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Welcome to the AFST 113 Research Guide! Here you will find resources to help you with your Africana Studies research. Use the side navigation to find:
- Resources to find information on your topic (scroll down)
- Resources on searching for books
- Resources on searching for articles
- Resources for finding primary sources
- Information on how to create an annotated bibliography and how to cite your sources in Chicago style
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Reference Sources
Begin your search with reference works to find background information, locate statistics and facts, gather ideas for keywords to use in searching databases and build a bibliography. Come back to these sources to clarify concepts or facts as you continue your research.
Africa Bibliography by Brings together works published on Africa in a given year. Arranged by region, country, and then subject.
Africana by ISBN: 0195170555Publication Date: 2005-04-07This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic.- The African American Experience byISBN: 0313065004With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of increasing numbers of titles on African American life and history. This volume provides a comprehensive bibliographical and analytical guide to this growing body of literature as well as an analysis of how the study of African Americans has changed.
Harvard guide to African-American history by Essential reference source for transnational black history.
- Historical Dictionaries for African Nations
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A valuable reference series for the history of specific African nations; the dictionaries contain chronologies, brief topical entries, and bibliographies; to locate a historical dictionary for a particular country, perform a title search in Catalyst for "Historical Dictionary of (country name)."
International African BibliographyCall Number: CC Reference DT3 .I58Indexes 1,150 periodicals each year. Arranged by area/topic; 1980 to date issues have subject and ethnic group indexes but they are not detailed.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History by ISBN: 9780199572472Publication Date: 2013-12-01The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of,the history of Africa.
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by ISBN: 9783030280987Publication Date: 2021-10-29This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women's historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus.
