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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

African-American/Africana Studies

Black literature criticism: excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of black authors over the past 200 years. Edited by James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 B556 1992 -- v1-3

Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978-.

Volumes focusing on African-American and African writers include:

• Vol. 33: Afro-American fiction writers after 1955
• Vol. 41: Afro-American poets since 1955
• Vol. 38: Afro-American writers after 1955: dramatists and prose writers
• Vol. 50: Afro-American writers before the Harlem Renaissance
• Vol. 51: Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940
• Vol. 76: Afro-American writers, 1940-1955
• Vol. 117: Twentieth-century Caribbean and black African writers (First Series)
• Vol. 125: Twentieth-century Caribbean and black African writers (Second Series)
• Vol. 157: Twentieth-century Caribbean and black African writers (Third Series)

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 221 .D510

Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights: from emancipation to the present. Edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek; foreword by David J. Garrow. New York: Greenwood Press, c1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185.61 .E54 1992

African American writers. Valerie Smith, consulting editor; Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors. New York : C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 1991

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .E54 1996 -- v1-5

Grossman, Mark.
The ABC-CLIO companion to the Civil Rights Movement. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1993.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185.61 .G895 1993

The Negro almanac: a reference work on the African American. Compiled and edited by Harry A. Ploski and James Williams. 5th ed. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., c1989.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .N385 1989

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Afro-American slavery. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 441 .D53 1988

Juba to jive: the dictionary of African-American slang. Edited and with an introduction by Clarence Major. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, c1994.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PE 3727 .N4 M34 1994

Rasta/Patois Dictionary - Text-only dictionary of Rasta/Patois.

Bibliographies and Research Guides

Images of Blacks in American culture: a reference guide to information sources. Edited by Jessie Carney Smith; foreword by Nikki Giovanni. New York: Greenwood Press, c1988.

CALL NUMBER: NX 652 .A37 I43 1988

Atlases

Asante, Molefi K., 1942-
The historical and cultural atlas of African Americans. Molefi K. Asante, Mark T. Mattson. New York: Macmillan; Toronto: Collier Macmillan; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Atlas E 185 .A8 1991

Chronologies

Hornsby, Alton.
Chronology of African-American history: significant events and people from 1619 to the present. Detroit: Gale Research, c1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .H64 1991

Biographical Sources

Black women in America: an historical encyclopedia. Editor, Darlene Clark Hine; associate editors, Elsa Barkley Brown, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1993.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185.86 .B542 1993 -- v1-2

Notable Black American women. Jessie Carney Smith, editor. Detroit: Gale Research, c1992-1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185.96 .N68 1992 -- Books 1 and 2

Rake, Alan.
Who's Who in Africa: leaders for the 1990s. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DT 18 .R35 1992

Sources of Quotations

My soul looks back, 'less I forget: a collection of quotations by people of color. Dorothy Winbush Riley, editor. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c1993.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PN 6081.3 .M9 1993

Organizations and Associations

Links to Organizations, Associations and Societies:

• Organizations & Associations
• National & International Organizations
• The National Black Graduate Student Association, Inc.
• The African Studies Association
• Union College Multicultural Resource Center
• Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
• Pan-African Political and Organizational Information
• Union of Writers of the African People
• African Students Association of the University of Memphis
• Schools & Student Organizations
• AFRO Web Professional Organizations

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: BOOKS

Books -- MINERVA Online Catalog

The MINERVA Online Catalog is a computerized listing of this library's materials--books, government documents, and sound recordings.

Click on any of the following to choose a method of searching:

Keyword Searching

The Online Catalog may also be searched by keyword using combinations of terms for more precise search results. Consult Searching the MINERVA ONLINE CATALOG, available online and at the Reference Desk, for more details.

Link to a more extensive listing of "multicultural" subject headings

THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Relevant World-Wide Web Sites for Research on African-American and Africana Studies

African American

• Afro American Almanac
  "The AFRO-American Almanac ® is an on-line presentation of the African in America from the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present."
  Address: http://toptags.com/aama/

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• Archives of African American Music and Culture
  A great source for rare and important material related to Black music and culture. Includes audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, oral histories and artifacts.
  Address: http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
  Prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site is a digital collection of some 52
  published works by 19th-century black women writers.  This collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable.
  Address: http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/main.html

• Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
  Provided by the Stanford University Library. Subject access to information on the continent is offered under Topics, with 35 categories. The Regions feature includes materials pertaining to an entire sub-Saharan area, followed by links to specific country information sources. "
  Address: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

