ENGL 2205: African American Literature
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Jacob Lawrence, The Library, 1960
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Provide background information/brief overviews on a subect
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Lead to more useful sources
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Help you to narrow down your own topic of interest
Online Reference
Oxford African American Studies Center
A comprehensive online collection from Oxford University Press focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
Reference Sources
The Oxford Companion to African American LiteratureReference - Main Level 810.8/08 Ox2O
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - an authoritative, five volume work dealing with all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.
African American Authors, 1745-1945 by a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 9: LiteratureM. Thomas Inge, editor. UNC Press, 2014.
Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work [print edition]Horace Porter, editor. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press. 2015.
Upper Level: 810.80896073 D81D
