Africana Studies (African American & African)
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Web Resources
Archives, Manuscripts, Museum Collections & Primary Sources
Africa Research Central
Africa Research Central is your gateway to the archives, libraries and museums with important collections of African primary sources. The focus is on repositories in Africa, but there are also links to the web sites of institutions in both Europe and North America.
The Amistad Research Center
An independent archives and library dedicated to preserving African-American ethnic history and culture.
The Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
A national resource for the identification, documentation, protection, and interpretation of African-American history and culture.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
A collection of primary and secondary documents from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University and a link to the National Civil Rights Museum.
Repository of Primary Resources
A listing of over 2900 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Part of The New York Public Library, this is the most important center in the world for the study of Black life and culture.
Additional Resources
African Diaspora Resources
Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Selected Bibliographic Sources
Compiled by Donald Gibbs in 1990, this resources "offers a selection of the more recent and comprehensive compilations of books and articles." (This article is a scanned version of the original printed in BiblioNoticias - No. 54, March 1990. UA may not have all titles listed in this bibliography.)
LANIC's The African Diaspora
An extensive list of resources about members of the African Diaspora in Latin American coutries, created by the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas.
Resources in Black Studies: The African Diaspora
Provides links to scholarly information on a variety of diaspora issues for "people of African Descent in the United States; Africa; the Caribbean & Latin America; Europe & Australasia."
Universal Afrocentric Calender
This Web-based calendar is a "catalog of the happenings in the Black world on and off the Net." It allows you to freely add and delete the events, conferences, training sessions or media events of your organization or business and link them back to your homepage for detailed information."
Bibliographies
Africabib
This site consists of several bibliographic databases.
- The African Periodical Literature Database
Indexes 40,000 articles in 325 journals and periodicals published in over 22 countries in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. - The African Women's Bibliographic Database contains approximately 24,000 citations from 1986 to the present. It indexes books, government documents articles, conference papers, videos, theses and dissertations.
- There is an English language bibliography on Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2001.
Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Selected Bibliographic Sources
Compiled by Donald Gibbs in 1990, this resource "offers a selection of the more recent and comprehensive compilations of books and articles." (This article is a scanned version of the original printed in BiblioNoticias - No. 54, March 1990. UA may not have all titles listed in this bibliography.)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Works by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. held by the University of Arizona Library.
Zora Neal Hurston
Works about Zora Neal Hurston held by the University of Arizona Library.
Biographies
African American Biographical Database
1790-1950. Contains biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not found in other reference sources, and assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. Contains extended narratives of African American activists, former slaves, performing artists, educators, writers, and more--the famous and the everyday person. Biographical portraits, obituary files, slave narrative collections, and Internet sites will be added as the database expands.
Black History Month Resource Center Biographies
This site contains sections on African American literature, quizes, a timeline and a variety of short biographical articles on noteworthy African Americans.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
This resource showcases "African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering." It also shows how "African American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians have contributed in both large and small ways that can be overlooked when chronicling the history of science. By describing the scientific history of selected African American men and women we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human understanding in the world around us."
The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Center for Nonviolent Social Change
The Center's web site links to web resources about Dr. King, including the large MLK Bibliography at Stanford University, with citaitons to "approximately 2,700 bibliographic reference works."
Mathematicians of the Diaspora
This site suggests that, "In Mathematics, more than any other field of study, have we heard proclamations and statements similar to, 'The Negro is incapable of succeeding.' Ancient and present achievements contradict such statements. One of the purposes of this website is to exhibit the inaccuracy of those proclamation by exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences."
Electronic Journals
African American Review
"As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture." Back issues (1967-1995) are available on JSTOR. Click on "Enter JSTOR" then select "Browse the Journals," then select African American Review or its two earlier names, Black American Literature Forum or Negro American Literature Forum which you will find under "African American Studies."
African Journals Online
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is a host database of over 200 open access, peer-reviewed African-published journals, covering a range of academic disciplines. It contains abstracts and links to mostly full-text material.
African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies
"African Studies Quarterly is an interdisciplinary, fully-refereed, indexed publication. While there are many other publishing outlets which focus entirely on scholarly writings concerning Africa, what distinguishes ASQ is its distribution method and its content. It is an ELECTRONIC journal."
