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Books
The most comprehensive databases for identifying published books on all topics
- Worldcat *
- WorldCat.org Open access version of the WorldCat database
- Google Book Search
Periodical Literature
Some key periodical databases in African American/African Diaspora and related fields
- America: History & Life *
- Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective *
- ARTbibliographies Modern *
- ATLA Religion Index *
- Bibliography of the History of Art *
- Ethnic Newswatch *
- Family & Society Studies Worldwide *
- Historical Abstracts *
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance *
- International Index to Black Periodicals *
- JSTOR *
- MLA International Bibliography *
- Music Index *
- Project Muse *
- RILM Music *
- Social Sciences Citation Index *
- SocIndex *
- Google Scholar
- Research Port
Portal to all University of Maryland databases, most of which are fee-based.
Full-text documents and sound recordings.
Databases that include full-text documents and sound recordings
- 20th Century African American Poetry *
- ACLS Humanities E-book *
- African American Newspapers *
- African American Song *
- African American Poetry *
- American Periodical Series *
- Avoice: African American Voices in Congress
- Black Drama 1850 to Present *
- Black Thought and Culture *
- Early American Imprints *
- Early English Books Online *
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online: History & Geography Subset (ECCO) *
- Literature Online (LION) *
- Making of America (Cornell University)
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- Naxos Music Library *
- New York Times Historical (1851-2001) *
- Oh Freedom Over Me
- Oxford African American Studies Center *
- Remembering Jim Crow: Personal Histories of Segregation
- Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Smithsonian Global Sound *Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
- War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
- Washington Post Historical (1877-1988) *
Nonprint Media
Core audiovisual introductions to the African American & African Diaspora, in documentary and narrative styles
- 500 years later Owen Alik Shahadah; Molefi K Asante 2005, 106 min. London: Halaqah Media Films. Filmed in five continents, this documentary film chronicles the struggles of people of African descent throughout the globe as they strive for basic freedoms and self-determination
- The Africans, program 9, Global Africa Ali AlAmin Mazrui, 1986, 60 min Washington, D.C: Annenberg/CPB Project Discusses African contributions to contemporary culture, including the significance of the African diaspora, particularly in North America. Also examines the continuing influence of the superpowers on the affairs of Africa
- Atlantico Negro: na rota dos Orix�s (Black Atlantic: on the Orix�s route) Renato Barbieri 2001, 55 minutes New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls still tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian-made film takes us to both shores, to how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many traditions were the language and gods of Yoruba and Jejes from the Republic of Benin....
- Scattered Africa: faces and voices of the African diaspora. Sheila S Walker 2002, 50 minutes Berkeley, CA : University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning Of the one hundred million Africans that were forced to migrate only about 12 million survived and they were scattered throughout North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. Sheila Walker and the people interviewed talk of the need to put together Africa and the Africans.
- etc. See Films & Filmmakers section for more audiovisual resources.
Web Sites
Repositories of Large Digital Collections
The following have produced notable digital products in African American/African Diaspora studies.
- American Memory Library of Congress
- Boston African Americana Project Boston Athenaeum
- Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York Public Library
Databases of Scholarly Internet Resources
These searchable databases contain descriptions of and links to scholarly internet resources in a wide variety of subject areas and format. The resources referenced often include both open access and fee-based materials.
- BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
- DLF: Digital Collections Registry
- INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- Internet Archive
- Intute: arts & humanities
- OAIster: find the pearls
- Scout Report
- Worldcat *
- WorldCat.org Open access version of the WorldCat database
African American/African Diaspora Webliographies
A sampling of webliographies that link to hundreds of Web resources in African American/African Diaspora studies.
- Africa Research Central
- African American Studies
- African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
- AfroCubaWeb
- American Women's History: A Research Guide: African-American Women
- Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography
- Black Film Research Online
- Latin American Network Information Center: African Diaspora
- Resources in Black Studies
- Resources Related to the Study of Africa and it's Diaspora
- The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web
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