- Black novelists and the Southern literary tradition, Ladell Payne
- Black American poets and dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
- Vicious modernism, black Harlem and the literary imagination, James de Jongh
- Moving beyond boundaries, edited by Carole Boyce Davies and 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie. Vol.1, International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing
- The other blacklist, the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s, Mary Helen Washington
- Cannibal democracy, race and representation in the literature of the Americas, Zita Nunes
- Looking for Harlem, urban aesthetics in African American literature, Maria Balshaw
- Searching for the new black man, black masculinity and women's bodies, Ronda C. Henry Anthony
- The dialect of modernism, race, language, and twentieth-century literature, Michael North
- Legba's crossing, narratology in the African Atlantic, Heather Russell
- The funk era and beyond, new perspectives on Black popular culture, edited by Tony Bolden
- Harlem renaissance re-examined, edited by Victor A. Kramer and Robert A. Russ
- African American writers and classical tradition, William W. Cook and James Tatum
- Freedom with violence, race, sexuality, and the US state, Chandan Reddy
- Conjuring, Black women, fiction, and literary tradition, edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers
- Black women writers, arguments and interviews, edited by Mari Evans
- Being apart, theoretical and existential resistance in Africana literature, LaRose T. Parris
- The new Negro, edited by Alain Locke ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad
- Literary Garveyism, Garvey, black arts and the Harlem renaissance, Tony Martin
- The New negro, edited by Alain Locke ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad
- Women of the Harlem renaissance, Cheryl A. Wall
- Black Frankenstein, the making of an American metaphor, Elizabeth Young
- Discrepant engagement, dissonance, cross-culturality, and experimental writing, Nathaniel Mackey
- The African American theatrical body, reception, performance, and the stage, Soyica Diggs Colbert
- Binding cultures, black women writers in Africa and the diaspora, Gay Wilentz
- Writing between the lines, race and intertextuality, Aldon L. Nielsen
- The Harlem renaissance, the one and the many, Mark Helbling
- Black cultural production after civil rights, edited by Robert J. Patterson
- Romance, diaspora, and black Atlantic literature, Yogita Goyal
- The ideologies of African American literature, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black nationalist revolt, a sociology of literature perspective, Robert E. Washington
- Romanticism and slave narratives, transatlantic testimonies, [Helen Thomas]
- We travel the space ways, black imagination, fragments, and diffractions, Henriette Gunkel, Kara Lynch (eds.)
- Arts and letters, an A-Z reference of writers, musicians, and artists of the African American experience, editors Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Black, white, and in color, essays on American literature and culture, Hortense J. Spillers
- The Black Arts Movement, literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, James Edward Smethurst
- Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature, a vernacular theory, Houston A. Baker, Jr
- Modernism and the Harlem renaissance, Houston A. Baker
- The Black Columbiad, defining moments in African American literature and culture, edited by Werner Sollors, Maria Diedrich
- The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance, edited by George Hutchinson
- The melancholy of race, psychoanalysis, assimilation, and hidden grief, Anne Anlin Cheng
- The racial imaginary, writers on race in the life of the mind, eds. Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap
- The problem of the future world, W.E.B. Du Bois and the race concept at midcentury, Eric Porter
- The journey back, issues in Black literature and criticism, Houston A. Baker, Jr
- Within the circle, an anthology of African American literary criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, edited by Angelyn Mitchell
- Real folks, race and genre in the Great Depression, Sonnet Retman
- Claiming Exodus, a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903, Rhondda Robinson Thomas
- Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism, Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West, Jennifer M. Wilks
- Spiritual interrogations, culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing, Katherine Clay Bassard
- To wake the nations, race in the making of American literature, Eric J. Sundquist
- Liberating voices, oral tradition in African American literature, Gayl Jones