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Red Black Scholarship & Arts:

This list contains work by African-Native American writers/scholars/artists, work pertaining to African-Native American scholarship and arts, and work that reflects African-Native American sensibilities.

Writing: Non-Fiction

Apess, William. Barry O'Connell, Ed. On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot . Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1992.

Bier, Lisa. American Indian and African American People, Communities and Interactions: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport CT: Praeger, 2004.

Brennan, Jonathan. Ed. Mixed Race Literature. Palo Alto: Stanford University, 2002.

Brennan, Jonathan. Ed. When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2003.

Cotten, Angela L. & Christa Davis Acampora. Eds. Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Evans, William McKee. To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerrillas of Reconstruction. New York: Syracuse University, 1995.

farajajé-jones, elias. "Holy Fuck." Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation. Kay, Kerwin, Jill Nagle, and Baruch Gould, eds. Binghamton: Harrington Park, 2000.

Forbes, Jack D. Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993.

Garroutte, Eve Marie. “The Racial Formation of American Indians: Negotiating Legitimate Identities within Tribal and Federal Law.” American Indian Quarterly. 25:2 (2001):224-239.

hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Cambridge: South End, 1992.

Katz, William Loren. Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage. New York: Antheneum/Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Kein, Sybil. Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2000.

Kniffen, Fred B. Hiram F. Gregory and George A Stokes. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana from 1542 to the Present. Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, 1987.

Lewis, Laura A. "Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: The Dynamics of Race, Nation and Identity in a Moreno Mexican Community (Guerrero)." American Ethnologist. 27:4 (2000).

Littlefield, Daniel F. Africans and Creeks: From the Colonial Period to the Civil War. Greenwood Press: Westport, 1979.

Love, Laura. You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes : A Memoir. New York: Hyperion, 2004.

Minges, Patrick. Black Indian Slave Narratives. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 2004.

Miles, Tiya & Sharon P. Holland. Eds. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Durham: Duke, 2006

Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind : The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California, 2005.

Perdue, Theda. “Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South. Athens: University of Georgia, 2003.

Saunt, Charles. Black, White and Indian: Race the Unmaking of an American Family. Oxford: New York, 2005.

Sturm, Circe. Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Berkeley: University of California, 2002.

Tracy, Barbara. The Melungeons: An Annotated Bibliography: References in Both Fiction and Nonfiction. Woodville: Dogwood, 1998.

Van Sertima, Ivan. They Came Before Columbus : The African Presence in Ancient America. New York: Random House, 2003.

Waak, Patricia. My Bones Are Red : A Spiritual Journey with a Triracial People in the Americas. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005.

Walker, Alice. Anything We Love Can Saved. New York: Ballantine, 1997.

-----. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt, 1984.

-----. The Same River Twice: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 1996.

Washington, Mary Helen. "Commentary." Quarterly 55.4 (2003) 697-702.

Welburn, Ron. Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

Wickman, Patricia Riles. The Tree that Bends: Discourse, Power and the Survival of the Maskoki People. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1999.

White, Christine and Benton R. Now the Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation in the Civil War. College Station: Texas A &M, 1996.

Writing: Fiction

Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories: A Novel. Ithaca: Firebrand, 1991.

Tingle, Tim. Illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2006.

Walker, Alice. Meridian. San Diego: Harvest Books, 2003.

Walker, Alice. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart : A Novel. New York: Random House, 2004.

Walker, Alice. The Temple of My Familiar. New York: Harcourt, 1989.

Writing: Poetry

Driskill, Qwo-Li. Walking with Ghosts: Poems. Cambridge, UK: Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2005.

Gomez, Jewelle. Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old & New. Ithaca: Firebrand, 1995.

Hughes, Langston. Arnold Rampersad, Ed. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Vintage, 1995.

-----. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. New York, Knopf, 1996.

Walker, Alice. Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete. San Diego: Harvest Books, 2004.

Writing: Theater

Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories/Bones and Ash. Mechanicsburg: Triangle Classics/Quality Paperback Book Club, 2001.

Yellow Robe Jr., William S. Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2000.

Youngblood, Shay. "Shakin' the Mess Otta Misery." Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays. Elam, Harry Justin. Robert Alexander & Harry J. Elam. Eds. New York: Plume, 1996.

Music:

Franti, Michael. Everyone Deserves Music.Artist Direct Bmg, 2003.

Franti, Michael & Spearhead. Chocolate Supa Highway. Capitol, 1997.

-----. Home. Capitol, 1994.

-----. Stay Human. Six Degrees, 2001.

Harjo, Joy. Native Joy For Real. Mekko Productions, 2004.

Harjo, Joy & Poetic Justice. Letter From The End Of The Twentieth Century. Silver Wave, 1997.

Hendrix, Jimi. Electric Lady Land. Experience Hendrix, 1997.

-----. Jimi Hendrix Experience. Experience Hendrix, 2000.

Juha. Polari. Hanover: Agitprop, 2002.

Love, Laura. Fourteen Days. Zoe Records, 2000.

-----. Octoroon. Mercury/Universal, 1997.

-----. Welcome to Pagan Place. Koch Records, 2003.

-----. You Ain’t Got No Easter Clothes. Koch Records, 2004

Po’Girl. Po’Girl. Hightone, 2003.

-----. Vagabond Lullabies. Nettwerk Records, 2004.

Redbone, Martha. Home of the Brave. The Orchard, 2000.

-----. Skintalk. Blackfeet Productions, 2004.

Summer, Cree. Street Faerie. Sony, 1999.

Dance:

Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo & Jewelle Gomez. Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story Minneapolis: Urban Bush Women, 1995.

Visual Arts:

Rorex Bridges, Jeanne.

Lewis, Edmonia.

Myers, Louis B. African Native Americans: We Are Still Here.

Tiger, Dana.

Film:

Lemmons, Kasi. Eve's Bayou. Vidmark/Trimark, 1997.

Richie, Chip. Dir. Daniel Blake Smith, Writer. Black Indians: An American Story. Rich-Heape Films, 2001.

Sayles, John. Dir. & Writer. Lone Star. Castle Rock, 1996.

Singleton, John. Dir. Gregory Poirier, Writer. Rosewood. Warner, 1997.