After a hiatus, we are happy to be back to blogging. In February, NJCU celebrates Black History month with several special programs including a showing of Dr. Robert Hamburger’s Freedom’s Front Line: Fayette County, Tennessee and a concert by the Son Sonora Ensemble.
For more information about African American contributions to American culture and society come to the library and check out one of the following:
African American dance : an illustrated history
Barbara S. Glass
GV1624.7 .A34 G53 2007
Before Harlem : the Black experience in New York City before World War I
Marcy S. Sacks
F128.9 .N4 S33 2006
Black power in the belly of the beast
edited by Judson L. Jeffries ; foreword by Tiyi M. Morris
E185.615 .B54665 2006
The Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction
Darryl Dickson-Carr
PS374 .N4 D533 2005
A companion to African American history
edited by Alton Hornsby
E185 .C66 2005
Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson
E185.86 .D943 2007
A defiant life : Thurgood Marshall and the persistence of racism in America
Howard Ball
KF8745.M34 B35 1998
Free within ourselves : the development of African American children’s literature
Rudine Sims Bishop
PS153 .N5 B526 2007b
Unknown tongues : Black women’s political activism in the antebellum era, 1830-1860
Gayle T. Tate
E185.9 .T38 2003
The library also owns several reference books on African and African American history, including:
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
DT14.A37435 2005
The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West
E185.96 .G38 2002
Black women in America
Darlene Clark Hine, editor in chief
E185.86 .B542 2005
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass
editor in chief, Paul Finkelman
E185 .E545 2006
Encyclopedia of African American society
Gerald D. Jaynes, general editor
E185 .E546 2005
Encyclopedia of African American women writers
edited by Yolanda Williams Page
PS153 .N5 E49 2007
Encyclopedia of the great Black migration
edited by Steven A. Reich
E185.6 .E54 2006
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman, editors
NX512.3 .A35 E53 2004
Historical dictionary of African American cinema
S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
PN1995.9 .N4 B433 2007
For more resources including links to databases and web sites, see the library’s African American Studies Resource Guide.
While perusing the Internet(which, btw, we have almost finished), we came across this relatively new type of online tool - the online state encyclopedia. Not based on a tourist-board-chamber-of-commerce model, these worthy electronic tomes are the epitome of scholarly endeavor with articles written by experts, edited by subject specialists, funded by federal(NEH) and state(humanities councils or committees) entities, and undertaken with the cooperation of the respective states’ historical societies and universities. Many of these projects got their start in 2001 when the NEH gave seed money for the planning of these works. The works range from barely underway but still growing(Oregon) to the massively comprehensive(Texas). Among the states now online, we have: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington. Other states set to appear shortly are Alabama and Virginia. If you, gentle reader, come across others that meet the above criteria, please let us know so that we may add them to our list.
