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- Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture: a multimedia archive
- This website explores Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “as an American cultural phenomenon” through historical documents, essays, and artwork. Visitors may search or browse the site’s primary materials, which include pre-texts, manuscript images, responses to the story, media, and more. Also included is an interpretive section which includes a timeline, critical essays, and resources for teachers. (Source: Stephen Railton, University of Virginia)
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- African & Caribbean Literature in French
- This online research guide covers the areas of African and Caribbean literature written in the French language. The guide provides numerous sources of information related to the topic organized in areas such as biographies, histories, fiction, periodicals, bibliographies, dissertations, and much more. Also included is a brief introductory background to the topic. (Source: Howard University Library)
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- African American Literature and Culture Society
- This site contains information about the African American Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association, including its publications, projects, and events. The AALCS “initiates and encourages critical dialogue, scholarly publications, conferences, programs, and projects devoted to the study of the African American Literature and Culture.” (Source: Marygrove College)
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- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Full-text works of biography, autobiography, fiction, poetry, and essays by African American women writers of the 19th century are provided at this site. (Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library)
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- Amiri Baraka: Poet, Playwright, Activist
- This site provides a short biography on writer, Amiri Baraka. Audio and video materials as well as photographs, selected writings, and external links are also included. In addition, the site lists books by Baraka. (Source: Amiri Baraka)
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- Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
- Anthurium is a scholarly journal that publishes original works by Caribbean writers and scholars. It includes fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, critical studies, books reviews, and visual art. The journal is a non-profit publication made available by the University of Miami. (Source: University of Miami)
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- August Heritage, An: The Pittsburgh Cycle
- This site provides information on African-American playwright August Wilson. Included are biographical information, news article links, reviews of plays, speeches, and interviews. (Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- This site is the official online homepage of Black Issues Book Review, a magazine dedicated to reviewing and featuring works by and about African Americans. The site features new reviews by genre and bestseller lists, as well as subscription information and advertising information. (Source: Black Issues Book Review)
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- Caribbean Literary Studies
- The Caribbean Literary Studies Group at the University of Miami seeks to support and facilitate scholarship on Caribbean literature, culture, and arts. This website provides information about CLS as well as links to their Summer Institute Archive, publications, and conferences and special events. (Source: University of Miami)
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- Caribbean Writers Summer Institute Archival Video Collection
- An archive of video footage from the Caribbean Writers’ Summer Institute, 1991-96. Videos include readings of poetry and fiction by Caribbean authors and discussions about Caribbean writers and their work. The video archive may be searched or browsed by participant or subject. (Source: University of Miami)
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- Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry
- This site collects information about Black poetry, including publications, readings, workshops, and prizes. The site features selected poems and links to other poetry sites. (Source: Cave Canem)
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- Charles Johnson Society
- The Charles Johnson Society’s goal is to “stimulate and encourage interest in philosophical fiction—in particular the works of Charles Johnson.” The site features a biography of the writer and a bibliography of critical and related works. The site also contains information about the society itself, including membership, meetings, and presentations. (Source: Charles Johnson Society, Washington and Lee University)
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- Coal Black Voices
- Coal Black Voices accompanies the documentary of the same name on the “Affrilachian Poets,” a group of Black poets who blend African American culture and literary traditions with a regional Appalachian literary movement. The site includes curriculum for teachers, poetry and information on the poets included, and links for further study. (Source: Media Working Group)
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- Cora Unashamed
- This site links to a description of PBS's Masterpiece Theater presentation of Cora Unashamed, a story by Langston Hughes about an African American domestic working in a Midwestern household during the Depression. (Source: PBS)
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- FL--Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA! Festival)
- The annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA! Festival) is held in the United States’ oldest African American municipality, Eatonville, Florida. The festival celebrates the life of Hurston and the contributions people of African ancestry have made to the world. (Source: The Association to Preserve Eatonville, Inc.)
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- Frank X Walker – Affrilachian Poet
- This site is dedicated to the work of Frank X. Walker, poet, writer, and professor. The site includes a biography, publication information, scheduled appearances, and information on the Affrilachian Poets, a group of African-American poets from the Appalachian region co-founded by Walker. (Source: frankxwalker.com)
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- Furious Flower Poetry Center
- The Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University provides “opportunities for education, research, and publication” in African American poetry to the campus and local community. The site includes extensive poetry resources, as well as information on the Center including conferences, publications, and poetry slams. (Source: James Madison University)
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- Givens Collection of African American Literature
- "The Givens Collection of African American Literature contains more than 6,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, and ephemera of African-American literature produced during a span of more than 200 years, from late eighteenth century to the present." (Source: University of Minnesota Libraries)
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- James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938
- The Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina features a collection of books and manuscripts by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson, 1871-1938, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, schooled in Atlanta, Georgia, lived in New York, was a diplomat in Central America and later moved back to the United States. (Source: University of South Carolina)
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- John Edgar Wideman Literary Society
- The John Edgar Wideman Literary Society discusses the life and works of Wideman. The society is part of the American Literature Association. The web site features information about the author, as well as links to works by and about him. (Source: Shippensburg University)
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- LA--Arna Wendell Bontemps Museum
- The Arna Wendell Bontemps Museum site contains information about the “poet, author, anthologist, and librarian” Arna Bontemps, who was a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Biographical information, examples of Bontemps' work, and museum events and activities are also available on the site. (Source: Arna Wendell Bontemps Museum)
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- Langston Hughes
- This site contains biographical information about the poet Langston Hughes. The site features a chronological listing of Hughes’ work, full-text of some poems, and links to information about other Harlem Renaissance and Jazz poets. (Source: The Academy of American Poets)
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- Langston Hughes at 100
