African and African American Studies
African and African American Studies
African and African American Studies
If you have questions about the use of these databases, or research in African or African American Studies, we are happy to help.
Contact a Librarian for support:
Nancy Wallace (Student Services Librarian): nmwallace@ucdavis.edu
David Michalski (Researcher Services Librarian): michalski@ucdavis.edu or make an appointment https://calendly.com/michalski-1/research-librarian-consultation
Subject Specific Databases
Black Studies Center [via ProQuest]
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International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)
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Black Thought and Culture [via Alexander Street Press]
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Africa-Wide Information [via EBSCO]
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CODESRIA : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Africa Bibliography
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African Studies Abstracts Online
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ASA (African Studies Abstracts) Online succeeds the printed abstracts journal of the African Studies Centre Leiden, published since 1968, first as Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (1994-2002). It provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the African Studies Centre library in Leiden, NL.
African Studies Bibliography [via Oxford Bibliographies Online]
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This extensive annotated bibliography explores multidisciplinary literature that is “diverse, fast moving, controversial, and scattered among unfamiliar sources, we have asked leading scholars to identify the most significant themes and areas of study in their fields, recommend the best sources for exploring them, and discuss these works conceptual and empirical significance to provide a series of guided studies through the diverse approaches to a wide array of complex subjects.
African Studies Center at Michigan State University
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The MSU African Studies Center (ASC) is one of nine Title VI National Resource Centers on Africa designated by the U.S. Department of Education. This site provides access to directories, research guides, and digital documentary projects on African Studies. Subjects include Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development, Education, Health, Medicine, and Science, Business, and Government, Social Development and Political Empowerment, Internet and Technology, and projects relating to Arts, History, and Language.
African e-Journals Project: Journal Archive
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The African e-Journals Project: Journal Archive offers full text articles from eleven social science and humanities journals published in Africa. Mainly historic, coverage varies. A project of Michigan State University’s African Studies department.
African Journal Archive (Sabinet)
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African Journals Online [via AJOL]
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Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
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In February 2008 this English-language database had indexed over 60,000 articles from over 500 English-language and multilingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
Index Islamicus [via Proquest]
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African Journal Directory
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This directory contains information ABOUT more than 1900 journals published in or about Africa in all disciplines.It does NOT contain full text of the journals or index articles. The directory is searchable by journal title and country or language(s)of publication. Published by Michigan State University’s African Studies department, as part of the African e-Journals Project.
African Americans and National Identities in Central America
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An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually, the history of people of African descent in Central America. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Program, Mount Holyoke College and The Center for Central American Historical Research at the Universidad de Costa Rica.
African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive [via Newsbank]
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Full text of sixty-nine historic newspapers from different African cities. Coverage differs per title. Dates range and represents 1800-1920s. This selection is a subsection of Readex’s World Newspaper archive. See link below.
Oxford Bibliographies Online. African Studies
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Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on African studies.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia : African History
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Related Databases
Sociological Abstracts [via ProQuest]
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America: History and Life [via EBSCO]
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Historical Abstracts [via EBSCO]
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Women’s Studies International [via EBSCO]
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MLA International Bibliography [via EBSCO]
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Black Lives Matter (Guide to Contemporary Literature)
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia : American History
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Historical and Primary Sources
Black Thought and Culture [via Alexander Street Press]
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African American Newspaper Collection [via Accessible Archives]
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African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive [via Newsbank]
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Full text of sixty-nine historic newspapers from different African cities. Coverage differs per title. Dates range and represents 1800-1920s. This selection is a subsection of Readex’s World Newspaper archive. See link below.
African Studies Center at Michigan State University
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The MSU African Studies Center (ASC) is one of nine Title VI National Resource Centers on Africa designated by the U.S. Department of Education. This site provides access to directories, research guides, and digital documentary projects on African Studies. Subjects include Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development, Education, Health, Medicine, and Science, Business, and Government, Social Development and Political Empowerment, Internet and Technology, and projects relating to Arts, History, and Language.
African Writer’s Series [via Chadwyck-Healey]
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19th Century US Newspapers [via Gale]
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Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
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This image archive features numerous maps, images, and photographs depicting the slave trade and African culture in the Americas. Most are drawn from sources between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Black Drama [via Alexander Street Press]
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Confidential Print: Africa (1834-1966) [via Adam Matthew]
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Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)
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The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP), founded in 1963, is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make these materials in microform available to researchers.
Current Bibliography on African Affairs [via Sage]
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A Current Bibliography on African Affairs (CBA) is compiled as a quarterly guide for study and research in the field of African Studies and related subjects. It presents a thoughtful selection of references to a considerable diversity of materials, not only in subject and geographical selection, but also to point the user toward an increasing range of resources focusing on a sociotechnical approach to African affairs.
EJAB: Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography
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EJAB is a refereed online journal of bibliographies created by the late John Howell, University of Iowa Libraries. Coverage includes any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable development, creative literature, the arts, and the Diaspora.
Chicago Defender (1909-1975) – Historical Newspapers [via ProQuest]
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Cleveland Call & Post (1934-1991) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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The Los Angeles Sentinel is the flagship newspaper of the local African-American community. The database provides coverage from 1934 to 2005.
California Eagle
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New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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One of the oldest African American newspapers of the United States, Amsterdam News was founded in New York in 1909 and is still published today. Keep in mind that this database does not contain the full run of the title.
Provides primary source documentation on Black history, politics, culture, and the arts. Full text search of articles, classified ads, display advertisements, bylines, headlines, obituaries and more. Cross-searchable with all other ProQuest titles.
Ethnic Newswatch [via ProQuest]
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A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States.
Independent Voices [via Reveal Digital on JSTOR]
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Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle [via ProQuest, ProQuest History Vault]
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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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Colored Conventions Project
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Africlassical.com [via William J. Zick]
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African Americans and National Identities in Central America
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An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually, the history of people of African descent in Central America. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Program, Mount Holyoke College and The Center for Central American Historical Research at the Universidad de Costa Rica.
Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War [via ProQuest History Vault] [via ProQuest]
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Black abolitionist papers [via ProQuest]
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Church Missionary Society Periodicals [via Adam Matthew]
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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [via Emory University]
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This database provides “information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.” It is primarily a data set permitting not only the display of details of each individual voyage but also the manipulation of that data in tables and charts. It also contains Maps and primary source images.