African American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Baraka, Amiri
GerShun Avilez
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Amiri BarakaIntroductionAmiri Baraka (b. 1934–d. 2014) was born Everett LeRoy Jones in Newark, New Jersey. He enrolled at Rutgers University, Newark, ...
Bearden, Romare
Jacqueline Francis
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Romare BeardenIntroductionRomare Bearden (b. 1911–d. 1988) is an artist best known for his inventive collage methods, evident in his production from t...
Bible
Crystal Lucky
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2022-04-25
BibleIntroductionThe Bible, most often the King James Version, has served as a source of inspiration, spiritual guidance, artistic production, educati...
Black Codes and Slave Codes
Nakia D. Parker
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Black Codes and Slave CodesIntroductionThe institution of chattel slavery in the United States was primarily a system of labor and containment. One of...
Black Press in the United States, The
Jane Rhodes
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
The Black Press in the United StatesIntroductionThe black press is a critical—but often ignored—aspect of African American history and culture. Along ...
Black Radicalism in 20th-Century United States
Erin D. Chapman
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Black Radicalism in 20th-Century United StatesIntroductionThroughout the 20th century, African Americans built on the efforts of their 19th-century pr...
Black Theology
Michael Brandon McCormack
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Black TheologyIntroductionBlack theology began with the radical statements of activist-intellectual clergy and subsequently emerged, as an academic di...
Black Women Writers in the United States
Selamawit D. Terrefe
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Black Women Writers in the United StatesIntroductionThe following texts provide a comprehensive overview of the vast body of work comprising African A...
Blackface Minstrelsy
Eric Jackson
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Blackface MinstrelsyIntroductionAccording to most scholars whose primary focus is on this topic, minstrel shows were one of the most disgraceful yet c...
Blues
Fangfang Zhu, Steven Carl Tracy
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
BluesIntroductionThe blues is one of America’s great folk, commercial, and roots source music. Combining African modalities, European structures, slav...
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Melinda Chateauvert
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car PortersIntroductionThe Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (BSCP) was a predominantly African American labor uni...
Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands (BRFAL)
Aaron Astor
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (BRFAL)Introduction“By our Freedmen’s Bureau law,” Pennsylvania’s Radical Republican Congressman Tha...
Butler, Octavia
Esther L. Jones
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Octavia ButlerIntroductionBorn on 22 June 1947 Octavia Estelle Butler is the first self-identified black female author of science fiction in the Unite...
Chesnutt, Charles W.
Charles Duncan
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Charles W. ChesnuttIntroductionSubsequent to an African American literary tradition built almost entirely on slave narratives—nonfiction autobiographi...
Chicago Renaissance
Davarian L. Baldwin
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Chicago RenaissanceIntroductionThe “Chicago Renaissance” is largely understood as a moment of black cultural outpouring based in Chicago’s African Ame...
Chicago, African Americans in
Christopher Reed
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
African Americans in ChicagoIntroductionJust as Haitian-born Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable’s proactive career as explorer, trader, city founder, and f...
Civil Rights Movement
Mark Newman
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Civil Rights MovementIntroductionThe civil rights movement was among the most important social movements in 20th-century United States history. The mo...
Dominican Republic, Annexation of
Luis Martínez-Fernández
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Annexation of Dominican RepublicIntroductionBeginning right after its independence in 1821, the Dominican Republic became the object of foreign design...
Douglass, Frederick
L. Diane Barnes
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Frederick DouglassIntroductionBorn enslaved on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Frederick Douglass (b. February 1818–d. 20 February 1895) became the most pro...
Equiano, Olaudah
Bryan Wagner, Parker Kjellin-Elder
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Olaudah EquianoIntroductionOlaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, as he was known during his lifetime (b. 1745?–d. 1797), was a writer and polemicist of ...
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