our blk/tomorrows.
Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America


RUSH HOUR, by BRUCE A. JACOBS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My honda drops
Subject(s): Automobiles; Escapes; Family Life; Racism; Cars; Fugitives; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you get enough money
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


SISTERS, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The school bus drove us home from high school, where
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Women's Rights; Racism; Feminism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SOUNDING, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so the seasons, they tell us
Last Line: Blind visionaries babbling
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SHACK DYE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white men played all sorts of jokes on me
Last Line: What moved you about spoon river.
Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Racism; Pranks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


STATUS QUO, by H. BINGA DISMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let bourbons fight for status quo
Last Line: Without a vestige of jim crow.
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


STRANGE FRUIT, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was out in the early evening, taking a walk in the fields to think about this
Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Lynching; Music & Musicians; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


STRONG MEN, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They dragged you from the homeland
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Slavery; Social Protest; Strength; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl
Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee.
Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


THE BALLAD OF AUNT GENEVA, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Geneva was the wild one
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Racism; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE BALLAD OF RUDOLPH REED, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rudolph reed was oaken
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE BEGGAR'S SOLILOQUY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, this, to my notion, is pleasant cheer
Last Line: May I perish! -- we're never contented -- heigho!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE BIGOT, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The foolish roman fondly thought
Last Line: To fit your own contracted heart.
Subject(s): Christianity; God; Pantheism; Racism; Religion; Rome, Italy; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Theology


THE BLACK MAN IS MAKING NEW GODS, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Atheist jews double crossers stole our secrets crossed
Last Line: And put you back in a cold box
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE BLACK UNICORN, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The black unicorn is greedy
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Unicorns; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE DEMONSTRATION, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They bob above us all afternoon
Last Line: Their spells had summoned up.
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Conventions; Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Protest, Social; Racism; Assemblies; Meetings; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE ENACTMENT, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't use no teenager, especially
Last Line: We have prepared for her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE INDIAN HUNTER, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, why does the white-man follow my path
Last Line: Who never did harm to him.
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Red Indian
Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE LABORS OF HERCULES, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: To popularize the mule, its neat exterior
Last Line: "that the german is not a hun."
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild
Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE MARTYR OF ALABAMA, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He lifted up his pleading eyes
Last Line: In whirlwinds of god's wrath.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Murder; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE MYSTIC RIVER, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I cross
Last Line: Bit of secret, lighted flesh, open up the earth?
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Southern States; Racism; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've known rivers
Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NEGRO'S LAMENT, by JOHN WILLIS MENARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, o god! How long must I remain
Last Line: Of blood has paid the debt, and I am free!
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NEW ANTHEM, by NORMAN BOLKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hammered steel strips laid out
Last Line: With joy and peace on every face.
Subject(s): Poverty; Racism; Religious Discrimination; Social Protest; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Religious Conflict; America


THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The white south shall gather / at preservation hall
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE PARIAH, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Owned her father all the fact'ries
Last Line: "while our bodies are but clods!"
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window
Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder?
Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE SELVEGE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: So door to door among the shotgun
Subject(s): Social Classes; Geese; Obama, Barack; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE SITUATION IS INTOLERABLE', by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Intolerable: that civilized word
Last Line: O yes. O mercy on our souls
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE SWEETNESS OF BOBBY HEFKA, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you make of little bobby hefka
Subject(s): Classmates; Racism; Schoolmates; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think we can all remember when a greaser hadn't
Subject(s): Cowboys;honor;racism;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Racial Prejudice;bigotry;southwest;pacific States


THE VIOLENCE OF PRONOUN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loving came her way
Last Line: "that makes us vicious."
Subject(s): Marriage; Racism; Slavery; Social Problems; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


THE WHITE CITY, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not toy with it nor bend an inch
Last Line: Are sweet like wanton loves because I hate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans; Hate; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE ZEBRA GOES WILD WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, by HENRY DUMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neon stripes tighten my wal
Subject(s): United States; Racism; Fathers; America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TIGER, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white man is a tiger at my throat
Last Line: The tiger in his strength his thirst must slake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America


TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You snicker that you do not care for him
Last Line: It's you who live, but never can survive!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Racism; Shame; Dullness; Stupdity; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TO HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark horror, hear my call!
Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side.
Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


TO MISS MARY BRITTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God the right, arise
Last Line: "due meed for your endeavor."
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TO THE SOUTH ON ITS NEW SLAVERY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of the southland, heed me pleading now
Last Line: Till thou, oh, south, and thine, come to thine own.
Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


TO THE WHITE FIENDS, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think you I am not fiend and savage too?
Last Line: To show thy little lamp: go forth, go forth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TO THEODORE, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Such are the little memories of you
Last Line: Kneel nightly now in agony of prayer.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TOMORROW, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomorrow / I will take the
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TURMOIL IN A MORGUE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Negro / chinaman
Subject(s): Racism; Death; Morgues; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Dead, The


UNCLE RUBE ON THE RACE PROBLEM, by CLARA ANN THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: How'd I solve de negro problum?'
Last Line: Whethah folks like it or no.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


UNDERTONES: CHINESE EDUCATION, by DAVID O'NEIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Baby faces mirthless as shovels
Last Line: And up they chirrup again.
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


VIETNAM #4, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cat said / on the corner
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Vietnamese Conflict. 1961-1975; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WARNING; SUGGESTED BY THE CHRISTIANA (PA.) TREASON TRIALS, by ALFRED GIBBS CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Treason? Yes, make it treason, if ye will
Last Line: "and led us forth in mercy and redeemed!"
Subject(s): Racism; Slavery; Treason & Traitors; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


WE HEARD HEALTH CARE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We heard health care and we thought public option
Subject(s): Health Care & Insurance; United States - Politics & Government; Social Classes; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WE WEAR THE MASK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We wear the mask that grins and lies
Last Line: We wear the mask!
Subject(s): African Americans; Grief; Hypocrisy; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Sorrow; Sadness; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: David didn't come to school tuesday,
Last Line: The best of definitions we could come up with
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WHEN I RISE UP, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I rise above the earth
Last Line: And look down upon the things that fetter me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WHO SAID IT WAS SIMPLE, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are so many roots to the tree of anger
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WORKSHOP ON RACISM (1), by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her mother is crying
Last Line: "black"" is not a color, it is a
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


YET DO I MARVEL, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I doubt not god is good, well-meaning, kind
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


[WHITE PAPER #14], by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black keys from trees white keys locked
Last Line: Https://www.Poets.Org/poetsorg/poem/14
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry