Black Literature Links
Author Richard Wright
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 | Bluefield State Links List. This is a comprehensive list of web links on black literature. |
| The Encyclopędia Britannica Guide to Black History. Nice list of people and events of black literature and culture. |
| Freedom and
Slavery Literature This is an excellent site with many links. |
| African American Writers:
A Celebration Extensive list of web sources on African American literature, a selected bibliography of materials available in the Middle Tennessee State University library, with links to author information on the internet, and more. Attractive site graced by portraits of famous writers: Walker, Hurston, Baldwin, and others. |
| San Antonio
College Litweb. A Brief Chronology of African American Literature. Begins in 1746, with Lucy Terry's "Bars Fight." Gives a timeline of African American achievements in literature, with links to more in-depth author pages. |
| Black Arts Movement "A comprehensive look at the people, works and organizations behind this 1960s cultural movement." Created to support an English class at the University of Michigan. Pages explain key concepts in the movement, provide the text to important documents, give biographies of significant people, identify key institutions, discuss the images and role of women, and provide a bibliography. |
| Black Theatre Resources Provides profiles of Black playwrights and a directory of Black Theatre Companies. |
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The Circle Association's Harlem Renaissance Site The Circle Association is a brotherhood of African American men based in Buffalo, New York, who, among other activities, maintain web sites on African American themes and issues, including one for the Harlem Renaissance. The site gives a brief overview of the Harlem Renaissance and provides links to sources of information about its writers and artists. |
| Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the
Harlem Renaissance "This Web site provides an introduction to the exhibition Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, curated by David A. Bailey and Richard J. Powell and organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC., and the Institute of International Visual Arts. The Web site combines images and text to elaborate on some of the key themes in the exhibition: The Harlem Renaissance, Representing the New Negro, Modernism and Modernity, A Blues Aesthetic, Imagining Africa, Haiti, and Images of Black Nationhood. |
| American
Slave Narratives "From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves." Excerpts from the WPA narratives are available from this site. |
| Documenting the
American South "Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20thcentury. As of November 1, 1999, DAS includes 380 books and manuscripts." The collections of electronic texts are organized into the following categories: First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, The Church in the Southern Black Community. |
| North by
South: From Charleston to Harlem, the Great Migrations "This web page is the final product of a year long seminar researching the migration of African Americans from south to north.... In this first section, we explore the migration of blacks from the Charleston Low Country area to Harlem." The group explored folk art, health care, education, death rituals, and music and looked at the adaptations in these areas that migrants from the south to Harlem made. |
| California African
American Museum: List of Afrocentric Web Sites> Selected Internet Resources on African American Studies. Nicely annotated. |
| Smithsonian:
African American History and Culture Selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations. |
| Mosaic Literary
Magazine Mosaic is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to covering all aspects of African American and Hispanic literature. A few articles from the many available in a recent issue can be accessed free over the internet. Be sure to explore the links from this site to Mosaic books, an online book club with African American interests. |
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