African-American Newspapers & Periodicals - A National Bibliography, With a Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-674-00788-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 782 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 1873 g

Reihe: Harvard University Press Reference Library

"We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us." These words are from the front page of Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper published in the United States, in 1827, a milestone event in the history of an oppressed people. From then on a prodigious and hitherto almost unknown cascade of newspapers, magazines, letters, and other literary, historical, and popular writing poured from presses chronicling black life in America. The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography of over 6,000 entries is the indispensable guide to the stories of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow, segregation, liberation, struggle, and triumph. Besides describing many new discoveries--from church documents to early civil rights ephemera, from school records to single-mother newsletters, from artists' journals to labor publications--this work informs researchers where and how to find them (for example, through online databases, microfilm, or traditional catalogs).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danky, James P.

Hady, Maureen E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gates, Henry Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Bibliographien, Kataloge
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Gates, Henry Louis
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include <i>Stony the Road</i> and <i>The Black Church</i>. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Hady, Maureen E.
Maureen E. Hady is Assistant Head of Acquisitions, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

Danky, James P.
James P. Danky is Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the editor of <i>Black Periodicals and Newspapers</i>.