Chronological List of Anthologies
All of the anthologies found in this project are listed below in a chronological index. Anthologies published in the same year are listed alphabetically by title. The list includes separate entries for new editions of an anthology, if the new edition includes substantive changes in the contents of the anthology; reprints that do not change the primary materials in the anthology (even if they might include new prefatory matter, such as a new introduction) are noted in the entry for the anthology but are not listed separately here.
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Anthologies from 1840s to 1890s
Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes. Ed. Armand Lanusse (1845)
Autographs for Freedom. Ed. Julia Griffiths (2 vols, 1853 and 1854)
Slave Songs of the United States. Ed. William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (1867)
Jubilee Songs, as Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. Ed. T. F. Seward (1872)
Negro Baptist Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons and Papers on Baptist Doctrine and Missionary and Educational Work, by Colored Baptists. Ed. E. M. Brawley (1890)
Old Plantation Hymns. Ed. W. E. Barton (1899)
Anthologies from 1900s
Twentieth Century Negro Literature; or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. Ed. Daniel Wallace Culp (1902)
The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-day (1903)
Anthologies from 1910s
Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music. by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1914)
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time. Ed. Alice Moore Dunbar (1914)
Anthologies from 1920s
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about the Negro Race. Ed. Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1920)
The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children. Ed. Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington (1920)
The Voice of the Negro 1919. Ed. Robert T. Kerlin (1920)
The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon Johnson (1922)
Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise. With a Study. Ed. Thomas Talley (1922)
Negro Poets and Their Poems. Ed. Robert T. Kerlin (1923)
An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes. Ed. Newman Ivey White and Walter Clinton Jackson (1924)
Negro Songs: An Anthology. Ed. Clement Woods (1924)
The Book of American Negro Spirituals. Ed. James Weldon Johnson (1925)
Negro Orators and Their Orations. Ed. Carter G. Woodson (1925)
The New Negro: An Interpretation. Ed. Alain Locke (1925)
The Blues: An Anthology. Ed. W. C. Handy (1926)
The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860. Ed. Carter G. Woodson (1926)
Second Book of Negro Spirituals. Ed. James Weldon Johnson (1926)
Black and White: An Anthology of Washington Verse. Ed. J. C. Byars, Jr. (1927)
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. Ed. Countee Cullen (1927)
Ebony and Topaz: A Collecteana. Ed. Charles S. Johnson (1927)
Famous Negro Sermons. Ed. French E. Oliver (1927)
Four Negro Poets. Ed. Alain Locke (1927)
Plays of Negro Life: A Sourcebook of Native American Drama. Ed. Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory (1927)
American Negro Folk-Songs. Ed. Newman Ivey White (1928)
Anthology of American Negro Literature. Ed. V. F. Calverton (1929)
Anthologies from 1930s
Four Lincoln University Poets: Waring Cuney, William Allyn Hill, Edward Silvera, Langston Hughes (1930)
Plays and Pageants of Negro Life. Ed. Willis Richardson (1930)
The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon Johnson (rev. ed., 1931)
Readings from Negro Authors, for Schools and Colleges, with a Bibliography of Negro Literature. Ed. Otelia Cromwell, Lorenzo Dow Turner, and Eva G. Dykes (1931)
Brown Thrush: Anthology of Verse by Negro Students. Ed. Lillian Voorhees and Robert W. O'Brien (1932)
Our Darktown Press: A Humorous Anthology Compiled from the American Negro Press. Ed. Inez Lopez Cohen (1932)
Afrika v Amerike: antologiia poezii amarikanskikh negrov [Africa in America: Anthology of American Negro Poetry]. Ed. Iulian Anisimov and S. Dinamov (1933)
Negry poiut [Negroes Sing]. Ed. Robert Magidoff, et al. (1934)
Singers in the Dawn: A Brielf Supplement to the Study of American Literature. Ed. Robert B. Eleazor (1934) (repr. as Singers in the Dawn: A Brief Anthology of Negro Poetry, 1935)
Brown Thrush: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Students, Vol. 2. Ed. Helen M. O'Brien, Lillian W. Voorhees, and Hugh M. Gloster (1935)
Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions. Ed. Benjamin Brawley (1935)
Negro History in Thirteen Plays. Ed. Willis Richardson and May Miller (1935)
Negro Poets and Their Poetry. Ed. Robert T. Kerlin (2nd ed., 1935)
Antologiia negritianskoi poezii [Anthology of Negro Poetry]. Ed. Robert Magidoff (1936)
Heralding Dawn: An Anthology of Verse. Ed. John Mason Brewer (1936)
An Anthology of Negro Poetry by Negroes and Others. Ed. Beatrice F. Wormley and Charles W. Carter (rev. ed., 1937)
Negro Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse. Ed. Beatrice M. Murphy (1938)
Anthologies from 1940s
American Negro Songs and Spirituals: A Comprehensive Collection of 230 Folk Song, Religious and Secular. Ed. John W. Work (1940)
Negro Poets and Their Poetry. Ed. Robert T. Kerlin (3rd ed., 1940)
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers. Ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes. Ed. Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee (1941)
The Literature of the American Negro Prior to 1865: An Anthology and a History. Ed. William Luther Moore (4 vols, 1942)
Anthology of American Negro Literature. Ed. Sylvester C. Watkins (1944)
Sing, Laugh, Weep: A Book of Poems. By St. Louis Scribes (1944)
What the Negro Wants. E. Rayfor W. Logan (1944)
The Best of Negro Humor. Ed. John H. Johnson and Ben Burns (1945)
Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Ed. Benjamin A. Botkin (1945)
Primer for White Folks. Ed. Bucklin Moon (1945)
Negro Drama through the Ages: An Anthology. Ed. Carries Davis Pembrook (3 vols. 1946)
Selected Readings by Negro Authors for the Young Adolescent. Ed. Ruth Thomas (1946)
Negro Poets and Their Poetry. Ed. Robert T. Kerlin (4th ed., 1947)
Critical Anthology of the Writings of Colored Americans during the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Ieda Mae Toney-Wynne (1948)
Ebony Rhythms: An Anthology of Contemporary Negro Verse. Ed. Beatrice M. Murphy (1948)
Silhouettes of Life. Ed. J. Mason Brewer (1948)
Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography. Ed. Rebecca Chalmers Barton (1948)
Letteratura dei negri d'America. By Leone Piccioni (1949)
Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949: An Anthology. Ed. Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes (1949)
Anthologies from 1950s
American Literature by Negro Authors. Ed. Herman Dreer (1950)
Best Short Stories by Afro-American Writers, 1925-1950. Ed. Nick Aaron Ford and H. L. Faggett (1950)
The Treasury of Negro Spirituals. Ed. H. A. Chambers (1953)
Anthology of Negro Poets. Ed. Arna Bontemps (Audio recording, 1954)
