Selected Bibliography(*Available at Mantor Library)
By Ernest J. Gaines
About Ernest J. Gaines and His Works
Discrimination and Civil Rights
Death Penalty
* The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971)
Bloodline (1968)
* Catherine Carmier (1964)
* A gathering of old men (1983)
In my father’s house (1978)
* A lesson before dying (1994)
* A long day in November (1985)
Of love and dust (1967)
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About Ernest J. Gaines and His Works
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Auger, Philip (1995). A lesson about manhood: appropriating ‘the Word’ in Ernest Gaines’s A lesson before dying. Southern Literary Journal, 27:2:pp74-85.
* Babb, Valerie M. (1991). Ernest Gaines. Boston Twayne.
Beavers, Herman (1995), Wrestling angels into song: the fictions of Ernest J. Gaine and James Alan McPherson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
* Carmean, Karen (1998). Ernest J. Gaines: a critical companion. Westport, CT: greenwood Press.
Estes, David C. (1994). Critical reflections on the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
* Folks, Jeffrey J. (1999). Communal responsibility in Ernest J. Gaines’s A lesson before dying. Mississippi Quarterly, 52:2:p259(13).
Gaines, Ernest (1995). Conversations with Ernest Gaines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Gaudet, Marcia G. (1990). Porch talk with Ernest Gaines: conversations on the writer’s craft. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Ramsay, Courney, (1995). Louisiana foodways in Ernest Gaines’s A lesson before dying. Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 10: p46-58.
Simpson, Anne K. (1991). A gathering of Gaines: the man and the writer. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana.
Thompson, Carlyle V. (2002). From a hog to a black man: black male subjectivity and ritual lynching in Ernest Gaines’s A lesson before dying. CLA Journal 45:3:p279(32).
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Discrimination and Civil Rights
BOOKS
* Bardolph, Richard (1870). The civil rights record: Black Americans and the law, 1849-1970. New York: Crowell.
* Berger, Raoul (1989). The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Norman: University of Oaklahoma Press.
* Brooks, Thomas R. (1974). Walls come tumbling down: a history of the civil rights movement, 1940-1970. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
* Chafe, William Perry, et al.(2001). Remembering Jim Crow : African Americans tell about life in the segregated South. New York: New Press.
DeJong, Greta (2002). A different day: African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of South Carolina Press
Fairclough, Adam (1995). Race and Democracy: the civil rights struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
* Harris, Leonard (1999). Racism. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books.
MacIver, R.M. (1969). Great expressions of human rights; a series of addresses and discussions. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press.
* McPherson, James M.(1984). The Black Americans: a history in their own words, 1619-1967. New York: T.Y. Crowell.
* Olson, Lynne (2001). Freedom’s daughters: the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement 1830-1970. New York: Scribner.
Woodson, Carter G. (1933). Mis-educatio of the Negro. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers.
* X, Malcolm (1970). By any means necessary: Speeches, Interviews, and a letter. New York: Pathfinder Press.
WEB SITES
Brown vs. the Board of Education
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.htmlLittle Rock Central High - 40th Anniversary
http://www.centralhigh57.org/index.htmlMartin Luther King
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/Plessy vs. Ferguson
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.htmlPlessy vs. Ferguson
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/PlessyFerguson.htmlSamples of Jim Crow Laws
http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htmTrial of the Scottsboro Boys
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
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BOOKS
* Banner, Stuart (2002). The death penalty: an American history. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
* Jackson, Jesse (1996). Legal lynching: racism, injustice, and the death penalty. New York: Marlowe & Co.
* Pregean, Helen (1993). Dead man walking: an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States. New York: Random House.
* Stassen, Glen Harold, ed. (1998). Capital punishment: a reader. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press.
* Steffen, Lloyd H. (1998). Executing justice: the moral meaning of the death penalty. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press.
* Winters, Paul A., ed. (1977). The death penalty: opposing viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press.
WEB SITES
ACLU - Death Penalty
http://www.aclu.org/issues/death/hmdp.htmlBureau of Justice - Capital Punishment Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htmHistory of the Death Penalty
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/history1.htmlPro Death Penalty.com
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Public Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/tost_2.html#2_tRace and the Death Penalty
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/race.html
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