About Black Thought & Culture

Subject
Many leaders within the black community, unlike their white contemporaries, have devoted much of their creative lives addressing issues central to the ongoing struggles of their race. The result is a legacy of nonfiction prose and oratory unlike any other. Black Thought and Culture provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by major American black leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.

Sources
Black Thought and Culture is intended to present a wide range of previously inaccessible material, including letters by athletes such as Jackie Robinson, correspondence by Ida B. Wells, prefatory essays by Amiri Baraka, political leaflets by Huey Newton, and interviews with Paul Robeson. Much of the material is fugitive, and almost twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously. The ideas of nearly 100 people present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.

Coverage
Covering 250 years of history.

Provider
Alexander Street Press

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Access
NSU faculty, students and staff:  On campus and remote access.
Registered Broward patrons: On campus and remote access.
General Public: Walk in access within the library.

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Revised: 01/10/2008.