Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The Black Short Story Dataset—A List of 101 Anthologies


By Kenton Rambsy

I recently published my dataset of 101 anthologies to the Texas Data Repository. The “Black Short Story Dataset” includes anthologies that contain short fiction by black writers. The following list presents the literary collections, by year, included in the dataset.

1920
• 1925: The New Negro edited by Alain LeRoy Locke

1930
• 1931: Readings from Negro Authors edited by Otelia Cromwell; Lorenzo Dow Turner; Eva Beatrice Dykes

1940
• 1941: The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes edited by Sterling Allen Brown; Arthur P Davis;Ulysses G Lee

1950s
• 1950: American Literatureby Negro Authors edited by Herman Dreer
• 1958: The Best American Short Stories 1958 edited by Martha Foley, David Burnett

1960s
• 1966: American Negro Short Stories (Black American Short Stories) edited by John Henrick Clarke
• 1967: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1899-1967 edited by Langston Hughes; Gloria Naylor
• 1968: Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature edited by Abraham Chapman;
• 1968: Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing edited by Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka
• 1968: Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America edited by James A Emanuel
• 1969: Black American Literature: Fiction edited by Darwin T Turner
• 1969: American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Vol. 3 edited by Harrison T Meserole; Walter Sutton; Brom Weber

1970s
• 1970: A Native Son Reader edited by Edward Margolies
• 1970: The Black Woman: An Anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara
• 1970: From the Roots: Short Stories by Black Americans edited by Charles L James
• 1970: The Black Experience: An Anthology of American Literature for the 1970’s edited by Frances S Freedman
• 1970: Black Identity: A Thematic Reader edited by Francis Edward Kearns
• 1970: Forgotten pages of American literature edited by Gerald W Haslam
• 1970: On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present edited by Daniel Walden; Charles T Davis;
• 1970: American Literature, Vol. 2 edited by Richard Poirier; William L Vance;
• 1971: Tales and Stories for Black Folks edited by Toni Cade Bambara
• 1971: A Gift of the Spirit edited by Karel Rose
• 1971: What We Must See: Young Black Storytellers edited by Orde Coombs
• 1971: Black American Literature, 1760-Present edited by Houston Baker
• 1971: Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present edited by Arthur P Davis; Saunders Redding
• 1972: New Black Voices: an Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature edited by Abraham Chapman
• 1972: Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology edited by Richard Barksdale; Kenneth Kinnamon
• 1972: African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama - Vol. 1 edited by Demetrice A Worley; Jesse Perry;
• 1973: American Literature: The Makers and the Making, Vol. 2 edited by Cleanth Brooks; Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis; Robert Penn Warren;
• 1974: Keeping the Faith: Writings by Contemporary Black American Women edited by Pat Crutchfield Exum
• 1976: Voices from the Harlem Renaissance edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins
• 1979: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 edited by Ronald Gottesman
• 1979: Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems edited by Elaine Hedges; Nancy Hoffman; Florence Howe

1980s
• 1980: The Norton Anthology of American Literature edited by Ronald Gottesman
• 1985: The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (1985) edited by Susan Gubar; Sandra M Gilbert;
• 1985: The American Tradition in Literature, Shorter (1985) edited by George Perkins, Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long
• 1987: Harper American Literature, Vol. 2 (1987) edited by Donald McQuade
• 1989: The Norton Anthology of American Literature (1989) edited by Nina Baym
• 1989: Anthology of American Literature, Realism to Present, Vol. 2 (4th Edition) edited by George L McMichael; Frederick C Crews;

