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
Welcome!
Welcome to the AFST 100 Research Guide! Here you will find resources to help you with your Africana Studies research. Use the side navigation to find:
- Resources to find background 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.
Africa Bibliography by Call Number: Ref DT3 .A38Brings 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.
Black Europe and the African Diaspora by ISBN: 9780252034671Publication Date: 2009-09-10The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context.
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.
