African American History Resources

@ Pequot Library

Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.

Biography arranged by subject’s last name.

Literature [arranged from most recent to earliest]:

Conversations with Gloria Naylor.   Naylor, Gloria, 2004.     813.54 NAYLOR

Every Tongue Got to Confess:  Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States.   Hurston, Zora Neale, 2001.  398.2 HURSTON

Love Poems.  Giovanni, Nikki, 1997.    811.54 GIOVANNI

Anything We Love Can Be Saved:  a Writer’s Activism.   Walker, Alice, 1997.    818.54 WALKER

The Richer the Poorer:  Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences. West, Dorothy, 1997. 818.52 WEST

The Same River Twice:  Honoring the Difficult:   a Meditation on Life, Spirit, and the Making of the Film, “The Color Purple”, Ten Years Later.   Walker, Alice, 1996.     818.54 WALKER

Exiled in Paris:  Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank, 1946-60.   Campbell, James, 1995.    813.52 CAMPBEL

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison.   Ellison, Ralph, 1995.     814.54 ELLISON

Virginia Hamilton.  Mikkelsen, Nina, 1994.    813.54 HAMILTON

Was Huck Black?  Mark Twain and African-American Voices.  Fishkin, Shelly Fisher, 1993.       813.4 FISHK

Double Stitch:   Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters.  Bell-Scott, Patricia, 1991.

810.8 DOUBLE

Wines in the Wilderness:  Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present.  1990.812.508 BROWN

Black Writers and the American Civil War.   Long, Richard A., ed., 1988.    973.7 BLACK

Critical Essays on James Baldwin.  Standley, Fred L., 1988.     818.54 BALDWIN

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.  Abbott, Anthony S., 1985.    813.5 ELLISON

Black Women Writers (1950-1980):  a Critical Evaluation.   Evans, Mari, ed., 1984.    810.9 EVANS

John A. Williams.  Muller, Gilbert H., 1984.     813.5 WI

Jean Toomer.  Benson, Brian Joseph, 1980.    813.5 TO

James Baldwin.  Sylvander, Carolyn Wedin, 1980.     813 BALDWIN

I Love Myself When I am Laughing…and Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston Reader.   Hurston, Zora Neale, 1979.     813.5 HUR

James Baldwin.  Pratt, Louis B., 1978.     813 BALDWIN

Langston Hughes:  Black Genius; a Critical Evaluation.  O’Daniel, Therman B., ed., 1971. 

813 HUGHES

Contemporary Black Drama:  from “A Raisin in the Sun” to “No Place to Be Somebody.”  Oliver, Clinton F., 1971.     812.54 OLIVER

The Fire Next Time.   Baldwin, James, 1963 and 1993.    326 BALDWIN

Nobody Knows my Name:  More Notes of a Native Son.  Baldwin, James, 1961.   301.45 BALDWIN

The Souls of Black Folk.   Du Bois, W.E.B. , 1903 and 2005.    326 DU BOIS