The Black Collegian Online
"The Black Collegian Online is the electronic version of the 28 year old, national career opportunities magazine. In addition to the abundance of career planning/ job search information, there is commentary by leading African-American writers, lifestyle/ entertainment features, general information on college life, and news of what's happening on college campuses today."
Callaloo
Accessed through Project Muse, this journal "the premier African and African-American literary journal, publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide." Back issues (1976-1994) are available on JSTOR. Click on "Enter JSTOR" then select "Browse the Journals," then select Callaloo under "African American Studies."
Journal of Black Studies (1970-1997) (1995- ) available in the Library, only
"For the last quarter century, the Journal of Black Studies has been the leading source for dynamic, innovative, and creative research on the Black experience. Click on "Enter JSTOR" then select "Browse the Journals," then under "African American Studies," select Journal of Black Studies. Volumes since 1995 are available as print at this call number: E185.5 .J8.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (1993-1998) (1993- ) available in the Library
". . . provides new information about the governance, policies, and practices in our colleges and universities. JBHE also publishes articles which address the broader intellectual issues, policies, and strategies that affect the progress of blacks in institutions of higher education." Click on "Enter JSTOR" then select "Browse the Journals," then under "African American Studies," select Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
Journal of Negro Education (1932-1995) (1932- ) available in the Library
" The JNE sustains a commitment to a threefold mission: first, to stimulate the collection and facilitate the dissemination of facts about the education of Black people; second, to present discussions involving critical appraisals of the proposals and practices relating to the education of Black people; and third, to stimulate and sponsor investigations of issues incident to the education of Black people." Click on "Enter JSTOR," then select "Browse the Journals," then under "African American Studies," select Journal of Negro Education. Also available as Microfilm (Number 4992). Some issues available in print at this call number: LC2701 .J6.
Journal of Negro History (1916-1997) (1916-1952, 1954- ) available in the Library
"Sponsored by Morehouse College . . . the thin issues continue to offer superb African American history." Click on "Enter JSTOR," then select "Browse the Journals," then under "African American Studies," select Journal of Negro History. Also available in print at the call number: E185 .J86
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
"Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal published on the World Wide Web biannually. It thus offers a widely accessible--indeed, international--forum for the interrogation of textual, cultural and political postcolonialisms."
The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
Its goals are to "provide information on events, new publications, research collections, and other resources in the field of African-American religious history," and "present peer-reviewed articles based on historical research that explore the religious cultures of people of African descent in the United States."
The Western Journal of Black Studies
"Since 1977, The Western Journal of Black Studies (WJBS) has been a leading interdisciplinary journal that is devoted to publishing scholarly articles, from a wide range of disciplines, that focus mainly on the experience of African Americans in the United States of America. The journal publishes articles that, as its name implies, report original investigations and contribute new knowledge and understanding to the field of Black/African American studies. Theoretical articles and works concerning the African Diaspora are welcome if whenever possible they include data research and implications for applicability. All Manuscripts are selected by blind peer review."
Yahoo!'s Bibliography of African American Magazines
A listing of over twenty African American journals and magazines which provide scholarly, entertainment and popular culture listings.
Africana Studies Fine Arts and Humanities Web Resources
| Art and Art History | Dance |
| Film | General |
| Harlem Renaissance | Literature |
| Music | Theatre |
African American Art
Provides links to several electronic galleries of works by new African American artists.
African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
This Bayly Museum exhibition at the University of Virginia showcases objects "chosen both to exemplify African aesthetic and moral principles and to display some of the finest pieces in the Bayly's large collection. Most of the pieces in the exhibit come from West African societies."
Artnoir
Artnoir has monthly features on current exibits, short biographies of artists and an index of African American artists on the web.
Artnoir's African/American Art History 101
Biographies and examples of works for over twenty 20th century African American artists.
Boston University Libraries Research Guide to African Art and Archaeology
A comprehensive research tool with lists of surveys, bibliographies, guides, biographical sources, programs, electronic indexes, directories, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, maps, history, images, symbols, museums and other art ethnology collections, photography, and cultural heritage.
