Subject Portal » Black Studies
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- Margaret Schaus (HC)
- Arleen Zimmerle (BMC)
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major print encyclopedias:
Africana
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Africana : the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Over four thousand articles on the African experience covering all time periods. Many cross references, bibliographies and chronologies.
Encyclopedia of African American history 1619-1895
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Nearly seven hundred signed entries documenting the full range of the African American experience from 1619-1895. Selective bibliographies and cross-references appear at the end of each article.
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African studies abstracts online
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 2003-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 2003-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 2003-present.
Publisher: Leiden [The Netherlands] : African Studies Centre,
Provides abstracts of journal articles and books in the social sciences relating to Africa. Covers 2003-present.
America, history and life
Provider: ABC-Clio
Provides abstracts of journals, reviews and dissertations on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers 1954-present.
Bibliography of the history of art
Provider: CSA
Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Includes European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers 1973-present.
Ethnic newswatch
Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. In English and Spanish, it offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Covers 1990-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.
Sociological abstracts
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1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Records added after 1972 contain in-depth abstracts of journal articles. Covers 1963-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the citation indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index. These multidisciplinary databases can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that cite a known author or work can also be searched. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic. Science citation index expanded coverage 1955-present; Social sciences citation index coverage 1956-present.