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Extractions: of Education and Middle Tennessee State University. Campus Map Becoming an astronaut in the United States space program is a major accomplishment for anyone, let alone an African-American from the small town of Lake City, South Carolina, but setting high standards and overcoming obstacles was part of life's journey for Ronald E. McNair. Born on October 21, 1950, McNair has been reported to have picked tobacco and cotton as a child to earn pocket money. His father, Carl McNair, Sr., worked as an auto repairman and his mother, Pearl McNair, was an elementary school teacher. McNair showed interest in the space program long before his opportunity to participate arrived. His father fondly tells of seven-year-old Ronald rushing out of his house just to gaze at the sky in amazement. McNair had just learned of the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to enter space. Ronald, mesmerized by the notion that it could stay in the sky, watched for the satellite outside their house for hours, so he could get out of it's way, in case it fell out of the sky.
African American History own index.) Access is by author and subject africanamerican Orators A bio-CriticalSourcebook African American Studies Guide to Internet Resources (University http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/resguide/afamhis.htm
Extractions: African American History: A Research Guide Contents: Getting Started Finding Newspaper and Periodical Articles General Reference Sources Statistics ... Library of Congress Subject Headings Historical information on African Americans is abundantly available in the Morris Library. This select bibliography can be used to identify full-text information online, books, newspaper and periodical articles, and encyclopedia entries on this topic. A few good starting points are: Biography Reference Bank . Bronx, N.Y.: H.W. Wilson Co. LOCATION: Library Databases A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database includes entries from the following directories, which are also available in print: Contemporary Black Biography Notable Black American Men Notable Black American Women , the St. James Guide to Black Artists
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Extractions: www.iUniverse.com Press coverage is one of the most effective means available to generate buzz about your book. When you contact newspapers and other print media, you should always include a press release, an essential component of any media campaign. Here are some tips for writing a press release, including a template that you can cut and paste onto your own letterhead. MAKE IT ONE PAGE IF POSSIBLE: Editors are busy people who cant take the time to read a lengthy press release. Make it short and professional! CONTACT INFORMATION: All press releases follow the same format. The release starts with your contact information so editors can reach you for more information. HEADLINE The headline grabs the reader; so make it short, simple, and effective! Think about effective newspaper headlines and write in a similar style. PRESS RELEASE Start the first line of your news story with the dateline [date of the release and your city, for example: January 1, 2002, San Jose, California).
Library Guides - Literary Criticism Most biobibliographic sources will emphasize biographical volume to look up the nameof a specific author. Other African American Writers REF PS153 .N5 .A344 http://www.wssu.edu/library/guides/litcrit.asp
Extractions: Quick Jump About WSSU Academic Programs Administration Alumni Advancement Athletics Career Services Center for Community Safety Chancellor's Message Continuing and Graduate Studies Course Catalog Diggs Gallery Distance Learning Enrollment Management Faculty Web Pages Find Faculty/Staff for Faculty for Parents for Students Graduate Studies Human Resources Library List Schools and Departments Policies And Procedures Purchasing SACS Self-Study Summer Sessions University Events University News WSSU Home Page Back to Library Guides Library Guides - Literary Criticism Internet Sites What is literary criticism? Literary criticism records opinions of an author's work. Literary critics analyze, describe, evaluate, interpret, or summarize a particular work and their comments can help you define your own views. Literary criticism also often discusses a work's historical context which may give you a better insight to an author's purpose. Most literary criticism will not give a detailed plot summary or a line-by-line translation and as such, it will never successfully substitute for reading the original work. Many valuable pieces of literary criticism do not discuss specific titles in detail but rather evaluate a writer's work as a whole. Although such general discussions may not address your assigned short story or poem, they often provide information that can help you understand and interpret the work.
