African American Studies: Home

"Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more. It combines essential resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975."

Includes many encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference works. Look for relevant titles under Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Literature, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Religion, and other headings. Individual books include A Companion to African American History and A Companion to African American Studies.

Numerous cross-searchable works here include the Encyclopedia of African American Society, the Encyclopedia of Black Studies, and the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.

"The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture."

Includes The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology, The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative, and other relevant titles with useful articles.

The major index for literary studies, updated several times throughout the year. Subjects covered are:
Modern literatures; Literary theory and criticism; Linguistics; Teaching of language; Film, television and theater; Rhetoric and composition; History of the book; Folklore.

A large set of current, annotated bibliographies arranged into modules such as African American Studies, African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art History, Atlantic History, Cinema and Media Studies, Music, Political Science, and Sociology.
Each module offers numerous articles containing the annotations. Click the [+] after each entry to learn whether and where the item can be found in the Yale University Library.

Published in 2001, a major one-volume reference work full of extensive bibliographies. Available only in print.

Published in 2000, a collection of seventeen bibliographic essays, each followed by a list of several sources.

Introductory collections of essays on many topics. Examples of titles include The Cambridge Companion to African American Theater, The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, and The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois. Individual chapters available for PDF download.