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Community Studies 136 Black Liberation in the African Diaspora Suggestions for Library Research

 

Searching for Books

The following subject terms, many of which are combined with geographical terms or chronological subdivisions, are among those that are relevant to this course. Find additional terms by searching your movement or organization and examining the terms used; if you already have good sources, check on the terms used for them and search for additional materials using those terms.

 

African diaspora Africans -- America -- History. Africans -- America -- Ethnic identity. Africans -- America -- Intellectual life. America -- Race relations. African diaspora. America -- Civilization -- African influences. Africa -- Civilization Communism -- Africa. Communism -- Developing countries. African American communists. Postcolonialism Blacks Blacks -- America -- History. Blacks -- Latin America -- Ethnic identity. Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Ethnic identity. Blacks -- Latin America -- History. Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- History.

Slavery -- United States Slavery -- History Slave-trade -- United States Slave-trade -- History African Americans African American writers [women, political leaders, etc.] African Americans -- Politics and government. African Americans -- Politics and government -- Philosophy. African Americans -- Race identity -- Political aspects. African Americans -- History. African Americans -- Ethnic identity.

Selected Reference Books -- others will include subject headings such as those above, with terms such as "dictionaries," "encyclopedias," or "handbooks." You may also find it valuable to browse the reference stacks in the call numbers that match your topic. ALL TITLES BELOW ARE IN THE MCHENRY REFERENCE STACKS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

• The African American encyclopedia E185.A253 1993
• Encyclopedia of African nations and civilizations DT14 .E43 2002
• Post-colonial studies : the essential glossary JV22 .T45 2003
• African Caribbeans : a reference guide F1629.B55 B53 2003
• The Longman companion to slavery, emancipation and civil rights HT861 .H37 2001
• Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience DT14 .A37435 1999
• Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years PS153.N5B556 1992
• Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia E185.86.B5455 1993
• The dictionary of global culture CB9 .D53 1997
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History Ref  E185 .E54 1996 (and 2001 supplement)
• Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English PR9080.A52 E53 1994 (also online)
• Encyclopedia of postcolonial studies PN849.U43 E53 2001
• Encyclopedia of African-American education LC2717 .E53 1996
• The Harlem Renaissance : an annotated reference guide for student research NX512.3.A35 R64 1998
• The Harlem Renaissance : a Gale critical companion PS153.N5 H245 2003 (3 v.)
• The Harvard guide to African-American history E185 .H326 2001
• Pan-African chronology : a comprehensive reference to the Black quest for freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia E185.18 .J46 1996
• Postcolonial theory (II) Literature and the arts : a bibliography JV51 .N76 1999
• Organizing black America E185.5 O74 2001
• Encyclopedia of modern separatist movements HM716 H48 2000
• Encyclopedia of social history HN28 E53 1994
• Encyclopedia of European social history, 6 vol. HN373 E63 2001
• Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture GN495.6 .D53 2003
• Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies GN495.6 .C37 2003
• The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century E185.61 .E54 2003
• Civil rights in the United States E184.A1 C47 2000
• A Pan-African encyclopedia DT14 .P28 2003
• African-American social leaders and activists E185.96 .R88 2003

Library Databases -- Consult "Community Studies -- Information on the Web" for commonly used resources in community studies. For this class, additional resources may be found by consulting Library Subject Guides for other fields in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Identify those databases that match your topic best in subject, date coverage, or other aspects. For citation-only databases, use UC-LINKS (if offered) or open a second browser to CRUZCAT. All of these databases provide keyword searching (often providing options to focus the search on the full-text when available, the abstract, the title, or other features). As when searching for books, examination of the subject terms assigned to relevant articles (sometimes called descriptors) may be useful in finding additional citations or in narrowing your search results.

 

Additional Web Resources of Interest:

 

African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibit)
African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era
African Diaspora: Latin American Resources
Afro-American Almanac
American Memory Collection Finder - History (Library of Congress)
Civil Rights Documentation Project
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Diaspora Bibliography (UC Berkeley)
Edward Wilmot Blyden Virtual Museum
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
Pan-Africanism - a short summary
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
WEB DuBois Virtual University
WWW Virtual Library: African American History
WWW Virtual Library: Migration & Ethnic Relations
Bibliography: Postcolonialism (pdf file)
Postcolonial Cultural Studies (JHU Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism)
Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
Cultural Studies (Voice of the Shuttle)
Postcolonial Studies: A Bibliography
Postcolonial Theories
Postcolonial Studies (Emory U.) - concise summaries including:
    * Fanon
    * Gilroy
    * Lamming
    * and many others
African American English Bibliography
Ebonics Bibliography