An Online Reference Guide to African American History
Quintard Taylor
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History
University of Washington, Seattle
The authors & editors listed below are excellent sources of general information for research on Global American History.
BlackPast.org would like to thank Professor Evan Mwangi of the English Department at Northwestern University for his help in compiling this list. Text sources include Simon Gikandi, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature (London: Routledge, 2009); Max Rodriguez, Angeli R. Rasbury, and Carol Taylor, eds., Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999).
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