1990s
• 1990: Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction edited by Terry McMillan; John Edgar Wideman
• 1990: Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women edited by Mary Helen Washington
• 1990: The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 (1990) edited by Paul Lauter
• 1991: American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology, Vol. 2 (1991) edited by Emory Elliott;
• 1991: The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present edited by Arthur P Davis; Jay Saunders Redding; Joyce Ann Joyce;
• 1992: Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories edited by Clarence Major
• 1992: Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays edited by John Oliver Killens; Jerry Washington Ward;
• 1992: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1993: The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women edited by Marcy Knopf; Nellie Y McKay
• 1993: Harper American Literature, Vol. 2 (1993) edited by Donald McQuade
• 1993: African American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama edited by Demetrice A Worley; Jesse Perry;
• 1993: Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American edited by Deirdre Mullane
• 1993: African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama - Vol. 2 edited by Demetrice A Worley; Jesse Perry;
• 1993: The Woman That I Am: the Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of color D. Soyini Madison
• 1994: Major American Short Stories edited by A. Walton Litz
• 1994: The Vintage book of contemporary American short stories edited by Tobias Wolff
• 1994: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader edited by David Levering Lewis
• 1995: Children of the Night: the Best Short Stories by Black writers, 1967 to the Present edited by Gloria Naylor
• 1995: Revolutionary Tales: African American Women’s Short Stories, From the First Story to the Present edited by Bill Mullen;
• 1995: Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America edited by Herb Boyd; Robert L Allen; Tom Feelings
• 1996: The Riverside Anthology of Literature edited by Douglass Hunt
• 1996: Cornerstones: Anthology of African American Literature edited by Melvin Burke Donalson
• 1996: Harlem's glory : Black women writing : 1900-1950 edited by Lorraine Elena Roses; Ruth Elizabeth Randolph;
• 1997: Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition edited by Patricia Liggins Hill
• 1997: Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1997) edited by Henry Louis Gates; Nellie Y McKay
• 1998: The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 (1998) edited by Paul Lauter
• 1998: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 (1998) edited by Nina Baym
• 1998: Literature Across Cultures edited by Sheena Gillespie; Terezinha Fonseca; Carol Sanger
• 1998: The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike; Katrina Kenison;
• 1999: The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970 edited by Michael A. Martone, Lex Williford
• 1999: The Opportunity Reader edited by Sondra K. Wilson
• 1999: The Art of the Story: an International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories edited by Daniel Halpern

2000s
• 2000: Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas
• 2000: The Prentice Hall anthology of African American Literature edited by Rochelle Smith
• 2000: Almost Touching the Skies: Women’s Coming of Age Stories edited by Florence Howe
• 2001: American Short Stories since 1945 edited by John G Parks;
• 2001: Double-take : a Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology edited by Venetria K Patton; Maureen Honey
• 2002: The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 (2002) edited by Paul Lauter
• 2002: The American Tradition in Literature, Shorter 10th Ed (2002) edited by George Perkins; Barbara Perkins;
• 2002: Gumbo : a celebration of African American writing edited by E Lynn Harris; Marita Golden;
• 2003: Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2003) edited by Henry Louis Gates; Nellie Y McKay
• 2005: The Art of the Short Story edited by Gioia, Dana; Gwynn, R.S.
• 2006: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction edited by Ronald Verlin Cassill
• 2006: The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. E (2006) edited by Paul Lauter; Richard Yarborough; John Alberti
• 2007: The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (2007) edited by Susan Gubar; Sandra M Gilbert;
• 2007: The American Tradition in Literature, 6th Edition (2007) edited by George Perkins; Barbara Perkins;
• 2008: "Tell it to Us Easy" and Other Stories: A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in Opportunity Magazine, (1923-1948) edited by Judith Musser
• 2008: The Ecco anthology of contemporary American Short Fiction edited by Joyce Carol Oates; Christopher R Beha
• 2009: Black Noir: Mystery, Crime and Suspense Stories by African-American Writers edited by Otto Penzler;

2010s
• 2011: African-American Classics: Graphic Classics edited by Tom Pomplun
• 2011: The Story and Its Writer: an Introduction to Short Fiction edited by Ann Charters
• 2012: Fiction 100: an Anthology of Short Fiction edited by James H Pickering;
• 2013: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
• 2013: The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction edited by Sara Levine
• 2014: Norton Anthologoy of African American Literature (2014) edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Valerie Smith,
• 2014: The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two edited by Susan Belasco; Linck Johnson;
• 2014: The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett
• 2015: Great Short Stories by African-American Writers edited by Christine Rudisel; Robert Blaisdell;
• 2015: 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ) edited by Lorrie Moore, Heidi PitlorÂ
• 2016: 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology edited by Beverly Lawn
• 2017: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. C (2017) edited by Robert S. Levine
• 2017: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. D. (2017) edited by Robert S. Levine

Related:
Visualizing the Big 7 – Data Driven Humanities
Discovering the Big 7: Black short story writers and publishing history
The Big 7 Tableau Public Visualization
African American Short Fiction & Data Driven Humanities (MLA)
A Dataset on Black Short Stories

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