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African American & Black Diaspora Literature: ENG 342: Black Mobility and Freedom

Resources for African American & Black Diaspora Literature from Lovejoy Library.

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Achebe, Chinua. Home And Exile. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.
Adielé, Faith. Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals Of A Black Buddhist Nun. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2004. Print.
Adielé, Faith. "My Sister, Myself." Essence, vol. 33, no. 8, Dec. 2002, p. 124. EBSCOhost, login.libproxy.siue.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=8535522&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Adielé, Faith. “The Names of Their Villages.” Transition, no. 86, 2000, pp. 4–21., www.jstor.org/stable/3137461.
Africanus, Leo. A Geographical Historie Of Africa. Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; 1969. Print.
Amaworo-Wilson, J.J. "What I Found in the Ruins." IC3 : the Penguin book of new black writing in Britain, edited by Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay, London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000, pp. 432-435. Print.
Anim-Addo, Joan. "The Color of Silence." IC3: the Penguin book of new black writing in Britain, edited by Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay, London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000, pp. 36-42. Print.
Anderson, Christiann and Monique Y. Wells.Paris Reflections: Walks Through African-American Paris. Blacksburg, Va. : McDonald & Woodward Pub. Co., 2002. Print.
Angelou, Maya. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. New York : Random House, 1986. Print.
Angelou, Maya. Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now. New York : Random House, 1993. Print.
Baldwin James. "Stranger in the village." Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, [1963, c1955. Print.
Biggers, John. Ananse, The Web Of Life In Africa. Austin: University Of Texas Press, 1962. Print.
Blyden, Edward Wilmot. From West Africa to Palestine. Freetown: T. J. Sawyer, 1873.
Brooks, Gwendolyn. "African Fragments" in Report From Part One. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972 . Print.
Brown, William Wells. Sketches of Places and People Abroad: The American Fugitive in Europe. Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1970 [c.1854. Print.
Brown, William Wells. The Travels Of William Wells Brown, Including The Narrative Of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, And The American Fugitive In Europe, Sketches Of Places And People Abroad. New York : M. Weiner Pub., 1991. Print.
Campbell, Robert. A Pilgrimage to My Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas And Yorubas of Central Africa, In 1859-60. New York: T. Hamilton, 1861.
Chipenda, Eva de Carbalho. The Visitor: An African Woman's Story Of Travel And Discovery. Geneva : WCC Pubications, 1996. Print.
Clark, J. P. America, Their America. New York : Africana Pub. Corp., [1969, c1964. Print.
Cole, Robert Wellesley. An Innocent in Britain or the Missing Link: (documented Autobiography). London: Campbell Matthews, 1988. Print.
Counter, S. Allen. North Pole Legacy: Black, White, And Eskimo. Montpelier, VT : Invisible Cities Press, 2001. Print.
Counter, S. Allen and David L. Evans. I Sought My Brother: An Afro-American Reunion. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1981. Print.
Dadié, Bernard Binlin. An African In Paris. Urbana : University Of Illinois Press, 1994. Print.
Dadié, Bernard Binlin. One Way: Bernard Dadié Observes America. Urbana : University Of Illinois Press, ©1994. Print.
Dadié, Bernard Binlin. The City Where No One Dies. Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, ©1986. Print.
Danticat, Edwidge. After The Dance: A Walk Through Carnival In Jacmel, Haiti. New York : Crown Journeys, 2002. Print.
Dean, (Captain) Henry. Umbala: The Adventures Of A Negro Sea-captain In Africa And On The Seven Seas In His Attempts To Found An Ethiopian Empire : An Autobiographical Narrative. London : Pluto Press, 1989. Print.
Delaney, Martin Robison. Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party. New York: T. Hamilton, 1861.
Dennis, Ferdinand. Back To Africa: A Journey. Sevenoaks, Kent [England] : Sceptre, 1992. Print.
Dennis, Ferdinand. Behind The Frontlines: Journey Into Afro-Britain. London : Gollancz, 1988. Print.
Diallo, Bakary.
Dorr, David F. A Colored Man Round the World. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1999.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Seventh Son: The Thought And Writings Of W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Random House [1971. Print.
Du Bois, W. E. B. Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961. Amherst : University Of Massachusetts Press, 1985. Print.
Dunham, Katherine. Island Possessed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1969. Print.