Writings and Essays Published by Black Americans in Decade: 2000s

  1. This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
  2. In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  3. South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature by Trudier Harris
  4. The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays by William Jelani Cobb
  5. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry
  6. A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters by Pamela Newkirk
  7. Letters from Black America by Pamela Newkirk
  8. Can Anything Beat White?: A Black Family’s Letters by Elisabeth Petry
  9. African American Literary Theory: A Reader by Winston Napier
  10. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Casebook by John F. Callahan
  11. Conversations with Leon Forrest by Dana A. Williams
  12. My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature by John Edgar Wideman
  13. Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture, One Story at a Time by Jack Canfield
  14. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition by Cheryl A. Wall
  15. Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer by E. Ethelbert Miller
  16. On Writing for Children & Other People by Julius Lester
  17. The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  18. Do The Write Thing: Seven Steps to Publishing Success by Nina Foxx
  19. Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History by Wallace Terry
  20. Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett
  21. Life Out of Context by Walter Mosley