WEBLIOGRAPHY

SELECTED WEBLIOGRAPHY
FOR
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

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SELECTED WEBLIOGRAPHY
FOR
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH
Prepared by: IRO Stephen Perry and IRC Specialist Suzan Metry
Email: perryls@state.gov ----- Email: metrysn@state.gov

Many of our IRC webliographies may be found at this address:
http://irosteveperry.pbwiki/irosteveperry


Introduction
The History of African American History Month

I. HOW TO RESEARCH AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY:

1. Basic Resources from Rutgers University Libraries
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/afroam.htm

2. Detailed Research Guide to African American Studies
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml

3. From the African Studies Collection at University of Pennsylvania
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/mcgee.html

4. African Americans from the University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html

5. Resources in Black Studies: L.O.C. SITES containing links to Historical Texts
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

6. Ohio State University: Another Gateway to Information
http://library.osu.edu/sites/thegateway/


II. FROM AMERICA.GOV WEBSITE: DEPARTMENT OF STATE
http://www.america.gov/

Presidential Proclamation on National African American History Month
Bush honors achievements, rich heritage of African Americans
http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2008/January/20080130180130eaifas0.9380457.html



Black History Month Honors Stories of Determination and Triumph
African Americans' contributions to United States are highlighted each February
http://amlife.america.gov/amlife/diversity/index.html

(A) Population & Diversity http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity.html

(B) Civil Rights
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights.html

(C) African American History Month
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/African_American_History_Month.html

(D) Additional Resources: U.S. History, Geography & Population: African American History Month
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/african_american_history_month/african_american_history_month_texts.html

(E) Census Facts 2006 for African Americans: Facts for Features
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006088.html

(F) Publications http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/population_diversity_publications.html

Publication: “FREE AT LAST: The U.S. Civil Right Movement”
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/civilrights/index.html

(G) Organizations concerned with African Americans in U.S.
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/civil_rights_orgs.html

(H) Legal Resources from INFO USA
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_legal.html

(I) Timeline of Civil Rights Movement
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_timeline.html

(J) Online Reading
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_online.html

(K) E Journal on Race: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0897/ijse/tocsv.htm

(L) E-Journals in Arabic: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/journalsaraba.htm


III. AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. African American Women Authors: from the NY Public Library
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

2. Example of a Digitized Text
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-t/wwm975/@Generic__BookView

3. Harlem Renaissance Resources: PAL: Perspective in American Literature-A research and reference Guide-Ongoing project
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html

4. African American Women: from the Duke University Special Collection
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

5. African American Literature analysis, from USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/stepto.htm

6. African Americans Literature Bibliography, from USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and%20diversity/african_americans/african_americans_biblio.html

7. African American Writers: Online E-texts
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm

8. An African-American Reader: Essays on African American History Culture and Society.
Editors: William R. Scott and William G. Shade, Lehigh University March 2005
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/AAReader.pdf
Is an anthology of essays on African-American history, culture, and society for advanced students, teachers, and scholars.

“Currents in American Scholarship” SERIES: Publications
Title: Philosophy in the United States
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/01_2005.pdf
Title: The Study of American Politics
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/12_2004.pdf
Title: New Directions in American Literary Scholarship 1980-2002
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/american_literary_scholarship.pdf
Title: Twentieth Century United States History
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/history.pdf
Title: American Studies Bibliography http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/AmBibliography.pdf
Title: American Religious History http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/ReligionCAS.pdf
Title: Currents in American Scholarship: American Studies Bibliography
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/AmBibliography.pdf




IV. DIGITIZED COLLECTIONS

1. Digitized Collections: from Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide
http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=33ECE98105E5BCCC50A00E3A1B82E017

2. From Documenting the American South Project: Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html

3. Library of Congress Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml

4. The LOC Digitized Collection via the American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

5. Schomburg Collection: From Library of Congress: Slave Narrative Project
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

6. Schomburg Collection: The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

7. African American Collections, via LOC American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

8. Digitized Collection via Georgetown University Project for American Studies
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/asw/aswlinks.cfm?head1=Race%2C%20Ethnicity%2C%20and%20Identity&head2=African%20American%20Resources

9. African Online Digital Library
http://www.aodl.org/


V. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

1. Afro-American Museum in Boston - Links
http://www.afroammuseum.org/links.htm

2. Smithsonian Museum
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

3. Smithsonian: The National Museum of African American History and Culture http://nmaahc.si.edu/

4. Museums: from USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/poulation_and_diversity/african_americans/african_americans_museums.html




VI. CONTINUING EDUCATION THROUGH AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
Online courses, Essays, Perspectives

1. From USINFO: Essays on African American History Culture and Society
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/african_americans_museums.html

2. MIT Distance Education
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

3. Course on Writing about Race in MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

4. An example from a course on American Women writers
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-512American-Authors--American-Women-AuthorsSpring2003/RelatedResources/index.htm


VII. LINKS TO UNIVERSITIES

University of California, Santa Barbara
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html.
This is a very manageable site with access to a range of data-types. The site has 16 broad categories and is especially strong in news media, historical texts, and documents.

Soul Search: The Search Engine for the World's People of Color.
Access: http://www.soulsearch.net/
This is a search engine for accessing information contained in the African American Web Ring. One of many "Web rings" forming on the Internet, this one has collected over 1,000 sites related to African American culture including art, dance, history, and personal pages.
Soul Search: African American Web Ring:
URL: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring.

Rutgers University Libraries: Research Guides: History-American & British sources on the Internet
URL: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml
Internet Resources for Students of African-American History and Culture from Rutgers University Library, including access to text collections and special sources from 18th, 19th and 20th Century, covering also individual electronic texts, associations, organizations plus a tool for finding articles.
Georgetown University: Race & Ethnicity-African-American.
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/afam.html
Part of their American Studies Web pages, this is an alphabetical listing of a nice variety of sites not often linked elsewhere.


