The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide

Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of increasing numbers of titles on African American life and history. This volume provides a comprehensive bibliographical and analytical guide to this growing body of literature as well as an analysis of how the study of African Americans has changed.

Arvarh E. Strickland is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri--Columbia. His recent publications include Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History A Diary, 1928-1933 (1989) and Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson A Diary, 1930-1933 (1996).

Robert E.Weems, Jr. is Professor of History at the University of Missouri--Columbia. He is the author of Black Business in the Black Metropolis The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985 (1996) and Desegregating the Dollar African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (1998).