| African
American
Writers: A Celebration MTSU calendar of
events for African-American History Month
MTSU Library Guide 2/98-updated 1
/99 |
| "The idea
is to write it so that people
hear it and it slides through
the brain and goes straight to the heart." --Maya Angleou | Maya Angelou
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) 811 Sou Soul looks back in wonder / [illustrated by] Tom Feelings ; [poems by Maya Angelou ... et al.]. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1993.
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MAIN COLLECTION 917.306 An41a 1991 Literary and biographical info from the Internet Public Library 917.306 An41h The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou Maya Angelou: Teacher's Resources file
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James Baldwin
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Conversations with James Baldwin / edited by Fred L. Standley
and Louis H. Pratt.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1989.
MAIN COLLECTION 812.54 B19an 1988
Another country / James Baldwin.
New York : Dell, 1988, c1962.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 B19h 1963
Go tell it on the mountain.
New York, Dial Press, 1963 [c1953]
Toni Cade Bambara
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The
salt eaters/
by Toni Cade Bambara
1st ed.
New York : Random House, 1980.
Salt Eaters is set in a small, Southern town. Velma Henry, a long-time civil rights activist and feminist, sits in a hospital gown on a stool listening to the musical voice of Minnie Ransom. Old Minnie is a healer; she heals people by contacting the points of physical or psychical pain in her patients and relieving them. She is helped by her spirit guide, Old Wife. Scars heal and wounds close in minutes under her touch.
David Bradley
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The Chaneysville incident : a novel / David Bradley.
1st ed.
Story of John Washington, a black historian, who comes back to
Chaneysville, the site where 13 runaway slaves were killed, to visit a
dying friend.
Connie Briscoe
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Big girls don't cry / Connie Briscoe.
1st ed.
New York : HarperCollins, c1996.
Interview with Connie Briscoe from the Quarterly Black Review
Cecil Brown
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Brown, Cecil, 1943-
Coming up down south : a memoir of a southern childhood / Cecil
Brown.
1st ed.
Hopewell, NJ : Ecco Press, c1993.
Octavia Butler
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Parable of the sower / Octavia E. Butler.
A Four Walls Eight Windows 1st ed.
New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, c1993
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Wild seed / Octavia E. Butler.
Popular Library ed.
New York, N.Y. : Popular Library, 1988, c1980d
Unoffical Octavia Butler Home Page(not working)
Octavia
Butler Page
Bebe Moore Campbell
Main Collection 813.54 C151s
Singing in the Comeback Choir,
Putnam, c1998.
Reviews
Life is good for Maxine, an executive producer of a popular talk show,
but her security is shattered by a phone call from home. She must go back
to her old neighborhood, that she would like to forget, to take care of
her grandmother.
Lorene Cary
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Black ice / Lorene Cary.
1st Vintage Books ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1992
Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Sally Hemings / Barbara Chase-Riboud.
New York : Avon, 1980, c1979.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932.
The conjure woman, and other conjure tales / Charles W.
Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by Richard
H. Brodhead.
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1993.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.4 C42s Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. The short fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt. Edited and with introd. by Sylvia Lyons Render. Washington, Howard University Press, 1974.
Cyrus Colter
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 C72r
The rivers of Eros.
[1st ed.]
Chicago, Swallow Press [1972]
| "I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you've read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk, from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories."--J. California Cooper |
J. California Cooper MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 C786so Cooper, J. California. Some love, some pain, sometime / J. California Cooper. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c1995. Read more about the author and her books
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Countee Cullen
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My soul's high song : the collected writings of Countee
Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance / edited
and with an introduction by Gerald Early.
Anchor Book ed.
New York : Doubleday, 1991.
MAIN COLLECTION 811 C89
Color, by Countee Cullen.
New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Samuel R. Delany
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Silent interviews : on language, race, sex, science fiction,
and some comics : a collection of written interviews /
Samuel R. Delany.
Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press, c1994.
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Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. Delany.
Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1984.
Rita Dove
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Through the ivory gate : a novel / Rita Dove
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Ralph Ellison
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 El5i 1989
Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
Vintage Books ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1952
Ronald Fair
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We can't breathe [by] Ronald Fair.
[1st ed.]
New York, Harper & Row [c1972]
Leon Forrest
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Relocations of the spirit : essays / by Leon Forrest.
1st ed.
Wakefield, R.I. : Asphodel Press/Moyer Bell ; Emeryville,
CA : Distributed in North America by Publishers Group
West, c1994.
