Black Studies Subject Portal

Recommended Resources:

• African-American History & Life
• Archives & Historical Research Centers
• Art
• Associations, Institutions, etc.
• CSU Black Studies Department
• Education

• Kwanzaa
• Literature
• Music
• Politics
• Reference Resources
• Web Searches

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African- American History & Life

• Access to African-American Studies
• African-American Experience in Ohio
• The African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• Africans in America (PBS)
• American Slave Narratives
• Black Power Movement Microform Collection (resource guide)
• Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
• Gateway to African American History
• History Research Tutorial (Ohio State University)
• Life and Death in the African Diaspora: A Celebration of the Humanities
• Notable Blacks of Cleveland (approximately 2,000 images of 500 individuals selected from photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection at Cleveland State University Library)
• Slavery Times

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Archives & Historical Research Centers

• African American Perspectives (Library of Congress)
• African Studies WWW (University of Pennsylvania)
• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
• The Amistad Research Center
• Black Film Center/Archive
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• The Historical Text Archive
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Directory
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Selections from The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide
• W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research

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Art

• African American Artists on Disc (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
• Anacostia Museum (Smithsonian)
• Art (The Universal Black Pages) (List of museums, galleries, artists)
• National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
• Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present

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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• African-American Women's Network
• NAACP
• National Urban League

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CSU Black Studies Department

• About the CSU Black Studies Collection
• Collection Statistics for Black Studies
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions
• Blackboard Course Listing (Arts & Sciences)
• Blackboard Course Listings

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Education

• DiversityInc.com (minority news)
• Fraternities, Sororities, and Living Groups
• Division of Student Affairs & Minority Affairs (CSU)
• Schools and Student Organizations

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Kwanzaa

• MelaNet

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Literautre

• Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Literatures--African-American

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Music

• Archives of African American Music and Culture
• BluesNet
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• People of Jazz Index

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Politics

• Black Elected Officials in the United States
• Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

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Reference Resources

• African Review of Books
• The Black Population in the United States (current statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of African Mythology (Oxford University Press)
• Facts on the Black or African-American Population (social and economic statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau)

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Web Searches

• Resources in Black Studies (University of California: Santa Barbara
• Universal Black Pages
• Yahoo! African-American Studies

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