The Name "Negro"

The Name
Author: Richard B. Moore
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780933121355

This study focuses on the exploitive nature of the word ''Negro." Tracing its origins to the African slave trade, he shows how the label "Negro" was used to separate African descendents and to confirm their supposed inferiority.

Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem

Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem
Author: Richard Benjamin Moore
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1988
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780253312990

"[This] critical edition of a selection of Richard B. Moore's essays closes one more gap in the astonishing history of twentieth-century Afro-American nationalism." -- Journal of American History "This first collection of Moore's writings... [is] a welcome and important contribution to scholarship concerned with the political and intellectual history of African peoples in general and of African peoples in the Americas, in particular.... an inspiration to those who follow after to study and emulate his life and achievement." -- Journal of American Ethnic History

The Negro in the United States

The Negro in the United States
Author: Dorothy Porter Wesley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.