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There is a tree more ancient than Eden.
[1st ed.]
New York, Random House [1973]
Excerpt from By Dawn's Early Light: The Meteor in the Madhouse (Part III) by Leon Forrest
Ernest J. Gaines
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A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.
New York : A. A. Knopf : Distribued by Random House, Inc.
1993.
In A Lesson before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines demonstrates the ways in which people stubbornly declare the value of their lives in a time and place where those lives seemingly count for nothing, and where the imprisoned may find freedom even in the moment of their death.
Resources Includes reading guides, author bio, excerpts, etc.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 G127a 1972
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / by Ernest J. Gaines
New York ; Toronto ; London : Bantam books, 1972, c1971.
Nelson George
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Elevating the game : Black men and basketball / Nelson George.
1st ed.
New York : HarperCollins, c1992.
MAIN COLLECTION 306.47 G29b
Buppies, B-boys, Baps & Bohos : notes on post-soul Black
culture / Nelson George.
1st ed.
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1992.
Check the library catalog for other books by Nelson George.
Nikki Giovanni
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Racism 101 / Nikki Giovanni ; foreword by Virginia C. Fowler.
1st ed.
New York : W. Morrow, c1994.
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Giovanni, Nikki.
The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni.
1st ed.
New York : William Morrow and Co., c1996.
Information about Nikki Giovanni
Marita Golden
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The Edge of Heaven/ Marita Golden.
New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1998.
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A woman's place / Marita Golden.
1st ed.
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1986.
Marita Golden: A Personal Statement
Lorraine Hansberry
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Nemiroff, Robert.
To be young, gifted, and black; a portrait of Lorraine
Hansberry in her own words. Adapted by Robert Nemiroff.
[Acting ed.]
New York, S. French [c1971]
Raisin in the Sun Complete dialogue and searchable online concordance. Every word in the play is indexed.
MAIN COLLECTION 812.5 H19rb
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
A raisin in the sun : the unfilmed original screenplay /
Lorraine Hansberry ; edited by Robert Nemiroff ; foreword
by Jewell Handy Gresham-Nemiroff ; introduction by Margaret
B. Wilkerson ; with a commentary by Spike Lee.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume Book, c1992.
More info and Reading guide to A Raisin in the Sun
Lynn E. Harris
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And this too shall pass : a novel / by E. Lynn Harris.
1st ed.
New York : Doubleday, 1996.
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Invisible life : a novel / by E. Lynn Harris.
New York : Anchor Books, 1994.
813.54 H2415if
If this world were Mine by E. Lynn Harris
Story of four friends, whose friendship and deep bonds of intimacy are
threatened by conflicts of career and romance.
Chester Himes
When Chester Himes was nineteen, he was chained upside down, beaten by
police until he confessed to an armed robbery,
sentenced for twenty to twenty-five years, and incarcerated in the Ohio
State Penitentiary. That was in 1928. By the time he
was paroled in 1936, he had become a nationally-known writer.
---exerpt from
"PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG CONVICT" by H. Bruce Franklin, the
John
Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers
University, Newark.
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Yesterday will make you cry / Chester Himes.
[New ed.]
New York : Norton, c1998.
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If he hollers let him go : a novel / by Chester Himes
; foreword by Graham Hodges.
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : c1986.
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Plan B : a novel / by Chester Himes ;
edited with an
introduction by Michel Fabre & Robert E. Skinner.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1993.
Langston Hughes
A Cyber
Guide to the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Teacher resources/lesson
plans. Includes links to full text of poems, biographical information,
etc.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-
The big sea, an autobiography.
New York, Hill and Wang [1963, c1940]
335 p. 21 cm.
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The collected poems of Langston Hughes /
Arnold Rampersad,
editor, David Roessel, associate editor.
1st ed.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 H874sh
Short stories [of] Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes
; edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper ; with an
introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
1st ed.
New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.
Kristin Hunter
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Hunter, Kristin.
The survivors / Kristin Hunter.
New York : Scribner, [1975]
| "Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle." | Zora Neale
Hurston MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 H946t 1978 Their eyes were watching God : a novel / by Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Sherley Anne Williams. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1978] c1937.
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Charles Richard Johnson
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Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948-
Middle passage / Charles Johnson.
New York : Atheneum, 1990.
Gayl Jones MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 J717e Jones, Gayl. Eva's man / Gayl Jones. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1976.
