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)
Research Databases (for finding articles, etc.)
- African-American newspapers, 1827-1998: An in-progress compilation of African-American newspapers taken from the America's Historical Newspapers collection.
- 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.
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 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 Civil Rights Digital Library: documents the struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s through a digital video archive of historical news film, extensive links to related digital collections, and secondary Web-based learning resources such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities.
- 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.
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database : The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes. A variable (Source) cites the records for each voyage in the database. Other variables enable users to search for information about a particular voyage or group of voyages. The website provides full interactive capability to analyze the data and report results in the form of statistical tables, graphs, maps, or on a timeline.