African Americans in literature -- Bibliography
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North American Negro Poets: A Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944 (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945), by Dorothy Porter Wesley, contrib. by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (page images at HathiTrust)- Books About the Negro for Children: The James Weldon Johnson Collection, the New York Public Library (reprinted from American Unity; New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (Bibliographica America v2; includes Heartman's bibliography of Phillis Wheatley; New York: C. F. Heartman, 1916), by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, contrib. by Charles F. Heartman
- Preliminary List of Books and Pamphlets by Negro Authors, for Paris Exposition and Library of Congress (1900), by Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: African Americans in literature- Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), by Michelle Robinson
- Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Merinda Simmons (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), ed. by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Howard Rambsy (PDF files at Project MUSE)
- Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
- Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Negro Character in American Literature (Humanistic Studies v4 #1; Lawrence, KS: Dept. of Journalism Press, 1926), by John Herbert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
- Black American Literature: Notes on the Problem of Definition (Ball State Monograph #22; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1971), by Joseph F. Trimmer (PDF at bsu.edu)
- The Negro in American Fiction (originally published 1937; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), by Sterling A. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
- DuBose Heyward's Use of Folklore in His Negro Fiction (Citadal Monograph Series #2; Charleston, SC: The Citadel, 1961), by Frank Durham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley
- A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Rainbow, ed. by Aubrey Howard Bowser (partial serial archives)
- The Negro in the United States: A Selected Bibliography (Washington: Library of Congress, 1970), by Dorothy Porter Wesley
- Negro History and Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (New York: American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Negro in America (Reading with a Purpose #68; Chicago; American Library Association, 1933), by Alain Locke
- Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History (9 volumes; Boston: G. K. Hall, 1962), by New York Public Library, contrib. by Kathleen Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett (HTML at Virginia)
- A Bibliography of Afro-American and Other American Minorities Represented in Library and Library-Related Listings (Bibliographical series #7; New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, 1970), by Clara O. Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography (c2003), by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
- Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography (Troy, NY: Whitston Pub. Co., 1997), by Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
- Negro History and Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (New York: American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Books About Negro Life for Children (revised edition; New York: New York Public Library, 1963), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books About Negro Life for Children (revised edition; New York: New York Public Library, 1961), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books About the Negro for Children: The James Weldon Johnson Collection, the New York Public Library (reprinted from American Unity; New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bibliographia Catholica Americana, a List of Works Written by Catholic Authors, Part I: From 1784 to 1820 Inclusive (no further parts published; New York: Catholic Publication House, 1872), by Joseph M. Finotti
- A List of Books for the Study of the Social Question: Being an Introduction to Catholic Social Literature (4th edition; 1915), by Catholic Central Verein of America, ed. by Louis F. Budenz (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
- Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
- Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
- Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
- Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography (Yale Studies in English #16; c1903), by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bibliography of Dramatic Literature (La Jolla, CA: World Drama Prompters, c1915), ed. by H. N. Clugston
- Viewpoints in Modern Drama: An Arrangement of Plays According to Their Essential Interest (Chicago: American library association, 1925), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
- Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Research Issues #9; Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg
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