Document Type
Dataset
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32855/dataset.2024.05.001
Production/Collection Date
10-1-2020
Production/Collection Location
Dallas, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri
Depositor
Kenton Rambsy
Deposit Date
3-5-2024
Data Type
Record Data
Abstract
This dataset is comprised of 300 African American novels, essays, poems, autobiographies, slave narratives, and short stories. Inspired by Metacaon.org, a project that weights texts based primarily on the number of citations that works have received in scholarly journals. The dataset draws on five databases: JSTOR, Project Muse, ProQuest, Google Scholar, and the online archives for The New York Times archives to determine the scholarly significance of Black authored texts primarily by the number of times they are cited in scholarly contexts.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Publication Date
10-23-2020
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Rambsy, Kenton and Rambsy, Howard, "300 Key African American Literary Texts." (2020). English Datasets. 7.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/english_datasets/7