Lincoln University Poets: Centennial Anthology (1854-1954). Ed. Waring Cuney, Langston Hughes, and Bruce McM. Wright (1954)
Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A.--200 Years. Ed. Arna Bontemps (1955)
Poetry of the Negro. Performed by Sidney Poitier and Doris Belack (Audio recording, 1955)
An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young People. Ed. Arna Bontemps (Audio recording, 1958)
Black and Unknown Bards: A Collection of Negro Poetry. Ed. Eric Walrond and Rosey E. Pool (1958)
Anthologies from 1960s
The Angry Black. Ed. John A. Williams (1962)
Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes. Ed. Rosey E. Pool (1962)
Sixes and Sevens: An Anthology of New Poetry. Ed. Paul Breman (1962)
American Negro Poetry. Ed. Arna Bontemps (1963)
Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories Written by and about Negroes. Ed. Charlemae Rollins (1963)
New Negro Poets U.S.A. Ed. Langston Hughes (1964)
Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. Ed. Herbert Hill (1963) (Repr. as Black Voices: New Writings by American Negroes. Ed. Herbert Hill [1964[.)
In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1619-1966. Ed. Milton Meltzer (3 vols., 1964-67)
Come Out the Wilderness. Ed. L. M. Schulman (1965)
Famous American Negro Poets. Ed. Charlemae Hill Rollins (1965)
Images of the Negro in America. Ed. Darwin T. Turner and Jean M. Bright (1965)
Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery; The Souls of Black Folk; and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Intro. John Hope Franklin (1965)
Afro-American Festival of the Arts Magazine. Ed. Yusef Iman (1966) (aka Anthology of Our Black Selves)
American Negro Short Stories. Ed. John Henrik Clarke (1966)
Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States. Ed. Herbert Hill (1966)
The Book of Negro Humor. Ed. Langston Hughes (1966)
Negro Social and Political Thought 1850-1920: Representative Texts. Ed. Howard Brotz (1966) (repr. as "African-American Social and Political Thought, 1850-1920," with new intro. and foreword, 1992)
La Poésie Négro-Américaine: Anthologie. Ed. Langston Hughes (1966)
The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present. Ed. Langston Hughes (1967)
Black Expressions: An Anthology of New Black Poets. Ed. Useni Eugene Perkins (1967)
For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and Death of Malcolm X. Ed. Dudley Randall and Margaret Burroughs (1967)
From the Ashes: Voices of Watts. Ed. Bugg Schulberg (1967)
Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poets. Ed. Robert Hayden (1967)
Umbra Anthology 1967-1968. Ed. David Henderson (1967)
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing. Ed. LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and Larry Neal (1968)
Black on Black: Commentaries by Negro Americans. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1968)
The Black Power Revolt: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Floyd B. Barbour (1968)
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature. Ed. Abraham Chapman (1968)
Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America. Ed. James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross (1968)
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1968)
An Introduction to Black Literature in America, from 1746 to the Present. Ed. Lindsay Patterson (1968)
New Black Playwrights: An Anthology. Ed. William Couch, Jr. (1968)
Nine Black Poets. Ed. R. Baird Shuman (1968)
Ten: An Anthology of Detroit Poets. [Ed. Dudley Randall] (1968)
To Be a Slave. Ed. Julius Lester (1968)
Watts Poets: A Book of New Poetry & Essays. Ed. Quincy Troupe (1968)
Beyond the Angry Black. Ed. John A. Williams (1969)
Black American Literature: Essays. Ed. Darwin T. Turner (1969)
Black American Literature: Fiction. Ed. Darwin T. Turner (1969)
Black American Literature: Poetry. Ed. Darwin T. Turner (1969)
Black & White in American Culture: An Anthology from The Massachusetts Review. Ed. Jules Chametzky and Sidney Kaplan (1969)
Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations. Ahmed Alhamisi and Harun Kofi Wangara (1969)
Black Poetry: A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets. Ed. Dudley Randall (1969)
The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics. Ed. Eric Sackheim (1969)
Chicory: Young Voices from the Black Ghetto. Ed. Sam Cornish and Lucian W. Dixon (1969)
Chronicles of Negro Protest: A Background Book for Young People, Documenting the History of Black Power. Ed. Bradford Chambers (1968) (repr. as "Chronicles of Black Protest," 1969)
Early Black American Poets: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions. Ed. William H. Robinson (1969)
Five Slave Narratives. Ed. William Loren Katz (1969)
Great Slave Narratives. Ed. Arna Bontemps (1969)
The New Black Poetry. Ed. Clarence Major (1969)
New Plays from the Black Theatre: An Anthology. Ed. Ed Bullins (1969)
Puttin' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. Ed. Gilbert Osofsky (1969)
Rhetoric of Black Revolution. Ed. Arthur L. Smith (Molefi Kete Ashante) (1969)
Soul Session: Anthology of the BCD [Black Community Defense]. (1969)
Three Negro Plays. Ed. C. W. E. Bigsby (1969)
Anthologies from 1970s
19 Necromancers from Now. Ed. Ishmael Reed (1970)
Afro-American History: Primary Sources. Ed. Thomas R. Frazier (1970)
Afro-American Literature. Ed. William Adams, Peter J. Conn, and Barry Slepian (4 vols., 1970)
Afro-American Voices, 1770's-1970's. Ed. Ralph Kendricks and Claudette Levitt (1970)
Amistad 1: Writings on Black History and Culture. Ed. John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris (1970)
Another View: To Be Black in America. Ed. Gerald Messner (1970)
The Black American Experience: A New Anthology of Black Literature. Ed. Frances S. Freedman (1970)
Black American Literature: Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Drama. Ed. Darwin T. Turner (1970)
Black Drama: An Anthology. Ed. William Brasmer and Dominick Consolo (1970)
The Black Experience: An Anthology of American Literature for the 1970s. Ed. Francis E. Kearns (1970)
Black Identity: A Thematic Reader. Ed. Francis E. Kearns (1970)
Black Literature in America: A Casebook. Ed. Raman K. Singh and Peter Fellows (1970)
Black Out Loud: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black Americans. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1970)
Black Poets Write On! An Anthology of Black Philadelphian Poets. Intro. Harold Franklin (1970)
Black Quartet: Four New Black Plays. Ed. Woodie King (1970)
The Black Seventies. Ed. Floyd B. Barbour (1970)
Black Slave Narratives. Ed. John Bayliss (1970)
The Black Teacher and the Dramatic Arts: A Dialogue, Bibliography, and Anthology. By William R. Reardon and Thomas D. Pawley (1970)
Black Voices from Prison. Ed. Etheridge Knight (1970)
The Black Woman: An Anthology. Ed. Toni Cade Bambara (1970)
Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1970)
Dices or Black Bones: Black Voices of the Seventies. Ed. Adam David Miller (1970)
Forgotten Pages of American Literature. Ed. Gerald W. Haslam (1970)
From a Black Perspective: Contemporary Black Essays. Ed. Douglas A. Hughes (1970)