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• African Studies WWW (U. Penn)
  Supported by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania - Annotated African Web Links; Black/African Internet Resources; Multimedia Archives; Links to online periodicals and news sources; searchable keyword index.
  Address: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

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• Links from Africana Studies-University&127&127 of Pittsburgh
  Information on/or relevant to Africana Studies; including online news, historical documents, educational and governmental sources.
  Address: http://www.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/links.htm

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• WWW Virtual Library: African Studies
  Southern African WWW Servers; Links to Historically Black Colleges & Universities; University links to African Studies Information; Organizations.
  Address: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/

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• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  A national research library - branch of the New York Public Library - devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Selected Internet Sources of information on Africa and the African Diaspora.
  Address:http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

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• African Studies Programs
  Annotated listing of African Studies Programs throughout the world.
  Address:http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_afstd.html

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• The Martin Luther King Directory
  This Directory contains secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life. Continuously updated and maintained by the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University.
  Address:http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

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• The African-American Mosaic
  A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.The exhibit covers four areas --Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA--of the many covered by the Mosaic. Extensive text as well as reproductions of documents and photos.
  Address:http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

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• The Aframian WebNet
  Links to a large number of other sites on the Web that are by, about, and/or of interest to African Americans. It also has an extensive set of links to computer and Web/Internet resources, including a lot of freeware and shareware than can be directly downloaded.
  Address:http://www.he.net/~awe/

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• Index on Africa
  A comprehensive guide to Africa resources on the Net. It contains more than 2000 Africa-related links.The links are sorted in categories by theme or country. Searchable index.
  Address:http://www.afrika.no/index/

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• National Civil Rights Museum
  General information about the Museum, with a virtual tour of key events in the civil rights movement. Additional links of interest.
  Address:http://www.mecca.org/~crights/ncrm.html

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• African/African American History
  Courtesy of the Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State University; Extensive links to Black History and Culture and African History. Links to Articles, Books, and Web Resources.
  Address: http://historicaltextarchive.com/

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• The Britannica Guide to Black History
  This site surveys five centuries of African-American history from the beginning of slavery (1517) through the present day. Timelines, multimedia, and original documents are included.
  Address:http://blackhistory.eb.com/

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• Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
  An instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color. Searchable by Name, Birthplace, Racial/Ethnic Background and Significant Dates. Links to Related Sites on the Web.
  Address:http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

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Electronic Texts and Electronic Journals

Links to Electronic Texts:

• African-American Bibliography
• African-American Collections in the Milwaukee Urban Archives
• Texts in African American History
• Griot Reading Room
• The Fourth World Documentation Project
• Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Excerpts
  
• On-line Books Page
• Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
• Quarterly Black Review of Books
• American Studies, Black History and Literature

Links to Electronic Journals & Newspapers:

• Africanews
• Callaloo -- available online via Project Muse
• Ghana Review International
• OneWorld News Service - Africa
• PanAfrican News Agency
• Vibe Magazine Online
• African Online New Stand
• The Shopsteward
• Main Street South Africa
• Mayibuye - Monthly Journal of the African National Congress (S Africa)
• Meanderings
• USAfrica Online
• AFRO-America@:The Afro-American Newspapers Home Page
• SUDIA News
• Western Journal Of Black Studies

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: PERIODICALS

Scholarly Periodical Indexes and Abstracts

AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE ON DISC. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio.

Abstracts of articles on U.S. and Canadian history.

CD-ROM Network

BLACK STUDIES ON DISC. Boston: G.K. Hall; New York: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1995.

Based on the catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this CD-ROM contains bibliographic information on over 100,000 books, microforms, videos, personal papers, recordings, and other materials. Additionally, there is indexing of articles and reviews from major African-American popular magazines and scholarly journals.

CD-ROM Network

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS ON DISC. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio.

Abstracts of articles on world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

CD-ROM Network

Schaffer Library Periodicals

• Black enterprise
• Black issues in higher education
• The Black scholar
• Callaloo -- available online via Project Muse
• Ebony
• Emerge
• The Journal of Negro history
• Muslim journal (Chicago, Ill.) -- newspaper
• Phylon

STATISTICAL SOURCES

Black Americans : a statistical sourcebook. Louise L.Hornor, editor. Palo Alto, CA : Information Publications, c1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185.86 .B5238 1996

Historical statistics of Black America. Compiled & edited by Jessie Carney Smith and Carrell Peterson Horton. New York: Gale Research, c1995.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .H543 1995 -- v1-2

Statistical record of Black America. Detroit: Gale Research, c1990-

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185.5 .S83 1995

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