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This book represents the first comprehensive compilation of information about Black Studies programs, departments, institutions, and centers, as well as about the discipline itself.

This book provides both a comprehensive cross-reference to modern Afro-American short stories published from 1950-1982 and an analysis and commentary on modern short fiction. Part II lists, in standard bibliographical format, the anthologies and collections in which the stories appear and lists each story in the anthologies/collections.

Since the publication of the first edition of The Black Aged in the United States in 1980, a large number of studies, articles, pamphlets, and books on the subject have been produced, necessitating the present volume.

The first real reviewing of African-American literature in France began in 1844, when audiences welcomed the romantic dramas of Victor Sejour.

This bibliography of black theatre and performance, which gives equal weight to Africa and the African diaspora, contains over 4000 entries. The work is divided into two categories: studies of specific geographical areas and countries; and material on individual playwrights.

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A comprehensive guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera. More than 6000 entries documenting global film activity from 1919 to 1990 offer an historical perspective on the black image in film, including bibliographical material on filmmakers and individual artists.

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Some 230 writers are included, and for each the compiler has provided, in addition to a publication history, a brief summary of educational background, occupation, and honors and awards obtained.

"This book consists mostly of a title and first-line index, (frequently requested by general readers), supplemented by indexes to authors and to 1,100 subjects." Choice

Provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of work on African American women published between 1975-1999. The book focuses primarily on the scholarly literature and annotates journal articles, book chapters, and books that cover the lives of African American women.This reference fills a critical void by organizing and synthesizing published work on African American women, thereby making visible the richness of scholarly work on this population. The entries cover both theoretical and empirical work as well as a number of critical essays and anthologies. While the specific topical areas covered are quite diverse, the book is divided into nine major areas, each representing a single chapter. These include: education, feminist thought and womanist perspectives, intimacy, relationships, and motherhood, health, religion, spirituality, and womanist theology, social, historical, and eocnomic conditions, work, careers, and achievement, African American women writers, and bibliographies, indexes, and reference books.

This index will facilitate in-depth research into 20 of Soyinka's major works including plays, novels, and poetry.

A classified index, with titles, lists works by category and subject, and a key word index cross-references nearly one thousand words that appear in entry titles.

Any future biographical work on Richard Wright will find this bibliography a necessity;

?Malval's guide provides the reader with a comprehensive listing of Hampton Institute's own records. The first half of the book consists of 34 different record groups, including education, state and national organizations, faculty, and pictorial records. Entries within each of these record groups are numerous and arranged alphabetically. The second half of the work has an index to the record groups and a general index arranged alphabetically by subject. Although the Guide will be useful for historians of black and Native American cultures, its appeal will be greatest for the handful of scholars interested in the traditions of Hampton Institute itself.?-Choice

Sources include titles generally considered to be reference tools, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogs, indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and resource guides, as well as selected resources such as classic history texts and anthologies that fall outside the traditional reference area.

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The plight of the Black male in American society has been well-documented by scholars and practitioners. the number of Black males in prison and jail exceeds the number of Black males in higher education. The homicide rates for Black males were 72.5 percent per 100,000, nearly eight times higher than for White males.

Finally, an exhaustive list of works by Hurston is provided, along with a catalog of the special collections where her manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera are stored. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of 20th-century America's foremost fiction and folklore writers.

By focusing on the contributions of African-American criminologists, this reference offers contemporary Afrocentric perspectives on critical issues of crime and justice. An alphabetical listing of published abstracts is presented for each contributing author.

The most complete record of the literary achievement of black American women, this bibliography documents the works of and works about 900 writers from Theresa Williams Abram to Sister Zubena. These appear directly with each author's entry, with cross references to separate sections for General Works and Anthologies.

This work presents scholarship on African American leadership as part of the larger dynamic of leadership studies. The annotated entries cover a variety of works on subjects such as biographies, leadership organization and audio-visual materials.

Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history.

This bibliography, including sources published since 1987, documents black achievements in the humanities, including accomplishment in philosophy, religion, libraries and librarianship, journalism, folklore, linguistics, visual arts, the performing arts, music, and literary criticism.

But as A Raisin in the Sun demonstrates, plays by African American women dramatists can have a powerful message and are worthy of attention. A comprehensive research tool, this annotated bibliography sheds light on the often neglected works of contemporary African American female playwrights.

The most influential and widely read Black literary magazine in the 1960s, Negro Digest played a critical role in the era's Black Arts and Black Consciousness movement and is the most complete voice of that movement.

A comprehensive bibliographic survey of the West Indian presence in the United States, this book covers over 500 articles, books, and other studies on the West Indian immigrant experience.