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THE BLACK MADONNAS OF EUROPE
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compiled by RUNOKO RASHIDI


Begg, Ean.  The Cult of the Black Virgin. London: Arkana, 1986.

Davis, Juanita.  "See White Madonna, See White Lie!" Positive Black Voices (May 1991): 8.

Drazek, Czeslaw.  "The Image of the `Black Madonna' is an Expression of God's Presence." L`Osservatore Romano (12/19 Aug 1991): 3.

Gabriella, Virgilio.  "The Statue of Our Lady in the Holy House." Loreto History 16, No. 3 (1983): 74-75.

Gustafson, Fred. The Black Madonna. Boston: Sigo Press, 1990.

McKinney-Johnson, Eloise.  "Egypt's Isis: The Original Black Madonna." Black Women in Antiquity. Rev. ed. Edited by Ivan Van Sertima. New Brunswick: Journal of African Civilizations, 1987: 64-71.

Moss, Leonard W., and Stephen C. Cappannari.  "The Black Madonna: An Example of Culture Borrowing." Scientific Monthly 73 (1953): 319-24.

Moss, Leonard W., and Stephen C. Cappannari.  "In Quest of the Black Virgin: She is Black Because She is Black." Mother Worship: Theme and Variations. Edited by James J. Preston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982: 53-74.

Muhammad, Tynnetta.  "World Renown Black Madonna and Child: A Sign." The Final Call, 10 Feb 1989: 27.

Paris, Hilu.  "African Christianity and the Black Madonna." Appendix to Black Christian Nationalism: New Directions for the Black Church, by Albert B. Cleage, Jr. New York: Morrow, 1972: 275-81.

Person-Lynn, Kwaku.  "Mary--the Black Madonna." Los Angeles Sentinel, 25 April 1991: A-8.

Redd, Danita R.  "Black Madonnas of Europe: Diffusion of the African Isis." Black Women in Antiquity. Rev. ed. Edited by Ivan Van Sertima. New Brunswick: Journal of African Civilizations , 1987: 162-87.

Also see: A NOTE ON THE BLACK MADONNAS OF EUROPE


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