ENGL 639: Links

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Web: Contains numerous links to web sites on Virginia Woolf, modernism, Bloomsbury, Woolf societies, Woolf lists, biography, bibliography, etc; the best Woolf web site.

Bloomsbury: Omega & Hogarth. Focuses on the Omega Workshop, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and other Omega artists.

The Virginia Woolf Society (International). Home page of International Virginia Woolf Society.

Interviews with Morrison and Reviews of her Novels:

Morrison, "On the Backs of Blacks." 1993 Time Magazine essay about contemporary race relations in the U. S. White privilege and advantage are always achieved "on the backs of blacks."

Morrison, "The Pain of Being Black." 1989 Time Magazine essay after winning the Pulitzer Prize.

Morrison, Salon Magazine Interview (1998).

Time Magazine Cover Story (1998) after the Nobel Prize and Publication of Paradise. Interesting for its banality and trivialization of Morrison.

Ron Charles's Review of Paradise: Morrison's Feminist Portrayal of Racism. An excellent review in Christian Science Monitor.

Toni Morrison, Black American History and Culture, American Studies

Anniina's Toni Morrison Page. One of the best Morrison sites on the Web for beginners in Morrison studies. Contains links to biography, bibliography, interviews with Morrison, essays.

Writing Black Keele University, UK, web site with numerous links to sources on many Black American writers and Black history. An Excellent Source.

Black Power Points. Keele University, UK, web site with numerous links to sources for the study of African-American and African history and culture, including colonization and the slave trade through the present. An Excellent Source.

American Studies Keele University, UK, American Studies Department web site with numerous links to resources including major research institutions and libraries with special collections.

African American Mosaic. Library of Congress web-site of resources for the study of Black history and culture; contains information and documents on slavery, abolition, Black migration to the West and to northern urban centers, WPA oral narratives by ex-slaves, etc. An Excellent Archival Source.

A Chronology of U. S. Slavery and Racism 1619 to the Present.

WPA Slave Narratives: The Authoritative Web Collection.

Thomas Jefferson's Ideas on Race and Slavery.

Afro-America: Black History Museum. Has useful information on the resistance and rebellions of slaves against slavery, the Tuskegee airmen in W.W. II, the beauty industry and the ideology of white superiority (as well as Madame C. J. Walker's alternative approach to black women's beauty care), and the Black Panthers.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Home Page. Provides links pertinent to African American history and culture maintained by the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library.

An excellent source in which the following sections appear.

Schomburg Exhibition, Harlem 1900-1940

Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Digital Schomburg Images - Slavery. Images of slavery, including auctions, slave pens, escapes, Margaret Garner, and abolitionist "propaganda" photographs. Pertinent to Beloved.

Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Homepage of University of Chicago's Center.

Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography. Oral history project containing first-person testimonies from persons involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University. Archival project containing links to the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Texts in African American History. Archive of primary texts pertinent to African American history including slavery, emancipation, the Civil Rights Movement, contemporary race relations.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives

An Account of the Margaret Garner Story by Levi Coffin (1876)

American Memory: Library of Congress Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. Has search engine and many primary documents concerning American and African-American history. Excellent Source.

The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship. Part of the Library of Congress American Memory project. It traces the African-American experience from slavery to Reconstruction to the fight for civil and social equality in the twentieth century. Excellent source.

Women's and Minority Studies Links; Humanities; Literary Studies

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Women's History

Links: Women's History

Women's Studies Database

Voice of the Shuttle English Literature: Minority

General Literary and Cultural Studies Web Sites

Voice of the Shuttle. Comprehensive web-site for the study of the humanities including literature of various historical eras, nations, and cultures; cultural studies; African-American studies; women's studies; gender studies; queer theory; theory; includes its own search engine. A Superb Source.

Literary Resources on the Net. Links to Internet resources from a wide range of periods, nationalities, and genres. A Superb Source.