An African American Bibliography

AfriCobra. The First Twenty Years. Atlanta, GA: 1990.

Artnett, Paul and William Artnett, eds. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. Atlanta and New York: 2000.

Baking in the Sun: Visionary Images of the South. Lafayette: 1987.

Bearden, Romare and Harry Henderson. A History of African American Artists from 1793 to the Present. New York: 1993.

Brain, R. Art and Society in Africa. London: 1980.

Britton, C.A. African American Art: The Long Struggle. New York: 1996.

Campbell, M.S. Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963 - 1973. New York: 1985.

Chase, J.W. Afro-American Art and Craft. New York: 1971.

Collins, Le Falle and Shifra M. Goldman. The Spirit of Resistance: The African American and Mexican Muralists. New York: 1996.

Dallas Museum. Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art. Dallas: 1989.

Driskell, David C. Two Centuries of Black American Art. New York: 1976.

Driskell, David C., ed. African American Visual Aesthetics: A Postmodernist View. Washington, DC:

Gayle, A. The Black Aesthetic. New York: 1971.

Fine, Elsa H. The Afro-American Artist. New York: 1982.

Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. New York: 1987.

Laude, J. The Arts of Black Africa. Los Angeles: 1971.

Leon, E. Who'd a Thought It: Improvisation in African American Quilting. San Francisco: 1985.

Lewis, Samella S. African-American Art and Artists. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: 1990.

Livingston, J. and J. Beardsley. Black Folk Art in America, 1930 - 1980. Jackson, MS: 1982.

Locke, Alvin, ed. The New Negro. New York: 1968.

Manring, M. M.  Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. Charlottesville: 1998.

McElroy, G.C., R.J. Powell and S.F. Patton. African American Artists, 1880 - 1987: Selections from the Evans Tibbs Collection. Seattle and London: 1987.

Omari, M.S. "Completing the Circle: Notes on African Art, Society, and Religion in Oyotunji, South Carolina," African Arts, 24(3), 66-75, 96.

Patton, Sharon. African American Art. New York and Oxford: 1998.

Perry, Regina. What It Is: American Folk Art form the Collection of Regina Perry. Richmond, VA: 1982.

Powell, Richard J. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. New York: 1997.

Robertson, J.T. Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists. New York: 1996.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and African American Art and Philosophy. New York: 1984.

Vlach, John Michael. The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. Cleveland: 1978.

Wahlman, Maude S. Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts. New York: 1993.

Willet, Frank. African Art, An Introduction. New York: 1993.