Databases
- Articles focusing on African Americans & Other Minorities
- Primary Sources for African American Studies
- Related Resources: Education, English, History, etc.
- Dissertations
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Library Catalogs
Articles focusing on African Americans & Other Minorities
- Full text of 300 ethnic and minority newspapers, newsletters and periodicals, 1960 - present.
- Covers several U.S. minority populations including African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians.
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- Indexes African-American newspapers, periodicals and other materials published 1948-1986 .
- Includes many publications not indexed elsewhere.
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Primary Sources for African American Studies
- Full text of colonial and Civil War-era newspapers, as well as 19th century African-American newspapers.
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African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- Full text of seven publications.
- Covers cultural life and history during the 1800s.
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- Full text of poetry by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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- Contains over 16,000 audio tracks.
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American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
- Provides full-text interviews of former slaves conducted by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.
- Indexed by subject, narrator, "master," interviewer, and location.
- Jackson Library also owns the print volumes at E441.A58.
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- Provides over 1,200 plays by 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
- Includes detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
- Also includes selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays.
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The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- Includes news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies.
- Also covers travel, arts and leisure, geographic descriptions, sports and sporting, social events, etc.
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- PBS Video Collection via NCLIVE
- PBS online video collection of nearly 250 PBS programs and documentaries.
Related Resources : Education, English, History, etc.
Because African-American Studies is interdisciplinary, you need to use the databases and resources in the subject area closest to your topic. For example, if you have a literature topic, use the English sources; if you have a psychology topic, use the Psychology sources. Some relevant subject areas include:
For other subject areas, the Databases by Subject provides a list for each UNCG academic department or program.
Dissertations
- Lengthy abstracts of U. S. dissertations
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of dozens of specialized encyclopedias, including:
- The African-American Almanac, 9th Ed., 2003
- Encyclopedia of Black Studies, 2005
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Oxford African American Studies Center
- Provides articles, biographies, timelines, images, maps, primary sources, and more.
- The core content of this database is from the following sources:
- Africana, which covers the African and African American experience in five volumes;
- The Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, which documents the African American experience from the arrival of the black explorer, Esteban, who arrived with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass;
- A companion set, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, which covers African American history into the twenty-first century;
- The three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition;
- The African American National Biography, which covers over 6,000 people.
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- Provides fulltext specialized dictionaries and companions on history, literature, social science, and more.
- Includes the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and the Dictionary of African Mythology.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Full text of the print encyclopedia plus more up-to-date articles not yet available in the printed version. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of WWW links selected by Britannica editors.
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Library Catalogs
WorldCat
- Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide
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African American Studies Resources
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Gerald Holmes
African American Studies Librarian
