Africana Studies Databases
Recommended starting places
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
African American Collection (Gale)
(reference resource, encyclopedias)
A group of selected reference works dealing with African American studies.
Oxford African American Studies Center
(reference resource, encyclopedias)
A collection focused on African American and African history and culture, featuring reference works, primary sources, images, maps, timelines, and biographies.
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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
(newspaper)
Includes more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.
America: History and Life (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
Covers Canadian and U.S. history indexing from 1964-present.
Ethnic NewsWatch
(article index)
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
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