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Black Arts movement

Here are entered works on a movement in literature, music, visual arts, and theater that occurred during the period ca. 1965-1975 and emphasized pride in African American culture and history.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• African American arts

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Drumvoices Revue (issues online 1991-2008) (partial serial archives)
• Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts (issues online 1995-2004) (partial serial archives)
• Fire!! (full serial archives)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology, ed. by Amardeep Singh (illustrated HTML at Lehigh)
• The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs (PDF at Ohio State)

• Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (c2009), by Richard L. Schur (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Marc D. Perry
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020), ed. by Anthony Kwame Harrison and Craig E. Arthur (multiple formats at with commentary at vt.edu)