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General Resources in African-American Lit. |
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African-American Literature (U. Southern Calif.) |
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (extensive collection of online texts) (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library) |
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American Studies, Black History and Literature |
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Black Cultural Studies Web Site |
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Black Cultural Studies Site Index (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Elizabeth Alexander (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Houston A. Baker, Jr. (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Barbara Christian (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Manthia Diawara (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Ann duCille (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Cheryl Dunye (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Paul Gilroy (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Stuart Hall (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Phillip Brian Harper (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Mae G. Henderson (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Arthur Jafa (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Isaac Julien (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Wahneema Lubiano (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Kobena Mercer (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Valerie Smith (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Hortense J. Spillers (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Claudia Tate (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Michele Wallace (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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Black Cultural Studies Links (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee) |
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HEAL (Help Educate Against Lies) (bibliography of major black writers, by the students of Carol Hunt, Lexington Community College) |
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Writing Black: Literature By and On Blacks (Andrew L. Graham) |
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African-American Literature Writers, Projects, Works |
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The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive (includes a variety of primary texts by Chesnutt, numerous reviews, and bibliographical information)(Stepahnie P. Browner, Berea C., Berea, KY) |
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African American Women Writers of Color (Voices from the Gaps) |
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Maya Angelou |
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Maya Angelou Discussion Forum |
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Maya Angelou: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism (Jay Brandes, Troy State U.) |
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Maya Angelou Links and Resources (Dept. of English, U. of Cincinnati) |
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Maya Angelou: Teacher Resource File (Inez Ramsey, James Madison U.) |
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Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) |
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Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Page (Michael Borshuk) |
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Amiri Baraka, "Minton's" (1962) (Michael Borshuk) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (Academy of American Poets) Bibliography and links, including link to audiofile of Brooks reading |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (D.H. Melhem, Heath Anthology of American Literature) |
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Lucille Clifton |
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Lucille Clifton (Academy of American Poets) Bibliography and links, including links to audiofiles of Clifton reading "Cutting Greens" and "Homage to My Hips") (Academy of American Poets) |
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Lucille Clifton (bibliography and links) (A.Grischkowsky, H. Hemmen, and J. Schindler, U. Minnesota) |
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Frederick Douglass |
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Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center |
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Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center |
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Frederick Douglass Chronology |
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Frederick Douglass Photo gallery |
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
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Homepage of Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (National Park Service) |
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Texts |
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Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (UPenn gopher) |
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"Reconstruction" |
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Sandra Thomas, Frederick Douglass: "Abolitionist/Editor" (biography) |
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Rita Dove |
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"Lady Freedom Among Us" (UVA etext) |
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Rita Dove Page |
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Rita Dove (Academy of American Poets) |
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Paul Dunbar |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Homepage (T. Columbus, U. of Dayton) Includes biography, realaudio readings of Dunbar's poetry, images, and links. |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) (D. Campbell, Gonzaga State U.) Includes links to many works on line. |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection (Wright State U Library) "provides access to over two hundred poems" |
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Ralph Ellison |
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Ralph Ellison Webliography (Claude Potts, UCLA) Includes chronology and extensive bibliography |
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Teacher's Guide to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (includes questions, exercises, and assignments) (B. Allen / Vintage Books) |
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Lorraine Hansberry |
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Concordance to A Raisin in the Sun (Iowa State U.) |
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Lorraine Hansberry (Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota) |
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Teacher's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun (B. Allen, Vintage Books) |
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, |
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota) |
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Photograph (Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, U Virginia) |
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Texts |
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Atlanta offering : poems (Humanities Text Initiative, U Michigan) |
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Poems (Electronic Text Center, U Virginia) |
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Sketches of Southern Life (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers) |
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Title page of Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted (Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, U Virginia) |
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Langston Hughes |
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General Resources |
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Brief Biography of Langston Hughes (Nick Evans and David Liss) |
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It's a Hughes Thang!!!! (Michele Maynard, U. Texas, Austin) |
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Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center (Queens, NY) |
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Langston Hughes Page (The Poetry Archives) |
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Langston Hughes Page (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
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Langston Hughes (Academy of American Poets) Includes audiofile of |
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Langston Hughes Page (History Dept., Hanover C.) |
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The Poetry of Langston Hughes Teacher Cyberguide (SCORE, San Diego County Office of Education) |
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Images |
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Photograph of Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten (1939) (Smithsonian) |
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Poetry |
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"Advice," "Island," "Beale Street," "Dream Dust" (David Chanlin) |
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"Be-Bop Boys" (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
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"Jazzonia" (Nick Evans and David Liss) |
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"Justice" and "Still Here" (David Aaron Kurtenbach) |
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"Song for Billie Holiday" (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
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"The South" (Crystal Kile) |
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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A Compendium of Research on the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (Rouzie, Ohio U) Includes annotated bibliography and reception history |
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Criticism |
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Rita Hooks (St. Petersburg Junior C.), "Conjured Into Being: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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Zora Neale Hurston (Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota) |
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Zora Neale Hurston: Background (Lauren Schiff, U. Virginia) |
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Audre Lorde |
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Writing and Resistance Criticism: Audre Lord (Jody Kerr, Arizona State U) |
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Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Poems (1910) (New York Public Library) |
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Ntozake Shange |
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Ntozake Shange (Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) |
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Writing and Resistance Web Links: Ntozake Shange (Jody Kerr, Arizona State U) |
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Toni Morrison |
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Anniina's Toni Morrison Page (Anniina Jokinen) |
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Web Page of Toni Morrison's Beloved (English 316K, U. Texas, Austin) |
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Jean Toomer |
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Jean Toomer (Academy of American Poets) |
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The Jean Toomer Pages (Scott W. Williams, State U of New York, Buffalo) |
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Sojouner Truth |
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) (Celebration of Women Writers) |
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Sojourner Truth Institute |
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Alice Walker |
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Alice Walker (Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, U Minnesota) |
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Anniina's Alice Walker Page (Anniina Jokinen) |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
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Texts |
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"The Freedmen's Bureau" |
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"A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South" |
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"Of the Training of Black Men" |
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"Strivings of the Negro People" |
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The Souls of Black Folk (Bartleby Library) |
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"Woman Suffrage" (K. Kish Sklar and T. Dublin, SUNY Binghamton) |
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W.E.B. Du Bois Papers |
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Homepage (Special Collections and Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, U. Massachusetts Amherst) |
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The Achievement of W.E.B. Du Bois (biography) |
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A W.E.B. Du Bois Chronology |
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Phillis Wheatley |
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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans. (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Libraries) |
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Phillis Wheatley Page (The Poetry Archives) |
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) (Project Gutenberg) |
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Richard Wright |
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Richard Wright - Black Boy (info on TV production; includes background material) (Mississippi Educational Television and the Independent Television Service) |
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Richard Wright Page |
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Homepage (Richard Hancuff, George Washington U.) |
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Richard Wright Bibliography |
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African-American Literature Journals |
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Callaloo (African-American and African arts and literature) |
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African-American Literature Listservs & Newsgroups |
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African-American Studies Listservs (U. Penn) |
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AFROAM-L Archive |
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African-American Literature Conferences |
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African-American Literature: Calls for Papers (U. Penn) |
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Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.) |
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