African and African American Studies Research Guide
Databases
- Academic Search Complete
- Africabib
- African American Newspapers (NewsBank)
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- Alternative Press Index. 1969 - PCL Ref AI 3 A27
- ALT-Press Watch
- America: History and Life
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (CWLD)
- Black Drama
- Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- ERIC
- EthnicNewsWatch
- Historical Abstracts
- Index to Black Periodicals. 1984- . PCL Ref AI 3 O4 Coverage extends back to 1950, under its previous title, Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks.
- International Index to Black Periodicals
- LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
- MLA International Bibliography
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- PAIS International - Web Access
- Reader's Guide Retrospective
- Sociological Abstracts
Encyclopedias & Handbooks
Online Encyclopedias:
Oxford African American Studies Center (UT Austin users)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (UT Austin users)
Print Encyclopedias:
100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia.
ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement
African American Almanac: a Reference Work on the Afro-American
PCL Ref E 185 N385 2000.
Africana: the Encyclopedia of Africa and African Americans.
Almanac of African American Heritage.
Almanac of African Peoples and Nations.
Best Literature by and about Blacks.
Black Firsts: 2,000 Years of Extraordinary Achievement
Black Women in America
Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present
Civil rights in the United States.
The concise Oxford companion to African American literature.
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Distinguished African American Political and Governmental leaders
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
The Harvard guide to African-American history
Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery
Historical Guide to World Slavery
Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang
The New York public library African American desk reference.
Organizing Black America : an encyclopedia of African American associations.
Internet Resources
Africabib
"Africabib was created in 1999 as a way to disseminate information from two African studies databases as well as information on Africa from other sources."
African-American Migration Experience
African American Mosaic
Library of Congress resource guide to its African-American collection.
Texas organization for queer people of color.
American Slave Narratives
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
Audre Lord Project, New York City
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
Included are footnoted entries from archival and secondary source documents with links to full text Internet sites.
From slavery to Freedom The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Online primary sources by important black writers such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
H-AFRESEARCH
Electronic discussion network on the use of primary sources in African humanities and social sciences.
International Resource Network
A global community of researchers, activists, artists, and teachers sharing knowledge about diverse sexualities. Global coverage including Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
NAACP
Home page of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture
This site by the National Park Service includes online tours on topics such as The Underground Railroad to provide information on African American heritage.
Queer Black Studies: An Annotated Bibliography: 1994-1999 by Nicholas Boggs (Callaloo/Project Muse)
UT Austin users
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomberg Center is "devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."
Schomberg Center - Black Gay and Lesbian Archive (Tumblr)
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research
"The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans."
Quicklinks
Subject Specialist
Major Newspapers & Periodicals in PCL
African American History to 1860
Statistical Information
Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook. 1990 -
Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860.
Census Data on African Americans (U.S. Bureau of the Census)
Historical Statistics of the United States (UT Austin users)
Social Explorer [Census Data and Maps] (UT Austin users)
Statistical Abstract of the United States Latest edition at PCL Ref Desk
Statistical Record of Black America
Bibliographies
The African American Experience : an historiographical and bibliographical guide
African-American newspapers and periodicals: a national bibliography.
Antebellum Black newspapers : indices to New York Freedom's journal (1827-1829), The Rights of all (1829), The Weekly advocate (1837), / Jacobs, Donald
Afro-American History: A Bibliography
Antebellum Black Newspapers
PCL Ref Z 1229 N39 J67 1993
Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays. 1978.
Black American writers past and present: a biographical and bibliographical dictionary.
