Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity by Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Western Tour for the North Star: Debating Black Elevation -- A Nation within a Nation: Debating Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Emigration -- Slaves of Appetite: Temperate Revolutionism in Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom -- Heap of Witness: The African American Presence in Stowe's Dred -- The Redemption of His Race: Creating Pan-African Community in Delany's Blake -- Epilogue: True Patriotism/True Stability.…”


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Passing and the fictions of identity

Table of Contents: “…Spanish masquerade and drama of racial identity in 'Uncle Tom's cabin' /…”


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A history of African American theatre by Hill, Errol

Table of Contents: “…Slavery and conquest: background to black theatre -- The African theatre to Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Civil War to The Creole Show -- American minstrelsy in black and white -- New vistas: plays, spectacles, musicals, and opera -- The struggle continues -- The Harlem Renaissance -- Educational theatre -- The Caribbean connection -- The Great Depression and federal theatre -- Creeping toward integration -- From Hansberry to Shange -- The millennium -- Theatre scholarship 2002.…”


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Literary adaptations in Black American cinema : from Micheaux to Morrison by Lupack, Barbara Tepa

Table of Contents: “…The birth of defamation: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the beginnings of Black -- "A credit to the race": Oscar Micheaux and early race filmmaking -- "We'll teach him fear": racial representation in sound films of the 1930s and 1940s -- Uncle Tom meets Uncle Sam: wartime developments and postwar progress -- From Eisenhower to Black power: radicalizing the Black hero -- "Tell them I'm a man": popularizing Black history -- History to herstory: new voices for a new century.…”


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Literary influence and African-American writers : collected essays

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing literary influence and African-American writers / Tracy Mishkin -- Strategies of Black characterization in Uncle Tom's cabin and the early Afro-American novel / Richard Yarborough -- Break dancing in the drawing room : Mark Twain and African-American voices / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- A trick of mediation : Charles Chesnutt's conflicted literary relationship with Albion Tourgée / Peter Caccavari -- "About us, for us, near us" : the Irish and Harlem Renaissances / Brian Gallagher -- Afro-Celtic connections : from Frederick Douglass to The commitments / George Bornstein -- "How Black sees green and red" : African-American and Irish interaction in the early twentieth century / Tracy Mishkin -- Irony without condescension : Sterling A. …”


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Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films by Bogle, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Black beginnings: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation. The Tom ; The coon ; The tragic mulatto ; The mammy ; The brutal black buck and The Birth of a Nation -- Into the 1920s: The jesters -- The 1930s: The servants. …”


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African American communication & identities : essential readings

Table of Contents: “…Black beginnings: from Uncle Tom's cabin to The birth of a nation / Donald Bogle ; 6.4. …”


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The poetry of slavery : an Anglo-American anthology, 1764-1865

Table of Contents: “…Patriot / Anonymous -- The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- 'Hiram Power's Greek Slave' / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- from Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- 'A Curse for a Nation' / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- 'King Cotton Bound; or, The Modern Prometheus' / Anonymous -- 'Little Benny' -- 'I Thank the Goodness and the Grace' -- 'A Child's Evening Hymn' -- 'The Poor Little Negro' -- 'Slaves Set Free' -- 'Alphabet of Slavery' -- 'The Young Catechist' -- 'Anti-Slavery Dial' -- 'Eliza Crossing the River' / Anonymous -- 'Eva Putting A Wreath of Flowers Round Tom's Neck' / Anonymous -- 'Topsy at the Looking Glass, ' in Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin / Anonymous -- 'Uncle Tom's Lament for the Old Folks at Home' / Anonymous -- 'The Slave Auction', in Uncle Tom's Cabin Songster / Anonymous -- 'Lines on Uncle Tom's Cabin, ' in The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Dante Gabriel Rossetti.…”


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