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The African American experience: an historiographical and bibliographical guide
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Call Number: E184.65 .A37 2001 and OnlineThis 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
Black Power Encyclopedia [2 Volumes] by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9781440840067Publication Date: 2018-07-11An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s.
The Cambridge Guide to African American History by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9781107501966Publication Date: 2016-02-15This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9781107635647Publication Date: 2015-03-02The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature.
Catalyst & Specialized Databases
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African-Americans—Civil rights
Civil Rights—African Americans
Black power—United States
Black Panther Party—History
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive collection of scholarship that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Contains scholarly articles, reference works, primary sources, timelines, biographies, images, maps, charts and tables, and film clips, among many other things. - ProQuest Black Studies This link opens in a new window
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Historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars. - Umbra Search This link opens in a new window
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Portal to digital African American history and culture collections online.
Books
Black Against Empire by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9780520966451Publication Date: 2016-10-25Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.
The Black Power Movement by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 0415945968Publication Date: 2006-03-24Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era.
Black Power 50 by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9781620971482Publication Date: 2016-09-06Black Power 50 includes original interviews with key figures from the movement, essays from today's leading Black Power scholars and over one hundred stunning images from the Schomburg's celebrated archives, offering a beautiful and compelling introduction to this pivotal movement.
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9780805075397Publication Date: 2006
