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ENG 213: Introduction to African American Literature: Home

Online Reference Sources

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Dictionary of Music & Musicians Online
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Index to Gale's Literary Criticism series makes it easy to find the right volumes you want from their hundreds of volumes of literary criticism
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature

Helpful Websites

Museum of the African Diaspora, Slave Narratives (San Francisco)
Jim Crow Museum
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
Voices from the Gaps: academic database on women writers and artists of color (University of Minnesota)
Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community (Schomburg Center)
The Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction (Perspectives in American Literature)

News Sources

New York Times, The - (1851-2013, ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.