African & African American Studies Resources
Reference Sources
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- The African studies companion : a resource guide & directory (DT19.8 .Z45 1997)
- African-American newspapers, 1827-1998: An in-progress compilation of African-American newspapers taken from the America's Historical Newspapers collection.
Research Databases (for finding articles, etc.)
Journals (print and electronic)
Web Resources
African Studies sources
- Africa south of the Sahara: selected Internet resources: Contains materials pertaining to the sub-Saharan area (e.g. Central, East, and Southern Africa), followed by links to specific country information sources.
- ALUKA: An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.
- Internet African History Sourcebook: A large database of primary and secondary sources relating to African History and Culture. Also includes links to other African interest websites.
- The Story of Africa: A thorough radio and text presentation of Africa's history by the BBC, beginning at the origins of man and continuing to the present.
African American Studies sources
- African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
- African American History @ The University of Washington: A portal to many African American history websites, which are subcategorized by topic. The site focuses primarily upon slave experience and civil rights.
- American Memory @ Library of Congress: Provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
- Black Studies Center: A fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies including: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
- Black Studies Links: from the African American Studies Librarian's Section of the the Association of College and Research Libraries.
- Black American Feminisms: A multi-disciplinary bibliography of Black American Feminist thought across many academic fields.
- Black Studies @ CCNY: A web portal on 51 different topics in African American Studies.
- The History Makers: A current list of important African American figures. Each figure is accompanied by a short biography.
- The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University: featuring audio and video of Malcolm himself along with secondary scholarly material concerning each period of his life.
- The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: King's papers, speeches and writings are collected here in searchable audio and text versions.
- Oberlin College Special Collections: World renown collections covering Oberliniana, Literature & Drama, and Political & Social movements, which includes an extensive Anti-Slavery Collection.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: A national research library devoted to collecting,
preserving and providing access to resources documenting the history and experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. - Slavery in America: Sources of U.S. history online : Documents key aspects of the history of slavery in America from its origins in Africa to its abolition, including materials on the slave trade, plantation life, emancipation, pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments, the religious views on slavery, etc. It includes documents published between the 17th and late 19th centuries, including some material from Oberlin College Library's Anti-Slavery Collection.