Resources
Below are some the books, articles, writers and resources that have been or, I believe, might be helpful in developing this unit.
Bibliography for Teachers
Andrews, William, Francis Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. The Oxford Companion to
African American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. This is an
excellent resource for the study of African American Literature. It provides concise
and scholarly biographical and historical information.
Bontemps, Arna. American Negro Poetry. New York: Noonday Press, 1974. An
important anthology of African American Poetry by one of the most important figures
of the Harlem Renaissance.
De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. Edited by J.P. Mayer. Translated by
George Lawrence. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. For the sake of this unit the
primary focus would be on Volume 1, Chapter 10.
Du Bois, W. E. B. Souls of Black Folk. New York: Signet Classic, 1995.
Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African American
Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. This is a great resource not
only for its extensive collection of African American Literature, but also for its
insightful editorial commentary. Especially important to the theoretical development
of this unit was the introductory essay "Talking Books."
Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. New York:
Penguin Books, 1987.
Student Resources
"The Constitution of the United States," in Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton and
John Jay. The Federalist Papers. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
"The Declaration of Independence," in Literature: The American Experience. New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005.
Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African American
Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. All of the essays and
poems by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon
Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay that will be
used through the course of this unit can be found in this volume.
Henry, Patrick. "Speech at the Virginia Convention" in Literature: The American
Experience. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005.
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