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Selected Webliography for the
African American Studies

  I. HOW TO RESEARCH AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY:

Basic Resources from Rutgers University Libraries
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/afroam.htm

Detailed Research Guide to African American Studies
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml

From the African Studies Collection at University of Pennsylvania
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/mcgee.html

African Americans from the University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html

Resources in Black Studies: L.O.C. SITES containing links to Historical Texts
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

Ohio State University: Another Gateway to Information
http://library.osu.edu/sites/thegateway/display.php

II. FROM USINFO WEBSITE: DEPARTMENT OF STATE
http://www.america.gov

(A) Population & Diversity
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity.html

(B) Civil Rights
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights.html

(C) African American History Month
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity
/african_americans/African_American_History_Month.html

(D) Additional Resources: U.S. History, Geography & Population: African American History Month
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/
african_americans/african_american_history_month/african_american_history_month_texts.html

(E) Census Facts 2006 for African Americans: Facts for Features
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006088.html

(F) Publications
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population
/population_and_diversity/population_diversity_publications.html

(G) Organizations concerned with African Americans in U.S.
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights/civil_rights_orgs.html

(H) Legal Resources from INFO USA
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights
/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_legal.html

(I) Timeline of Civil Rights Movement
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights
/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_timeline.html

(J) Online Reading
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/civil_rights
/african_american_rights/african_american_rights_online.html

(K) E Journal on Race:
http://www.america.gov/journals/itsv/0897/ijse/tocsv.htm

(L) E-Journals in Arabic:
http://www.america.gov/journals/journalsaraba.htm

III. AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

African American Women Authors: from the NY Public Library
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

Example of a Digitized Text
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-t/wwm975/@Generic__BookView

Harlem Renaissance Resources: PAL: Perspective in American Literature-A research and reference Guide-Ongoing project
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html

African American Women: from the Duke University Special Collection
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

African American Literature analysis, from USINFO
http://www.america.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/stepto.htm

African Americans Literature Bibliography, from USINFO
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and diversity/african_americans/african_americans_biblio.html

Websites on the Harlem Renaissance via USINFO http://www.america.gov/scv/Archive_Index/Reference_on_Web_Harlem_Renaissance.html

IV. DIGITIZED COLLECTIONS

Digitized Collections: from Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide
http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=33ECE98105E5BCCC50A00E3A1B82E017

From Documenting the American South Project: Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html

Library of Congress Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml

The LOC digitized Collection via the American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

Schomburg Collection: From Library of Congress: Slave Narrative Project
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

African American Collections, via LOC American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

Digitized Collection via Georgetown University Project for American Studies
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/asw/aswlinks.cfm?head1=Race%2C%20Ethnicity
%2C%20and%20Identity&head2=African%20American%20Resources

Schomburg Collection: The New York Public Library
http:// www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

V. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Afro-American Museum in Boston - Links
http://www.afroammuseum.org/links.htm

Smithsonian Museum
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

Museums: from USINFO
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/poulation_and_diversity
/african_americans/african_americans_museums.html

VI. CONTINUING EDUCATION THROUGH AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
Online courses, Essays, Perspectives

From USINFO: Essays on African American History Culture and Society
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/aa_reader.htm

MIT Distance Education:
http://ocw.mit.edu

Course on Writing about Race in MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies
/21W-742JWriting-About-RaceSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm

An example from a course on American Women writers
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/
21L-512American-Authors--American-Women-AuthorsSpring2003/RelatedResources/index.htm

VII. FULL TEXT JOURNALS

CALLALOO
http://muse.jhy.edu/journals/callaloo

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