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AFRST120

Introduction to Afro-Latin@ History and Culture
Prof. Nieves
Fall 2009 

 

Background Materials

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
Location: Ref DT 14 .A37435 1999
Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization
Location: Ref F 1408.3 .N86 

  Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
More than 2,300 signed essays with bibliographies touching on all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Location: Ref F 1406 E53 1996
Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United states
Location:  Ref E 184 S75 H365 1993


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Finding Articles

Core Resources:


 America: History and Life
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Subjects include area studies, folklore, government, historiography, political science, popular culture, and urban history.

Black Studies Center
Includes:

  • Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience: exclusive essays and studies from leading Black Studies Scholars.
  • The Chicago Defender, 1910-1975
  • Baltimore Afro-American, 1893-1988
  • Chicago Defender, 1910-1975
  • Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2005
  • New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993
  • Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002
  • International Index to Black Periodicals-Full Text: scholarly journals and newsletters, plus citations and abstracts from 1902-present.
  • Black Literature Index: more than 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry, and literary reviews published in black periodicals and newspapers between 1827 and 1940. Includes direct links to full-text articles from the Chicago Defender.

 Ethnic NewsWatch

A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Searchable in both English and Spanish, the collection contains more 932,000 articles (over 203,000 of them in Spanish) from 275 publications.

 Historical Abstracts 
Covers the periodical literature, dissertations and book reviews on the world's history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the twentieth century.

 LexisNexis Academic 
Full text news, legal, business and reference information. Also includes foreign language news (Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish).


Additional Resources:
 


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Finding Books

Use ALEX, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.

  • Search topics by KEYWORD or SUBJECT

African Diaspora
Blacks - Latin America
Latin America - Civilization - African Influences
Caribbean Area - Civilization - African Influences

  • Use WorldCat to find more books and information on your topic.  You can then interlibrary most materials.


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Web Sites

Afro-Cuba Web
Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Black Mexico Homepage
FBI Files on Puerto Ricans
Global Afro-Latino & Caribbean Initiative (GALCI)
Indigenous and Afro Latino Scholarship Program (IALS), Georgetown University
Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
Virtual Boricua
World Bank & Afro-Latins

 


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Images and Copyright

Images and Multimedia Resources
Finding Images in the Library
Fair Use Checklist
Copyright@Hamilton
Hamilton College Copyright Policy

 

Get Help

For assistance with this course, contact:

Kristin Strohmeyer
Reference Librarian
Burke Library
315-859-4481
kstrohme@hamilton.edu


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(Reviewed: October 1, 2009 KLS)