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BLACK HISTORY AND LITERATURE
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Caribbean Literature
More than a million and a half Africans were brought to the
Caribbean between the 15th and 19th
centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and
the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to
traditional African expressions. At
completion Caribbean Literature will contain 100,000 pages of text with associated
images. Writers share tales of survival, exile, resistance,
endurance, and emigration in their native dialects making it a
vital resource for those seeking to hear and understand the
often ignored voices of the Black Diaspora.
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Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers brings together more
than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black
women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format
for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time,
black women have needed to create their own identities and
movements. This collection documents that effort from its
earliest beginnings. With this landmark collection, Alexander
Street makes accessing these resources easy at last, bringing
scholars the voices of Africana women along with a tool for
understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and
development of black people in the Diaspora.
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African American
Music Reference
From early slave spirituals to 20th century movements revolving
around jazz, blues, and gospel, African American music has
played an integral role in the development of music worldwide.
African American Music Reference is the first comprehensive
reference database to chronicle this rich history of African
American music through 1970. It brings together for the first
time the most important reference texts in this subject
area,
including discographies, and bibliographies—together
with songsheets, images, and other print resources.
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Black Thought and Culture
More than 100,000 pages of monographs, speeches, essays articles,
and interviews written by leaders within the black community
from earliest times to 1975, illustrate the evolution of what
it means to "be black." Includes the only full run
of The Black Panther - the party's newspaper - and 2,500 pages
of oral history interviews recorded by the former Black Panther,
David Hilliard. Teachers, artists, politicians, religious
leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are
represented. Find influences, read history in their words,
discover a wealth of fugitive material.
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Black Short Fiction
and Folklore
Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together
8,000 works by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora,
from the earliest times to the present. Drawn from early
literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections
of the authors, much of the collection is fugitive,
ephemeral, or previously unpublished. It presents a variety
of traditions ranging from early African oral traditions to
today’s hip-hop and covers fables, parables, ballads,
folktales, short stories, trickster tales, story cycles, and
novellas. For scholars of history, sociology, anthropology,
and literature.
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Black Drama
The project brings together 1,200 plays, almost a quarter
of which are previously unpublished. Nowhere else will researchers
see these works! They have been carefully selected by well-known
experts such as James V. Hatch, a board of scholars, and the
writers themselves. The collection includes the complete works
of more than 300 playwrights from North America, Africa, the
Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and other locations. Starting
with Victorian plays and working up to the present, this indispensable
collection presents the writings together with biographies,
playbills, images, production notes, performance information,
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Last Updated:
07-Jul-2009
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