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The future of the American Negro. NY: Haskell House, 1968. (1899) E185.6 .W313

Up from slavery, an autobiography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1951. (1901) E185.97 .W3163 (E-Text)

Working with the hands. NY: Arno P, 1969. (1904) E185.97 .W32

My larger education; being chapters from my experience. Miami: Mnemosyne Pub. Inc., 1969. (1911) E185.97 .W28

The story of my life and work. With an introd. by J. L. M. Curry. Copiously illustrated with photo engravings, original pen drawings by Frank Beard. NY: New American Library, 1970. E185.97 W29

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Andrews, William L. "William Dean Howells and Charles W. Chesnutt: Criticism and Race Fiction in the Age of Booker T. Washington." American Literature 48 (1976): 327-39.

- - -. "Booker T. Washington, Belle Kearney, and the Southern Patriarchy." Home Ground: Southern Autobiography. Ed. William L. Andrews. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991. 85-97.

Blake, Susan L. "A Better Mousetrap: Washington's Program and The Colonel's Dream." College Language Association Journal 23 (1979): 49-59.

Bresnahan, Roger J. "The Implied Readers of Booker T. Washington's Autobiographies." Black American Literature Forum 14 (1980): 15-20.

Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. "Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down and the Transformation of Race." Mississippi Quarterly 48.2 (Sprg 1995): 239-53.

Champion, Danny and Waldo W. Braden. "Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Study in Rhetorical Contrasts." Oratory in the New South. Ed. Waldo W. Braden. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1979. 174 203.

Drinker, Frederick E. Booker T. Washington, the master mind of a child of slavery; a human interest story depicting the life achievements of a great leader of a rising race. NY: Negro Universities P, 1970. E185.97 W17

Elder, Arlene A. "Chesnutt on Washington: An Essential Ambivalence." Phylon 38 (1977): 1-8.

Fox, Frank W. "Washington, DuBois, and the Problem of Negro Two-ness." Markham Review 7 (1978): 21-25.

Gibson, Donald B. "Strategies and Revisions of Self Representation in Booker T. Washington's Autobiography." American Quarterly 45.3 (Sep 1993): 370-93.

Gottschalk, Jane. "The Rhetorical Strategy of Booker T. Washington." Phylon 27 (1966): 388-95.

Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington; the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901. NY: Oxford U P, 1972. E185.97 W4 H37

- - -. Booker T. Washington: the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. NY: Oxford U P, 1983. E185.97 .W4 H373

- - -. "Booker T. Washington and the Kanawha Valley, 1875-1879." West Virginia History 33 (1972): 124-41.

- - -. The Booker T. Washington Papers: Volumes 1-14. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1972- . E185.97 .W274

| Top | Hawkins, Hugh. Booker T. Washington and his critics; the problem of Negro leadership. Boston, Heath, 1962. E169.1 .P897

Hedin, Raymond. "Paternal at Last: Booker T. Washington and the Slave Narrative Tradition." Callaloo 2.3 (1979): 95-102.

Hellwig, David J. "Building a Black Nation: The Role of Immigrants in the Thought and Rhetoric of Booker T. Washington." Mississippi Quarterly 31 (1978): 529-50.

Hurd, Myles R. "Hands and Fingers: Revisioning Booker T. Washington in Lerone Bennett's 'The Convert.'" Xavier Review 13.2 (Fall 1993): 29-37.

Larson, Charles R. "The Deification of Booker T. Washington." Negro American Literature Forum 4 (1970): 125-26.

Marable, W. Manning. "Booker T. Washington and African Nationalism." Phylon 35 (1974): 398-406.

McElroy, Frederick L. "Booker T. Washington as Literary Trickster." Southern Folklore 49.2 (1992): 89-107.

Stepto, Robert B. From behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979.

Thornbrough, Emma L. " Booker T. Washington as Seen by His White Contemporaries." Journal of Negro History 53 (1968): 161-82.

- - -. Booker T. Washington. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1969. E185.97 W277

Turner, W. Burghardt. "The Polemicists: David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois." Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays, I: The Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. Eds. M. Thomas Inge, et al. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. 47-132.

Wallace, Maurice. "Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography." Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill. Eds. Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995. 245-70.

Williams, Vernon J., Jr. "Booker T. Washington and the Political Mythology of Africa." Griot 11.1 (Sprg 1992): 10-17.

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