Writings and Essays Published by Black Americans in Decade: 2000s
- This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
- In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature by Trudier Harris
- The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays by William Jelani Cobb
- Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry
- A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters by Pamela Newkirk
- Letters from Black America by Pamela Newkirk
- Can Anything Beat White?: A Black Family’s Letters by Elisabeth Petry
- African American Literary Theory: A Reader by Winston Napier
- Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Casebook by John F. Callahan
- Conversations with Leon Forrest by Dana A. Williams
- My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature by John Edgar Wideman
- Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture, One Story at a Time by Jack Canfield
- Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition by Cheryl A. Wall
- Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer by E. Ethelbert Miller
- On Writing for Children & Other People by Julius Lester
- The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Do The Write Thing: Seven Steps to Publishing Success by Nina Foxx
- Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History by Wallace Terry
- Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett
- Life Out of Context by Walter Mosley