Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List
Preliminary Advices
Choose any three:
- Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and The Eternal Passion
For Books. New York: Henry Holt and Co., c1995. Chapter entitled "Destiny" focuses on
African American collectors, pp: 394-404.
- Blockson, Charles L. A Commented Bibliography Of One Hundred And One influential Books By And About People Of
African Descent (1556-1982): a collector's choice. Amsterdam: A. Gerits & Sons, 1989.
- Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped In Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner,
c2003.
- Carretta, Vincent and Gould, Philip, ed. Genius In Bondage: Literature Of The Early Black Atlantic.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c2001.
- Franklin, John Hope. George Washington Williams, a Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
- Franklin, John Hope. Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Lewis, David Levering. W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993.
- Lewis, David Levering. W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: H. Holt, c2000.
Concluding volume of the biography.
- "North American Slave Narratives" in Documenting the American South,
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/. Read the introduction by William L. Andrews.
- Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney, Coates, W. Paul, Battle, Thomas C. editors. Black Bibliophiles And Collectors:
Preservers Of Black History. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1990.
- Spingarn, Arthur B. "Collecting a Library of Negro Literature," The Journal of Negro Education, Vol 7, No 1, 1938.
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