William Melvin Kelley
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Kelley, William Melvin, 1937-
Dancers on the shore.
1st ed.
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1964.
John Oliver Killens
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Killens, John Oliver, 1916-
And then we heard the thunder.
[1st ed.]
New York, Knopf, 1963, [c1962]
Jamaica Kincaid
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Kincaid, Jamaica.
Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid.
1st ed.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.
a novel about a West Indian girl who arrives in New York City to
work as an au pair, never having seen anything beyond her tropical
island -
a person to whom bathrooms, elevators and winters are completely
unknown.
---from NYtimes review.
| ''When I was a child I liked to read. I loved 'Jane Eyre' especially and read it over and over. I didn't know anyone else who liked to read except my mother, and it got me in a lot of trouble because it made me into a thief and a liar. I stole books, and I stole money to buy them. . . . Books brought me the greatest satisfaction. Just to be alone, reading, under the house, with lizards and spiders running around. . . .'' - Jamaica Kincaid, in an interview, Aug. 19, 1990. " |
Salon interview with Jamaica Kincaid
Nella Larson
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An intimation of things distant : the collected fiction
of Nella Larsen / edited and with an introduction
by Charles R. Larson ; with a foreword by Marita
Golden.
New York : Anchor Books, 1992.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 L321q
Larsen, Nella.
Quicksand.
New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
Biography
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Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a
woman's life unveiled / Thadious M. Davis.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1994.
Julius Lester
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Lester, Julius.
Black folktales / Julius Lester ; illustrated by Tom Feelings
with an introduction by the author.
1st Evergreen ed.
New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1992.
Audre Lorde
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The marvelous arithmetics of distance : poems 1987-1992
/ Audre Lorde.
1st ed.
New York : W.W. Norton, c1993.
MAIN COLLECTION 814.54 L884s
Sister outsider : essays and speeches / by Audre Lorde
Trumansburg, NY : Crossing Press, c1984.
MAIN COLLECTION 811.54 L88b
The black unicorn : poems / by Audre Lorde.
1st ed.
New York : Norton, c1978.
More info about Audre Lorde from Voices from the Gaps
Clarence Major
MAIN COLLECTION 811.54 M288s
Major, Clarence.
Swallow the lake.
[1st ed.]
Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1970]
Paule Marshall
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Marshall, Paule, 1929-
Daughters / Paule Marshall.
New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada
New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
Julian Mayfield
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 M452h 1989
Mayfield, Julian, 1928-
The hit ; and, The long night / Julian Mayfield ; with a
new foreword by Phillip M. Richards.
Northeastern University Press ed.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1989.
Claude McKay
MAIN COLLECTION 818.52 M19p
The passion of Claude McKay; selected poetry and prose,
1912-1948. Edited with an introd. and notes by Wayne
F. Cooper.
New York, Schocken Books [1973]
MAIN COLLECTION 818.5 M192h
Home to Harlem / by Claude McKay ; foreword by Wayne
F. Cooper.
1st Northeastern University Press ed.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1987, c1928.
Biographical infofrom Encarta.
Biography
MAIN COLLECTION 818.5 M192 C78
Claude McKay : rebel sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance
: a biography / Wayne F. Cooper.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1987.
John McCluskey
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McCluskey, John.
Mr. America's last season blues : a novel / by John McCluskey,
Jr.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
James Alan McPherson
813.54 M242c
Crabcakes
Simon & Schuster, 1998.
The New York Times Book Review, Roy Huffman
Part lilting memoir, part anxious meditation, Crabcakes
picks up, at odd
angles, themes from McPherson's short-story collection
Elbow Room,
which was awarded a 1978 Pulitzer Prize.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 M242e
Elbow room : stories / by James Alan McPherson.
1st ed.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1977.
Louise Meriwether
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Meriwether, Louise.
Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether ; with a foreword
by James Baldwin, and an afterword by Nellie McKay.
1st Feminist Press ed.
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
1986, c1970.
N. Scott Momaday
MAIN COLLECTION 811.54 M739g
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-
The gourd dancer : [poems] / N. Scott Momaday ; drawings
by the author.
1st ed.
New York : Harper & Row, c1976.
Internet Resources about N. Scott Momaday
Toni Morrison--The first author ever to receive both the Nobel Prize for Literature and a Pulitzer.
| "The whole point is to have the characters move off the page and inhabit the imagination of whoever has opened herself to them." |
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 M837be 1988
Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison. New York : Plume, 1988. 813.54 M837p.....Paradise Toni Morrison
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Terry McMillan
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McMillan, Terry.
