Black World Studies: Find Articles
Primary Resources Guide
Articles, Documents, and Indices
- Africa-wide Information This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive database covering a wide array of important bibliographies, indexes and databases focusing on information to support The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
- Black Drama 1850 to Present This link opens in a new windowBlack Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, searchable information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.
- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records This link opens in a new windowThe focus of the Federal Government Records module is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century.
- Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. Contains stories and folk tales published in more than 15 countries from the mid-1900s to the present, including previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts by many authors, as well as complete runs of selected literary magazines that feature short stories. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.
- Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowDatabase contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Full texts of books, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
- Black Women Writers This link opens in a new windowFiction, poetry, and essays about Black Women Writers from Africa and the African Diaspora. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.
- Caribbean Search This link opens in a new windowCaribbean Search is a multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. The collection contains hundreds of Caribbean focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and reference books.
- Declassified Documents Reference System This link opens in a new windowFull-text of more than 78,000 declassified documents from various government agencies including the White House, CIA, FBI, State Dept. and others. Publications cover major foreign and domestic events such as the Cold War, Vietnam, and the civil rights movement. Useful for research in American history, foreign policy and international relations.
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windoweHRAF of Ethnography contains mostly primary source materials (mainly published books and articles), and includes some unpublished manuscripts and dissertations on selected cultures or societies representing all major regions of the world. This collection does not include all of the culture groups from the original HRAF files so be sure to consult the Encyclopedia of World Cultures if a culture group is not included in this collection.
- LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowLGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day.
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new windowContains a comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Features over 7,500 articles, approximately 100 primary sources, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies.
- Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new windowRace Relations Abstracts is a database of bibliographic records focused on content relating specifically to the relationship between races, specifically the social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities. Subjects covered include ethnic studies, discrimination, and immigration studies.
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new windowThis HeinOnline collection brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
- Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online This link opens in a new windowIn their own words, people from diverse ethnic and social groups bring vividly to life hundreds of years of history through their perspectives on life, love, faith, politics, business, and countless personal events.
- We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South This link opens in a new windowIncludes surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more. These materials provide unique (and in some cases recently declassified) insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new windowThis database includes documents from the President's Commission on the Status of Women, Institute for Women's Policy Research, papers of women active in the women's movements as well as selected speeches diaries and other publications.
