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Library Research Guide

AFRST381

Freedom
Prof. Nieves
Fall 2009 

 

Background Materials

The African American Years
Location:  Ref E 185 S797 2003
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.



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


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Local Primary Source Materials

America's Historical Newspapers
Hamilton College Digital Collections
Population Schedules of the United States, Oneida County
Location: Microfilm HA 542 1790-1930

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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: September 9, 2009 KLS)