Literature
General Resources
Books (print and e-books)
- Cambridge history of African American literature Reference PS153.N5 G685 2011
Web Sites
- African American Women Writers of the 19th CenturyContains 52 published works of 19th century black women writers. Keyword search full-text across the database or in individual works. New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Selected Authors
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
- James Baldwin - About the AuthorAmerican Masters, PBS
Countee Cullen
- Countee CullenModern American Poetry
Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass: Online ResourcesLibrary of Congress
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ralph Ellison
- Ralph EllisonLibrary of Congress
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
bell hooks
Langston Hughes
- Langston HughesThe Poetry Foundation
Zora Neale Hurston
- Zora Neale Hurston Digital ArchiveUniversity of Central Florida
June Jordan
- June JordanThe Poetry Foundation
Audre Lorde
- Audre LordeThe Poetry Foundation
Toni Morrison
Sojourner Truth
- On the Trail of Sojourner Truth in Ulster County, New YorkBy Corinne Nyquist, M.L.S., Ph.D. Librarian, Sojourner Truth Library
Alice Walker
Rebecca Walker
Booker T. Washington
Phillis Wheatley
- Phillis WheatleyThe Poetry Foundation
Performing Arts
Books (print and e-books)
- Historical dictionary of African American cinema Reference PN1995.9.N4 B433 2007
Web Sites
Visual Arts
General Resources
Books (print and e-books)
- African-American architects : a biographical dictionary, 1865-1945 Reference NA736 .A47 2004
- African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to Present N6538.N5 B47 2008
- Grove Art OnlineSearchable online version of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art covering the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s. Also includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Web Sites
- African American ArtistsArt Institute of Chicago
- African American ArtistsMuseum of the Fine Arts, Boston
Selected Artists
Edward Mitchell Bannister
- Edward Mitchell BannisterSmithsonian American Art Museum
- Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1828-1901Kenkeleba House, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Aaron Douglas
- Aaron Douglas: African American ModernistSmithsonian American Art Museum
Robert S. Duncanson
- Robert S. DuncansonSmithsonian American Art Museum
Jacob Lawrence
- Jacob Lawrence: Exploring StoriesWhitney Museum of American Art
Betye Saar
- Betye SaarThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Kara Walker