Literature of Ethnicity

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B. LITERATURE OF ETHNICITY: GENERAL SITES

I. African American

http://yahoo.com/society_and_culture/cultures/african_american/literature Leads to a variety of web sites with African-American poetry, plays, full texts and bibliographies.
http://www.wilpaterson.edu/courses/eng150/post1900.htm Short concise descriptions of periods of Afro-American literature:1.The Harlem Renaissance (1917-1935) 2.Growth of Naturalism (1935-1945) 3.Myth, Legend and Ritual(1945-1960) 4.Contemporary African American Literature(1960-present) 5.Historical Time Line (1900-present) 6.Definitions
http://www.evanston.lib.il.us/library/bibliographies/afamlit.html A listing of recently published Afro-American books: poetry, fiction, criticism (in the nineties).
http://www.mosaicbooks.com/ A listing of books you can purchase. There is a very comprehensive listing of links to different aspects of Afro-American life: literature, journals, arts, social life, history.
http://ucl.broward.cc.fl.us/writersidx.htm Includes links to many black writers: Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Terry Macmillan, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Audrey Lord, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Jean Toomer, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Richard Wright and others.
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/aq/african.html Afro-American studies, American Quaterly
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html American slave narratives: on-line primary texts
http://satie.arts.usf.edu/~ooguibe/class.htm African-American Contributions to Mainstream Art

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html African-American Women (Digital Scriptorium of Duke University Special Collections Library)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/links.html On-line US historical background readings

http://www.lainet.com/~joejones/ African-American homepage. Less academic. Yet there are a few worthvisiting related cultural sites.

http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interroads/mintz2.html The Americas: Identity, Culture & Power (Mintz Syllabus); The Atlantic slave plantation system; The origins of Afro-American cultures; Afro-American Modernisms: Literatures, Critiques, Canons: Major themes in Afro-American literary and cultural production; Ghettoes and the internal world of Afro-American communities; The experience; Religiosity in Afro-American culture.

http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/swr/afroamer.htm African American Studies, Index to African American periodicals.

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html Black American writing, texts and resources.

http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw The American Studies Webcreated by David Phillips at Yale University and now part of the Crossroads Project at Georgetown University, has long been a popular resource for folks interested in American culture web resources. The American Studies Web is a subject-based hotlist (collection of hyperlinks) for a huge variety of topics. Recommended.

II. Asian American

http://medianet.sinclair.hawaii.edu/cat/www777.htx Wong Audiovisual Center Mediography Video tapes to be purchased about the immigrant experience of Asian Americans. Includes Asian American authors talking about their works and life experience.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/users/sharp/134AA.html Asian American Literature--Proposed Course; Instructor Patrick B. Sharp Required texts, preparation and a brief course schedule.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asiachin.htm Chinese American YA Literature Texts by and about Chinese Americans. A selected bibliography.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asian.htm#B Asian American Literature for YAs A Bibliography This site lists media selection aids, fiction and short stories, nonfiction, criticism, biography and poetry.

http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/i/r/irie/www/aar.html Asian American resources; links to other sites.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/ UCLA Asian American Studies Center

http://www.netasia.com/~ebihara/aacyber_culture.html Information on films and video, documentaries and histories, museums and cultural centres as well as literature, e.g.: Anagram Literary Journal; Asian American Literature (USC); Asian American Reading List ;Asian American Children's Books ; Asian American Writers Workshop; Asian American Poets ;Asian Canadian Writers Workshop; South Asian American Literature & Issues; Asian American Internet Magazine.

http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/aasia/aslinks.html
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/Asian.links.html Asian-American Internet sites

http://www.panix.com/~aaww/index.html
http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~manish/authors.html#GinuKamani Brief introduction to some Asian American writers and their books. Hyperlinks to authors such as: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Vikram Chandra; Ginu Kamani; Hanif Kureishi; Gita Mehta; Kirin Narayan; Salman Rushdie; Bharati Mukherjee; a list of their most representaive writings, a picture of the authors and occasional critical comment (e.g. there’s one on Bharati Mukherjee).

http://www.netasia.com/~ebihara/aacyber_culture.html
http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~manish/books.html A selection of books with short annotations and pictures of the books’ covers.

III. Latino/a American

http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/aq/latino.html Latino studies, American Quaterly
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/latinos.links.html Latino Internet sites
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/latinam.html Latina/o & Chicana/o Resources -- American Studies Web