African American Studies Subject Guide

Top Article Databases

  • Black Studies Center
    Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, images, and video. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.
    Coverage varies by publication, 1910-current.
    Chadwyck
  • Ethnic NewsWatch from Proquest
    Full-text newspaper and journal articles focusing on news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press.  Available in English or Spanish.
    1990 - present

Other Article Databases

  • Academic Search Complete from EBSCO
    Database of articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources with full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
    Coverage: 1990 - current
    Ebsco
    Academic Search Complete
  • Ethnic NewsWatch from Proquest
    Full-text newspaper and journal articles focusing on news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press.  Available in English or Spanish.
    1990 - present