Center for Afro American Art and Studies
"The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies was established in 1970 in response to African American students who wanted to bring a richer representation of the Black experience into the University of Michigan's curricular offerings. The Center's multi-disciplinary and inter-departmental programs utilize historical, sociological, cultural, psychological, economic, and political approaches to the comparative study of people of African descent living in Africa and the Americas."
Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection
"Approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper provide a thematic journey that documents strategies employed by 20th-century African American artists in creating artistic and racial identities. The works are borrowed from the collection of David C. Driskell, a professor at the University of Maryland and a pioneering scholar of African American art history."
The Papers of African American Artists: Archives Of American Art Smithsonian Institution
"The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954, has assembled the world's largest collection of material documenting the visual arts of the United States. Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, the Archives gathers, preserves, and makes available to scholars the original records of American painters, sculptors, craftsmen, collectors, and dealers, as well as those of critics, historians, curators, societies, and institutions concerned 'with art in America.... Among the Archives' collections are the personal papers of more than fifty African American painters, sculptors, and printmakers from the late 19th century to the present."
Separate Cinema
"Founded in 1976, Separate Cinema has, for over two decades, been the only source dedicated to the art and fascinating history of African Americans in film. Our archive of over 10,000 movie posters, lobby cards, stills and assorted ephemera spans the past century of important historic black cinema."
Stanford University Libraries Africa South of the Sahara: African Art on the Internet
A very extensive A-Z list of links to African Art on the Internet.
The Universal Black Pages Index of African American Art Web Resources
Links to over twenty African American art resources.
The Visual Arts of Subsaharan Africa
Part of the African Postcolonial Literature in English website. Provides links to information on the aesthetics of African art, architecture, sculpture in stone and wood, ceramics, painting, weaving and other fabric arts, art and the African diaspora, as well as general resources on the Internet.
Alvin Ailey: American Dance Theater
"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) was borne from a now-fabled performance that took place on March 30, 1958, in which Alvin Ailey and a group of young, black, modern dancers performed at the 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York City. The Company has since earned a reputation as one of America's most acclaimed international, cultural ambassadors. "
The Black Film Center/Archive
"The Black Film Center/Archive is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience."
Harlem Renaissance Video Collection
An annotated list of films in the Media Resources Center at the University of California-Berkley Moffitt Library.
Separate Cinema
"Founded in 1976, Separate Cinema has, for over two decades, been the only source dedicated to the art and fascinating history of African Americans in film. Our archive of over 10,000 movie posters, lobby cards, stills and assorted ephemera spans the past century of important historic black cinema."
Celebrating Black History Month
Contains sections on Literature, Sports, Arts, Politics, Education and Science.
Conjure Women
Conjure Women "is a performance based feature film documentary that explores the artistry and philosophy of a specific group of African American female artists. Born and educated in the West, they are now using their disciplines to reclaim their 'africanisms:' an intuitive experience of what could not be codified, and what their foreparents had to deny if they were to survive."
I'll Make Me A World: A Century of African American Arts
Website accompanying the PBS documentary of the same name on African American artists of the twentieth century.
Harlem Renaissance
Dorothy West and the Often Stifled Female Literary Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
Article on Dorothy West, "the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance." Includes a bibliography.
Encarta Schoolhouse: Harlem Renaissance
Website contains encyclopedia articles on a variety of subjects on the Harlem Renaissance including influential thinkers, the writers, the music and musicians.
Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are well represented in the vast collections of the Library of Congress. This guide presents the Library's resources as well as links to external Web sites on the Harlem Renaissance and a bibliography.
Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community
From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, contains a timeline for Harlem during this period, along with an exhibition of notable figures from this period as well.
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro: A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number
"Facsimile reproduction and critical apparatus for an illustrated issue of Survey magazine, the journal of social work in America in the 1920s." This issue was a special one "devoted to the African American 'Renaissance' underway in Harlem."
The Harlem Renaissance1900-1940
Includes photographs, brief biographies on prominent authors, and a timeline of events.
The Harlem Renaissance: A Selected List
A bibliography of sources, mostly of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance compiled by librarians at the Chicago Public Library.
