Subject and Course Guides: African and African American Studies: Finding Articles

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Keywords: Try a variety of terms e.g. African American, blacks, minority groups

For 19 century research, consider using Negro*, Colored, blacks

Printed Indexes

Use the following indexes to search for articles older than 2004.

Use Delivery/Interlibrary Loan to request volumes stored at the LDRF.

Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals
Several newspapers are included.
LDRF AI3 .B55
Black Index: Afro-Americana in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949
Critical studies on black life and culture
Love E185 .N39x
Index to Black Periodicals
Index to articles from 1984-2004
LDRF AI3 .I5
Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks
Index to articles from 1973-1983
LDRF AI3 .I5
Index to Periodical Articles by and about Negroes
Index to articles from 1959-1972
LDRF AI3 .I5

African American databases & journals

African American Literature and History

Top picks

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Articles from a wide range of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and trade publications. (Full-Text and Abstracts)
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles focusing on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. (Index)
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Modern and historical essays, journals, newspapers, fiction, literature, and poetry on the African diaspora experience. Includes the historical Chicago Defender newspaper. Material comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Full-Text)
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic and minority presses, including LGBT presses, providing access to essential and often overlooked perspectives not found in other mainstream resources. (Full-Text)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR is a digital library of the leading academic journals, books, and primary sources in core academic disciplines. Back runs of journals are complete; recent issues of journals are delayed by three to five years depending on the publisher. Limit to African American journals (subset of 25).
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. Fields of study include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. (Full-Text)
Note: UNL does not have full-text access to some materials on this platform.

Civil Rights and Social Justice (HeinOnline)
This database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
Slavey in America and the World History (HeinOnline)
This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

African Studies databases & journals

African Studies Literature and History

Top Picks

African Studies Abstracts Online
ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities.
African Studies Quarterly
An interdisciplinary open access journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to the African continent.

Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Modern and historical essays, journals, newspapers, fiction, literature, and poetry on the African diaspora experience. Includes the historical Chicago Defender newspaper. Material comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Full-Text)

Critical African Studies
Publishes Africanist scholarship in the areas of Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law, and Economics.

eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly books, journal articles, dissertations, and conference papers on cultures from all regions of the world. (Full-Text)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR is a digital library of the leading academic journals, books, and primary sources in core academic disciplines. Back runs of journals are complete; recent issues of journals are delayed by three to five years depending on the publisher. Limit to African Studies journals (subset of 75).
World Bank DataBank (includes World Development Indicators) This link opens in a new window
Time series data on a variety of financial and demographic topics. Queries can be created to generate tables, charts, and maps.

Africa Commons: History and Culture
Platform for the preservation and discovery of primary sources on African history and culture in archival collections at African institutions, and around the world.

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