VIII. FULL TEXT JOURNALS

1. CALLALOO
http://muse.jhy.edu/journals/callaloo

2. AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY: The Online Journal of African Studies.
URL: http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/


3. AFRICA NEWS ONLINE: Gateway to a Continent.
URL: http://www.africanews.org/


VIV. FULL TEXT DATABASES OF THE IRC

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NEWSPAPERS
STATISTICS
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Updated February 18, 2008
ALL LINKS VERIFIED AS OF FEBRUARY 2008

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February 2007


A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
WEBSITES & ARTICLES
ON
SLAVE NARRATIVE

I. Best Websites on Slavery

From Library of Congress:

African American collections:
http://www.loc.gov/africanamericans/

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

FROM THE DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH RESEARCH HISTORY PROJECT: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ and http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
From ABOUT.COM: http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/slavenarratives/Slave_Narratives.htm
From the History Department at Washington State university:
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/slave.htm
And:
Selections from the Wpa Slave Narratives Digital Projects:
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/




II. ARTICLES

As If I Had Entered A Paradise": Fugitive Slave Narratives and Cross-Border Literary History. By Nancy Kang. African American Review, Fall 2005, vol. 39, Iss. 3, p. 431-457.

Black Female Authorship and the African American Graphic Novel: Historical Responsibility In Icon: A Hero's Welcome. By Jennifer D Ryan.
Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 2006, vol. 52, Iss. 4, p. 918-946, 4, 1029.

Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered. By Christine Levecq. African American Review, Spring 2001, vol. 35, Iss. 1, p. 136-138.

Charles Johnson's Middle Passage: Fictionalizing history and historicizing fiction.
By Marc Steinberg. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Winter 2003, vol. 45, Iss. 4, p. 375-390.

Dialect and Identity in Harriet Jacobs's Autobiography and Other Slave Narratives.
By Albert Tricomi. Callaloo, Spring, 2006, vol. 29, Iss. 2, p. 619-633,704.

Found Voices: The Slave Narratives. By Graham Hodges. The Journal of American History, December 2000, vol. 87, Iss. 3, p. 1152-1153.

Four Slave Narratives From the Old North State. By George Hovis. The Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 2004/2005, vol. 58, Iss. 1/2, p. 397-404.

Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition.
By Reggie Young. African American Review, Winter 2000, vol. 34, Iss. 4, p. 710-712.

Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative. By Marc Steinberg. African American Review, Fall 2004, vol. 38, Iss. 3, p. 467-476.

Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family and Identity in Women's Slave Naratives.
By Sharon L Jones. MELUS, Fall 2000, vol. 25, Iss. 3/4, p. 307-310.

Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary. By Walter Gobel.
African American Review, Spring 2002, vol. 36, Iss. 1, p. 140-141.

Neo-slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. By Ryan Jerving. The New England Quarterly, December 2000, vol. 73, Iss. 4, p. 682-684.

Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom As Auto (bio)ethnography. By Michael A Chaney. African American Review, Fall 2001, vol. 35, Iss. 3, p. 391-408

Plenty Ventured, Plenty Gained: African American Literary Scholarship and the New Century. By Warren J. Carson. Southern Literary Journal, Fall 2003, vol. 36, Iss. 1, p. 146-152.

Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said. By Ghada Osman and Camille F. Forbes. Journal of Islamic Studies, September 2004, vol. 15, Iss. 3, p. 331.

Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies: Studies in Romanticism. By Debbie Lee. Studies in Romanticism, June 2004, vol. 43, Iss. 2,
p. 307-309.

Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies. By Nigel Leask.
The Review of English Studies, August 2002, vol. 53, Iss. 211, p. 445.

Slave Narratives and the Rhetoric Of Author Portraiture. By Lynn A Casmier-Paz.
New Literary History, Winter 2003, vol. 34, Iss. 1, p. 91.

Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. By Alfred L. Brophy. The Journal of American History. December 2006, vol. 93, Iss. 3, p. 871-872.

"The Soul Has Bandaged Moments": Reading the African American Gothic in Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home," Morrison's Beloved, and Gomez's. By Cedric Gael
Bryant. African American Review, Winter 2005, vol. 39, Iss. 4, p. 541-553.

Spooked: The White Slave Narratives. By Stephan Talty. Transition, 2000, Iss. 85,
p. 48-75.

Stealing A Way: African Diaspora Maroon Poetics. By Suzette Spencer.
American Quarterly, December 2003, vol. 55, Iss. 4, p. 819.

The Strangest Freaks of Despotism: Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narratives, African American Review. By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman.
African American Review, Summer 2006, vol. 40, Iss. 2, p. 223-237.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade And American Slavery. By Ellen Bucy.
Magazine of History, April 2003, vol. 17, Iss. 3, p. 55-56.

Truth in timbre: Morrison's Extension of Slave Narrative Song in Beloved.
By Peter J Capuano. African American Review, Spring 2003, vol. 37, Iss. 1, p. 95-103.

The Use of Slave Narratives in High School English Class. By Susan Arpajian Jolley. English Journal, March 2002, vol. 91, Iss. 4, p. 33-38.

Using the Wpa Ex-Slave Narratives To Study The Impact Of The Great Depression. By Stephanie J Shaw. The Journal of Southern History, August 2003, vol. 69, Iss. 3, p. 623.

Women's Voices, Black and White. By Pearl A McHaney. Southern Literary Journal, Fall 2000, vol. 33, Iss. 1, p. 158-164.


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NOTE: To request a copy of any of the listed articles, contact Ms. Nahed George
by phone at 797-3124; or by e-mail:georgeng@state.gov