Reading
- Raisin in the Sun
- Lorraine Hansberry. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Go Tell it on the Mountain
- James Baldwin. Available?
- Dutchman and The Slave, Two Plays.
- Amiri Baraka. Available?
- Sula
- Toni Morrison. Available?
- Kindred
- Octavia E. Butler. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Salvage the Bones
- Jesmyn Ward Available?
- MLA Handbook
- 8th edition. Modern Language Association of America. Available?
Subject Guide
John Cotton Dana Library
Newark, N.J. 07102
Library Catalogs
- Rutgers Library Catalog (QuickSearch)
- Search all Rutgers Libraries for books, videos, media, and other materials.
- Catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Catalog of the New York Public research library "devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world." The Schomburg Center contains over 5,000,000 items. [Note: When beginning a search session, select "Schomburg Center" from the pull-down menu on the right.]
Cambridge History
- The Cambridge History of African American Literature
- Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., eds. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Essays on the evolution of African American Literature. Rutgers-restricted Access
Digitized Collections
- Black Drama: 1850 to the Present
- "The full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by 201 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries." Rutgers-restricted Access
- Black Thought and Culture
- The full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture. Includes books, articles and essays, speeches, interviews, pamphlets and correspondence. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Literature Online (LION)
- The full text of over 350,000 English-language literary works, including literary work in various genres from African Americans. Rutgers-restricted Access.
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