How Stella got her groove back / Terry McMillan.
New York : Viking, 1996.
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McMillan, Terry.
Waiting to exhale / Terry McMillan.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Pocket Books, 1993, c1992.
Terry McMillan goes to Hollywood
James Alan McPherson
MAIN COLLECTION 385.0973 M24r
McPherson, James Alan, 1943-
Railroad : trains and train people in American culture
/ edited by James Alan McPherson, Miller Williams.
New York : Random House, c1976.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 M242e
McPherson, James Alan, 1943-
Elbow room : stories / by James Alan McPherson.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1977.
Walter Mosley
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Mosley, Walter.
A little yellow dog / by Walter Mosley.
New York : Norton, 1996.
Jess Mowry
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Babylon boyz / Jess Mowry.
1st ed.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
c1997.
Inner-city teenagers find a suitcase full of cocaine
and must decide whether to sell it and take the
opportunities the money would provide or to destroy
it to keep the drug from poisoning their community.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) Fic Mow
Ghost train / by Jess Mowry.
1st ed.
New York : H. Holt, 1996.
Thirteen-year-old Remi, who has just moved to California
from Haiti, and his neighbor Niya travel back in
time to solve the mystery of the night train.
Check the online catalog for other books by this author
Gloria Naylor
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Naylor, Gloria.
Bailey's Cafe / Gloria Naylor.
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 N23m 1993
Mama Day / Gloria Naylor.
Vintage contemporaries ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Unofficial Gloria Naylor Home Page
Barbara Neely
Mystery writer--main character is a domestic worker, Blanche. First novel
is Blanche on the Lam set in North Carolina.
Gordon Parks
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Parks, Gordon, 1912-
Voices in the mirror : an autobiography / Gordon Parks.
1st Anchor Books ed.
New York : Anchor Books, 1992.
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Parks, Gordon, 1912-
A poet and his camera. Pref.: Stephen Spender. Introd.: Philip
B. Kunhardt, Jr.
New York, Viking Press [1968]
Ann Petry
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The street / Ann Petry.
Boston : Beacon Press, 1985, c1974.
Written in 1946, one of the first novels by an African American woman to receive broad critical recognition and acclaim. Sold over 1,000,000 copies.
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Petry, Ann (Lane) 1911-
The Narrows.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1953.
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Petry, Ann (Lane)
Country place.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1947
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Ann Petry / Hilary Holladay.
New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall
International, c1996.
Ishmael Reed
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Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Writin' is fightin' : thirty-seven years of boxing on paper
/ Ishmael Reed.
New York : Atheneum, 1988.
MAIN COLLECTION 814.54 R25s
Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Shrovetide in old New Orleans / Ishmael Reed
1st ed.
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978.
Paul Robeson
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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
Here I stand. With a pref. by Lloyd L. Brown.
Boston, Beacon Press [1971, c1958]
Black-listed during the McCarthy era, he wrote this memoir as an answer to his accusers.
Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration
Dori Sanders
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Clover : a novel / by Dori Sanders.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
1990.
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
A Sense of Place in Dori Sander's Clover
April Sinclair
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Sinclair, April.
Coffee will make you black / April Sinclair.
1st ed.
New York : Hyperion, c1994.
Pamela Thomas-Graham First time novelist--writes a mystery with an academic setting.A Darker Side of Crimson
Jean Toomer
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
The collected poems of Jean Toomer / edited by Robert
B. Jones and Margery Toomer Latimer ; with an
introduction and textual notes by Robert B. Jones.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1988.
Henry Van Dyke
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Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933.
The white bees, and other poems, by Henry Van Dyke.
New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1909.
Alice WalkerMAIN COLLECTION 813.54 W151c 1983 Walker, Alice, 1944- The color purple / Alice Walker. New York : Washington Square Press, 1983, c1982. (New York : Pocket Books)
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 W151t 1990
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| "I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?" --Alice Walker |
Dorothy West
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West, Dorothy, 1909-
The living is easy.
New York, Arno Press, 1969.
More information about Dorothy West
John Edgar Wideman
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Wideman, John Edgar.
Fever : twelve stories / John Edgar Wideman.
1st ed.
New York : H. Holt, c1989.