From the Roots: Short Stories by Black Americans. Ed. Charles L. James (1970)
Galaxy of Black Writing. Ed. R. Baird Shuman (1970)
Great Documents in Black American History. Ed. George Ducas with Charles Van Doren (1970)
Harlem: Voices from the Soul of Black America. Ed. John Henrik Clarke (1970)
Life Under the "Peculiar Institution": Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection. Ed. Norman R. Yetman (1970)
A Native Sons Reader. Ed. Edward Margolies (1970)
New Black Playwrights: Six Plays. Ed. William Couch, Jr. (1970)
Night Comes Softly: Anthology of Black Female Voices. Ed. Nikki Giovanni (1970)
On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present. Ed. Charles T. Davis and Daniel Walden (1970)
Poems by Blacks. Ed. Pinkie Gordon Lane (1970)
The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970. Ed. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps (rev. ed., 1970)
Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature. Ed. Bradford Chambers and Rebecca Moon (1970)
Selections from the Black: College Reading Skills. Ed. Edward Spargo (3 vols., 1970)
Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry. Ed. June Jordan (1970)
To Be a Black Woman: Portraits in Fact and Fiction. Ed. Mel Watkins and Jay David (1970)
Today's Negro Voices: An Anthology by Young Negro Poets. Ed. Beatrice M. Murphy (1970)
Viewpoints from Black America. Ed. Gladys J. Curry (1970)
We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets. An Anthology. Ed. Orde Coombs (1970)
What Country Have I?: Political Writings by Black Americans. Ed. Herbert J. Storing (1970)
The Scholastic Black Literature Series: The Black Hero. Ed. Alma Murray and Robert Thomas (1970-71)
The Scholastic Black Literature Series: The Journey. Ed. Alma Murray and Robert Thomas (1970-71)
The Scholastic Black Literature Series: Major Black Writers. Ed. Alma Murray and Robert Thomas (1970-71)
The Scholastic Black Literature Series: The Search. Ed. Alma Murray and Robert Thomas (1970-71)
The Scholastic Black Literature Series: The Scene. Ed. Alma Murray and Robert Thomas (1970-71)
Afro-American History: Primary Sources. Ed. Thomas R. Frazier (shorter ed., 1971)
Afro-American Literature: An Introduction. Ed. Robert Hayden, David J. Burrows, and Frederick R. Lapides (1971)
Amistad 2: Writings on Black History and Culture. Ed. John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris (1971)
The Black Aesthetic. Ed. Addison Gayle, Jr. (1971)
Blackamerican Literature, 1760-Present. Ed. Ruth Miller (1971)
Black and White: Stories of American Life. Ed. Donald B. Gibson and Carol Anselment (1971)
Black Drama in America: An Anthology. Ed. Darwin T. Turner (1971)
Black Hands on a White Face: A Timepiece of Experiences in a Black and White America: An Anthology. Ed. Whit Burnett (1971)
Black Insights: Significant Literature by Black Americans. Ed. Nick Aaron Ford (1971)
Black Literature in America. Ed. Houston A. Baker, Jr. (1971)
Black Poetry for All Americans. Ed. Leon Weisman and Elfreda S. Wright (1971)
The Black Poets. Ed. Dudley Randall (1971)
The Black Press Views American Imperialism (1898-1900). Ed. George P. Marks (1971)
Black Scenes. Ed. Alice Childress (1971)
Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights. Ed. Linsday Patterson (1971)
Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans. Ed. Addison Gayle, Jr. (1971)
A Broadside Treasury, 1965-1970. Ed. Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)
Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present. Ed. Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding (1971)
Contemporary Black Drama: From "A Raisin in the Sun" to "No Place to Be Somebody". Ed. Clinton Oliver and Stephanie Sills (1971)
Cry at Birth. Ed. The Bookers (1971)
Early Black American Poets. Ed. William H. Robinson (3rd ed., 1971)
Early Black American Prose. Ed. William H. Robinson (1971)
Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837. Ed. Dorothy Porter (1971)
Gift of the Spirit: Readings in Black Literature for Teachers. Ed. Karel Rose (1971)
I, Too, Sing America: Black Voices in American Literature. Ed. Barbara Dodds Stanford (1971)
Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology. Ed. Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)
Modern Black Stories: With Study Aids. Ed. Martin Mirer (1971)
Natural Process: An Anthology of New Black Poetry. Ed. Ted Wilenz and Tom Weatherly (1971)
Steal Away: Stories of the Runaway Slaves. Ed. Abraham Chapman (1971)
Tales and Stories from Black Folks. Ed. Toni Cade Bambara (1971)
Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Blackness Comin' at You: An Anthology of the Sonia Sanchez Writers Workshop at Countee Cullen Library in Harlem. Ed. Sonia Sanchez (1971)
To Gwen with Love: An Anthology Dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks. Ed. Patricia L. Brown, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Francis Ward (1971)
The Voice of Black Rhetoric: Selections. Ed. Arthur Lee Smith and Stephen Robb (1971)
What We Must See: Young Black Story Tellers. An Anthology. Ed. Orde Coombs (1971)
Afro-American Authors. Ed. William Adams (1972)
Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry. Ed. Richard A. Long and Eugenia W. Collier (2 vols, 1972)
The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Ed. George P. Rawick (19 vols., 1972) (plus Supplements, 1977 and 1979)
Black Culture: Reading and Writing Black. Ed. Gloria M. Simmons and Helene D. Hutchinson (1972)
Black Drama Anthology. Ed. Woodie King and Ron Milner (1972)
Black Men in Chains: Narratives by Escaped Slaves. Ed. Charles H. Nichols (1972)
Black Short Story Anthology. Ed. Woodie King (1972)
Black Spirits: A Festival of New Black Poets in America. Ed. Woodie King (1972)
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. Ed. Gerda Lerner (1972)
Black Writers of America: A Compehensive Anthology. Ed. Richard K. Barksdale and Keneth Kinnamon (1972)
Modern and Contemporary Afro-American Poetry. Ed. Bernard W. Bell (1972)
New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature. Ed. Abraham Chapman (1972)
Nommo: An Anthology of Modern Black African and Black American Literature. Ed. William Henry Robinson (1972)
Poems by Blacks, Vol. 2. Ed. Pinkie Gordon Lane (1972)
Poetry of Prison: Poems by Black Prisoners. Ed. Eugene Perkins (1972)
Speeches by Black Americans. Ed. Daniel J. O'Neill (1972)
Ten Times Black: Stories from the Black Experience. Ed. Julian Mayfield (1972)
Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents. Ed. Ronald T. Takaki (1972)
The Voice of Black America: Major Speeches by Negroes in the United States, 1797-1971. Ed. Philip S. Foner (1972)
Voices from the Black Experience: African and Afro-American Literature. Ed. Darwin T. Turner, Jean Marie Bright, and Richard Wright (1972)
Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons. Ed. Bruce Jackson (1972)
Who Took the Weight? Black Voices from Norfolk Prison. Ed. James A. Lang (1972)
Black Light: Selected Writings from American Negro Literature. Ed. Talmadge Spratt (1973)
Interviews with Black Writers. Ed. John O'Brien (1973)
The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1973)
