Bibliography and the Documentation of Knowledge in Black Studies

This informational blog provides useful information on the importance of bibliography in the documentation of knowledge in Black Studies.

NOTE: This informational blog is compiled by and reprinted with permission by Abdul Akailmat, Ph.D

Survey article

Abdul Alkalimat 2012: African American bibliography: The social construction of a literature of record http://alkalimat.org/346%20African%20American%20Bibliography%20oct%2027%202012.pdf

Historical work (Book length)

Henri Gregoire 1808: An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes https://www.amazon.com/Enquiry-Concerning-Intellectual-Faculties-Literature-dp-1333870140/dp/1333870140/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1628796779

W E B DuBois 1908: A Short Bibliography of the Negro

Monroe Work 1928: A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/2713847

1912-1938: The Negro Year Books https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012238867

Carter G Woodson 1936: The African background Outlined https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/23/3/411/765501?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://www.amazon.com/African-Background-Outlined-Carter-Woodson/dp/1574781324

Alain Locke 1950: Phylon https://www.jstor.org/stable/272313?origin=crossref

Elizabeth Miller 1966: The Negro in America: A Bibliography

Dorothy Porter 1970: The Negro in the United States: A Selected Bibliography

James McPherson 1971: Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays

Lenwood G Davis 1971 - 1999 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ADavis%2C+Lenwood+G.&qt=hot_author

Current work

Black Bibliography Project https://blackbibliog.org/about/

Abdul Alkalimat http://alkalimat.org/writings.html#11bibliographies

Patrick S. O’Donnell https://www.academia.edu/38286100/Malcolm_X_May_19_1925_February_21_1965_A_Reading_Guide

Oxford Bibliographies https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/432