LibGuides: * African and African-American Studies: Getting Started

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Lara Nicosia is the liaison librarian for African and African American Studies, History, and Religion & Classics and she is always happy to help!

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Lara Nicosia is the liaison librarian for African and African American Studies, History, and Religion & Classics and she is always happy to help!

African Studies Databases

Africa Development Indicators This link opens in a new window
Economic and environmental indicators for 53 African countries.
Provides data *as available* for countries and time period; data will not be available for all countries and all years.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Articles, working papers, policy briefs, case studies, conference papers and books in International Affairs.
Includes a schedule of scholarly events in "Foreign Affairs and Security Policy" and links to international affairs centers, U.S., international, and foreign government sites; environmental studies Web pages; and news media services.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles and books on history since 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Some links to full text.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text articles in many disciplines. To access JSTOR you may need to login with VPN .
Subject areas include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics. The University of Rochester Libraries currently subscribes to the following multidisciplinary JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences I through XV. JSTOR also packages their content in disciplinary collections; however, the only ones of these that we have licensed are the Biological Sciences segment and the first of the Business collections. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.
JSTOR World Heritage Sites: Africa This link opens in a new window
A digital library, once known as ALUKA, about African history and culture.

African-American Studies Databases

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This databases indexes journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and more and is an essential tool for history research.
Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new window
Full text/image for the most widely circulated African-American newspaper on the Atlantic coast.
Black Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews from 110 African-American periodicals and newspapers.
Part of Black Studies Center.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Includes the Chicago Defender 1910-1975, International Index to Black Periodicals and Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from the ethnic and minority press in the U.S.

Primary Sources

Primary Sources for History