ENG 265 - Survey of African American Literature I: Finding Background Information

This reference work chronicles the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery, abolition, and emancipation.

Explores the many ways Africa and African peoples have shaped the cultural life of the Americas, and how, in turn, life in the Americas reverberates in Africa.

Designed for the general reader, this set presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

Designed for the general reader, this set presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

Presents a state-by-state history of African Americans in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Provides brief biographical sketches of African Americans who were elected to Congress during the Reconstruction. Also, includes excerpts from documents illuminating their activities in Congress.

Documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century.

A five-volume set and supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces, many written by foremost scholars, it addresses a wide array of subjects in over 2,300 articles to define in one source the cultural roots, participation in American life, and current condition of the African-American community.

Provides an authoritative source for information on the people, places, and events of the African Diaspora, spanning five continents and five centuries.

Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.

This book provides readers with a deeper comprehension of American culture through a greater understanding of the contributions of African American culture and black folk traditions. Original materials, such as excepts from folktales and folksongs, and a comprehensive compilation of sources for further research that includes bibliographical citations as well as lists of websites and cultural centers, are also provided.

This two-volume reference seeks to capture the ways in which the tenets and foundations of African American culture have given rise to today's society. Approaching the field from a "street level" perspective, these two volumes cover topics of universal interest in America: rap music, sports, television, cinema, racism, religion, literature, and much more.

Encyclopedia containing a full analysis of the economic, political, sociological, historical, literary, and philosophical issues related to Americans of African descent.

Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

from From: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature(Vol. 4. )

from Encyclopedia of African American History(Vol. 2. )

from American History Through Literature 1820-1870(Vol. 3. )

from Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America(Vol. 2. )

from Contemporary Black Biography(Vol. 11. )

from Encyclopedia of African American History(Vol. 3. )

from International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences(Vol. 9. 2nd ed.)

from Encyclopedia of African American History(Vol. 2. )

from Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature(Vol. 4. )

from Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature

from Encyclopedia of Race and Racism(Vol. 1. )

from American Social Reform Movements Reference Library(Vol. 3: Biographies. )