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African American Reference Books

biographies | chronologies | encyclopedias and dictionaries
literature | research guides
Most of these books are available at the Downtown Library Reference collection and can only be used in the Library (call numbers starting with "R")

Title

Call Number

Biographies

African American women: a biographical dictionary WATERS E185.96 .A45 1993
Dictionary of American Negro biography

R E185.96 .D53 1982

Chronologies

The Black almanac: From involuntary servitude (1619-1860) to the
age of disillusionment, 1964-1971
E185 .H63 (4th floor)
Blacks in America, 1492-1970; a chronology & fact book E185 .S57 1971 (4th floor)
The timetables of African-American history : a chronology of the most important people and events in
African-American history
WATERS E185 .H295 1995
Black saga : the African American experience R E185 .C519 1995
The chronological history of the Negro in America E185 .B46 (4th floor)

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

The African American encyclopedia R E185 .A253 2001
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

R DT14 1999

 

Blacks in American films and television: an encyclopedia R PN1995.9.N4 B58 1988
Dictionary of Afro-American slavery E441 .D53 1988 (4th floor)
Dictionary of race and ethnic relations R GN496 .C37 1994
Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights from emancipation to the present E185.61 .E54 1 92 (4th floor)
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history R E185 .E54 1996
Encyclopedia of Black America R E185 .E55
Encyclopedia of urban America: the cities and suburbs R HT123 .E5 1998

Literature

African American women playwrights: a research guide R PS153.N5 G29 1999
Afro-American fiction writers after 1955 R PS21 .D5 v.33
Afro-American poets since 1955 R PS21 .D5 v.41
The Afro-American short story R Z1229.N39 Y36 1986
Afro-American writers, 1940-1955 R PS21 .D5 v.76
Afro-American writers after 1955: dramatists and prose writers R PS21 .D5 v.38
Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance R PS21 .D5 v.50
Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 R PS21 .D5 v.51
Black authors: a selected annotated bibliography R Z1215 .N57 1991
Black plots & black characters: a handbook for Afro-American literature R PS153.N5 S65

Research Guides

Literary research guide R 6511 .P37 1983
The Harlem Renaissance: an annotated reference
guide for student research
R Z5956.A47 R64 1998
Index to Afro-American reference resources R Z1361.N39 S77 1988
Reference library of Black America R E185 .R435 1994

 

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