African and African American Studies

Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887. Tutorial for the Academic Search Complete database.

Database provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection features papers from more than 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.

Resource features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans published in 26 states. Include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the historical backfiles of the Chicago Defender newspaper, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies journals. Also includes the International Index to Black Periodicals and the Black Literature Index.
Tutorial for the Black Studies Center database.

Features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews, and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Provides access to their African American Perspectives collection in partnership with California Newsreel, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations.
Tutorial for the Black Studies in Video (North America) database.

Provides access to full-text documents of major black leaders in North America from the 19th & 20th centuries to 1975. Currently includes approximately 100,000 pages of primary source materials.
Tutorial for the Black Thought & Culture database.

Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature from 1955 to present (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America. Note: with full-text links to 420,000 journals.

Provides access to more than 4,000 titles from general reference databases, including a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.