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Africana Studies


Department Homepage: http://www.ucmo.edu/africanastudies/

Contact Reference: reference@libserv.ucmo.edu or call 660-543-4154

Subject Bibliographer: Mark Love, love@libserv.ucmo.edu

Online Databases


Academic Search Complete :: Multidisciplinary database of scholarly and peer reviewed journals dating back up to 1975

America: History and Life :: Indexes US and Canadian history, humanities, and social science journals

Essay and General Literature :: Citations of essays and articles from collections of essays and miscellaneous works.

Ethnic News Watch :: Database of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press

Gale Literary Index :: Index of Gale literature series; search by author, title, nationality, birth or death dates

Gender Watch :: Women's issues from an international perspective; interdisciplinary

Historical Abstracts :: Covers world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450-present; indexing for 2,000 journals and books

Historical New York Times :: New York Times full text, full image from for 1851-2001

JSTOR :: Historical journal articles in the humanities, social sciences, business, ecology, and general science; relevant subcategories include African American studies, African studies, history, and political science

Lexis-Nexis :: Provides a variety of legal, reference, medical, and governmental resources

MLA Bibliography :: Indexes articles on modern languages, literature, linguistics, communication disorder, and folklore

Social Sciences Full Text :: Indexes journals from anthropology, family studies, political science, sociology, international relations, and women's studies, 1983-present

 

Print Journals
Electronic Journals


A partial list of electronic journals related to African-American studies is avaialbe here.

Also check JSTOR for an additional list

American Historical Review Journal of Economic History
American Anthropologist Journal of Modern History
Journal of Social History
Journal of Southern History
Journal of American History Western Journal of Black Studies
Journal of American Studies William and Mary Quarterly

Electronic Books


Sister Days: 365 inspired moments in African-American women's history by Janus Adams

Major modern black American writers edited by Harold Bloom

Modern Black American poets and dramatists edited by Harold Bloom

The Negro genius by Benjamin Brawley

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Negro in the regular army by Oswald Garrison Villard

 

Links


African American History :: Orginial Text with a substantial bibliography

Africanonline :: From Political Quest

AFRO-American Almanac

Black Archives of Mid-America :: From the Kansas City Public Library

Classic African American Literature :: From EdChange

Encyclopaedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History

Our Black Heritage :: Historical African American Documents

 

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