Over 100 references relevant to Afro-American music are listed with critical comments. (PF)

This directory lists resources in Black Studies, offered or planned, in 67 Illinois Colleges. The studies were defined as any course or activity, formal or informal, graduate or undergraduate, credit or non-credit, on the subject of black experience in America or Africa. Some material on other ethnic groups (e.g., Puerto Rican) and on human…

A review of four books that examine the historical problem of slave personality and culture. (EH)

An exploration of the implications of the "Negritude process" by which black people, who have been cut off from and made to despise their own African heritage, begin to learn to know, accept, believe in, and value themselves again. (EH)

A discussion and analysis of the current status of black studies programs and their possible future directions. (EH)

An exploration of the distortions of black images that have been conveyed through American literature, music, film, and television. (EH)

An historical analysis of the life of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman slave who wrote poetry during the Revolutionary period, interpreted from the perspective of her relationship to other black people of her time and the meaning of her life for black people today. (EH)

A literary analysis of Phillis Wheatley, arguing that she was simply an 18th century poet who supported, praised, and imitated those who enslaved her and her fellow black people. (EH)

Reviews the writings of various black authors with respect to their use of language as a vehicle, in both form and substance, of black self assertion and identity formation. (EH)

Article constitutes Chapter 7 of a Community of Scholars: New Approaches to Undergraduate Educ. at Northwestern. Evanston: Northwestern Univ., Sep 1968.