Resources

General Reference: Art, Music and Literature

Celebrate America in poetry and art. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute. New York, 1994.

Folley-Cooper, Marquette. Seeing Jazz: artists and writers on jazz. Vancouver, 1997.

Gates, Henry Louis Jnr. and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton anthology of African American literature. New York, 1997.

Greenwood, Barbara. The last safe house: a story of the Underground Railway. New York, 1998. (Young adult)

Haskins, J. Bound for America: the forced migration of Africans to the New World. New York, 1999.

Igus, Toyomi. I see the rhythm. San Francisco, 1998.

Lewis, David Levering ed. The Portable Harlem Renaisance Reader. New York, 1994.

Literature and its Times Vol 3: growth of empires to the Great Depression 1890-1930. Gale. Ontario, 1997.

Rediger, Pat ed. Great African-Americans in literature. New York, 1996. (Young adult)

Rolff, Peggy. Musicians. (Presents 2000 years of art history through a series of paintings of musicians.) New York, 1993.

Rubin, David S. It's only rock and roll: rock and roll currents in contemporary art. New York, 1995.

Sullivan, Charles ed. Children of promise: African-American literature and art for young people. New York, 1991.

Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest we forget: the passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: a three-dimensional interactive book with photographs and documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit. New York. 1997.

Tobin, Jacqueline. Hidden in plain view: a secret story of quilts and the underground railroad. New York, 1999.

Novels

Houghton, Norris ed. - Great Russian short stories. New York, 1958.

Matas, Carol. Sworn Enemies. Toronto, 1984.( young adult)

Matas, Carol. In my enemy's house. Markham, 1999.(young adult)

Pasternak, Boris. Dr.Zhivago. London, 1958.

Rutherford, Edward. Russka: a novel of Russia. New York, 1991.

Spiegelman, Art - Maus: a survivor's tale. New York, 1973.

Tolstoy, Leo. War and peace.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York, 1960. (young adult)

Boraks-Nemetz, Lilian. Brentwood Bay, BC. 1994. The old brown suitcase. (young adult)

Videorecordings

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Nashville, 1994.

Burns, Ken. Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns. California, 2000.

The Cotton Club. 1984.

Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz. New York, 1998.

Langston Hughes. Voices and Vision Series. New York, 1988.

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