AFAM 4380: Black Studies Senior Colloquium: Fall 2024 Research Topics

This guide is intended for students in the Black Studies Senior Colloquium, taught by Dr. Sarah Mahurin in Fall 2025. The guide provides an overview of key resources in the Yale Library for writing your senior essays this year.

Oral histories of Black generational women

On Housing and Community Vitality: Connecticut's Right to Counsel Program

Blackdom: The Lost Kingdom Prospectus

Representations of Black womanhood in animation

AFI Catalog
Film and Television Literature Index
Film Index International
Oxford Bibliographies
Articles here include "The Black Aesthetic" (African American Studies module) and "Animation and the Animated Film" (Cinema and Media Studies module)
Yale Film Archive

Helping Whom?: A Comparative Study of Black and White Self-Help Relationship Guides At the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Lift Up Thy Neighbor: Community Health in the Twentieth Century Deep South

Performative Passing: The Evolution of Racial Presentation in America

Beyond the Lote Tree: Toward an Ethics of Oneness

John Coltrane works in the Music Library collections
Includes several recordings of John Coltrane's that are part of the Music Library's Historical Sound Recordings collection
Music Library Special Collections
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Music Periodicals Database
Oxford Bibliographies
Articles here include "The Black Aesthetic" (African American Studies module)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature