African Americans: Bibliographical Resources


Adams, Joan M. 2000 Individual and Group Psychotherapy with African American Women: Understanding the Identity and Context of the Therapist and Patient. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 33-61. New York: Guilford Press.
Ali, Carroll A. Watkins 1999 Survival and Liberation: Pastoral Theology in African American Context. Saint Louis: Chalice Press.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds.)
1999 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books.
Bib, Amy and Georges J. Casimir 1996 Haitian Families. In Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd. ed., edited by Joe Giordano Monica McGoldrick, and John K. Pearce, 97-111. New York: Guilford Press.
Black, Lascelles 1996 Families of African Origin: An Overview. In Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd. ed., edited by Joe Giordano Monica McGoldrick, and John K. Pearce, 57-65. New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, Nancy 1989 Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystems Approach. New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, Nancy & Anderson J. Franklin 1998 African American Couples in Therapy. In Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice, edited by Monica McGoldrick, 268-81. New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, Nancy and Tonya Walker Lockwood 1999 Spirituality and Religion: Implications for Psychotherapy with African American Clients and Families. In Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy, edited by Froma Walsh, 90-103. New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, Nancy and Brenna Hafer Bry 2000 Reaching Out in Family Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, Nancy; and A. J. Franklin, with Pamela A. Toussaint 2001 Boys into Men: Raising African American Teenage Sons. New York: Dutton/Plume.
Brice-Baker, Janet 1996 Jamaican Families. In Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd. ed., edited by Joe Giordano Monica McGoldrick, and John K. Pearce, 85-96. New York: Guilford Press.
Broman, Clifford L. 1996 Coping with Personal Problems. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 117-29. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Brown, Diane R. 1996 Marital Status and Mental Health. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 77-94. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard 1996 Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors Related to Patterns of Help-Seeking Among African American Women. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 130-45. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Coner-Edwards, Alice and Jeanne Spurlock, eds. 1988 Black Families in Crisis: The Middle Class. New York: Brunner/Mazel.
Cook, Donelda A. and Christine Y. Wiley 2000 Psychotherapy with Members of African American Churches and Spiritual Traditions. In Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity, edited by P. Scott Richards and Allen E. Bergin, 369-96. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Daniel, Jessica Henderson 2000 The Courage to Hear: African American Women's Memories of Racial Trauma. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 126-44. New York: Guilford Press.
Dannin, Robert 2002 Black Pilgrimage to Islam. New York: Oxford University Press.
Douglas, Kelly Brown 1999 Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
DuBois, William Edward Burghardt 1996
[1903]
The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Penguin.
Dyer, Richard 1997 White. New York: Routledge.
Entman, Robert M. and Andrew Rojecki 2000 The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Eugene, Toinette M. 1997 The Shaman Says..Womanist Reflection on Pastoral Care of African Men. In The Care of Men, edited by Christie Cozad Neuger and James Newton Poling, 122-37. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Fanon, Frantz 1986 The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press.
Fanon, Frantz. 1991 Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Markmann. New York: Grove Press.
Fredrickson, George M. 2002 Racism: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Greene, Beverly 1994 African American Women. In Women of Color: Integrating Ethnic and Gender Identities in Psychotherapy, edited by Lillian Comas-Diaz and Beverly Greene, 10-29. New York: Guilford Press.
Greene, Beverly 2000 African American Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Feminist-Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Surviving and Thriving Between a Rock and a Hard Place. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 82-125. New York: Guilford Press.
Greene, Beverly, Judith C. White, and Lisa Whitten 2000 Hair Texture, Length, and Style as a Metaphor of the African American Mother-Daughter Relationship: Considerations in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 166-93. New York: Guilford Press.
Grier, William and Prince M. Cobbs 2000
[1980]
Black Rage. Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Guthrie, Robert V. 1997 Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Hines, Paulette Moore and Nancy Boyd-Franklin 1996 African American Families. In Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd. ed., edited by Joe Giordano Monica McGoldrick, and John K. Pearce, 66-84. New York: Guilford Press.
Hooks, Bell 1996 Reel to reel: Race, sex, and class at the movies. New York: Routledge.
Jackson, James S. and Harold W. Neighbors 1996 Changes in African American Resources and Mental Health: 1979-1992. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 189-212. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Jackson, Leslie C. 2000 The New Multiculturalism and Psychodynamic Theory: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and African American Women. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 1-14. New York: Guilford Press.
Jackson, Leslie C. and Beverly Greene (eds.) 2000 Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice. New York: Guilford Press.

Jahoda, Gustav 1999 Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture. London: Routledge.
Jenkins, Yvonne M. 2000 The Stone Center theoretical Approach Revisited: Applications for African American Women. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 62-81. New York: Guilford Press.
Johnson, Ernest H. and Larry M. Grant 1996 The Association Between Anger-Hostility and Hypertension. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 95-116. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Johnson, Rhonda E. Barge and Joan E. Crowley 1996 An Analysis of Stress Denial. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 62-76. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Kennedy, Randall 2002 Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. New York: Pantheon.
Kochman, Thomas 1981 Black and White Styles in Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lee, Courtland C. 1996 Saving the Native Son: Empowerment Strategies for Young Black Males. Greensboro, NC: Caps Publications.
Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya 1990 The Black Church in the African American Experience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Lindsey, Michael L. and Israel Cuéllar 2000 Mental Health Assessment and Treatment of African Americans: A Multicultural Perspective. In Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment of Diverse Populations, edited by Israel Cuéllar and Freddy A. Paniagua, 195-208. San Diego: Academic Press.
Mahmoud, Vanessa 1996 African American Muslim Families. In Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd. ed., edited by Joe Giordano Monica McGoldrick, and John K. Pearce, 112-28. New York: Guilford Press.
Matthews, Donald H. 1997 Love and Work Among African American Men. In The Care of Men, edited by Christie Cozad Neuger and James Newton Poling, 92-103. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Mays, Vickie M., Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and and James S. Jackson 1996 Mental Health Symptoms and Service Utilization Patterns of Help-Seeking Among African American Women. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 161-76. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McGoldrick, Monica, Joe Giordano, and John K. Pearce (eds.) 1996 Ethnicity and Family Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.
Murray, Carolyn B. and M. Jean Peacock 1996 A Model-Free Approach to the Study of Subjective Well-Being. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 14-26. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Neighbors, Harold W. and James S. Jackson 1996 Mental Health in Black America: Psychosocial Problems and Help-Seeking Behavior. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 1-13. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Neighbors, Harold W., and James S. Jackson (eds.) 1996 Mental Health in Black America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Nwadiora, Emeka 1996 Nigerian Families. In Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd. ed., edited by Joe Giordano Monica McGoldrick, and John K. Pearce, 129-40. New York: Guilford Press.
Obot, Isidore Silas 1996 Problem Drinking, Chronic Disease, and Recent Life Events. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 45-61. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Owens-Patterson, Michele 2000 The African American Supervisor: Racial Transference and Countertransference in Interracial Psychotherapy Supervision. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 145-65. New York: Guilford Press.
Pinderhughes, Elaine 1998 Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family. In Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice, edited by Monica McGoldrick, 179-99. New York: Guilford Press.
Phillips, Gayle Y. 1996 Mental Health in Black America. Edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 27-44. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Raboteau, Albert J. 1980 Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press.
Raboteau, Albert J. 1999 African-American Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.
Robinson, Randall N. 2001 The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. New York: Plume.

Romero, Regina E. 2000 The Icon of the Strong Black Woman: The Paradox of Strength. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 225-38. New York: Guilford Press.
Saba, George W.; Betty M. Karrer, and Kenneth V. Hardy, eds. 1989 Minorities and Family Therapy. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.
Sanchez-Hucles, Janis 2000 The First Session with African Americans: A Step by Step Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Shorter-Gooden, Kumea 2000 Finding the Lost Part: Identity and the Black/White Biracial Client. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 194-207. New York: Guilford Press.
Shorter-Gooden, Kumea and Leslie C. Jackson 2000 The Interweaving of Cultural and Intrapsychic Issues in the Therapeutic Relationship. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 15-32. New York: Guilford Press.
Smith, Archie, Jr. 1982 The Relational Self: Ethics and Therapy From a Black Church Perspective. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Smith, Archie, Jr. 1997 Navigating the Deep River: Spirituality in African American Families. Cleveland: United Church Press.
Snorton, Teresa E. 1996 The Legacy of the African-American Matriarch: New Perspectives for Pastoral Care. In Through the Eyes of Women: Insights for Pastoral Care, edited by Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, 50-65. Minneapolis: Fortress Press
Snorton, Teresa E. 2000 Self-Care for the African American Woman. In In Her Own Time: Women and Developmental Issues in Pastoral Care, 285-94. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Taylor, Robert Joseph, and and Linda M. Chatters Cheryl Burns Hardison 1996 Kin and Nonkin as Sources of Informal Assistance. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 130-45. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Thandeka 1999 Learning to Be White: Money, Race, and God in America. New York: Continuum.
Thompson, Cheryl L. 1996 The African-American Patient in Psychodynamic Treatment. In Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy, edited by Michael Moskowitz RoseMarie Perez Foster, and Rafael Art. Javier, 115-42. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Thompson, Cheryl L. 2000 African American and American Jew: A Tale of Two Women Searching for Home. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 275-92. New York: Guilford Press.
Thompson, Cheryl L. 2000 African American Women and Moral Masochism: When There is Too Much of a Good Thing. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 239-50. New York: Guilford Press.
Trotman, Frances K. 2000 Feminist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with African American Women: Some Differences. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 251-74. New York: Guilford Press.
Washington, Patricia A. 1996 The Police: A Reluctant Social Service Agency in the African American Community. In Mental Health in Black America, edited by Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Strickland, 177-88. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Watson, Marlene F. 1998 African American Sibling Relationships. In Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice, edited by Monica McGoldrick, 268-81. New York: Guilford Press.
West, Cornell and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2000 The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country. New York: Free Press.
White, Judith C. 2000 Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy with African American Women: The Bad Mother in All-Female Groups. In Psychotherapy with African American Women, edited by Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene, 208-24. New York: Guilford Press.
Williams, Addette L 1996 Skin Color in Psychotherapy. In Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy, edited by Michael Moskowitz RoseMarie Perez Foster, and Rafael Art. Javier, 211-24. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Willis, Sharon 1997 High Contrast: Race in Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1979 Pastoral Care in the Black Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1982 Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Values: A Black Point of View. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1990 Prayer in Pastoral Counseling: Suffering, Healing, and Discernment. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1991 African American Pastoral Care. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1991 African American Pastoral Care. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1994 Using Scripture in Pastoral Counseling. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1997 Counseling African American Marriages and Families. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1997 The Men's Movement and Pastoral Care of African American Men. In The Care of Men, edited by Christie Cozad Neuger and James Newton Poling, 104-21. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1997 Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Wimberly, Edward P. 1999 Moving From Shame to Self-Worth: Preaching and Pastoral Care. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. 2000 Relational Refugees: Alienation and Reincorporation in African American Churches and Communities. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Wimberly, Edward P. and Anne Streaty Wimberly 1986 Liberation and Human Wholeness: The Conversion Experiences of Black People in Slavery and Freedom. Nashville: Abingdon Press.

 

African Americans In Film

Julie Dash:  
Daughters of the Dust [USA, 1992, 113 m., Writer/Director: Julie Dash]
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground—segment “Sax Cantor Riff” [USA, 1997, HBO—video, Writer/Director: Julie Dash]
Spike Lee:  
She's Gotta Have It [USA, 1986, 84 m., Director: Spike Lee]
School Daze [USA, 1988, 114 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Do the Right Thing [USA, 1989, 120 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Mo’ Better Blues [USA, 1990, 127 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Jungle Fever [USA, 1991, 132 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Malcolm X [USA, 1992, 201 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Crooklyn [USA, 1994, 132 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Clockers [USA, 1995, 129 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Lumiere and Company [France, 1995, 88 m., Directors: Lee, David Lynch, Zhang Yimou, etc.]
Get on the Bus [USA, 1996, 120 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Girl 6 [USA, 1996, 105 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Four Little Girls [USA, 1997, 102 m., documentary, Director: Spike Lee]
He Got Game [USA, 1998, 136 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Summer of Sam

[USA, 1999, 141 m., Director: Spike Lee]

Bamboozled [USA, 2000, 135 m., Director: Spike Lee]
Kasi Lemmons:  
Eve’s Bayou [USA, 1997, 108 m., Writer/Director: Kasi Lemmons]
The Caveman's Valentine [USA, 2001, 105 m., Director: Kasi Lemmons]
Gordon Parks:  
The Learning Tree [USA, 1969, 107 m., Director: Gordon Parks]
Shaft [USA, 1971, 100 m., Director: Gordon Parks]
Tim Reid:  
Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored [USA, 1996, 115 m., Director: Tim Reid]
John Singleton:  
Boyz N the Hood [USA, 1991, 112 m., Director: John Singleton]
Poetic Justice [USA, 1993, 110 m., Director: John Singleton]
Higher Learning [USA, 1995, 127 m, Director: John Singleton]
Rosewood [USA, 1997, 142 m., Director: John Singleton]
Shaft [USA, 2000, 99 m., Director: John Singleton]
Baby Boy [USA, 2001, 129 m., Director: John Singleton]
George Tillman, Jr.:  
Soul Food [USA, 1997, 114 m., Director: George Tillman, Jr.]
Peter Bratt:  
Follow Me Home [USA, 1998, 102 m., Director/Writer: Peter Bratt]
Other recommendations: [Examples of tentative steps by Euro-Americans at facing the role of race in the history of the USA]
To Kill a Mockingbird [USA, 1962, 129 m., Director: Robert Mulligan]
Black Like Me [USA, 1964, 105 m., Director: Carl Lerner] (Based on the influential novel by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, New York: Signet, 1959.)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner [USA, 1967, 108 m., Director: Stanley Kramer]
Glory [USA, 1989, 122 m., Director: Edward Zwick]
Long Walk Home [USA, 1990, 97 m., Director: Richard Pearce]
Grand Canyon [USA, 1991, 134 m., Director: Lawrence Kasdan]
White Man’s Burden [USA, 1995, 96 m., Director: Desmond Nakano]
American History X [USA, 1998, 118 m., Director: Tony Kaye]
Monster's Ball [USA, 2001, 111 m., Director: Marc Forster]
Historical reconstructions:  
Roots: The Next Generations [USA, 1977, 573 m., Directors: John Erman (parts 1, 3, 4, 7), Lloyd Richards (part 6), Georg Stanford Brown (part 5), Charles S. Dubin (part 2)] (Now available on VHS and DVD.)
Amistad [USA, 1997, 232 m., Director: Stephen Spielberg]
Beloved [USA, 1998, 175 m., Director: Jonathan Demme, based on novel by Toni Morison]
Documentaries:  
Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery [USA, 1998, 4 hour documentary, Produced by WGBH, Boston, www.wgbh.org or 1.800.255.9424]

Books on African American Cinema
Bernardi, Daniel 1996 The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U. S. Cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Bogle, Donald 1991 Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretative History of Black in American Films. New York: Continuum.
Cripps, Thomas 1993a Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cripps, Thomas 1993b Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movies from World War 2 to the Civil Rights Era. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dash, Julie 1992 Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film. New York: New Press.
Diawara, Manthia 1992 African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Diawara, Manthia (ed.) 1993 Black American Cinema. New York: Routledge.
D'Orso, Michael 1966 Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of aTown Called Rosewood; An Essay on Rosewood by John Singleton as told to Akosua Busia. New York: Boulevard Books.
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey 1997 Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
George, Nelson 1994 Black Face: Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies. New York: HarperCollins.
Guerrero, Ed 1993 Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Harris, Erich Leon 1996 African-American Screen-Writers: Conversations with Hollywood's Black Pack. Los Angeles: Silman-James.
Hooks, Bell 1996 reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies. New York: Routledge.
Jones, G. William 1991 Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found. Denton: University of North Texas Press.
Kendall, Steven D. 1994 New Jack Cinema: Hollywood's African American Filmmakers. Silver Springs, MD: J. L. Denser.
Lee, Spike, and with Lisa Jones 1989 Do the Right Thing. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Martin, Martin T. (ed.) 1995 Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality. Detroit: Wayne State University.
Reid, Mark A. 1993 Redefining Black Film. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Reid, Mark A. (ed.) 1997 Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing." New York: Cambridge University Press.
Willis, Sharon 1997 High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Compiled by Lewis R. Rambo
[2002 African American Bibliography]
revised 4/19/02
Thanks to James Noel, Charles Marks, and Donald B. Oliver, Sr. for suggestions.