Harlem Renaissance (From the Encyclopedia Britannica)
Contains a good overview of the time period.
Online NewsHour Forum: Harlem Renaissance
From the Public Broadcasting System Show, the "Newshour," an interview with scholars of the Harlem Renaissance period.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide -- "Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance - An Introduction"
Contains pictures, lists of authors' works and bibliographies about books and journal articles for over twenty authors of the Harlem Renaissance.
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Provides short biographies, bibliographies and links to other web-based resources for African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. From the Academy of American Poets.
Women Writers and the Harlem Renaissance
Links to pages on women writers and the Harlem Renaissance, in general.
African American Literature
Provides links to the full text of essays, short stories and poems by such notable African American writers as W.E.B. DuBois, Phillis Wheatley and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
African American Online Writers' Guild
Provides information, news, career tips, and resources. While many pages are provided to members only, there are pages also available to the public.
African American Pamphlets Home Page
"The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love."
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Contains information about African American journalists and the PBS documentary on this subject. The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords "is an
engaging historical account that tells the story of the pioneering men and women of the Black press who gave voice to Black America."
Digital Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
"African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of
some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable."
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide -- "Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance - An Introduction"
Contains pictures, lists of authors' works and bibliographies about books and journal articles for over twenty authors of the Harlem Renaissance.
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Provides short biographies, bibliographies and links to other web-based resources for African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. From the Academy of American Poets.
Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors
Provides detailed information, including a list of works, country of affilitaion, and major subjects and themes of many African authors.
Research in African Literatures (Table of Contents) (1970 - ) Available in Library "Research in African Literatures, the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every number, often presented as review essays, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews. The journal, which is published quarterly, also provides information on African publishing as well as announcements of importance to Africanists, and frequently prints notes and queries of literary interest." Included here is a Table of Contents to material the Library has in print. The call number is: PL8010 .R46
Slave Narratives
American Memory: Born in Slavery: Stave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938.
African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920
The collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music.
African Music Encyclopedia
Provides access to artist and country information, and provides a directory of music stores specializing in African Music.
Afro-Caribbean Music
Allows users to search for information by artists, by styles, by instruments, by country, by labels and by years.
Afro-Centric Voices in "Classical" Music
"Afrocentric Voices focuses on African American performers and composers and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs and spiritual arrangements."
Archives of African American Music and Culture
"Established in 1991, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The AAAMC supports the research of scholars, students, and the general public from around the world by providing access to oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs, among other holdings."
Black History in Music: Songs of a People
"Rhino Records and Lifetime Learning Systems are pleased to present you with this exciting educational program, Black History in Music: Songs Of A People. This educational program was developed for use in the creative writing, history/social studies and music appreciation curricula."
The Blue Highway
"The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. We owe the blues to those who bore the pain of enslavement behind the frightful shadows of our collective soul. The Blue Highway, then, is dedicated to the men and women who traveled beyond our ignorant place, and to those who could not."
International Library of African Music
Collection of information on African music and listings of the music collection of the International Library.
Lift Every Voice and Sing: "The Black National Anthem" by James Weldon Johnson
"Lift ev'ry voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring." Written by Johnson in the early twentieth century, the NACCP later adopted it as their national anthem.
Black Theatre Companies
Contains a comprehensive listing of Black theatre companies, most with links to their pages.
Women of Color, Women of Words--African American Female Playwrights
Contains biographical information on writers, plot synopses and production histories of plays, links to libraries and research centers, and bibliographies of critical sources and dissertations.
Health Resources
The Black Health Net
Run by Dr. Brian Stone, this web site contains a minority physician search, information on minority health issues and a section on women's health.
Center for Disease Control: Office of Minority Health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (HHS) created the Office of Minority Health in 1985 as a result of the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health which revealed large and persistent gaps in health status among Americans of different racial and ethnic groups. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created its own Office of Minority Health (OMH) in 1988 in response to the same report. Congress passed the “Disadvantaged Minority Health Act of 1990” in order to improve the health status of underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minorities.
