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This unique publication provides a thesaurus of all Library of Congress sub-Saharan African subject headings ever published, including classification numbers for most subject headings and cross-references from related or unused versions of a heading.
This book represents the first comprehensive compilation of information about Black Studies programs, departments, institutions, and centers, as well as about the discipline itself.
"This book consists mostly of a title and first-line index, (frequently requested by general readers), supplemented by indexes to authors and to 1,100 subjects." Choice
The plight of the Black male in American society has been well-documented by scholars and practitioners. the number of Black males in prison and jail exceeds the number of Black males in higher education. The homicide rates for Black males were 72.5 percent per 100,000, nearly eight times higher than for White males.
Finally, an exhaustive list of works by Hurston is provided, along with a catalog of the special collections where her manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera are stored. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of 20th-century America's foremost fiction and folklore writers.
By focusing on the contributions of African-American criminologists, this reference offers contemporary Afrocentric perspectives on critical issues of crime and justice. An alphabetical listing of published abstracts is presented for each contributing author.
The most complete record of the literary achievement of black American women, this bibliography documents the works of and works about 900 writers from Theresa Williams Abram to Sister Zubena. These appear directly with each author's entry, with cross references to separate sections for General Works and Anthologies.
Provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of work on African American women published between 1975-1999. The book focuses primarily on the scholarly literature and annotates journal articles, book chapters, and books that cover the lives of African American women.This reference fills a critical void by organizing and synthesizing published work on African American women, thereby making visible the richness of scholarly work on this population. The entries cover both theoretical and empirical work as well as a number of critical essays and anthologies. While the specific topical areas covered are quite diverse, the book is divided into nine major areas, each representing a single chapter. These include: education, feminist thought and womanist perspectives, intimacy, relationships, and motherhood, health, religion, spirituality, and womanist theology, social, historical, and eocnomic conditions, work, careers, and achievement, African American women writers, and bibliographies, indexes, and reference books.
This index will facilitate in-depth research into 20 of Soyinka's major works including plays, novels, and poetry.
A classified index, with titles, lists works by category and subject, and a key word index cross-references nearly one thousand words that appear in entry titles.
Any future biographical work on Richard Wright will find this bibliography a necessity;
?Malval's guide provides the reader with a comprehensive listing of Hampton Institute's own records. The first half of the book consists of 34 different record groups, including education, state and national organizations, faculty, and pictorial records. Entries within each of these record groups are numerous and arranged alphabetically. The second half of the work has an index to the record groups and a general index arranged alphabetically by subject. Although the Guide will be useful for historians of black and Native American cultures, its appeal will be greatest for the handful of scholars interested in the traditions of Hampton Institute itself.?-Choice
Sources include titles generally considered to be reference tools, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogs, indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and resource guides, as well as selected resources such as classic history texts and anthologies that fall outside the traditional reference area.
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Invisible Wings is the only reference book on Blacks in aviation. The work covers three quarters of the twentieth century from 1916 to 1993, with one of the earliest articles describing the world's first Black pilot, Eugene J.
"Although much has been written about blacks in the military, there is no single definitive compilation of their contributions. This two-part bibliography attempts to fill that void. ... Limited to printed sources, the bibliography is designed primarily for students and general readers.... The compiler pulls together effectively much of the existing diverse material on this subject. The author index is good.... [Students] requiring the location of general information about blacks in the military could very easily begin with this bibliography. Recommended for large public libraries and for academic libraries high school through undergraduate levels."-Choice
Appendices, indicating the nature of his following, include Quotations and Sayings of Daddy Grace, Names and Titles Given to Daddy Grace, Products Named After Daddy Grace, Daddy Grace's Enterprises, Groups and Organizations Named After Daddy Grace, and Addresses of the United House of Prayer For All People.
For students and scholars of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Afro-America, whether they be anthropologists, sociologists, health care workers, ethnomusicologists, or historians, this bibliography offers a much needed resource guide to one of the most vital facets of black world culture.
This comprehensive annotated bibliography, the first of its kind, provides lengthy entries on articles dealing with black health published during three time periods from post reconstruction to 1960. The compilers', Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, Jr., introduction reviews the literature that composes the bibliography and discusses trends in the mortality, morbidity, and health care utilization behaviors of blacks from slavery to the mid-20th century. This cogent essay places the social context of black health care into perspective and enhances both linkages to the dominant themes of each period and a fuller understanding of the history of health care inequities in the U.S. A companion volume by the same compilers', Black American Health: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1987), treats the more recent literature of the 1970s and 1980s.Following the in-depth introduction, the bibliography is divided into three chapters that annotate literature from the post reconstruction to the early 20th century, 1871-1919; from 1920 to 1950; and from 1951-1960. Each entry consists of an item number, author, title and source, date of publication, and page numbers as well as an exceptionally thorough and thoughtful annotation that averages ten lines in length. Subject and author indexes complete the work which will prove invaluable to students, scholars, and researchers in the fields of black history, medicine, and public health.
This comprehensive list of writings is designed to facilitate future research on Shockley, to allow for a complete view of her writings and their critical reception, and to guide the researcher to the full range of her publications and secondary sources about her and her works.
The only book of its kind in the field of Afro-American labor studies, this introductory reference surveys the diverse field of Afro-American labor literature from the end of the Civil War to the present.
"This annotated bibliography covers more than 600 titles dealing with Afro-Americans. ... The selections included represent a useful and solid list of sources. ... The annotations are the best feature of this book Some extend to 200 words, and all are clearly written. They are mostly nonevaluative and simply relate the facts about the material under consideration. ... This is a solid and usable introductory source [that] will be useful in academic and public libraries."-Reference Books Bulletin
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This work presents scholarship on African American leadership as part of the larger dynamic of leadership studies. The annotated entries cover a variety of works on subjects such as biographies, leadership organization and audio-visual materials.
Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history.
This bibliography, including sources published since 1987, documents black achievements in the humanities, including accomplishment in philosophy, religion, libraries and librarianship, journalism, folklore, linguistics, visual arts, the performing arts, music, and literary criticism.
But as A Raisin in the Sun demonstrates, plays by African American women dramatists can have a powerful message and are worthy of attention. A comprehensive research tool, this annotated bibliography sheds light on the often neglected works of contemporary African American female playwrights.
The most influential and widely read Black literary magazine in the 1960s, Negro Digest played a critical role in the era's Black Arts and Black Consciousness movement and is the most complete voice of that movement.
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