African American National Biography Project

The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press. The object of the project is to publish and maintain a database of African Americans similar in scope to the American National Biography.[1]

The African American National Biography (AANB) was published in print in 2008,[2] with a supplement published in 2013.[3]

The database, which is continually updated, includes many entries by noted scholars, among them Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter; W. E. B. Du Bois by Thomas Holt; Rosa Parks by Darlene Clark Hine; Miles Davis by John Szwed; Muhammad Ali by Gerald Early; and President Barack Obama by Randall Kennedy. In 2008 the AANB was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, was named a Library Journal Best Reference work, and awarded Booklist Editors’ Choice — Top of the List.[1]

The general editors of the project are Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, while the executive editor is Steven J. Niven of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.[1]

References
  1. "African American National Biography (AANB)". The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (2008), The African American national biography, New York Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-516019-2
  3. Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (2013), The African American national biography: Supplement 2008-2012, New York Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-516019-2

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