Allen, Robert L. 1990. Black Awakening in
Capitalist America. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc.
This book examines Black
Power and black capitalism in the US during the 1960s. It also incorporates
the student and
radical movements, nationalists
and intergrationists and their impact on the Black liberation movement.
Allen argues that
corporate America undermined
the Black Power movement by using tactics of repression.
Neal, Larry. 1989. Visions of a Liberated
Future: Black Arts Movement Writings. New York, NY:Thunder's
Mouth Press.
This book written mostly
by Larry Neal includes essays, a play and poems. It is an illustration
of the literature that
was being written during
this time.
Thompson, Julius E. 1999. Dudley Randall,
Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit,
1960-1995. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.
This book, as the title
states, is written on the the Broadside Press and its owner, Dudley Randall.
Broadside was an
important publisher at this
time during the BAM because it specifically was devoted to publishing,
distributing, and
promoting the works of black
poets and other writers. It also highlights the contributions to
American literature and black
life of thirty years of
publishing activities at Broadside press, and notes the immense historical
and literary significance of
Dudley Randall to the Black
Arts Movement in America.
Ed. Jones, LeRoi and Neal, Larry. 1968.
Black fire; an anthology of Afro-American writing. New York, NY:
Morrow.
An encapsulating anthology
that includes poetry, essays, fiction and drama from many of the first
writers in the Black Arts
movement.
Cade, Toni. 1970. The Black Woman, An Anthology.
New York, NY: New American Press.
Another anthology, but this
one is obviously focused on black women writers during the BAM movement
including:ean
Bond, Nikki Giovanni, Abbey
Lincoln, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Gwen Patton, Pat Robinson, Alice
Walker, Shirley
Williams, and others.