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Books

The Library uses the Library of Congress shelving arrangement.

Select areas: Africa
DT: AfricaE: History
DT: 160-177 Africa, North E: 184-185 United States- elements in the
population (especially E 184.7 Black Studies)
DT: 352 Africa, Sub-Saharan N: 6538 African American Art
DT: 474-475 Africa, WestNX: 512.3 African American Arts
DT: 1030-1036 Africa, Southern

Basic Reference Sources

Location

African: The encyclopedia of the African and African American experience DT: 14. A47335
African Americans REF RA393 R48 1998
African American Almanac Electronic Only
African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience Electronic Only
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery REF E 185. E54 1996
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History REF E 185 .E54 1997
Encyclopedia of African American Society Electronic Only
Encyclopedia of African American Studies Electronic Only
Encyclopedia of Black Studies Electronic and REF E185 .E554 2005
Reference Library of Black America REF E 185 .R44 1997
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa REF DT 3 .C35 1981
Encyclopedia of Pre-colonial Africa REF DT2 .E53 1997

Find Articles and Other Materials

Select PC Indexes and Databases

PAIS 1972 + The Electronic version of the Public Affairs Information Service which indexes periodicals and government reports
Public Affairs Information Service [1915-1971] The print versions of this annual communication cover the years 1915 -1971 and are shelved REF HB1 .A1 P35 and REF HB1. AL P352
America: History and Life American history abstracts form leading professionals journals
Historical Abstracts World History abstracts from leading professional journals

General

Academic Search Premier Indexes and links to actual articles in major scholarly journals including Black Studies and related disciplines

For More databases dealing with this subject, view the Black Studies library web page

Key Journals

Key Journals: African American

American Visions Online
Black Scholar Print/Online
Journal of African American History Print/Online
Journal of Negro History JSTOR, 1916-2000 : Also Microfilm
Journal of Black Studies Print/Online
Crisis Print/Online
Western Journal of Black Studies Online

Key Journals: Africa

Africa Today Print/Online
African Affairs Online
African Issues Online
African Studies QuarterlyOnline
Journal of Contemporary African Studies Print/Online
Journal of Modern African StudiesPrint/Online
Transition 1961+ Print/Online for Current Issues

Select Websites

Academic Sites

World of Black Studies Black Studies Program at Providence College
Roadmap of African American Resources Professor DuPress, Santa Fe Community College
Through the Lens of Time Virginia Commonwealth University

Government Sites

Facts for Features Jan 19th and February U.S. Census Bureau
American Memory Library of Congress

Other Sites

African American World PBS Station, WNET, New York
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Writing Guides

Location

MLA HandbookREF LB.2369.G53 2003
Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationREF BF76.7 P83 2001 and Circulation Desk Reserves
Citing Sources Examples of APA, MLA and Chicago Citation styles
APA Online http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
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Beatrice Pulliam, Black Studies Liaison and Cherine Whitney
Last revision to this page : 13 June 2007