- This online interactive exhibit features information on the life and work of Langston Hughes. Included on the site are audio and video clips of Hughes reading his work, photographs, images of primary source materials and manuscripts, and links to other online resources. (Source: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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- Langston Hughes in Lawrence: 1902-1915
- This online exhibit examines in detail the early life of Langston Hughes, during which he lived mostly in Lawrence, Kansas. The site presents information on various aspects of Hughes’ early life including his family life and schooling as well as his experiences with segregation in Lawrence. These experiences are presented with later literary works by Hughes that directly connect to these early childhood moments. (Source: Watkins Community Museum of History, Lawrence, Kansas)
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- Langston Hughes National Poetry Project
- This site was created in 2002 to celebrate the centennial of Langston Hughes' birth. The site includes streaming audio files and transcripts of presentations by scholars, poets, and performance artists who participated in the symposium held at the University of Kansas in February 2002 as well as a bibliography of works by and about Hughes. (Source: University of Kansas)
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- Literature and Life: The Givens Collection
- This site is a web companion to a documentary about the Givens Collection of African American Literature, which is located at the University of Minnesota Library's Special Collections and Rare Books Department. (Source: PBS)
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- Modern American Poetry
- Modern American Poetry is the online companion to the Anthology of American Poetry, published by Oxford University Press. The web site includes biographical information about poets as well as information about their work. African American poets included are: Ai, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Bennett, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Lucille Clifton, Jayne Cortez, Countee Cullen, Rita Dove, Henry Dumas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Michael S. Harper, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Etheridge Knight, Yusef Komunyakaa, Audre Lorde, Claude McKay, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Dudley Randall, Ishmael Reed, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Anne Spencer, Melvin B. Tolson, Jean Toomer, Margaret Walker and Richard Wright. (Source: Department of English, University of Illinois)
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- Mosaic Literary Magazine
- Founded in 1998, Mosaic is a quarterly magazine featuring the writings of Black and Latino authors. Issues include essays, reviews, and author profiles. (Source: Literary Freedom Project, Bronx Council on the Arts)
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- Nikki Giovanni: Poet
- This site contains information about the poet Nikki Giovanni. The site features a biography of the poet and information about her many published works, including poems, essays, and audio recordings. (Source: Nikki Giovanni)
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection
- This site serves as the online accompaniment to the Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection at the Wright State University Library. Included are searchable full text of a large body of Dunbar’s poetry, a detailed biography, photo gallery, and links for further information. (Source: Wright State University)
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- Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After, The
- Hosted by The Academy of American Poets, this site provides biographical information on African American poets during and after the Harlem Renaissance period. The site also includes full-text and/or audio samples of some poems. (Source: The Academy of American Poets)
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- Project on the History of Black Writing @ KU, The
- Supported by the Project on the History of Black Writing at Kansas University, this site contains a database of largely out-of-print African American writings. The site features separate poetry and novel databases, as well as a gallery of images and a list of related sources. (Source: University of Kansas)
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- Reading Women Writers and African Literature
- This site presents an overview of sub-Saharan African women writers writing in French. The site offers biographical information about these authors as well as links to interviews, texts in French, a list of works that have been translated into English, and lists of books by African women authors organized by publication year. (Source: University of Western Australia)
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- Resource Bibliography for the Study of African-American Children's Literature
- This site provides a bibliography on resources for the study of African American children’s literature. The guide is broken up into sections on different themes, and includes recommended reading lists and resources for teachers of African American children’s literature. (Source: University of Southern Mississippi)
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- The Antislavery Literature Project
- The Antislavery Literature Project’s (ALP) goal is “to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, U.S. and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies.” This site contains hundreds of antislavery texts made available free and full-text by the ALP. Resources can be searched or browsed by categories such as newspapers, poetry, prose, travel accounts, speeches, slave narratives, and more. (Source: Arizona State University and Iowa State University)
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- The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive
- The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive provides links to materials related to the work and life of Hurston. Included are audio and visual materials, plot summaries, syllabi, outside resources, and a chronology of the author’s life. Images from the original manuscripts of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Mule Bone: A Comedy in Three Acts are available via the site. (Source: University of Central Florida)
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- TN--Tennessee African American Authors
- This site features information and resources on Tennessee African American authors. Included are biographical information, detailed bibliographies, and links to further resources for each author. (Source: University of Tennessee)
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- Toni Morrison Society
- This site contains information about the author and her writings. The site features information about current and upcoming exhibits and conferences relating to Toni Morrison, news updates, and a list of related sources. (Source: Toni Morrison Society)
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- Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color
- Voices from the Gaps is a searchable database of biographical profiles of writers as well as critical commentary on their work, bibliographies of works by and about them, and links to relevant web sites. (Source: University of Minnesota)
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- Women of Color, Women of Words
- Created by a librarian, this site is devoted to female African-American playwrights. Visitors to this site are able to view a list of plays, books, dissertation citations and theater productions recommended by the site creator. (Source: Rutgers University)
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- Zora Neale Hurston Plays
- This site contains information about the collection of ten plays written by Zora Neale Hurston. The site features a searchable database, a chronology of Hurston’s life, and a list of related resources. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- Zora Neale Hurston: The Official Zora Neale Hurston Website
- This site contains information about the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. Resources for reading groups and teachers are included as well as links to additional sites on Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance. (Source: Estate of Zora Neale Hurston and HarperCollins)
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- Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation
- This site provides information about the Hurston/Wright Foundation, whose purpose is to “preserve the legacy and ensure the future of Black writing.” Users will find details about Hurston/Wright Writers’ Week and the awards offered by the foundation. The site also offers resources about authors Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. (Source: The Hurston/Wright Foundation)
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