| African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography Contributor(s): Danky, James P. (Editor), Hady, Maureen E. (Editor), Gates, Henry Louis (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0674007883 ISBN-13: 9780674007888 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: February 1999 Annotation: "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). |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 015.730 |
| LCCN: 98026099 |
| Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library |
| Physical Information: 1.72" H x 8.76" W x 11.23" L (4.13 lbs) 782 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents |
| Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/1999 pg. 58 American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2000 pg. 136 |
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| Publisher Description: 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). |
Contributor Bio(s): Danky, James P.: - James P. Danky is Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the editor of Black Periodicals and Newspapers.Hady, Maureen E.: - Maureen E. Hady is Assistant Head of Acquisitions, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.Gates, Henry Louis: - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. |
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