Librarian
Isabela Oliveira
She/Her/Hers
Contact:
4th Libe - Room 467
507-222-5304
ioliveira@carleton.edu
507-222-5304
ioliveira@carleton.edu
Subjects: Africana Studies, French, German, History, Linguistics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Russian
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Welcome!
Welcome to the AFST 220 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)
- Information about peer review
- Resources on searching for books
- Resources on searching for articles
- Information on how to cite your sources in Chicago style
- Information on how to schedule an appointment with your librarian
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.
- 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.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present by ISBN: 9780195167795Publication Date: 2009-02-02This encyclopedia focuses on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period.
Harvard guide to African-American history by Call Number: REF : E185 .H326 2001Essential reference source for transnational black history.
Historical Statistics of Black America by ISBN: 0810393913Publication Date: 1994-10-01Includes statistics on African American agriculture, business, crime and legal justice, education, employment, families, health, housing, population, religion, slavery, and voting.
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.