Healthfinder's Just For You: Minority Health
Co-sponsored by the Office of Minority Health Resource Center, Healthfinder's Minority Health section tries to "help inform and guide you when making decisions about your health."
National Cancer Institute
"Valuable cancer-related information of all kinds for the general public, patients, and health professionals. Consumer-oriented information on a wide range of topics as well as comprehensive descriptions of research programs and clinical trials."
Office of Minority Health
"The Office of Minority Health (OMH) was established by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1985. It
advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science
on public health program activities affecting American Indian and
Alaska Native, African American, Asian American and Pacific
Islander, and Hispanic populations. Its goal is to promote
improved health among these racial and ethnic minority
populations."
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Higher Education and Research Institutes
African American History in the American West
This is a helpful website created Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., a Professor of American History at the University of Washington.
There are links to information on African American History and African American History in the West which serve as gateways to hundreds of relevant websites on these topics. It also allow access to bibliographies of the most important works in these fields and vignettes of significant persons, places and episodes in the history of African Americans.
African American Studies on the Web
University of North Alabama web site with a large collection of Internet resources.
Africana Studies at the University of Arizona
The homepage of the Africana Studies Department at The University of Arizona.
Anacostica Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
A museum web site of the Smithsonian Institution that explores American history, society, and creative expression from an African American perspective. Includes an 'On-line Academy' that is a virtual learning environment featuring links to resources, information on artifacts in the collection, and streaming video presentations from leading scholars in fields related to the discovery, interpretation, and preservation of African American history and material culture.
The Amistad Research Center
An independent archives and library dedicated to preserving African-American ethnic history and culture.
Columbia University Libraries'
African Studies Internet Resources
This "collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. The scope of the collection is research-oriented, but it also provides access to other web sites with different or broader missions. Beginning in early 1999, the site became the "official" African Studies web site for the World Wide Web Virtual Library."
InfoSurf: Resources in Black Studies
Created by the Library at the University of California - Santa Barbara, this web site has collected links to various web resources in fourteen different categories.
The Institute of African Studies at Emory University
Substantial collection of resources of interest to African Studies scholars. The site hosts several searchable databases and archives, including undergraduate and graduate course atlases, archived and planned events, as well as a searchable catalog of Emory's film and visual collections.
John Hope Franklin Research Center
Established in 1995, the "John Hope Franklin Research Center is a repository for African and African American studies documentation and an educational outreach division of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University."
Links: Information on/or Relevant to Africana Studies
Produced by the Africana Studies Department and the University of Pittsburgh, this bibliography provides access to an almost encyclopedic range of resources.
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Part of Howard University, the "Moorland Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world."
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Part of the New York Public Library, the "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."
Smithsonian Education: Black History Teaching Resources
African American resources, programs and exhibits at the Smithsonian including links to additional information and resources.
Sources of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Information
Provides links to HBCU's home pages, news, statistics and access to a list showing schools by state.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
Centered at Harvard University, the "W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans."
History
African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
"The exhibit covers only four areas --Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA-- of the many covered by the Mosaic. These topics were selected not only because they illustrate well the depth, breadth, and richness of the Library's black history collections, but also because of the significant and interesting interplay among them. For example, the 'back-to-Africa' movement represented by the American Colonization Society is vigorously opposed by abolitionists, and the movement of blacks to the North is documented by the writers and artists who participated in federal projects of the 1930s."
African American Odyssey
"This Special Presentation of the Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. The presentation is not only a highlight of what is on view in this major black history exhibition, but also a glimpse into the Library's vast African American collection. Both include a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. This presentation is not yet searchable."
African American Perspectives
Contains the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection which "presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love."
African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections
Makes electronic redroductions of four slave women's personal writings held at Duke University's Special Collections Library avaliable in html and image formats.
African Timelines
Created by Central Oregon Community College professor Cora Agatucci as part of an online syllabus, this timeline covers the entire span of Africa's history.
Afrigeneas
"Afrigeneas is a mailing list focused on genealogical research and resources in general and on African ancestry in particular. This page serves as a focal point for information about African-ancestored families and for pointers to genealogical sources worldwide."
