Anshen, Ruth Nanda.
The Family
:
Its Function and Destiny
. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1959.
Technical book on the function of the family and where it is heading.
Bane, Mary Jo.
Here To
Stay:
American Families in the Twentieth Century
. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1976.
This book refutes the notion that the American family is on the decline.
Franklin, Franklin E.
The Free Negro Family
. Nashville, Tennessee: Fisk University Press, 1932.
Factual information on how free blacks lived in the North and the South.
Gutman, Herbert G.
The Black Family in Slavery
&
Freedom
,
1750-1925.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.
A comprehensive study of the black family in America.
Hughes, Langston.
Selected Poems
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1959.
A collection of poems selected by Hughes shortly before his death.
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The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers
. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1967. An anthology of short stories dating from 1899 to 1967.
McElroy, Guy C.
Facing History:
The Black Image in American Art
,
1710-1940
. Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1990.
Fantastically beautiful source of Black American Art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century!
Mintz, Steven and Kellogg, Susan.
Domestic Revolutions
: A
Social History
of
American Family Life
. New York: The Free Press, 1988.
A very readable book of American family life. Has a good selection of photographs of various ethnic groups.
Simpson, Jeffrey.
The American Family
:
A
History in Photographs
. New York: The Viking Press, 1976.
An excellent collection of photographs covering the 1800’s to the 1970’s.