Research Guides: *Africana: Getting Started with Africana

Best Bets for Africana

Oxford Bibliographies: African American Studies
Bibliographies on related topics, listing overviews and primary sources.

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history journal articles.

Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Short essays, biographies, and primary sources on Black history and culture. Includes African American National Biography, Black Women in America, and Encyclopedia of African American History among others.
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Oxford Bibliographies: African American Studies
Bibliographies on related topics, listing overviews and primary sources.
The Cambridge Guide to African American History by Raymond Gavins
Location: E185 .G33 2016 and online
Published: 2016

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Non-fiction works of leading African Americans, as well as interviews, journal articles, and letters.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology by Earl Wright (Editor); Edward V. Wall
Location: E 185.86.W952 2015
Contemporary topics building on Black or DuBoisian sociology scholarship.

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences This link opens in a new window
Essays such as "critical race theory" "race and racism, geography of" or "inequality, social"

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Best broad search for this interdisciplinary subject.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
More depth on social issues.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
For historical topics
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Modern literature, language, linguistics, and folklore journal articles and books. Citations with links to full text. Publication dates: 1926 to present
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
In Advanced Search, limit to African American Studies.

Discrimination in the US: Experiences & Views of African Americans
explores the results of a poll conducted with NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Black Perspectives
Commentary on contemporary issues plus scholarly references

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