Rock Against the Wind: Black Love Poems. Ed. Lindsay Patterson (1973)
Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Music as Poetic References. Ed. Stephen Evangelist Henderson (1973)
Voices of a Black Nation: Political Journalism in the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Theodore G. Vincent (1973)
We Be Word Sorcerors: 25 Stories by Black Americans. Ed. Sonia Sanchez (1973)
Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues. Ed. A. X. Nicholas (1973)
American Negro Poetry. Ed. Arna Bontemps (rev. ed., 1974)
Betcha Ain't: Poems from Attica. Ed. Celes Tisdale (1974)
The Black Book. Ed. Middleton Harris (1974)
Black Theater, U.S.A.: Forty-Five Plays by Black Americans. Ed. James V. Hatch and Ted Shine (1974)
The Disinherited: Plays. Ed. Abe C. Ravitz (1974)
"Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me": Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition. Ed. Bruce Jackson (1974)
Keeping the Faith: Writings by Contemporary Black American Women. Ed. Pat Crutchfield (1974)
My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1974)
My Name Is Black: An Anthology of Black Poets. Ed. Amanda Ambrose (1974)
New Lafayette Theatre Presents: Plays with Aesthetic Comments by 6 Black Playwrights. Ed. Ed Bullins (1974)
On Our Way: Poems of Pride and Love. Ed. Lee Bennett Hopkins (1974)
Selections from the Black: College Reading Skills. Ed. Edward Spargo (3 vols., 2nd ed.,1974)
Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by and about Black Women. Ed. Mary Helen Washington (1975)
The Forerunners: Black Poets in America. Ed. Woodie King, Jr. (1975)
The New Negro Renaissance: An Anthology. Ed. Arthur P. Davis and Michael W. Peplow (1975)
Out of Our Lives: A Selection of Contemporary Black Fiction. Ed. Quandra Prettyman Stadler (1975)
Synergy: An Anthology of Washington D.C. Blackpoetry. Ed Ahmos Zu-Bolton II and E. Ethelbert Miller (1975)
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings. Ed. Ruth Bogin and Bert J. Loewenberg (1976)
Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler. Ed. Dennis Wepman, Ronald B. Newman, and Murray B. Binderman (1976)
Love: From Black Men to Black Women. Ed. Frances J. Barnes (1976)
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Nathan Irvin Huggins (1976)
Celebrations: A New Anthology of Black American Poetry. Ed. Arnold Adoff (1977)
Griefs of Joy: Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry for Students. Ed. Eugene B. Redmond (1977)
Love: From Black Women to Black Men. Ed. Frances Johnson Barnes (1977)
Renewal: A Volume of Black Poems. Ed. Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Charlotte Pierce-Baker (1977)
Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Ed. John W. Blassingame (1977)
Indigené: An Anthology of Future Black Arts. Ed. Black History Museum Committee (1978)
Chant of Saints: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art, and Scholarship. Ed. Michael S. Harper and Robert B. Stepto (1979)
Écrits louisianais du dix-neuvième siècle: nouvelles, contes et fables. Ed. Gérard Labarre (1979)
Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature. Ed. Roseann P. Bell, Bettye J. Parker, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (1979)
Anthologies from 1980s
Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers. Ed. Mary Helen Washington (1980)
Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980. Ed. Erlene Stetson (1981)
Center Stage: An Anthology of 21 Contemporary Black American Plays. Ed. Eileen Joyrce Ostrow (1981)
Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era. Ed. Jeff Todd Titon (1981)
Images of the Preacher in Afro-American Literature. Ed. Walter C. Daniel (1981)
On Being Black: Stories and Poems by Minnesota Writers. Ed. Hazel Clayton (1981)
Each Other's Dreams: Contemporary Black American Writing. Ed. L. E. Scott (1982)
Mississippi Earthworks. Ed. Jackson Actors/Writers Workshop (1982)
Black Women Writers at Work. Ed. Claudia Tate (1983)
Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. Michael Taft (1983)
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women. Ed. Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka (1983)
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Ed. Barbara Smith (1983)
Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917. Ed. Leonard Harris (1983)
The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1619-1983. Ed. Milton Meltzer (1984)
Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry. Ed. Richard A. Long and Eugenia W. Collier (2 vols., 2nd ed., 1985)
Butterfly Tree: An Anthology of Black Writing from the Upper Midwest. Ed. Conrad Balfour (1985)
Short Pieces from the New Dramatists. Ed. Stan Chervin (1985)
The Slave's Narrative. Ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1985)
Black Abolitiionist Papers. Ed. C. Peter Ripley (5 vols., 1985-92)
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Ed. Joseph Beam (1986)
Nine Plays by Black Women. Ed. Margaret B. Wilkerson (1986)
Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. William L. Andrews (1986)
Classic Slave Narratives. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1987)
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960. Ed. Mary Helen Washington (1987)
Plays of Black Americans: Episodes from the Black Experience in America, Dramatized for Young People. Ed. Sylvia Kamerman (1987)
Tongues Untied: Poems. Ed. Dirg Aaab-Richards (1987)
Black Literature, 1827-1940. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1987-96)
Afro-American History: Primary Sources. Ed. Thomas R. Frazier (2nd ed., 1988)
Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. Ed. Ann Allen Shockley (1988)
Anthology of Black Mississippi Poets. Ed. Julius E. Thompson (1988)
Collected Black Women's Narratives. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy (1988)
Collected Black Women's Poetry. Ed. Joan R. Sherman (4 vols., 1988)
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Gen. ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (30 vols., 1988)
Six Women's Slave Narratives. Ed. William L. Andrews (1988)
Spiritual Narratives. Ed. Sue E. Houchins (1988)
Afro-American Writing Today: An Anniversary Issue of the Southern Review. Ed. James Olney (1989)
Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins (1989)
Black Heroes: Seven Plays. Ed. Errol Hill (1989)
Homespun Images: An Anthology of Black Memphis Writers and Artists. Ed. Miriam DeCosta-Willis and Fannie Mitchell Delk (1989)
New Plays for the Black Theatre. Ed. Woodie King (1989)
Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Maureen Honey (1989)
Selections from the Black: College Reading Skills. Ed. Edward Spargo (4 vols., 3rd ed.,1989)
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling. Ed. Linda Goss and Marian E. Barnes (1989)
Anthologies from 1990s
Black-Eyed Susans [and] Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women. Ed. Mary Helen Washington (1990)
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction. Ed. Terry McMillan (1990)
Early African-American Classics. Ed. Anthony Appiah (1990)
Three Classic African-American Novels. Ed. William L. Andrews, Jr. (1990)
Three Classic African-American Novels. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1990)
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. Ed. Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, with Sarah Flynn (1990)
Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (1990)
African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Tony Martin (1991)
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1991)
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men. Ed. Essex Hemphill (1991)
Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters. Ed. Patricia Bell-Scott (1991)
Memory of Kin: Stories about Family by Black Writers. Ed. Mary Helen Washington (1991)
On Being Black Volume II. Ed. Hazel Clayton and Shirley Dougan (1991)
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets. Ed. Assotto Saint (1991)
Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938. Ed. Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch (1991)
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Gen. ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (vols. 31-40, 1991)
Screenplays of the African American Experience. Ed. Phyllis Rauch Klotman, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Jr., and David Barry Gaspar (1991)
Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammons (1991)
The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present. Ed. Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce (2 vols., 1991-92)
Adam of Ifé: Black Women in Praise of Black Men: Poems. Ed. Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett (1992)
The African-American Novel in the Age of Reaction: Three Classics. Ed. William L. Andrews (1992)
African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. Ed. Joan R. Sherman (1992)
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays. Ed. John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward (1992)
Black Thunder: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama. Ed. William B. Branch (1992)
Black Women's Blues: A Literary Anthology, 1934-1988. Ed. Rita B. Dandridge (1992)
Erotique Noire = Black Erotica. Ed. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, and Roseann P. Bell (1992)
Here to Dare: Ten Gay Black Poets. Ed. Assotto Saint (1992)
In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. Ed. Kevin Powell and Ras Baraka (1992)
Rhetoric of Struggle: Public Address by African American Women. Ed. Robbie Jean Walker (1992)
Speech and Power: The African-American Essay and Its Cultural Content, from Polemics to Pulpit. Ed. Gerald Early (2 vols., 1992-93)
African American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry (1993)
African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery. Ed. Steven Mintz (1993)
Black American Short Stories: One Hundred Years of the Best. Ed. John Henrik Clarke (1993) [= Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best]
Calling the Wind: Twentieth-Century African-American Short Stories. Ed. Clarence Major (1993)
Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing. Ed. Deirdre Mullane (1993)
Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Ed. Edwin S. Redkey (1993)
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. Ed. Marcy Knopf-Newman (1993)
Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS. Ed. B. Michael Hunter (1993)
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women, 1859-1993. Ed. Asha Kanwar (1993)
Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men, and Sex. Ed. Marita Golden (1993)
Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Ed. C. Peter Ripley (1993)
Black Drama in America: An Anthology. Ed. Darwin T. Turner (2nd ed., 1994)
Centers of the Self: Short Stories by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Ed. Judith A. Hamer and Martin J. Hamer (1994)
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. William L. Andrews (1994)
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans since 1945. Ed. Michael Harper and Anthony Walton (1994)
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love. Ed. Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell (1994)
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry. Ed. E. Ethelbert Miller (1994)
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women. Ed. Patricia Bell-Scott (1994)
Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun: Plays by African American Women. Ed. Sydné Mahone (1994)
Plays of Black Americans: The Black Experience in America, Dramatized for Young People. Ed. Sylvia E. Kamerman (rev. ed., 1994)
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. Ed. David Levering Lewis (1994)
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry. Ed. Charlotte Watson Sherman (1994)
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Angelyn Mitchell (1994)
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing. Ed. Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce DeLaney (1995)
African American Political Thought 1890-1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and Randolph. Ed. Cary D. Wintz (1995)
African American Voices. Ed. Michele Stepto (1995)
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe. Ed. Charles H. Rowell (1995)
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America. Ed. Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen (1995)
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present. Ed. Gloria Naylor (1995)
Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company. Ed. Gus Edwards and Paul Carter Harrison (1995)
The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters. Ed. Woodie King, Jr. (1995)
Revolutionary Tales: African American Women's Short Stories, from the First Story to the Present. Ed. Bill Mullen (1995)
Selected African American Writing from 1760 to 1910. Ed. Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce (1995)
Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream. Ed. Don Belton (1995)
With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women. Ed. Shirley Wilson Logan (1995)
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. Ed. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (1995)
African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology. Ed. Al Young (1996)
Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans 1847 to Today. Ed. James V. Hatch and Ted Shine (2 vols., rev. ed., 1996)
Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays. Ed. Harry Justin Elam and Robert Alexander (1996)
Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Melvin Burke Donalson (1996)
Ebony Angels: A Collection of African-American Poetry and Prose. Ed. Faith Jaycox (1996)
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry. Ed. Clarence Major (1996)
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Literary Fiction by African-American Writers. Ed. Shawn Stewart Ruff (1996)
Harlem's Glory: Black Women's Writing, 1900-1950. Ed. Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph (1996)
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance: 1920-1940. Ed. James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian (1996)
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (1996)
