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American Literature

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Literature and History written by and on African Americans, October 1998

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Here at Keele

• Frederick Douglass Portrait | Colloquium: "A Liberating Sojourn"
• "Black Power Points" - African America
• Ambrose Bierce on Race, Native & African Americans, the Civil War

Texts and Resources on the Web

• Angelou, Maya
  • Resources | Resources
  • Inaugural Poem
• Baldwin, James
  • Foreward to "A Lonely Rage"
  • "Witness to the Light" (Resources)
• Bellow, Saul
  • Review of Ralph Elison's Invisible Man
• Chesnutt, Charles W.
  • The Goophered Grapevine
  • Po' Sandy
  • Dave's Neckliss
  • The Wife of His Youth
  • The Bouquet
  • Hot-Foot Hannibal
  • The March of Progress
  • Baxter's Procrustes
• Cleaver, Eldridge
  • Interview
• Douglass, Frederick
  • Resources and texts
• Dove, Rita
  • Resources
  • Lady Freedom Among Us ( U.S. Poet Laureate)
  • Resources
• Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt
  • A Negro Schoolamster ...
  • Strivings of the Negro People
  • The Freedmen's Bureau
  • Of the Training of Black Men
  • The Souls of Black Folk | The Souls of Black Folk (by chapter)
  • Du Bois Institute (Harvard)
• Dunbar, Paul
  • Resources
• Ellison, Ralph
  • Resources
  • Resources (on Invisible Man)
• Garvey, Marcus
  • Garvey and the UNIA
• Horton, George Moses
  • Resources
• Howells, William Dean
  • Opinions on "The White Man's Burden"
• Hughes, Langston
  • Resources |
  • Works
• Hurston, Zora Neale
  • Resources
• Melville, Herman
  • Benito Cereno
• Sanchez, Sonia
  • Sonia Sanchez Speaks
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  • Sojourner Truth
• Thoreau, Henry David
  • Slavery in Massachusetts
• Truth, Sojourner
  • Aint I a Woman
• Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemmens)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Washington, Booker T.
  • The Case of the Negro
  • The Fruits of Industrial Training
• Williams, Scott W.
  • The Compleat Abridged
• Wright, Richard
  • Resources
• X, Malcolm (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz)
  • Malcolm X Page

Historical Texts

• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
• The Negro Exodus Atlantic Monthly (1879)
• The Capture of a Slaver Atlantic Monthly (1900)
• The Heart of the Race Problem Atlantic Monthly (1909)

Other Libraries and Indexes

• Fat African American Library (Buffalo)
• African American Literature
• Martin Luther King Jr Anthology
• African American Bibliography (Michigan)
• History Sites Universal Black Pages (UBP)
• The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
• Center for African American Studies at UCLA

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