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The Book of American Negro Poetry
Chosen and edited by James Weldon Johnson. This book may be downloaded free.
Classic African American Literature
Links to electronic texts
Contemporary U.S. Literature: Multicultural Perspectives
"Today, American literature is rich in newer traditions -- and some that have been transformed. Venues, sensibilities, themes have changed as well. In considering developments within Arab American, Asian American, black American, Hispanic American and Native American writing, this journal introduces a global audience to the continuously evolving multicultural literature in our day, and to a selection of gifted creative talents, as the process of renewal continues in U.S. literature in the new century."
Multicultural Pavilion
Resources and Dialogues for Educators, Students, and Activists
Native American Authors
This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
Race and Ethnicity
The Race and Ethnicity collection, one of over forty literary collections on the EServer, consists of reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of race and ethnicity in the United States.
VA STANDARDS
The International Journal of Multicultural Studies
Voices of the Shuttle: Minority Literatures
Voices of the Shuttle, an allusion to mythology, is very extensive meta-index of humanities Internet resources, including pages for English literature and literatures other than English. This link takes you to its list for minority literatures.
Writing Black
Web resources on African American literature and history compiled by the School of American Studies and Keele University
Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors
This site features stories from the ancient Orient. They are thought provoking and would make excellent stories to tell students when you have extra time at the end of a class or to use as a learning activity.
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