Reference Resources
Title	Location
African American authors, 1745-1945 : bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 A32 2000
African-American orators: a bio-critical sourcebook	Reference Coll : E185.96 .A447 1996
The African American theatre directory, 1816-1960	Reference Coll : PN2270.A35 P48 1997
African American writers	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 A344 1990
Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance	Reference Coll : PN451 .D5 v.50
African Americans at war: an encyclopedia	Reference Coll : U52.S88 2004
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience	Reference Coll : DT14 .A37435 2005
The atlas of Central America and the Caribbean	Reference Coll : G1550 .D5 1985
The biographical encyclopedia of the Negro baseball leagues	Reference Coll : GV865.A1 R473 1994
The Black artist in America : an index to reproductions	Reference Coll : N6538.N5 T46 1991
Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 B556 1992
Black women in America	Reference Coll : E185.86.B542 2005
Blacks in opera : an encyclopedia of people and companies, 1873-1993	Music Library Reference Coll : F1406 .C36 1992
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean	Reference Coll : F1406 .C36 1992
Contemporary Black American playwrights and their plays	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 P43 1988
Dictionary of American Negro biography	Reference Coll : E185.96 .D53 1982
Early Black American playwrights and dramatic writers	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 P44 1990
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history	Reference Coll : E185 .E54 1996
Encyclopedia of African American religions	Reference Coll : BR563.N4 E53 1993
The encyclopedia of African and African-American religions	Reference Coll : BL2462.5 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture	Reference Coll : F1406 .E53 1996
Encyclopedia of minorities in American politics	Reference Coll : E184.A1 E574 2000
Encyclopedia of Southern culture	Reference Coll : F209 .E53 1989
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance / Aberjhani	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 A24 2003
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance / Wintz	Reference Coll : NX512.3.A35 E53 2004
Encyclopedia of world cultures	Reference Coll : GN307 .E53 1991
Freedom's lawmakers : a directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction	Reference Coll : E185.96 .F64 1993
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century	Reference Coll : E185.61 .E54 2003
International dictionary of black composers	Music Library Reference Coll: ML105 .I5 1999
Multicultural films: a reference guide	Reference Coll : PN1995.9.M56 W45 2005
The Oxford companion to African American literature	Reference Coll : PS153.N5 O96 1997
The Oxford companion to jazz	Music Library Reference Coll : ML3507 .O94 2000
Rastafari and reggae : a dictionary and sourcebook	Reference Coll : BL2532.R37 M84 1990
Voices of multicultural America : notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995	Reference Coll : PS663.M55 V64 1996

Articles
Title	Description
African American Studies Center	A comprehensive collection of scholarship focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 7,500 articles. The core content includes Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
America: History & Life	Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from over 2000 English language journals. Also includes book reviews.
Historical Abstracts	Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), featuring coverage of academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. Over 22,000 new abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations are added to the database annually. Coverage: 1450-Present.
M.L.A.	The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. MLA provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series.
History Resource Center	Includes some reference content, including American Decades, American Eras, DISCovering U.S. History, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations and the American Journey series. Also delivers full-text periodicals, newspapers, primary source documents, radio/television transcripts, and streaming audio and video clips.
JSTOR	JSTOR is a scholarly journal archive which provides full image access to articles from over 460 of the most important academic journals. The JSTOR collection includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Recent additions include a music component, and a selection of scientific journals. JSTOR goes back to the very first issue of each journal (many of them in the 19th Century), but does not include the most recent five years.
Social Sciences Full Text	This source indexes about 400 English-language periodicals in a wide variety of subjects related to the Social Sciences including sociology, family studies, public administration, social work etc. Articles from about 100 of the journals indexed are available full text. Coverage: February 1983 to the present. Updated monthly.
Humanities Full Text	This database covers nearly 400 English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Coverage: Astracts, March 1994 - present. Fulltext, January 1995 - present (96 titles).
Sociological Abstracts	Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes literature in the field of sociology, as well as related literature in the social and behavioral sciences. Drawing from over 1,700 serials publications, the database includes abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews. It also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
American Periodical Series	Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Coverage - 1741 - 1900
Contemporary Women's Issues	Provides citations to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessible. Coverage: 1992 - Present. Updated weekly.
New York Times Historical	Searchable full image of every page of the New York Daily Times and New York Times including all advertisements. Covers 1851-2001.
General Databases	These databases cover a broad range of subjects and may also be useful for your research.

Music
Title	Location
The African-American audio experience [sound recording]	Media Coll : PS508.N3 A47 2003
Smithsonian Global Sound	A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection is an outgrowth of the vision and work of Folkways Records’ founder Moses Asch, who created a veritable encyclopedia of the human experience of sound, releasing more than 2,000 albums between 1948 and 1986, including those by American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, and countless influential others. The collection also encompasses animal sounds, beer-drinking at an African homestead; calypso; classical violin instruction; drama; poetry; sounds of the deep ocean, the office, and the ionosphere; a frog being eaten by a snake; and great performances of traditional music from virtually everywhere in the world.
African American Song	Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, this is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in sound. From the earliest recordings of Afro-American music made in the late 19th century, in most instances the full recorded works of each artist are presented.

Videos/Multimedia Items
Title	Location
The African-American audio experience [sound recording]	Media Coll : PS508.N3 A47 2003
Against the odds [videorecording] : the artists of the Harlem Renaissance	Media Coll : NX511.N4 A53 1994
Tell about the South [videorecording] : voices in black & white	Media Coll : PS261 .T44 1999
Baskets of gold [videorecording] : preserving an African-American tradition	Media Coll : TT879.B3 B37 1998
Eyes on the prize [videorecording] : America at the racial crossroads	Media Coll : E185.615 .E942 1989 ( Reserve Collection )
February one [videorecording]	Media Coll : F264.G8 F32 2004
Furious flower [videorecording] : African American poetry 1960-1995	Media Coll : PS591.N4 F87 1998
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry [videorecording]	Media Coll : E513.5 54th .M37 1991
Malcolm X [videorecording]	Media Coll : PN1997 .M34 1993
Amandla! [videorecording] : a revolution in four part harmony	Media Coll : DT1757 .A42 2003
Black sugar [videorecording] : slavery from the African perspective	Media Coll : E441 .B675 1993
Gorée [videorecording] : door of no return	Media Coll : DT549.9.G67 G67 1992
Great speeches [videorecording]	Media Coll : PN6121 .G73 2001
Tales from the land of Gullah [videorecording]	Media Coll : E185.93.S7 T34 1999

Journals

African American review African studies review [electronic resource] Black American literature forum [electronic resource] The Black scholar Callaloo [electronic resource] The International journal of African historical studies [electronic resource] The International migration review [electronic resource] Journal of American ethnic history Journal of black studies [electronic resource] The Journal of blacks in higher education [electronic resource] Journal of Latin American studies [electronic resource]

Web Resources

Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs

Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

African American Odyssey - Library of Congress Online Exhibit

The African-American Mosaic - Library of Congress Online Exhibit

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Making of African-American Identity, Vol. II 1865-1917

Archives of African American Music and Culture

African Diaspora in the Americas

Documenting the American South

Latin American Network Information Center: African Diaspora

ASWAD - The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

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