Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Brief History of the Project Acknowledgments How to Use the Bibliography Guide to Indexes Guide to Libraries Microfilm Sources Data Listings Introduction by James P. Danky Bibliography Subject and Feature Index Editors Index Publishers Index Geographic Index
James P. Danky is Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the editor of Black Periodicals and Newspapers. Maureen E. Hady is Assistant Head of Acquisitions, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
The first comprehensive guide to all known newspapers and magazines
by and about African-Americans. With the oldest recorded
publications dating back to 1827, the two-volume bibliography
accounts for close to 6,500 titles in the United States, Canada,
and the Caribbean. For each description, the book informs the
researchers where certain copies of the publication can be found,
either on microfilm or a hard copy. National Endowment for the
Humanities President William Ferris called the work a 'historic
landmark.'
*Wisconsin State Journal*
A remarkable achievement in bibliographic scholarship...The result
of a 10-year project of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals fills a need long felt
by archivists, librarians, and scholars for a national
comprehensive bibliography and union list of African-American
newspapers and periodicals.
*MultiCultural Review*
Impressive and authoritative, this annotated bibliography describes
more than 6,000 African American newspapers and periodicals...A
moving introduction by Danky describes the project, and how the
collecting habits of libraries have not always worked toward the
identification, collection, and preservation of African American
publications. The resulting work is a remarkable labor of love and
an invaluable contribution to American history, African American
studies, and reference resources.
*Choice*
Drawing from the work of Wisconsin's African-American Newspapers
and Periodicals Bibliography Project (1989-1998), Danky has
compiled information about periodicals published between 1827 and
1998. Arranged alphabetically by running title, entries list the
frequency of publication, current editor and editorial address,
subscription rates, publisher, previous editors, variations in
title and place or frequency of publication, indexing...There is
also a thoughtful introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
*Library Journal*
The location of 6562 titles is in itself amazing. Many are
short-lived, meeting the fate of most publishing ventures, and
never established themselves as economically or culturally viable.
For many years most libraries did not intentionally collect Negro
publications. Yet here they are...I call it an invaluable
resource.
*Publishing Research Quarterly*
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