African-American Studies

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Books

You can search the library catalog by author, title, subject, or keyword (multiple fields at once). Some specific subject headings for African-American studies are:

1. Afro-American: Subjects under this main heading include:
AFRO-AMERICAN ATHLETES, AFRO-AMERICAN ENTERTAINER, AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORIANS, etc.
2. Afro-Americans: Subjects under this main heading include:
AFRO-AMERICANS—BIOGRAPHY, AFRO-AMERICANS—HISTORY, AFRO-AMERICANS—STATISTICS, etc.
3. African American: Subjects under this main heading include:
AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS, AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS, AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIANS, etc.
4. African Americans: Subjects under this main heading include:
AFRICAN AMERICANS—RACE IDENTITY, AFRICAN AMERICANS—SOCIAL CONDITIONS, etc.

Other Subject Terms:

BLACKS
CIVIL RIGHTS
DISCRIMINATION
MINORITIES
RACE AWARENESS
RACE RELATIONS

Online Databases

Ethnic NewsWatch
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This database covers news, culture, and history from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press, dating back to 1990.

Magazines and Journals

The following are some of the magazines covering African-American issues available at the CSM Library:

Ebony
The Black Collegian
Black Enterprise
Essence
Freedomways
Jet
The Journal of Negro history
Negro History Bulletin
Phylon

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Reference Books

The African-American Almanac REF E185.N385
Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933 REF PS508.N3 A36
Black Artists in the United States REF Z5956.A47 D38 N6538.N5
Black American Writers Past and Present REF Z1229.N39 R87
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia REF E185.86.B542
Blacks in Science and Medicine REF Q141.B58
Dictionary of American Negro Biography REF E185.96.D53
Dictionary of Black African Civilization REF DT352.4.D5213
Dictionary of Black Culture REF E185.96.B33
Encyclopedia of Black America REF E185.E55
The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans REF E185.A8
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music REF ML106.U3 G54

Internet Resources

Librarians' Internet Index
http://www.lii.org
A guide to trustworthy Web sites, hand-selected by librarians.

Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu
A guide to scholarly information sources online.