Black Print

Selected Bibliography

Alexander, Leslie. African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784–1861. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Barbara McCaskill. “Beyond Recovery: A Process Approach to Research on Women in Early African American Print Cultures.” Legacy 33, no. 1 (2016): 12. https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0012.

Brooks, J. “Our Phillis, Ourselves.” American Literature 82, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-067.

Bruce, Dickson D. Origins of African American Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.

Bynum, Tara. “Why I Heart David Walker.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 4, no. 1 (2016): 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0006.

Callahan, Monique-Adelle. “Frances Harper and the Poetry of Reconstruction.” In A History Of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry, edited by Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides, 329–44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316018767.021.

Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2011.

Clytus, Radiclani. “Visualizing in Black Print: The Brooklyn Correspondence of William J. Wilson Aka ‘Ethiop.’” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 6, no. 1 (2018): 29–66. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2018.0006.

Cobb, Jasmine Nichole, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1800-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632003.

Dinius, Marcy J. “‘Look!! Look!!! At This!!!!’: The Radical Typography of David Walker’s Appeal.” PMLA 126, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 55–72. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.1.55.

Dorsey, Peter A. “To ‘Corroborate Our Own Claim’: Public Positioning and the Slavery Metaphor in Revolutionary America.” American Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2003): 353–86. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2003.0023.

Dunbar, Eve, and Ayesha K. Hardison, eds. African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560665.

Ernest, John. Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Ernest, John. Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Fagan, Benjamin, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386067.

Fagan, Benjamin. The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Fagan, Benjamin. “Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading.” Legacy 33, no. 1 (2016): 19. https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0019.

Fagan, Benjamin. “The North Star and the Atlantic 1848.” African American Review 47, no. 1 (2014): 51-67. https://muse.jhu.edu/

Fielder, Brigitte, and Jonathan Senchyne, eds. Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, eds. The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Gardner, Eric, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880: Black Reconstructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551724.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle. Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

———. “A Riff, A Call, and A Response: Reframing the Problem That Led to Our Being Tokens in Ethnic and Gender Studies; or, Where Are We Going Anyway and with Whom Will We Travel?” Legacy 30, no. 2 (2013): 306. https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.30.2.0306.

Foster, Frances Smith. “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and Somewhat Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture.” American Literary History 17, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 714–740.

Foster, Frances Smith. “Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892.” In Blacks in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Foster, Frances Smith, and Kim D. Green. “Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature.” In A Companion to African American Literature, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, 45–58. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch3.

Gardner, Eric, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880: Black Reconstructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551724.

Gardner, Eric. “African American Literary Reconstructions and the ‘Propaganda of History.’” American Literary History 30, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 429–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajy016.

———. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hill, Lena M. Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Hutchinson, George, and John K. Young. Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850. University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Jackson, Leon. “The Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian: African American Cultures of Print—The State of the Discipline.” Book History 13, no. 1 (2010): 251–308. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2010.0014.

Jarrett, Gene Andrew. Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Jones, Jr. Douglas A. The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.

Joyce, Donald F. Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817–1990. New York: Greenwood, 1991.

McCaskill, Barbara, and Caroline Gebhard, eds. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877–1919. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African-American Literary Societies. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2002.

Moody-Turner, Shirley, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108380669.

Murison, Justine S., ed. American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872.

Rezek, Joseph. “The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic.” Early American Literature 45, no. 3 (2010): 655–82. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2010.0033.

Thaggert, Miriam, and Rachel Farebrother, eds. African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992039.

Thomas, Rhondda Robinson, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1750-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860864.

Zackodnik, Teresa C., ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108647847.