Guide to African American Studies
Comprehensive Web Sites
History | Magazines and News |
Literature
Books:
Suggested Subjects Headings |
Recommended Reference Books
Selected Authors
Databases & Indexes
Online:
- African American Studies Center
- Facts.com
- Handbook of Texas
- Heritage Quest Online
- Academic Search Complete
- American History Online
- InfoTrac Newspapers
Print:
- Index to Black Periodicals
Check the Periodicals Guide to insure that the Library subscribes to the print journal you need. Request journals at the Circulation Counter.
Comprehensive Links
- African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
- BET: Black Express Portal
- Black Culture and History: Guide to the Web
- Black Facts Online
- Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
- Black History Month (InfoPlease)
- Black Quest Power Resources
- Black Studies
- Comprehensive topics, includes original documents. Also includes sound recordings, videos, photos, and oral histories.
- Black Web Portal
- CORE: Congress of Racial Equality
- Dallas Black Online
- Darnell's Black Radio Guide
- NAACP Online
- National Urban League
- Race & Ethnicity Online
- Schomburg Center
- Universal Black Pages: Links
History
- African-American Registry
- Profiles famous African-Americans, displays historical events by date, poety and song lyrics...
- Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
- African American History
- African-American Resources (Smithsonian)
- African American World: History & Culture (PBS)
- Archives of African American Music and Culture Mission
- The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Links to information on geneology, government records, marriage records, murders, labor, and individual state information.
- Gateway to African American History
- History Makers
- Biographical information about individuals that excelled in the arts, education, entertainment, medicine, music, politics, religion, science, sports, and more! Includes oral histories.
- Internet African American History Challenge
- Voices from the Days of Slavery
Literature
- African-American Poetry: 1760-1900
- African American Literature on the Web
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem Renaissance
- Major Black Writers
- Mosaic Books
- National Black Business Council
- Black Enterprise
- Smithsonian Museum of African Art
Magazines & Newspapers
- AfroRoots
- Black Collegian Online
- Black Enterprise
- Black Images Bookstore
- Black Voices
- Essence
- QBR: Quarterly Black Review of Books
The Library subscribes to the following publications. The most recent issue is on display and back issues are available at the Circulation Counter. Bound issues are shelved in the upper level of the Library. Check the Periodicals Guide for information on the previous years shelved or bound.
| Jet Essence Ebony Black Enterprise |
African American Review Heart & Soul Black Issues in Higher Education Black Issues Book Review |
Suggested Subject Headings
Do a SUBJECT or KEYWORD search in the Online catalog for your topic. After doing your search, you can limit the results to books at El Centro by selecting the Limit Your Search button.
| Afro-American women Afro-Americans Black Authors Poetry - Black Authors Literature - Black Authors Blacks in Literature |
Afro-American actors Afro-American Art Afro-American Musicians Afro-American ceilings facades |
| Terry McMillan Toni Morrison James Baldwin Richard Wright Toni Bambara |
Walter Mosley Maya Angelou Gloria Naylor Alice Walker J. California Cooper Lucille Clifton |
Recommended Reference Books
in-library use only
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
REF E 184 A1 G14
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History
REF E 185 I85 E54
AFrican-American Almanac
REF E 185 N385
African-American Encyclopedia
REF E 185 A253
Historical & Cultural Atlas of African-Americans
REF E 185 A8
Who's Who Among African-Americans
REF E 185.96 W52
Black Texas Women
REF E 185.93 T4 W55
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
REF E 185.61 E54
Essential Black Literature Guide
REF PN 841 V35
Black Literature Criticism
REF PS 153 N5 B556
Oxford Companion to African American Literature
REF PS 153 N5 O96
The best guide to resources is a librarian who can help you in using the catalog, databases and the Web. A librarian can also assist you in selecting materials appropriate for your needs. Please ask at any service desk for information or assistance!
The El Centro College Library does not guarantee the currency or accuracy of these websites. Links to these sites do not represent an endorsement of the site or of information contained within the site.
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Last Updated:
July 16, 2007