An African American Resource Guide
USA-People-Search.com
Black Facts Online
"Black Facts Online is an Internet Search Page that lets you look up Black History information for any day of the year or just by looking for matching words. Black Facts is designed to make it easy to find out interesting and inspiring facts about events impacting people of African descent."
Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
Links to six web sites which "were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic."
Black History Month Resource Center
Contains interactive quizes on African American history, bibliographies of reference resources, biographies, a timeline, suggestions for classroom activities and information about African American literature.
CNN's Black History Month Web Site
Collection of African American History Month resources, newspaper articles and classroom resources, including a gallery of African and African American images.
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
Papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895.
In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
This exhibit documents the history of Tucson's African American Community through a brief history, biographies, oral histories, special topics, videos, photographs, and related web sites. A section on lesson plans and ideas for middle and high school teachers is included.
Internet African History Sourcebook
The author of this site declares, "Africa is both the most clearly defined of continents - in its geography - and the hardest to pin down in historical terms." The resources provided in the web site are a large collection of historical information about Africa: the continent, languages, people and the Diaspora.
Museum of Afro-American History, Boston
"The Museum of Afro American History (MAAH) is a not-for-profit history institution dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England."
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
This Cincinnati, Ohio, museum opened in 2003, and their web pages contain information about the Underground Railroad, as well as general information about African American history and geneaology.
The Negro of Tucson, Past and Present by James Walter Yancy
"This document was submitted as a thesis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, of the University of Arizona in 1933."
Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture
Sponsored by the National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, this web site "promotes awareness of and appreciation for the historical accomplishments of African Americans during African American History Month. As part of the celebration, this site showcases publications, historic properties listed in the National Register, and National Park units commemorating the events and people, the designs and achievements that help illustrate African American contributions to American history."
Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
Provides links to exhibits, collections, images, resources, and museums, containing information on African American historical and cultural issues.
Smithsonian: African History and Culture
Provides links to exhibits, collections, images, resources, and museumn, containing information on African historical and cultural issues.
Trailtones: The African-American Heritage of Tucson
"This select group of materials is provided to assist in the search for African-American heritage materials. The heritage extends to the history of other states as we examine the origins of various migrating groups. We are also concerned with 20th century interests and for that reason, a few national
and international topics have been added too."
News Sources
Africa Update Archives
"Africa Update is the quarterly newsletter of the Central Connecticut State University African Studies Program."
African American Newspapers
An (unlinked) directory listing arranged by state, compiled by Allied Media Corporation.
Afro American Newspapers
The Afro-American Newspapers is the leading news provider for African-Americans in the Baltimore/Washington, DC Metropolitan area and longest running African-American, family-owned newspaper in the nation.
The newspaper was founded in 1892, by former slave John H. Murphy, Sr.
A newservice with both original articles and summaries of national news items.
BBC World News-Africa
Current, full-text news items on Africa by the BBC.
BET.COM
Produced by the Black Entertainment Channel, BET.com has sections on enterntainment, books, businees and career, community and people, health, music and news.
The Black World Today
According to the editors, their "main purpose is to chronicle the daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of Black communities and countries. Our correspondents and columnists will both report and interpret the news that these realities generate. We will focus both on news and features about blacks and general news of value and interest to blacks."
Ethnic NewsWatch and ENW: A History
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Linking the current database (1990-present) with a retrospective backfile of titles, not all full text, (1960-1989), the collective coverage spans more than four decades, from 1960 to the present.
Mail & Guardian Online
The Mail & Guardian Online was the first internet-based news publication in Africa. Launched in early 1994, it is one of South Africa's and Africa's major news publishers and is reputed internationally for its quality content. The website began its life as the Electronic Mail & Guardian (eM&G), which was initially an e-mail subscription service that allowed readers living outside South Africa's borders to receive M&G newspaper stories hours before reaching the newspaper's subscribers. Soon after, the service expanded into a searchable online archive.
Yahoo!'s African American News and Media Bibliography
Collection of links to African American newspapers, magazines and journals.
