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Bibliographies

 

Afro-American history : primary sources / edited by Thomas R. Frazier.
OTTERBEIN MAIN: E184.6 .A35 1988

 

The African-American Mosaic, A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

 

African-American community studies from North America : a classified, annotated bibliography / Fred J. Hay. New York : Garland, 1991.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :E185.86 .H37 1991

 

African-American traditions in song, sermon, tale, and dance, 1600s-1920 : an annotated bibliography of literature, collections, and artworks / compiled by Eileen Southern and Josephine Wright.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : Z5956.A47 S68 1990

 

Black American families, 1965-1984 : a classified, selectively annotated bibliography / Walter R. Allen, editor-in chief ; New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.86 .B5 1986

 

Black artists in the United States : an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and dissertations on Black artists, 1779-1979 / by Lenwood G. Davis and Janet L. Sims ; foreword by James E. Newton.
OTTERBEIN MAIN: Z5956.A47 D38 N6538.N5

 

Black music in the United States : an annotated bibliography of selected reference and research materials / Samuel A. Floyd, Marsha J. Reisser.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : ML128.B45 F6 1983

 

Black/white relations in American history : an annotated bibliography / Leslie V. Tischauser. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press ; Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1998.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.61 .T57 1998

 

Blacks in film and television : a Pan-African bibliography of films, filmmakers, and performers / compiled by John Gray
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :Z5784.M9 G72 1990

 

Black women in television : an illustrated history and bibliography / George Hill, Lorraine Raglin, Chas Floyd Johnson.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : PN1992.8.A34 H55 1990

 

The Schomburg Center guide to black literature : from the eighteenth century to the present / Roger M. Valade III, editor, with Denise Kasinec.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : PN841 .S3465 1995

 

Biographies

 

The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present / Columbus Salley.  Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1999.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .S225 1999

 

African-American orators : a bio-critical sourcebook / edited by Richard W. Leeman.  Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, [c1996]
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .A447 1996

 

African American women : a biographical dictionary / Dorothy C. Salem, editor.  New York : Garland, 1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .A45 1993

 

Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 / by Bruce A. Ragsdale and Joel D. Treese (Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives).
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1990.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .R25 1990

 

Epic lives : one hundred Black women who made a difference / Jessie Carney Smith, editor ; foreword by Stephanie Stokes Oliver. Detroit : Visible Ink Press, c1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .E65 1993

 

Notable Black American men / Jessie Carney Smith, editor. Detroit : Gale Research, c1999.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.86 .N68 1998

 

Notable Black American women / Jessie Carney Smith, editor.   Detroit : Gale Research, c1992-
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .N68 1991

 

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

 

The African American encyclopedia / Michael W. Williams, editor. New York : Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE: E185 .A253 1993

 

The African-American almanac / Kenneth Estell, editor ; foreword by Jean Currie Church.
Detroit : Gale Research Inc., c1994.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .A47 1994

 

The African-American experience : selections from the five-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American culture and
history / Jack Salzman, editor-in-chief.
New York : Macmillan Library Reference USA, [1998], c1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :  E185 .E542 1998b

 

Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :DT14 .A37435 2005  v.1-5

 

Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia / editors: Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, Rosalyn  Terborg-Penn. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1994], c1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :  E185.86 .B542 1993b

 

Blacks in American films and television : an encyclopedia / Donald Bogle.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : PN1995.9.N4 B58 1989

 

Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present / edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek ; foreword by David J. Garrow.   New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :  E185.61 .E54 1992

 

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history / edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. New York : Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :   E185 .E84 1996

 

Encyclopedia of Black studies / editors, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama.Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2005.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .E554 2005 

Encyclopedia of multiculturalism / editor, Susan Auerbach New York : Marshall Cavendish, c1994.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E184.A1 E58 1994 v.1-6

 

The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery / Junius P. Rodriguez, general editor.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : HT861 .H57 1997

 

Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery / edited by Paul Finkelman, Joseph C. Miller.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : HT861 .M24 1998

 

Reference library of Black America / edited by Jessie Carney Smith, Joseph M. Palmisano. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, Inc. ; Distributed by African American Publications, Proteus Enterprises, c2000.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .R44 2000

 

History

 

1001 things everyone should know about African-American history / Jeffrey C. Stewart.
New York : Main Street Books, 1998, c1996.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .S798 1998

 

The African-American book of days : inspirational history and thoughts for every day of the year / Julia Stewart.
Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1996.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .S8 1995

 

The African-American book of lists / edited by Michael E. Livingston ; foreword by Alvin F. Poussaint.
New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 1997.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .A2524 1997

