Bibliographies & Indexes for African American Poetry


Bibliographies

Bibliographies are extremely useful in locating references on a subject or a person which someone else has uncovered -- thus making it unnecessary to repeat at least some of the research. Use Global Express to obtain books on loan or photocopies of articles which the University Library do not own.

Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. Boston: Hall, 1975- . Annual.
Reference Center Z1361.N39S373a
A very comprehensive bibliography which lists all of the materials
cataloged during the year by the New York Public Library.

French, William P., et al. Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. New York: Gale, 1979.
Reference Center; Doheny Stacks Z1229.N39A37
Attempts to include all poets and dramatists who have published in books
and pamphlets during the period covered.

Joyce, Donald. Blacks in the Humanities, 1750-1984; A Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood, 1986.
Reference Center; Leavey Z1361.N39J69


Indexes

Chapman, Dorothy. Index to Black Poetry. Boston: Hall, 1974.
Doheny Stacks PS153.N5C45
Although limited by its date of publication it is very useful in locating
older poems in anthologies and other collections.

Hazen, Edith P. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1993.
Reference Center PN1022.H39 1990
This is the major index to poems which have appeared in anthologies.

Index to Black Periodicals. Boston: Hall, 1984-.
Reference Center AI3.I43

Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes. Boston: Hall, 1950-1983.
Reference Center AI3.I46

Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. 5 vols. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1992.
Reference Center Z1361.N39K34

Newman, Richard. Black Index: Afro-Americans in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949. New York: Garland, 1981.
Doheny Stacks Z1361.N39N58


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