Political and Social Issues
The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research
"This site presents diverse opinions regarding Affirmative Action topics; rather than taking a singular pro or con position, it is designed to help lend many different voices to the debates surrounding the issues of affirmative action. This site is an academic resource and it provides scholars, students, and the interested public with on-site articles and theoretical analyses, policy documents, current legislative updates, and an annotated bibliography of research and teaching materials."
Africa Confidential
Founded in 1960 as a newsletter to analyze the African situation at a time of rapid decolonization, the newsletter contains full-text, current issue articles and headlines by country.
African National Congress
This is the official web site for the African National Congress, the "majority party in South Africa's Government of National Unity." The site has election information, govenment information and links to South African newspapers.
Cause for Concern: Hate Crimes in America
A web-based report that is the product of "a coalition representing a cross-section of Americans - working together under the auspices of the Leadership Conference Educaton Fund and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - addresses and assesses the problem of what has come to be called 'hate crimes.'"
Congressional Black Caucus Members 106th Congress
Part of the U.S. House of Representative web site, this resource offers links to web sites of caucus members when possible.
Fighting Hate Crimes Across the Nation
Collection of resources about hate crime prevention and studies.
Human Rights Watch Report
Full-text information by country on human rights abuses compiled by the largest human rights organization based in the U.S.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
"The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a national, nonprofit institution that conducts research on public policy issues of special concern to African Americans, with emphasis on the informed and effective involvement of blacks in the governmental process. Founded in 1970, the Joint Center provides independent analyses through research, publication, and outreach programs."
Racial Equality: Part of the American Civil Liberties Union's Freedom Network
This web page provides "comprehensive or unique resources relating to the work of the ACLU in this issue area."
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Homepage of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, which "is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the Executive Branch." Provides information on civil rights issues and information on how to file a complaint.
The University of Maryland's Diversity Database
"The University of Maryland's Diversity Database is an index of multicultural, multiracial, and multigenerational diversity resources."
Reference Resources
ABZU
"Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet. The following indexes are simply points of entry. The material included in each of them overlaps to a considerable degree, but they will allow the browser to view the material in a number of different ways."
African-American Culture
From About.com, a large, selected collection of links to other web resources and newspaper articles of interest to Africana Studies students.
African American Web Connection (AAWC)
Contains sections on art, poetry, writers, businesses, churches, entertainment, history, organizations and prominent people.
African Newspapers Union List (AFRINUL)
A cooperative African newspapers database listing library holdings in North America (all formats and languages). Lists newspapers published in sub-Saharan Africa. Eventually will list library holdings in Africa, Europe and elsewhere.
Country-Specific Pages (for Africa)
Includes information on each Afican country in addition to a section on African Embassies and Diplomats in the U.S., a general map of Africa, listings of national holidays and U.S. State Department Travel Warnings and Consular Information Sheets.
Egyptology Resources
A collection of information and links to articles on past and present Egypt.
Encyclopaedia of the Orient
A large collection of information about the Middle East, including parts of Northern Africa.
Habari
French-language site which provides information on African agriculture to universities.
H-AFRESEARCH
H-AFRESEARCH is a discussion group for scholars of Africana Studies. It "is devoted to the discussion of issues surrounding the use of primary sources in African humanities and social sciences research." Information on how to subscribe to this free electronic discussion group is included.
The Kamusi Project - Internet Swahili Dictionary
Swahili is the most widely spoken African language with 50 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and Kenya. This online Swahili dictionary was developed by the Yale University program in African languages and the Council on African Studies at Yale.
OAIster
A Mellon-funded project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production services. The site includes a wide ranging collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources that are easily searchable.
Portals to the World
Links to authoritative, in-depth information on a wide range of broad categories by country. Links for Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan. Other countries will be added. Compiled by area specialists at the Library of Congress.
Soul Search
This Internet search engine calls itself "the Search Engine for the world's people of color." It asks web developers of "Afro/African American related" web sites to submit addresses to be indexed and made avaliable for web searchers.
Woyaa!
Woyaa! is a search engine modeled after Yahoo! that has a mission "to promote Digital Africa by easing and making cost-effective navigation and communication as well as increasing the visibility of African web sites and resources. "
Yahoo!'s Directory of African American Studies
Yahoo!'s directory provides access to African American resources on the Internet.