A Rock against the Wind: African-American Poems and Letters of Love and Passion. Ed. Lindsay Patterson (rev. ed., 1996)
Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent. Ed. Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell (1996)
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems. Ed. Nikki Giovanni (1996)
Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence. Ed. Daniel J. Wideman and Roham B. Preston (1996)
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction. Ed. Paula L. Woods (1996)
Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience. Ed. Doris Jean Austin and Martin Simmons (1996)
These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the 1920s. Ed. Tom Lutz and Susanna Ashton (1996)
Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others: The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals. Ed. Jennifer Burton (1996)
African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1793-1927. Ed. Joan Sherman (1997)
Black Comedy: Nine Plays. A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays. Ed. Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah (1997)
Black Men Speaking. Ed. Charles Johnson and John McCluskey, Jr. (1997)
Dark Eros. Ed. Reginald Martin (1997)
Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories. Ed. Lisa C. Moore (1997)
Heritage: African American Readings for Writing. Ed. Joyce M. Jarrett, Doreatha D. Mbalia, and Margaret Giles Lee (1997)
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans. Ed. Arnold Adoff (rev. ed., 1997)
KenteCloth: Southwest Voices of the African Diaspora: The Oral Tradition Comes to the Page. Ed. Jas Mardis (1997)
Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Ed. Keith Gilyard (1997)
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry. Ed. Jerry W. Ward (1997)
360 Degrees: A Revolution of Black Poets. Ed. Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander (1998)
The African American Book of Values. Ed. Steven Barboza (1998)
African American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry (2nd ed., 1998)
Ain't But a Place: An Anthology of African American Writings about St. Louis. Ed. Gerald Early (1998)
Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic. Ed. Alasdair Pettinger (1998)
Black Abolitionist Archive. University of Detroit, Mercy (1998-present)
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White. Ed. David R. Roediger (1998)
Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. Ed. Patricia Liggins Hill (1998)
Catch the Fire!!! A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry. Ed. Derrick I. M. Gilbert and Tony Medina (1998)
Go Down, Moses: A Celebration of the African-American Spiritual. Ed. Richard Newman (1998)
Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor. Ed. Daryl Cumber Dance (1998)
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American Poetry. Ed. Catherine Clinton (1998)
Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. Ed. Philip S. Foner and Robert James Barnham (1998)
Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean. Ed. Moira Ferguson (1998)
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and William L. Andrews (1998)
Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens (1998)
Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing. Ed. Farah J. Griffin and Cheryl J. Fish (1998)
African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000. Ed. Hazel Arnett Ervin (1999)
African American Scenebook. Ed. Kathryn Ervin and Ethel Pitts Walker (1999)
African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery. Ed. Steven Mintz (2nd ed., 1999)
Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. Ed. Maureen Honey (1999)
Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives. Ed. William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1999)
Crisis Reader: Stories, Poems, and Essays from the NAACP's Crisis Magazine. Ed. Sondra K. Wilson (1999)
I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives. Ed. Yuval Taylor (2 vols., 1999)
Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine. Ed. Sondra K. Wilson (1999)
Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Voices of an American Community. Ed. Lionel C. Bascom (1999)
Anthologies from 2000s
African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories. Ed. Alan B. Govenar (2000)
African American Literary Theory: A Reader. Ed. Winston Napier (2000)
African American West: A Century of Short Stories. Ed. Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion (2000)
Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by the People Who Lived It. Ed. Herb Boyd (2000)
Black Feminist Reader. Ed. Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (2000)
Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White. Ed. Suzanne Whitmore Jones (2000)
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (2000)
Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers. Ed. Kevin Young (2000)
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology. Ed. Manning Marable and Leith Mullings (2000)
The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine. Ed. Sondra K. Wilson (2000)
The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Rochelle Smith and Sharon L. Jones (2000)
Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy. Ed. James Montmarquet and William H. Hardy (2000)
Slave Narratives. Ed. William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2000)
Soul Food: Inspirational Stories for African Americans. Ed. Eric V. Copage (2000)
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. Ed. Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton (2000)
The African-American Archive: The History of the Black Experience in Documents. Ed. Kai Wright (2001)
African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology. Ed. Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. (3 vols., 2001)
Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith. Ed. Nicole Beaulieu Herder and Ronald Herder (2001)
Best Black Women's Erotica. Ed. Blanche Richardson (2001)
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. Ed. Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera (2001)
Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. Ed. Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey (2001)
From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918. Ed. Faith Berry (2001)
La Marseillaise noire et autres poèmes français des Créoles de couleur de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 1862-1869. Ed. James Lorenz Cowan (2001)
My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature. Ed. John Edgar Wideman (2001)
New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America. Ed. Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, and Keith D. Miller (2001)
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860. Ed. Richard S. Newman, Patrick Rael, and Phillip Lapsansky (2001)
Readings in African-American History. Ed. Thomas R. Frazier (3rd ed., 2001)
Selections from the Black: College Reading Skills. Ed. Edward Spargo (4 vols., 4th ed., 2001)
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories. Ed. Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson (2001)
Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality. Ed. Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (2001)
African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today. Ed. Mel Watkins (2002)
After Hours: A Collection of Eroic Writing by Black Men. Ed. Robert Fleming (2002)
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. Ed. E. Ethelbert Miller (2002)
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction. Ed. Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride, Donal Weise, and Evelyn C. White (2002)
Black Silk: A Collection of African American Erotica. Ed. Retha Powers (2002)
From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore. Ed. Daryl Cumber Dance (2002)
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing. Ed. Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris (2002)
Keeping the Faith: African American Sermons of Liberation. Ed. James Haskins (2002)
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature, 1976-2000. Ed. Charles H. Rowell (2002)
Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art. Ed. Tony Medina, Samiya A. Bashir, and Qurayshi Ali Lansana (2002)
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family. Ed. Afaa M. Weaver (2002)
Twilight Moods: African American Erotica. Ed. Jossel Flowers Green (2002)
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology. Ed. Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (2003)
Best Black Women's Erotica 2. Ed. Samiya Bashir (2003)
Blues Poems. Ed. Kevin Young (2003)
Classic African American Women's Narratives. Ed. William L. Andrews (2003)
Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience. Ed. Manning Marable, Nishani Frazier, and John McMillan (2003)
The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Herb Boyd (2003)
The Harlem Renaissance: An Anthology. Ed. Cary D. Wintz (2003)
A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters. Ed. Pamela Newkirk (2003)
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers. Ed. Rosemarie Robotham (2003)
North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones. Ed. William L. Andrews (2003)
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Ficiton and Memoir by Black Women. Ed. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (2003)
Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues Lyrics. Ed. Randy Poe (2003)
Walkin' the Talk: An Anthology of African American Studies. Ed. Bill Lyne and Vernon Damani Johnson (2003)
Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. Ed. Anne P. Rice (2003)
African American Literature. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Anissa Janine Wardi (2004)
African American Voices: The Life Cylce of Slavery. Ed. Steven Mintz (3rd ed., 2004)
Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers. Ed. Brandon Massey (2004)
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (2004)
A Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press: An Anthology. Ed. Gloria House, Rosemary Weatherston, and Albert Michael Ward (2004)
Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era. Ed. Craig Gable (2004)
Fire This Time : African-American Plays for the 21st Century. Ed. Harry Justin Elam and Robert Alexander (2004)
Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War. Ed. Donald Yacovone (2004)
Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Ed. Joanne V. Gabbin (2004)
Intimacy: Erotic Stories of Love, Lust, and Marriage by Black Men. Ed. Robert Fleming (2004)
Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (2nd ed., 2004)
Paroles d'honneur: Écrits de Créoles de Couleur néo-orléanais 1837-1872. Ed. Chris Michaelides (2004)
Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood. Ed. Cecelie S. Berry (2004)
Seven Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwrighting. Ed. Chuck Smith (2004)
Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors. Ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland (2004)
Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood: From the Classic to the Contemporary. Ed. William Banks (2005)
Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present. Ed. E. Lynn Harris (2005)
Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry. Ed. Keith Tuma (2005)
Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches. Ed. Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith (2005)
Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942. Ed. Michael Taft (2005)
This Is My Story: Testimonies and Sermons of Black Women in Ministry. Ed. Cleophus James LaRue (2005)
African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader. Ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett (2006)
Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? Ed. Richard Guzman (2006)
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans. Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey (2006)
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. Ed. Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, and Camille T. Dungy (2006)
Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others. Ed. James Daley (2006)
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. Ed. Paul Beatty (2006)
Longing, Lust and Love: Black Lesbian Stories. Ed. Shonia L. Brown (2006)
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology. Ed. William L. Andrews (2006)
The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry. Ed. Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold (2006)
The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature. Ed. Valerie Lee (2006)
Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Maureen Honey (2nd ed., 2006)
The Womanist Reader. Ed. Layli Phillips (2006)
Women's Slave Narratives (2006)
African American Feminisms, 1828-1923. Ed. Teresa C. Zackodnik (6 vols., 2007)
Best Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwrighting. Ed. Church Smith (2007)
Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Social Thought. Ed. Michelle-Diane Wright (2007)
Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology. Ed. Gwendolyn D. Pough, Mark Anthony Neal, and Joan Morgan (2007)
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation and African American Culture, 1892-1938. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett (2007)
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Ed. Nikky Finney (2007)
Black Feminism: Anthologie du féminisme africain-américan, 1975-2000. Ed. Elsa Dorlin (2008)
in the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Ed. Joseph Beam (2nd ed., 2008)
Love & Marriage in Early African America. Ed. Frances Smith Foster (2008)
Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity: An Anthology. Ed. SallyAnn H. Ferguson (2008)
"Tell It to Us Easy" and Other Stories: A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in Opportunity Magazine (1923-1948). Ed. Judith Muser (2008)
The African American Experience. Ed. Kai Wright (2009)
African American Literature: A Concise Anthology from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison. Ed. Magedah Shabo (2009)
African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877. Ed. Steven Mintz (4th ed., 2009)
