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Group 1
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
by
Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook (multi-user)
Publication Date: 2006
Also available in print: REF E185 .E545 2006
Suggestion: Check the entry on slave resistance.
Group 2
The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison
by
Tessa Roynon
Call Number: Ebook (multi-user)
Publication Date: 2012
Suggestion: See what is said about Beloved in the Contexts chapter, Slavery section.
Group 3
Black Women in America
by
Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook (multi-user)
Publication Date: 2005
Also available in print: REF E185.86 .B542 2005
Suggestion: Examine the entry for Toni Morrison for information that you are unlikely to find elsewhere.
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Group 4
African American National Biography
by
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham (Editors)
Call Number: REF E185.96 .A4466 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Suggestion: Examine the entry on Toni Morrison to learn which awards Beloved did and didn't win.
Group 5
Folklore in the New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics
by
Chiji Akoma
Call Number: Ebook (multi-user)
Publication Date: 2007
Suggestion: Check the chapter on Toni Morrison and see how Beloved is mentioned in regards to the oral tradition.
Group 6
Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia
by
Deleso A. Alford (Editor)
Call Number: REF E443 .E57 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Suggestion: Find an entry that may further illustrate the daily life of Sethe.
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