SELECTED WEBLIOGRAPHY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

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SELECTED WEBLIOGRAPHY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

Prepared by: IRO Stephen Perry and IRC Specialist Suzan Metry
Email: perryls@state.gov ----- Email: metrysn@state.gov
Updated November 2007

Introduction
The History of African American History Month

I. HOW TO RESEARCH AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY:

1. Basic Resources from Rutgers University Libraries
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/afroam.htm

2. Detailed Research Guide to African American Studies
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml

3. From the African Studies Collection at University of Pennsylvania
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/mcgee.html

4. African Americans from the University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html

5. Resources in Black Studies: L.O.C. SITES containing links to Historical Texts
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

6. Ohio State University: Another Gateway to Information
http://library.osu.edu/sites/thegateway/display.php


II. FROM USINFO WEBSITE: DEPARTMENT OF STATE
http://usinfo.state.gov

(A) Population & Diversity http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity.html

(B) Civil Rights
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights.html

(C) African American History Month
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/African_American_History_Month.html

(D) Additional Resources: U.S. History, Geography & Population: African American History Month
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/african_american_history_month/african_american_history_month_texts.html

(E) Census Facts 2006 for African Americans: Facts for Features
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006088.html

(F) Publications http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/population_diversity_publications.html

(G) Organizations concerned with African Americans in U.S.
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/civil_rights_orgs.html

(H) Legal Resources from INFO USA
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_legal.html

(I) Timeline of Civil Rights Movement
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_timeline.html

(J) Online Reading
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_online.html

(K) E Journal on Race: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0897/ijse/tocsv.htm

(L) E-Journals in Arabic: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/journalsaraba.htm


III. AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. African American Women Authors: from the NY Public Library
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

2. Example of a Digitized Text
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-t/wwm975/@Generic__BookView

3. Harlem Renaissance Resources: PAL: Perspective in American Literature-A research and reference Guide-Ongoing project
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html

4. African American Women: from the Duke University Special Collection
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

5. African American Literature analysis, from USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/stepto.htm

6. African Americans Literature Bibliography, from USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and diversity/african_americans/african_americans_biblio.html

7. Websites on the Harlem Renaissance via USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive_Index/Reference_on_Web_Harlem_Renaissance.html

8. African American Writers: Online E-texts
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm

9. An African-American Reader: Essays on African American History Culture and Society.
Editors: William R. Scott and William G. Shade, Lehigh University March 2005
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/AAReader.pdf
Is an anthology of essays on African-American history, culture, and society for advanced students, teachers, and scholars.

“Currents in American Scholarship” SERIES: Publications
Title: Philosophy in the United States
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/01_2005.pdf
Title: The Study of American Politics
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/12_2004.pdf
Title: New Directions in American Literary Scholarship 1980-2002
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/american_literary_scholarship.pdf
Title: Twentieth Century United States History
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/history.pdf
Title: American Studies Bibliography http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/AmBibliography.pdf
Title: American Religious History http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/ReligionCAS.pdf
Title: Currents in American Scholarship: American Studies Bibliography
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/currents/AmBibliography.pdf

IV. DIGITIZED COLLECTIONS

1. Digitized Collections: from Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide
http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=33ECE98105E5BCCC50A00E3A1B82E017

2. From Documenting the American South Project: Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html

3. Library of Congress Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml

4. The LOC digitized Collection via the American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

5. Schomburg Collection: From Library of Congress: Slave Narrative Project
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

6. African American Collections, via LOC American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

7. Digitized Collection via Georgetown University Project for American Studies
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/asw/aswlinks.cfm?head1=Race%2C%20Ethnicity%2C%20and%20Identity&head2=African%20American%20Resources

8. Schomburg Collection: The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html


V. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

1. Afro-American Museum in Boston - Links
http://www.afroammuseum.org/links.htm

2. Smithsonian Museum
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

3. Smithsonian: The National Museum of African American History and Culture http://nmaahc.si.edu/

4. Museums: from USINFO
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/poulation_and_diversity/african_americans/african_americans_museums.html


VI. CONTINUING EDUCATION THROUGH AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
Online courses, Essays, Perspectives

1. From USINFO: Essays on African American History Culture and Society
http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/african_americans_museums.html

2. MIT Distance Education
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

3. Course on Writing about Race in MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

4. An example from a course on American Women writers
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-512American-Authors--American-Women-AuthorsSpring2003/RelatedResources/index.htm





VII. LINKS TO UNIVERSITIES

University of California, Santa Barbara
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html.
This is a very manageable site with access to a range of data-types. The site has 16 broad categories and is especially strong in news media, historical texts, and documents.

Soul Search: The Search Engine for the World's People of Color.
Access: http://www.soulsearch.net/
This is a search engine for accessing information contained in the African American Web Ring. One of many "Web rings" forming on the Internet, this one has collected over 1,000 sites related to African American culture including art, dance, history, and personal pages.
Soul Search: African American Web Ring:
URL: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring.

Rutgers University Libraries: Research Guides: History-American & British sources on the Internet
URL:http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml
Internet Resources for Students of African-American History and Culture from Rutgers University Library, including access to text collections and special sources from 18th, 19th and 20th Century, covering also individual electronic texts, associations, organizations plus a tool for finding articles.
Georgetown University: Race & Ethnicity-African-American.
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/afam.html
Part of their American Studies Web pages, this is an alphabetical listing of a nice variety of sites not often linked elsewhere.

VIII. FULL TEXT JOURNALS

1. CALLALOO
http://muse.jhy.edu/journals/callaloo

2. AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY: The Online Journal of African Studies.
URL: http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/

3. AFRICA NEWS ONLINE: Gateway to a Continent.
URL: http://www.africanews.org

VIV. FULL TEXT DATABASES OF THE IRC

EBSCO
PROQUEST
NEWSPAPERS
STATISTICS
MANY OTHERS


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