Key Sites on African-American Art and Literature
Includes a brief history of African-American literature, online e-texts from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center, full text poetry for several African-American poets, and online resource documents on literature by and about blacks.
Includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers.
The Guild, a nonprofit literary arts association, utilizes the power of the online medium to educate, inform, support and empower aspiring and published African American writers. It is dedicated to providing information, news, resources and support to Black writers while promoting the Internet as a tool for research and fellowship among the cultural writing community.
A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest.
This site is a companion to a three-part Public Broadcasting Service documentary. The film explores the "crucial role that African-American choreographers and dancers have played in the development of modern dance as an American art form." It includes an annotated and illustrated timeline, historic and thematic essays, a selection of short biographies, related links, and teaching resources.
Chapter 9 of Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide, an ongoing online project of Paul P. Reuben. Harlem Renaissance (HR) is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.
Based on "I'll Make Me a World," a six-hour public television special aired early in 1999, the site features the lives and work of African-American writers, dancers, painters, actors, film makers, and musicians from 1900 to the present. Users can query a database of the featured artists which may include video clips, images of the artists and their work, and links to sources of additional information. All entries indicate in which segment the artist appears in the television special.
Explores the artistry and personality of one of America's most
famous vocalists, a woman known
for both her contralto and the grace with which she stood as a
pioneer among African-American
voices in opera. The site is part of an exhibition from the
Department of Special Collections at
the University of Pennsylvania Library. It offers photos and
video and audio excerpts of Ms.
Anderson's performances and interviews.
Provides biographical information on many talented African-American writers of the 1920s, along with numerous examples of their work.
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's Online Exhibit Hall is currently featuring John H. White's photographs of Chicago's African American community.
In creating this Web site as a contribution to Black History
Month, Penny Hanks, of Illinois State
University, chose to utilize a section of American artist
Judy Chicago's book, The Dinner Party, because it
focuses on women's
contributions to culture and displays the fact that many women,
both black and white,
contributed a great deal to American culture and the modern-day
civil rights movement. It
features influential women such as Sojourner Truth, Marian
Anderson, Zora Neale Hurston,
Harriet Tubman and Ida B. Wells.
From San Antonio College, a listing and several links to the
foremost African-American writers
and their works, from the mid-1700s to the present day.
A project from the University of Minnesota that
focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North
America. Designed primarily to serve as an active learning
component in the literature classroom, the site relies upon
students and scholars from around the world to contribute author
"home pages" for women writers of color. Each author page
presents biographical, critical and bibliographical information
about the writer, images and quotes pertinent to her life and
works, and links to other Internet resources which contain
significant information about that writer. The pick "Meet the writers by racial/ethnic
background" offers a pick for "African American writers." In addition to the
author pages, which comprise the heart of this website, there is
a list of sites related to the study of women writers of color.
An alphabetical listing of resources which contain critical as well as biographical information about African-American women writers. Individual writers' pages list the author's works. Books marked with the Amazon.com logo are available for sale.
Links to literature and history written by and on African Americans.
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