Feminist discourse in the lives and works of american blueswomen of the 1920s - bibliography
- Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s Daphne Duval Harrison (Rutgers University Press, 1988)
- Mother of the Blues: Study of Ma Rainey - Sandra Lies (University of Mass. 1981)
- The Bessie Smith Companion: A Critical and Detailed Appreciation of the Recordings - Edward L. Brookes (Bayou Jazz Lives, 1989)
- The Devil's Music: History of the Blues - Giles Oakley (BBC Ariel Books, 1983)
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker (The Women's Press, 1982)