resources

@ Research and Writing Sites:

 

¨ UK Libraries: This link gives you access to a series of databases necessary for your research.

¨ UK Writing Center: Get a free 30-minute individual consultation on prewriting, writing, and rewriting.

¨ UK Thomas D. Clark Study: The Thomas D. Clark Study provides a variety of resources in one central location to guide students to more effective learning (from free tutoring in a variety of disciplines to study skills sessions).

¨ Sample Introductions for a Literature Paper.

¨ Writing a Thesis Statement for a Literature Paper (from Colorado State University).

¨ How to Write a Literature Paper.

¨ Conventions of Writing Papers about Literature (by Dr. Celia Easton, from State University of New York College at Geneseo).

¨ Writing about Literature (Online Writing Lab from Purdue University)

¨ The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing.

¨ Evaluating Online Sources: A Tutorial by Roger Munger (from Bedford/St. Martin’s).

¨ Documenting Sources: Online MLA Guide for In-Text Citations (from Bedford/St. Martin’s).

¨ Documenting Sources: Online MLA Guide for List of Works Cited (from Bedford/St. Martin’s).

¨ Sample Paper in MLA Style (click on the first link) (from Bedford/St. Martin’s).

¨ Straight Talk about Plagiarism (from Bedford/St. Martin’s).

¨ Online Writing Lab (from Purdue University).

¨ LitGloss: Glossary of Common Literary Texts (from Bedford/St. Martin’s).

¨ How to Write an English Paper (just for fun).

“Race, Gender, and Class in the African Diaspora”

> Video Libraries:

 

¨ African American Studies — Audio Visual Services (W.T. Young Library)

¨ African American Studies and Research Program Video Library (102 Breckinridge Hall)

& Web Sites on Black History and Literature:

 

¨ The African Presence in the Americas: 1492-1992 (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

¨ The Middle Passage: Slaves at Sea

¨ Middle Passage and African American History Museum

¨ Slavery — Africans in America (PBS)

¨ Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

¨ The Underground Railroad Experience (CUNY)

¨ Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

¨ Harlem Renaissance (NKU site)

¨ Négritude

¨ The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)

¨ Postcolonial Studies (Emory Univ.)

¨ Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English (National Univ. of Singapore)

¨ Black Arts Movement (Univ. of Michigan)

¨ Modern American Poetry — Black Arts Movement (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

ENG/AAS 264-001: Major Black Writers (Spring’05)

Web Sites on the Black Authors We Are Reading:

 

¨ Frederick Douglass

¨ Harriet Jacobs

¨ Nella Larsen

¨ Langston Hughes

¨ Léon Damas

¨ Aimé Césaire

¨ Nicolás Guillén

¨ Richard Wright

¨ Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones)

¨ Toni Morrison

¨ Jamaica Kincaid

Harriet Tubman (1931)

by Aaron Douglas

The Library (1978)

by Jacob Lawrence