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Bibliographic Essay ▼▼▼ Bibliographic Essay For those who want to know more about various topics, the following comments are offered as a guide. Major sources used in writing this social and cultural account of African Americans in Texas are included. The most up-to-date and elaborate listing of what has been written about black Texans is Bruce Glasrud and Laurie Champion, Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources About Black Texans (Alpine, Tex.: Center for Big Bend Studies , Sul Ross State University, ). Broad surveys include: Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, –, d ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, ) and Ruthe Winegarten, Black Texas Women: Years of Trial and Triumph (Austin: University of Texas Press, ). Another important general volume is Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz, eds., Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (College Station: TexasA&M University Press,). For important black historical sites see Texas Historical Commission , African Americans in Texas: Historical and Cultural Legacies (Austin: Texas Historical Commission, ). The longer biographical sketches in this account are based on articles in Ron Tyler and Douglas Barnett, eds., The New Handbook of Texas (Austin: Texas State HistoricalAssociation,); and chapters onWilliam M.McDonald by Bruce A.Glasrud,on Mary Branch by Olive D. Brown and Michael R. Heintze, and on John Biggers by Frank H. Wardlaw in Alwyn Barr and Robert A. Calvert, eds., Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times (Austin: Texas State Historical Association , ). For Maud Cuney Hare see Douglas Hales, A Southern Family in Black and White: The Cuneys of Texas (College Station: TexasA&MUniversityPress,).On“Rube”FosterconsultRobert Bibliographic Essay ▼▼▼ Peterson, Only the Ball Was White (New York: Oxford University Press, ). Bessie Coleman is the subject of Doris L. Rich, Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, ). For important documents inAfricanAmerican history see Ruthe Winegarten, Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook: Documents, Biographies , Timeline (Austin: University of Texas Press, ) and Ernest Wallace, David M.Vigness, and George B. Ward, eds., Documents of Texas History, d ed. (Austin: State House Press, ). On free African Americans before the Civil War, the best current volume is George R.Woolfolk,The Free Negro inTexas,– : A Study in Cultural Compromise (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, ). The basic study of slaves in Texas is Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, ). The description of crafts by slave men and women is based primarily on John Michael Vlach, By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia , ). Other information on slave culture and crafts may be found in Terry G. Jordan, Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture (Austin: University of Texas Press, ); Terry G. Jordan, Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Austin: University of Texas Press, ); and Roger D.Abrahams,Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South (New York: Pantheon Books, ). Useful selections of interviews with former slaves are in T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, eds., Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, ) and Ron Tyler and Lawrence Murphy, eds., The Slave Narratives of Texas (Austin: Encino Press, ). A more elaborate collection of those accounts is in George W. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, –), which includes several volumes of interviews conducted in Texas. [3.81.30.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 15:19 GMT) Bibliographic Essay ▼▼▼ The best general account of the post–Civil War period is James M. Smallwood, Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans during Reconstruction (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, ). See also BarryA.Crouch,The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Texans (Austin : University of Texas Press, ). Several studies focus primarily on political and economic developments in the late nineteenth century. For black political leadership in that period the most detailed study is Merline Pitre, Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, – (Austin: Eakin Press, ). See also Alwyn Barr, “Black Legislators of Reconstruction Texas,” Civil War History (Dec., ): – and Greg Cantrell, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, ). The growth of urban population is discussed in Alwyn Barr, “Black Migration into Southwestern Cities, –,”in Essays on Southern History: Written in Honor of Barnes F. Lathrop, edited by Gary W. Gallagher, – (Austin: The General Libraries, The University of Texas, ). Insights into the postwar development of African American family...