African-American Studies American drama African American authors biobibliography Harlem eg, HarlemRenaissance), gender, or author ethnicity (eg, African American). http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/africanamerican/africanamer.htm
Extractions: African-American Studies This guide describes some useful resources for research in African-American Studies. It is not intended to be comprehensive but rather to give you a place to start. Because African-American research is interdisciplinary, additional resources can be located in other Research Guides, such as African Area Studies English Literature Sociology , and United States History The resources listed below are located in the Lauinger Library reference area except as noted. For additional assistance with your research, consult a Reference Librarian This guide can be found online at http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/africanamerican/
Edens Library -- English And Literature Resources African American Writers. Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 Studied authors; Provides biobibliographicaland following categories General author-specific Literary Periods http://www.colacoll.edu/edenslibrary/english.htm
Extractions: African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Ref PS 153 N5 A32 2000 African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide Ref PS 153 N5 G29 1999 African American Writers Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 2001 (v.1-2) All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World Ref PR 2892 O56 2002 (v.1-2) Ready Ref Z1231 .F4 W43 American Women Writers Ref PS 147 .A4 (v.1-4) American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Ref PS 151 A45 2000 American Writers Ref PS 129 .A55 (v.1-4) Black American Women Novelists Ref PS 153 .N5 W313 British Writers Ref PR 85 .B688
U. Mary Online Resources - General Reference - Biographies: Page One Biography on the Internet africanamerican Inventor Series by author The BookWireIndex - author Websites Catharton authors depaul.edu - specific authors dundee http://it.umary.edu/Library/research/reference/biographies_1.html
Extractions: Back: Directory of Online Resources Home return to index go to following page GENERAL BIOGRAPHIES ABCNEWS.com : Newsmaker Bios Academy of Achievement Biography.com biography-center indexes 10594 biographies ! ... Yahoo! Society and Culture:People AFRICAN-AMERICANS The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences. African American Biographical Database, Home Page 98:2 African American Web Connection - Prominent African Americans columbia.edu - African American Biography on the Internet ... Stamp on Black History - ABC Menu ARTISTS Art and Artists ArtStar Home Page Artists' Biographies IPL Ready Reference Collection: Artists and Architects ... Yahoo! Arts:Artists:Masters ASTRONOMERS AstroPlace Pros - Astronomers with Home Pages The Bruce Medalists cosmologyreview.com - Modern Cosmologists education-world - Astronomers ... yahoo - Astronomers ATHLETES HHOF Honoured Members National Baseball Hall of Fame - Hall of Famers and Honorees NBA History Pro Football Hall of Fame: Hall of Famers AUTHORS About.com - authors about.com - english lit. - Authors A-F University of Adelaide, South Australia - Individual authors in English literature ala.org - CandRL resources: 20th century authors ... Yahoo! - Authors BIOLOGISTS berkeley.edu - History of Biology - Scientist Biographies
Margaret Walker - Biography the deepest desire of the author to record What translates is a specific, unparalleledbeauty and tales that were integral to African American oral expression http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/walker/bio.html
Extractions: Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, and Marion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy from an early age. Walker completed her high school education at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her family had moved in 1925. She went on to attend New Orleans University (now Dillard University) for two years. Then, after acclaimed poet Langston Hughes recognized her talent and urged her to seek training in the North, she transferred to Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, where she received a B.A. in English in 1935, at the age of nineteen. In 1937, she published "For My People" in Poetry magazine. Her first poem to appear in print, it became one of her most famous and was even anthologized in 1941 in The Negro Caravan before becoming the opening poem of her first volume of verse in 1942. In 1936, she took on full-time work with the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago under Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Project Administration, befriending and collaborating with such noted artists as Gwendolyn Brooks, Katherine Dunham, and Frank Yerby. Perhaps the most memorable of these friendships with fellow artists was that with noted author Richard Wright, whose texts Walker would later help research and revise. In 1988, Walker would also write a book recalling that friendship, entitled Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius: A Portrait of the Man, a Critical Look at His Work
African American Internet Guide biobibliographies of scholars and writers working within the is searchable by keyword,subject and author. and eclectic review of african-american history and http://www.library.miami.edu/netguides/afroamer.html
News Release: Michael Eric Dyson Named To Faculty At Penn scholarly composition which he terms biocriticism, the Dyson is the author of fiveother the 1993 book Reflecting Black african-american Culture Criticism http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/releases/2002/Q2/dyson.html
Extractions: PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania has announced the appointment of Michael Eric Dyson as Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. Dyson, 43, is currently the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor and Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University. He has taught at the Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of North Carolina, and Columbia and Brown universities. At Penn, he will teach courses in the Religious Studies department and in the Afro-American Studies program. "Michael Eric Dyson is an incredible intellectual force. He contributes as a scholar to the academy and as an articulator of pressing social issues to society at large," said Penn President Judith Rodin. "I am delighted to welcome him to the Penn community where we embrace the application of knowledge for the public good." Samuel H. Preston, dean of Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences said "Through Professor Dyson’s prodigious scholarship and dynamic public presence, he has advanced the dialogue on race relations both within the academy and without. He will bring enormous distinction to our African-American Studies program, the Department of Religious Studies and the Penn community."
