African American Folklore

Abrahams, R.D. (1970a). Deep down in the jungle (1st rev. ed.). Chicago: Aldine.

Abrahams, R.D. (1970b). Positively Black. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Abrahams, R.D. (1985). Afro-Amencan folktale: Stories from Black traditions in the New World. New York: Pantheon .

Ani, M. ( 1994). Yurugu: An African-centered critique of European cultural thought and behavior. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Asante, K.W. (1993). The aesthetic conceptualization of Nzuri. In K. W. Asante (Ed.), The African aesthetic: Keeper of the traditions (pp. 1-20). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Asante, M.K. (1987). The Afrocentric idea. Philadelphia : Temple University Press.

Asante, M.K. (1989). Folk poetry in the storytelling tradition. In L. Goss & M. E. Bames (Eds.), Talk that talk (pp. 491-493). New York: Touchstone.

Asante, M.K. (1990). Kemet, Afrocentricity and knowledge. Trenton, NJ: Third World Press.

Asante, M.K. (1993). Malcom X as cultural hero & other Afrocentric essays. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Barnes, M. (1989a). Anansi's riding horse. In L. Goss & M. E. Barnes (Eds.), Talk that talk (pp. 42-48). New York: Touchstone .

Barnes, M. (1989b). The Georgia Sea Island Singers: Frankie and Doug Quimby. In L. Goss & M. E. Barnes (Eds.), Talk that talk (pp. 487-490). New York: Touchstone.

Bosman, W. (1967). A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea. London: Frank Cass. (Original work published in 1705)

Courlander, H. (1976). A treasury of Afro-American folklore. New York: Crown. (Originial work published in 1908)

Dance, D.C. (1978). Shuckin' and jivin': Contemporary folklore from Black Americans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Delany, M. , & Campbell, R. (1969). A search for a place: Black separatism and Africa . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Original work published in 1860)

Diop, C.A. (1987). Precolonial Black Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Douglass, F. (1963). Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself. New York: Doubleday. (Original work published 1845)

D'Souza, D. (1995). The end of racism. New York : Free Press.

Evans, H.T. (1978). Seminole folktales. Florida Historical Quarterly, 56, 473-494.

Fry, G.M. (1975). Night riders in Black folk history. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Gates, H.L. , Jr. (1988). The signifying monkey: A theory of African American literary criticism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Griffith, D.L.W. (Director). (1915). Birth of a nation [Film].

Hall, M.G. (1992). Africans in colonial Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Hamdun, S. , & King, N. (1994). Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener.

Harper, F.E. (1990). Iola Leroy. In H. L. Gates , Jr., (Ed.), Three classic African-American novels (pp. 227-463). New York: Vintage Classics.

Harris, J.C. (1955). The complete tales of Uncle Remus (compiled by Richard Chase. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Hurston, Z.N. (1981). The sanctified church. Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island.

Hurston, Z.N. (1995). Folklore, memoirs, and other writings ( C. A. Wall , Ed. & Annot. ). New York: Literary Classics of the United States.

Jefferson, T. (1955). Notes on the state of Virginia ( W. Peden , Ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Original work published in 1787)

Lucas, J.O. (1970). Religions in W Africa and Egypt. Apapa: Nigerian National Press.

Molette, C.W. , & Molette, B.J. (1986). Black theatre: Premise and presentation. Indiana: Wyndham Hall.

Nabawi, J. (1989). Why Anansi hides in comers. In L. Goss & M. E. Bames (Eds.), Talk that talk (pp. 35-41). New York: Touchstone.

Olayemi, V. (1975). Supernatural in Yoruba folktale. In W. Abimbola (Ed.), Yoruba oral traditions (p. 306). Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press.

Parson, E. (1918). Folktales of Andros Island, Bahamas. American Folk-lore Society, 13, 87-89.

Richards, D.M. (1990). African American spirituality. In M. Asante & K. Asante (Eds.), African culture: The rhythms of unity (pp. 207-231). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Roberts, J.W. (1989). From trickster to badman: The Black folk hero in slavery and freedom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Robinson, B.J. (1991). Africanisms and the study of folklore. In J. E. Holloway (Ed.), Africanism in Amencan culture (pp.211-224). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Rodney, W. (1982). How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Washington, DC: Howard University Press.

Sprague, J.T. (1964). The origins, progress, and conclusion of the Florida war. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. (Original work published 1848)