LibGuides: Virtual Reference: African and African American Studies

Reference Works

Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Call Number: Ref DT14 .A37435 2005 v1-v5
ISBN: 9780195170559
Publication Date: 2005-04-07
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: Ref E185 .E545 2006 v1-v3
ISBN: 9780195167771
Publication Date: 2006-04-06
African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: Ref E185.96 .A4466 2008 v1-v8
ISBN: 9780195160192
Publication Date: 2008-02-18
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions by Stephen D. Glazier (Editor)
Call Number: Ref BL2462.5 .E53 2001
ISBN: 9780415922456
Publication Date: 2001-01-16
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [Two Volumes] by Yolanda Williams Page
Call Number: Ebook, click link to view
ISBN: 9780313049071
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Encyclopedia of African American Society by Gerald D. Jaynes (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook, click link to view
ISBN: 9781452265414
Publication Date: 2005-02-01
Encyclopedia of African American Music by Emmett George Price (Editor); Tammy L. Kernodle (Editor); Horace J. Maxile (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook, click link to view
ISBN: 9780313342004
Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Library Databases

General Information

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Over 8,200 publications are available in this multi-discipline database, with full text for nearly 4,650 of those titles.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Use the Help link to find tutorials for using this database.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE provides online access to the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

African, African American Studies, and History Specific

African Studies Companion This link opens in a new window
The African Studies Companion seeks to bring together a wide range of sources of information in the African studies field.
American Slavery : A Composite Autobiography This link opens in a new window
This has now been incorporated in the ABC-CLIO E-Book Collection.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Our cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery. To give one example, as late as 1901 Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had to decide if a man, both of whose parents had been slaves, could be the legitimate heir of his father, because under southern law, slaves could never be legally married. The library has hundreds of pamphlets and books written about slavery—defending it, attacking it or simply analyzing it, including an expansive slavery collection from Buffalo Erie County Public Library. The cooperation of this institution was central to developing this collection. We have also gathered every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, which includes many essays and articles in obscure, hard-to-find journals in the United States and elsewhere. We have provided more than a thousand pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century. We have also included many modern histories of slavery. Within this library is a section containing all modern law review articles on the subject. This library will continue to grow, not only from new scholarship but also from historical material that we continue to locate and add to the collection.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples.
Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new window
This has now been incorporated in the ABC-CLIO E-Book collection.
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.

Sociology & Anthropology

Anthrosource This link opens in a new window
An evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools designed to bring the most credible and relevant of anthropological scholarship together in one place.
Proquest Sociology This link opens in a new window
Sociological and social work research including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States This link opens in a new window
An authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database provides the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research.

Newspapers

Poetry

African-American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750 to 1900.
Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century covering the seventy-year history of this major publishing house.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry This link opens in a new window
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century.
Twentieth Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.

Biography

Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new window
More than 450,000 biographies, including actors, authors, explorers, historical figures, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, scientists and many others.