African-American Literature work was controversial because its author was a Classifications such as AfricanAmerican, Native American, Gay and Search biographies bio search tips. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmlit1.html
Extractions: by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Who said the classics were all written by dead white males? In the last two hundred years, black writers have contributed some of the most spirited and important works to American literature. These range from early narratives depicting slavery to modern works dealing with the lingering effects of slavery, racism and apartheid . In fact, some of the most risky work these days is being written not only by African Americans, but Americans of Dominican, Jamaican, and Haitian descent. Not to mention black writers in Africa and Europe.
Selected Library Resources For authorspecific Works. Contemporary authors a bio-bibliographical guide to currentwriters in fiction, general African American Literary Criticism, 1773-2000. http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/crlibrary/OldFiles/Literary Criticism.htm
Extractions: Selected Library Resources for Literary Criticism Anoka Ramsey Community College REFERENCE MATERIALS General Contemporary Literary Criticism PN 771 .C59 Ongoing encyclopedia of current literary criticism, bringing together criticism of all the various kinds from widely diverse sources. Presents significant passages from the published criticism of work by well-known novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights. Covers criticism of authors living from 1960-present. Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 PN 86 .L53 1984 Excerpts from criticism of the works of fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and other creative writers, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations. Modern American Literature PS 221 .C8 1969 Provides excerpts and references to critical articles on the works of the major American authors of the first half of the 20 th century. Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism PN 761 .N56
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Finding Information About Plays & Playwrights PS153.N5.B556 1992) Covers africanamerican authors, including bio-bibliographicaland critical information on 380 of Alcove) Look under the authors last http://library.jscc.edu/researchhelp/plays.php
African-American Books, Black History Month At Embracing The Child bio interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American History Thestories used in this lesson were collected by the author while serving http://www.eyeontomorrow.com/embracingthechild/africanamerican.htm
Multicultural Literature Resources articles pertaining to the study of africanamerican women novelists Ward, RobertE. A bio-Bibliography of German list of writings by the listed author as well http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/multicultural.html
Extractions: Reference Services Division FINDING RESOURCES ON THE MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE OF THE U.S. A Research Guide and Bibliography Compiled by Fred Muratori ... Reference Services Division This guide contains tips and strategies for locating biographical and critical information on American writers grouped by ethnicity (e.g., African-American, Jewish-American, etc.), as well a bibliography of resources, both in print and online. Since it focuses primarily on reference materials, it is necessarily selective. The Library Catalog and Library Gateway will list and/or provide access to far more material than can be listed below. Ascertaining Ethnicity Using LC Subject Headings for Ethnic Literatures Web Sites Databases ... Printed Reference Sources Ethnic-American Literatures Ascertaining ethnicity Surnames are not always indicative of ethnicity, and often it can be difficult to compile a list of authors by ethnic background. To identify writers of a specific ethnic ancestry, try the following strategies: Search the Literature Resource Center: Click on "Custom Search" Scroll down to the "Author Ethnicity" menu box and select an ethnic descriptor.
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Extractions: Biographical Sources About Authors Searching the Library Catalog Indexes to Biographical Sources on Authors Biographical Information on American Authors Biographical Information on Children's Authors ... Owens Library Services Note: Items with REF in the call number can be found in the Reference Collection on 1st floor. TIP: Press Ctrl/f and enter a root word, word, or phrase in the Find what: box and click on Find Next to search for a topic on this page. For example, type biograph to search for biography, biographies, and biographical. Searching the Library Catalog To find biographical information about authors, do a
African American Studies African American Studies Statistical Sources and General Reference The African American Almanac (REF. E185 .A37 2000) Topics range from Africans in America 16001900 to sections on law, politics, media, and the military. University databases with a specific African American component, many of our Sawyer CD-ROM Workstation author/Title Index Unit 1, Microfiche Index, http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/subject/AfricAmerStudiesGuide.htm
African American Studies Research Guide and Caribbean authors a biobibliography College Online Library Catalog by author,title or be useful American Drama African American authors , African http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/guides/africanamerican.shtml
Extractions: Important Scope Note: The following sources provide merely an introduction to research in African American Studies. They are not intended to be comprehensive but rather a starting point. Because African American Studies usually involves interdisciplinary research, it also will be useful to consult additional subject guides, such as "English Language and Literature," "History, " or "Psychology." For help selecting the best resources talk with a Reference Librarian. History and Culture African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Nearly 300 biographies of African American women throughout history. Limited bibliographies and an appendix of "career categories" are included.
