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 [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.
Related Databases
Sociological Abstracts [via ProQuest]
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America: History and Life [via EBSCO]
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Historical Abstracts [via EBSCO] [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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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 [Chadwyck-Healey]
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The Heinemann’s African Writers Series was founded by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka in 1962. It features the key texts of modern African literature, and a record of post-colonialism in culture. This database includes the full text of collection’s over 230 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose from African writers. Titles can be browsed or searched.
19th Century US Newspapers [via Gale]
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19th Century US Newspapers (NCNP) provides access to over 28 million articles of primary source newspaper content from the 19th-century, featuring full-text content and images from newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history,Western migration and the Antebellum-era among other subjects. Newspapers from all 19th-century U.S. states and territories are included.
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 Abolitionist Papers [via ProQuest]
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Set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.
Over 15,000 items are available for searching.
Black Drama [via Alexander Street Press]
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Black Drama contains the full text of hundreds of plays by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Also contains theatrical production information.
Confidential Print: Africa (1834-1966) [via Adam Matthew]
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This is a full-text collection of documents from the “United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966.”
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) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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Includes the full image of articles published in the Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975. The Chicago Defender was the most influential African-American newspaper of the 20th century. With the majority of its readership outside the Chicago region, it served as the de facto national black newspaper in the U.S. You can browse individual issues by clicking Publications at the top of the screen, or search by keyword(s), author(s), article title, date ranges, and more. Includes illustrations and advertisements.
Cleveland Call & Post (1934-1991) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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One of the nine African American newspapers available through ProQuest. This weekly paper was founded in 1928 with a merging of the Cleveland Call and the Cleveland Post, and is still published today. Keep in mind, this database does not include the full run of the newspaper.
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.
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 History Vault] [via ProQuest]
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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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One of nine African American newspapers available through ProQuest. The Pittsburgh Courier was “one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Pittsburgh Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.”
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.