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African American Literature and History Reference

A Long Dark Night by J. Michael Martinez
Call Number: 305.800973 M3856l 2016 East, Metro, and West Libraries
ISBN: 9781442259942
Publication Date: 2016-04-14
Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Maria Tatar (Editor)
Call Number: 398.208996073 A6152a 2018 Metro Library
ISBN: 9780871407535
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era by Lean'tin L. Bracks (Editor); Jessie Carney Smith (Editor)
Call Number: 810.9928708996073 B6271w 2017 Metro Library
ISBN: 9780810895027
Publication Date: 2017-11-24
Before Harlem by Ajuan Maria Mance
Call Number: 810.80896073 B4159h 2016 East Library
ISBN: 9781621902027
Publication Date: 2016-03-15
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates (General Editor); Cheryl A. Wall (Editor); Valerie Smith (General Editor); William L. Andrews (Editor); Kimberly Benston (Editor); Brent Hayes Edwards (Editor); Frances Smith (Editor); Deborah E. McDowell (Editor); Robert G. O'Meally (Editor); Hortense Spillers (Editor)
Call Number: 810.80896073 N882a 2014 Vol. 1 and 810.80896073 N822a 2014 Vol. 2 Multiple campuses
ISBN: 9780393923698
Publication Date: 2014-03-28
The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular forms--from spirituals and sermons to jazz and hip hop. Fresh scholarship, new visuals and media, and new selections--with an emphasis on contemporary writers--combine to make The Norton Anthology of African American Literature an even better teaching tool for instructors and an unmatched value for students.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Introduction by); Hollis Robbins (Editor)
Call Number: 810.8 P8398n 2017 Westshore Library
ISBN: 9780143105992
Publication Date: 2017-07-25

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