 

African American historic places / National Register of Historic Places ; edited by Beth L. Savage ; editorial director, Carol D.
Shull ; editorial assistant, Rama Ramakrishna.
Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, c1994.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .A2534 1994

 

The African-American atlas : Black history and culture-- an illustrated reference / Molefi K. Asante and Mark T. Mattson.
New York : Macmillan USA ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1998.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .A79 1998

 

The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present / Columbus Salley.  Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1999.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .S225 1999

 

Black firsts : 2,000 years of extraordinary achievement / edited by Jessie Carney Smith with Casper L. Jordan, Robert L. Johns ; foreword by Johnnetta B. Cole.   Detroit : Visible Ink, 1994.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :  E185 .B574 1994

 

Black defenders of America, 1775-1973.      Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1974.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :   E185.63 .G73

 

Black/white relations in American history : an annotated bibliography / Leslie V. Tischauser.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press ; Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1998.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.61 .T57 1998

 

The timetables of African-Amerian history : a chronology of the most important people and events in African-American
history / Sharon Harley. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :  E185 .H295 1995

 

Miscellaneas

 

1,999 facts about Blacks : a sourcebook of African-American achievement / Raymond M. Corbin.
Lanham : Madison Books, c1997.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .C83 1997

 

"And don't call me a racist!" : a treasury of quotes on the past, present and future of the color line in America / selected and arranged by Ella Mazel.
 Lexington, Mass. : Argonaut Press, c1998.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.615 .M384 1998

 

African-American alphabet : a celebration of African-American and West Indian culture, custom, myth, and symbol / Gerald Hausman and Kelvin Rodriques.  New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E184.5 .H38 1996

 

African-American orators : a bio-critical sourcebook / edited by Richard W. Leeman.  Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, [c1996]
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .A447 1996

 

Black firsts : 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events / Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit : Visible Ink, c2003
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .B574 2002

 

Blacks in black and white : a source book on Black films / by Henry T. Sampson., Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow press, c1995.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : PN1995.9.N4 S2 1995

 

Reel Black talk : a sourcebook of 50 American filmmakers / Spencer Moon ; foreword by George Hill.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : PN1998.2 .M66 1997

 

Reference library of Black America / edited by Jessie Carney Smith, Joseph M. Palmisano. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, Inc. ; Distributed by African American Publications, Proteus Enterprises, c2000.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185 .R44 2000

 

Slavery

 

The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery / Junius P. Rodriguez, general editor.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : HT861 .H57 1997

 

A historical guide to world slavery / edited by Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : HT861 .H59 1998

 

Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery / edited by Paul Finkelman, Joseph C. Miller.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : HT861 .M24 1998

 

Social Conditions

 

African-American community studies from North America : a classified, annotated bibliography / Fred J. Hay. New York : Garland, 1991.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :E185.86 .H37 1991

 

The African-American network / Crawford B. Bunkley.  New York : Plume, c1996.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.86 .B86 1996

 

Black American families, 1965-1984 : a classified, selectively annotated bibliography / Walter R. Allen, editor-in chief ;  Richard A. English and Jo Anne Hall, associate editors ; David Carlson, database programmer ; Bamidele Ade Agbasegbe Demerson, research assistant.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.86 .B5 1986

 

Statistics

 

A Statistical portrait of the United States : social conditions and trends / edited by Mark S. Littman ; [contributors: Mark S. Littman ... [et. al.]].
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : HA214 .S73 1998

 

Black Americans : a statistical sourcebook / Louise L. Hornor, editor. Palo Alto, CA : Information Publications, c1999. C 2001
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.86 .B52 1999, E185 .B57 2001 

 

Racial and ethnic diversity : Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, native Americans, and whites / by Cheryl Russell. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist Publications, c2002.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E184.A1 R78 2002

 

Statistical record of Black America. Detroit : Gale Research, c1990-c1997.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.5 .S83 1995

 

The Census Bureau (for statistical information about African-Americans)

 

African Americans Women

 

African American women : a biographical dictionary / Dorothy C. Salem, editor.  New York : Garland, 1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .A45 1993

 

Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia / editors: Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, Rosalyn  Terborg-Penn. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1994], c1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE :  E185.86 .B542 1993b

 

Epic lives : one hundred Black women who made a difference / Jessie Carney Smith, editor ; foreword by Stephanie Stokes Oliver. Detroit : Visible Ink Press, c1993.
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .E65 1993

 

Notable Black American women / Jessie Carney Smith, editor.   Detroit : Gale Research, c1992-
OTTERBEIN REFERENCE : E185.96 .N68 1991

 

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