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African-American Research

Page history last edited by ssilverman1@ccc.edu 3 years, 7 months ago

 

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

 


 

Welcome to the African-American Studies Library Guide! This guide provides resources for information pertaining to African-American Studies. For more in-depth research assistance, please visit the library's reference desk.


 

African American History Month: BLS Spotlight on Statistics

 

 

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Library Resources 

 


 

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Reference Resources


Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

Call Number: DT14 .A37435 2005 v. 1-3

 

The African American almanac

Call Number: E185 .A267 2003

 

Encyclopedia of African American politics

Call Number: E185 .S58155 2003

 

Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration

Call Number: E185.6 .E54 2006 v. 1-3

 

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas

Call Number: E185 .E54 2006 v. 1-6

 

Encyclopedia of African American Society 

Call Number: E185 .E546 2005 v. 1-2

 

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American literature

Call Number: PS153 .N5 G73 2005

 

Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions

Call Number: BL2462.5 .E53 2000

 

Encyclopedia of African-American heritage

Call Number: E185 .A455 2000

 

Encyclopedia of Black Studies

Call Number: E185 .E554 2005

 

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Call Number: NX512.3 .A35 E53 2004 v. 1-2

 

The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia

Call Number: PS3563 .O879 Z913 2003

 


Online Databases


African-American Experience 

This online database contains collections on African American history and culture.

 

Black Thought and Culture

Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.

 

Black Studies in Video

Contains hundreds of hours of documentaries, interviews, and archival footage detailing the black experience.

 

Chicago Defender (1910-1975)

Historical collection of Chicago's premier African-American newspaper.

 

Ethnic Newswatch

This database presents multi-ethnic and multi-cultural points of view from newspapers, magazines, and journals.

 


Chicago Local Collections


 

 The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature

The largest African American history and literature collection in the Midwest is housed at the Chicago Public Library

Woodson Regional Library. 


Northwestern University Library Africana Collection

The largest separate Africana collection in existence.  Subject coverage includes art, history, literature, music, religion, communications, management, cooking, and more.  

 

Chicago History Museum

Museum and research center dedicated to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois.

 

DuSable Museum of African American History

The only major independent institution in Chicago established to preserve and interpret the historical experiences and achievements of African Americans. 


Internet Resources


 

The HistoryMakers

A video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history.  The collection focuses on African American history, education, music, law, the arts, science, technology, media, medicine, entertainment, fashion and beauty, business, the military, politics, and sports. 

 

African American Odyssey

Part of the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress. 

 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving, and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.  A branch of the New York Public Library.

 

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

 

The National Museum of African American History and Culture-Smithsonian

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003 to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans.

 

The Legacy Museum(EJI)

The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened to the public on April 26, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama, this museum is built on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved black people were imprisoned, and is located midway between an historic slave market and the main river dock and train station where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked during the height of the domestic slave trade. 


                        Last Updated: August 20, 2020


 

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