Books: Use the Library Catalog

Guides

EBSCO Discovery Service Tutorials
Learn how to search the Google like search box for resources in the Henderson Library.

Library Research Modules
Learn how to use the library from 10 self-paced modules that include: [1]: Introduction to Research [2]: Select Library Terminology [3]: Search Stratagies [4]: GALILEO [5]: GIL: Library Catalog [6]: Internet & Other Resources [7]: Evaluationg Sources, Critical Thinking, Active Reading [8]: Citation Styles and Giving Credit [9]: Copyright & Fair Use [10]: Need Help?

Journals/Magazines

African Studies Quarterly
An online publication from the University of Florida, ASQ is indexed in Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) and by the Gale Group.

Atlases

Atlas of American diversity

The Penguin atlas of diasporas

Biographical Information

Dictionary of literary biography yearbook
Volumes focusing on African-American and African writers include:rnVols. 33, 38, 41, 50, 51,76,117,125, and 157

Notable Black American women

Encyclopedias

Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia

Reference Materials

African American writers

Bibliographic guide to Black studies

Black Americans in autobiography : an annotated bibliography of autobiographies and autobiographical books written since the Civil War

Web Sites

African Studies Center
The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania is recognized as a vital and forward-looking center where researchers, students and cultural and business entities come to gain knowledge of contemporary and historical Africa.

African Studies Internet resources
Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Dep

The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history & culture.

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial
A tutorial prepared by the University Library at the University of Southern Mississippi. For additional resources regarding plagiarism and citing sources, see the selection of resources under the subject Academic Integrity in EagleSource.

The Center for Africana Studies
Georgia Southern University offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of peoples of African heritage through the Africana Studies minor program.

Historical Text Archive (Category: African American)
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.

The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. Their purpose is to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language - Kiswahili - both within Swahili and between Swahili and English.

The King Papers Project at Stanford University
The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated

The Museum of Afro-American History (Boston and Nantucket)
The Museum of Afro-American History is New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving and interpreting the contributions of African Americans.

Women in Precolonial and Colonial Yorubaland
Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change is organized into four parts. The first section is an introduction and a discussion on sources of Yoruba women’s history as well as a historiography of the major themes in the work, notably, gender and patriarchy, women and colonialism, and female agency. Part 2 lays out the framework of women’s lives. It touches on women in the domestic context, the effects of salvation religions on traditional marriage, and British imperialism. Part 3 focuses on women’s economic functions. It considers landowning by women, the types of work women did in the household and public setting, women’s contribution to agriculture, and women\'s adaptation of Western skills into income-generating ventures. The final part describes the other avenues through which Yoruba women participated in their community. It looks at women’s roles in religious and cultural activities as well as in public authority. Through the various sections of this work, McIntosh presents a holistic view of the lives of women in southwestern Nigeria who engaged in an array of roles from domestic and long distance traders, handicraft producers, and titled chiefs, to politicians in the 1940s and 1950s. Through this broader investigation of the spheres of female influence, this work expands female identity and enlarges the space for Yoruba women in an era when the government of the Yoruba state during the nineteenth century and the British colonial administration were controlled by men.