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Ethnic arts -- United States

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• Ethnic arts
• Arts -- United States
• United States

• African American arts

• 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 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)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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

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

• The Black Mountain College Review (1951) (full serial archives)

• American Art Annual (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the American Art Union (partial serial archives)
• Transactions of the American Art-Union (partial serial archives)

• Journal of the American Institute of Architects (partial serial archives)
• The Charette (1920-1974) (partial serial archives)

• Historic Preservation News (partial serial archives)

• Preservation News (partial serial archives)

• North Carolina Architect (partial serial archives)
• Southern Architect (full serial archives)

• Texas Architect (partial serial archives)

• Preservation News (partial serial archives)

• Nineteenth Century (Victorian Society in America, 1975-) (partial serial archives)

• Practical Technology for Archives (2013-) (full serial archives)

• American Craft (partial serial archives)
• Craft Horizons (partial serial archives)

• American Craft (partial serial archives)

• Florida History and the Arts (full serial archives)

• Oklahoma Humanities (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Humanities Council, 2008-) (full serial archives)

• Art's True Mission in America, by A. J. H. Duganne (page images at MOA)
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at free-culture.cc)

• American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• George A. Fuller Company, General Contractors, 1882-1937: A Book Illustrating Recent Works of This Organization (New York et al.: G. A. Fuller Co., 1937), by George A. Fuller Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Zeynep Çelik (HTML at UC Press)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Philosophia da Arte (Synthese Positiva e Notas á Margem) (in Portguese; Rio de Janeiro: Editora de Leite Ribeiro & Maurillo, 1918), by Vicente Licínio Cardoso
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Art Museums in America, by George Fisk Comfort (page images at MOA)

• Nineteenth Century German-American Church Artists, by Annemarie Springer (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• 1929 Red Cartoons, Reprinted From The Daily Worker (New York: Comprodaily Pub. Co., c1929), by Fred Ellis and Jacob Burck, ed. by Sender Garlin, contrib. by Joseph Freeman (HTML at marxists.org)
• Red Cartoons of 1927, From the Daily Worker and the Workers Monthly (Chicago and New York: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1927), by Fred Ellis, Lydia Gibson, A. Jerger, Maurice Becker, Henry Glintenkamp, La Grace, Robert Minor, William Gropper, Vose, Joseph Vavak, K. A. Suvanto, Art Young, Adolf Dehn, Hay Bales, Hugo Gellert, G. Silzer, and O. R. Zimmerman, ed. by Walt Carmon, contrib. by V. F. Calverton (HTML at marxists.org)
• Red Cartoons From the Daily Worker, the Workers Monthly and the Liberator: Communist Publications (Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1926), by Fred Ellis, Maurice Becker, Lydia Gibson, Williams S. Fanning, Hay Bales, Juanita Preval, Robert Minor, William Gropper, Clive R. Weed, G. Piccoli, K. A. Suvanto, Art Young, Adolf Dehn, Hugo Gellert, A. L. Pollock, F. Kluge, and O. R. Zimmerman, ed. by Walt Carmon, contrib. by Michael Gold (HTML at marxists.org)

• Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1987), by Michael Owen Jones
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost: Being a Collection of Country and Suburban Homes in Good Taste, With Some Value in Suggestion for the Home-Builder (New York: McBride, Winston and Co., 1910), ed. by Henry H. Saylor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Icons: Transatlantic Persectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), ed. by Christine Henseler (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)

• Living Homes for Cultural Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums (c2006), ed. by Karen Coody Cooper and Nicolasa I. Sandoval (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• Bright Stars: Charting the Impact of the Arts in Rural Minnesota (Minneapolis: McKnight Foundation, c2005), by Carlo M. Cuesta, Dana M. Gillespie, and Padraic Lillis (PDF with commentary at mcknight.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.