Valerie Wilson-Wesley
Read about the Tamara
Hayle Mystery series--Tamara Hayle, that
wise and witty Newark single mom who
makes her living as a private investigator.--
Charles Stevenson Wright
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Wright, Charles Stevenson, 1932-
The messenger / Charles Wright.
New York : Farrar, Straus, c1963.
Richard Wright
MAIN COLLECTION 928.1 W93b 1969
Black boy; a record of childhood and youth.
New York, Harper & Row 1969 c1945
Richard Wright.Resources
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 W93n 1993
MAIN/Reserves 813.52W93n
Native son and How "Bigger" was born / Richard Wright;
with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
1st HarperPerennial ed.
New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1993.
| "It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the store." ---Frank Yerby |
Frank Yerby MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 Y44f Yerby, Frank, 1916- The foxes of Harrow. New York, Dial Press [1946]
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Al Young
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Young, Al, 1939-
The blues don't change : new and selected poems / by Al Young.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 Y83s
Young, Al, 1939-
Snakes; a novel.
[1st ed.]
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1970]
Short stories, collections, anthologies, etc.
MAIN COLLECTION 811.08 C89
Caroling dusk; an anthology of verse by negro poets,
edited by Countee Cullen; decorations by Aaron Douglas.
New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1927.
MAIN COLLECTION 820.99287 M85n
Motherlands : Black women's writing from Africa, the
Caribbean, and South Asia / Susheila Nasta, editor.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1992.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.01 C43 1995
Children of the night : the best short stories by Black
writers, 1967 to the present / edited by Gloria Naylor
1st ed.
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1995.
MAIN COLLECTION 811.508 G16m
The garden thrives : twentieth-century African-American poetry
/ edited and with an introduction by Clarence Major.
1st ed.
New York : HarperPerennial, c1996.
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro. A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number.
MAIN COLLECTION 305.8 Sk33g
Skin deep : Black women & White women write about race
/ edited by Marita Golden and Susan Richards Shreve.
1st ed.
New York : Nan A. Talese, 1995.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.0872 Sp6w
Spooks, spies, and private eyes : Black mystery, crime,
and suspense fiction / edited by Paula L. Woods.
1st ed.
New York : Doubleday, 1995.
Holiday Books in MTSU Library
MTSU Library Main Collection 641.59296 M46e
Ideas for Entertaining from the African-American Kitchen by Angela
Shelf Medearis, c1997.
MTSU Library MAIN COLLECTION 813.4 C64b
Bypaths in Dixie; folk tales of the South. With an introd.
by Harry Stillwell Edwards. The Black heritage library
collection Mister Tall Pine's Christmas tree.
MTSU Library LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) 975 McK
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The bells of Christmas / Virginia Hamilton ; illustrations
by Lambert Davis. Twelve-year-old Jason describes the
wonderful Christmas of 1890 that he and his family
celebrate in their home in Springfield, Ohio.
MTSU Library
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Sofie's role / story by Amy Heath ; pictures by Sheila
Hamanaka.
On the day before Christmas, Sofie makes her big debut
serving customers in her family's busy Broadway Bakery.
Includes recipes on lining papers.
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Everett Anderson's Christmas coming / Lucille Clifton
; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
Relates, in verse, the excitement and joy of a young
boy anticipating as well as celebrating Christmas
in the city.
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The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural
/ Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
New York : Scholastic Inc., c1992, (1993 printing).
A collection of ghost stories with African American
themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the
half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too
believable.
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The headless haunt and other African-American ghost
stories / collected and retold by James Haskins ;
illustrated by Ben Otero.
1st ed.
New York : HarperCollins, c1994.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) Fic Sma Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern / written by Irene Smalls ; illustrated by Keinyo White. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum ;Books for Young Readers, 1996. Sister Louisa, who cares for Jenny Reen while her parents work in the field, warns the young slave girl about a monster, known from long-told tales, who comes out on Halloween.
LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) Fic Ham Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed / Virginia Hamilton. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1983. In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.
What's New at MTSUMAIN COLLECTION 297.87 F24 Al25 The Farrakhan factor : African-American writers on leadership, nationhood, and minister Louis Farrakhan / edited by Amy Alexander. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, c1998.Financial Aid for African Americans, 1997-1999 by Gail Schlachter and R. David Weber. REFERENCE AREA
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Davis. 782.42 D293b
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Minds,edited by
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Givens. 810.8 Spr1g Ideas for Entertaining from the African-American Kitchen by Angela Shelf Medearis, c1997. 641.59296 M46e |