Best African American Essays, 2009. Ed. Gerald Early and Debra J. Dickerson (2009)
Best African American Fiction, 2009. Ed. E. Lynn Harris and Gerald L. Early (2009)
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Ed. Camille T. Dungy (2009)
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers. Ed. Otto Penzler (2009)
Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation. Ed. Julie Buckner Armstrong and Amy Schmidt (2009)
Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (2nd ed., 2009)
It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family, and Friends. Ed. Marita Golden (2009)
Letters from Black America. Ed. Pamela Newkirk (2009)
Shaping Memories: Reflections on African American Women Writers. Ed. Joanne Veal Gabbin (2009)
Anthologies from 2010s
The 100 Best African American Poems. Ed. Nikki Giovanni (2010)
Anthology of Rap. Ed. Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois (2010)
Best African American Essays, 2010. Ed. Gerald Early and Randall Kennedy (2010)
Best African American Fiction 2010. Ed. Gerald L. Early and Nikki Giovanni (2010)
Chemistry of Color: Cave Canem South Poets Responding to Art. Ed. Kwame Dawes (2010)
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. Ed. Susanna Ashton, et al. (2010)
Mighty Real: An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writing. Ed. Darius Omar Williams and R. Bryant Smith (2010)
Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present. Ed. Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas (2010)
Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity. Ed. Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith (2010)
We Must Be Up and Doing: A Reader in Early African American Feminism. Ed. Teresa C. Zackodnik (2010)
Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton (2010)
44 on 44: Fourty-Four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States. Ed. Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Simanga (2011)
Black California: A Literary Anthology. Ed. Aparajita Nanda (2011)
"Girl, Colored" and Other Stories: A Comprehensive Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in the Crisis Magazine, 1910-2010. Ed. Judith Musser (2011)
Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s. Ed. Rafia Zafar (2011)
Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s. Ed. Rafia Zafar (2011)
Home Is Where: An Anthology of African American Poetry from the Carolinas. Ed. Kwame Dawes (2011)
Slave Narratives after Slavery. Ed. William L. Andrews (2011)
Word: Black Writers Talk about the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing: Interviews. Ed. Marita Golden (2011)
Cave Canem Anthology XII: 2008-2009. Ed. Randall Horton and Alison Meyers (2012)
Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives. Ed. Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (2012)
Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches. Ed. Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy (2012)
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Ed. Charles Henry Rowell (2013)
Best of Emerge Magazine. Ed. George Curry (2013)
Great Short Stories by African-American Writers. Ed. Christine Rudisel and Bob Blaisdell (2013)
The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama. Ed. Angela Jones (2013)
The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought: A Reader. Ed. Susanna Ashton and Rhondda Robinson Thomas (2013)
Acting Up and Getting Down: Plays by African American Texans. Ed. Sandra M. Mayo and Elvin Holt (2014)
African American Voices: A Documentary Reader from Emancipation to the Present. Ed. Leslie Brown (2014)
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith (3rd ed., 2014)
SOS--Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader. Ed. John H. Bracey, Jr.,Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst (2014)
Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century. Ed. Erike DeSimone and Fidel Louis (2014)
Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett (2 vols., 2014)
Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Ed. Alexs D. Pate, et al. (2015)
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. Ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall (2015)
Cave Canem Anthology XIII: 2010-2011. Ed. Randall Horton and Alison Meyers (2015)
Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works. Ed. Sandra Adell (2015)
Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work. Ed. Horace A. Porter (2015)
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship. Ed. A. Yemisi Jimoh and Françoise N. Hamlin (2015)
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America. Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Lauri Ramey, and C. S. Giscombe (2015)
Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Ajuan Maria Mance (2016)
Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction. Ed. S. Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle (2016)
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. Ed. Philip Cushway and Michael Warr (2016)
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers. Ed. Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2017)
Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago's Black Struggle, 1960-1975. Ed. Useni Eugene Perkins (2017)
We Wanted a Revolution: Radical Black Women, 1965-85: A Sourcebook. Ed. Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley (2017)
Black Girl Magic: The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 2. Ed. Mahogany L. Brown, Idrissa Simmonds, and Jamila Woods (2018)
Black in America: A Broadview Topics Reader. Ed. Jessica Edwards (2018)
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing. Ed. Stephanie Stokes Oliver (2018)
Anthologies from 2020s
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. Ed. Kevin Young (2020)
Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present. Ed. Sherrow O. Pinder (2020)
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian's Definitive Poem. Ed. Kalamu y Salaam (2020)
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker. Ed. Jelani Cobb and David Remnick (2021)
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought. Ed. Briona Simone Jones (2021)
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library. Ed. Glory Edim (2021)
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Ed. Chad Radford (2021)
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition. Ed. Michelle D. Commander (2021)
African American Poetry (1870-1926): A Digital Anthology. Ed. Amardeep Singh (2022)
Black Fire--This Time, Vol. 1. Ed. Kim McMillon, assistant ed. Kofi Antwi (2022)
Women of the Harlem Renaissance: Poems & Stories. Ed. Marissa Constantinou (2022)
Black Matter: African American and African College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories. Ed. Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny (2023)
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill. Ed. Jericho Brown (2023)
Minor Notes, Volume 1. Ed. Jesse McCarthy and Joshua Bennett (2023)
Our History Has Always Been Contraband. Ed. Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2023)
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South. Ed. Jaha Nailah Avery (2023)