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• American literature -- African American authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism

• The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Yoshinobu Hakutani (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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)
• Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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 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
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• 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)
• De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leur facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature; suivies de notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des nègres qui se sont distingués dan les sciences, les lettres et les arts (Maradan, 1808), by Henri Grégoire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & Company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman (Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894., 1894), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A decade of Negro self-expression ([Charlottesville, Va.], 1928), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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 Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Michael D. Hill (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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 in American Fiction (originally published 1937; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), by Sterling A. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Negro in American fiction, by Sterling A. Brown, ed. by Alain Locke (Gutenberg ebook)

• Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jon Woodson (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poetry of the blues (Oak Publications, 1963), by Samuel Charters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro poetry in America (Boston, Massachusetts : The Stratford Company publishers, 1925., 1925), by Lena Beatrice Morton and Mass.) Stratford Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman (Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894., 1894), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Poets and Their Poems, by Robert Thomas Kerlin (Gutenberg ebook)

• Beside you in time : sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Elizabeth Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• 75 years of freedom; commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (U. S. Govt. print off., 1943), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1929), by Benjamin Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays of negro life : a source-book of native American drama,. (Harper & brothers, 1927), by Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyrics of love and laughter (Dodd, Mead, 1903), by Paul Laurence Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyrics of lowly life (New York : Dodd, Mead, 1907., 1907), by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Paul R. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• School books and racial antagonism : a study of omissions and inclusions that make for misunderstanding (Executive Committee, Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1935), by Robert B. Eleazar and Conference on Education and Race Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dunbar speaker and entertainer : containing the best prose and poetic selections by and about the Negro race : with programs arranged for special entertainments (Naperville, Ill. : J. L. Nichols & Co., [1920], 1920), by Carter Godwin Woodson, James V. Hatch, Camille Billops, Edward Tully Garrett, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Afro-American school speaker and gems of literature : for school commencements, literary circles, debating clubs, and rhetoricals generally (M. V. Lynk Pub. House, 1896), by Miles V. Lynk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black American writers (Sangamon State University Library, 1973), by Kathryn Harris and Sangamon State University. Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beside you in time : sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Elizabeth Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ebony and topaz : a collectanea (New York : Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, [c1927], 1927), by Guy Benton Johnson, Paul Green, and Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nellie Brown, or, The jealous wife : with other sketches (Cuddy & Hughes, 1871), by Thomas Detter and Cuddy & Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fire!! : a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists (The Fire!! Press, 1982), by Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fire!! : $b A quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists, Volume 1, Number 1, ed. by Wallace Thurman (Gutenberg ebook)

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