African Americana
- General Guides:
- African American Web Connection
- A large collection of African American resources covering many subjects.
- American Studies Web
- A bibliography of web-based resources in the field of American Studies which includes a section specifically for African Americans listed under "Race, Ethnicity and Identity."
- The Amistad Research Center
- One of the nation's largest repositories specializing in the history of African Americans. Contains, for the most part, descriptions of the collections (manuscripts, art, periodicals) of the Center located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
- Bibliographies:
- African-American Studies: Literature and History
- A bibliography to selected LSU Libraries reference resources.
- African-American Women
- A Selected Bibliography of LSU Resources.
- Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
- This guide by Michael Plunkett which is published by the University of Virginia is a descriptive listing of manuscripts in collections throughout Virginia.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month
- Selected Reference Sources from Louisiana State University Libraries.
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Exhibits:
- The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
- An online exhibit covering nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere.
- The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953 ... A Recaptured Past
- "Baton Rouge was the site of the first successful bus boycott of the 1950s. This event became a blueprint for the more publicized boycott to take place two years later in Montgomery, Alabama, and it set the stage for desegregation in the Deep South.
This exhibit includes photographs, an historical timeline, and the personal recollections of some of the major figures behind the Baton Rouge bus boycott. It represents the combined efforts of students at McKinley High School and Louisiana State University graduate students of EDCI 5880, Summer Session 1998" - Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
- This collection features currency issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction Eras that featured images of slavery. However, many Southern currency did not feature images of slavery.
- The Digital Schomberg and Online Exhibitions
- Features exhibits at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, "a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."
- Integration and the Black Experience at LSU
- "Integration and the Black Experience at LSU is a unique collection that includes audio files and transcripts from interviews conducted from 1985 to 1998 of black students, faculty, and administrators at LSU during integration (1950-1970). Additional interviewees include lawyers and t heir clients who were involved in key lawsuits, as well as politicians and others who were vocal opponents or supporters of integration."
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Indexes & Databases: Indexes and Databases can be used for finding articles, books, and other material. LSU Libraries has over 300, many are interdisciplinary. The indexes and databases below are a select few that may be of interest to this topic.
- Academic Search Complete
- Provides full text of more than 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, it offers indexing and abstracts for all 7,962 journals in the collection. The database covers the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, and more.
- Accessible Archives: African American Newspapers: 19th Century
- Provides articles from the following journals: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper and The Christian Recorder.
- Black Drama
- Click link to view details.
- Black Short Fiction
- Click link to view details.
- Black Thought and Culture
- Click link to view details.
- Dissertations Abstracts
- Citations to 1.2 million dissertations and masters theses. Coverage begins in 1861, with abstracts available since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988.
- ERIC Abstracts
- The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is an index sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The database covers education materials published from 1966 to the present, and it consists of the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 775 professional journals.
- Lexis Nexis Academic
- Full-text to news, business, legal and reference information. Coverage varies depending on source.
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
- Provides citations to articles from journals,dissertations, monographs, proceedings and other critical materials dealing with modern language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to literature on social policy, politics, economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration and government. Coverage is from 1972 - present.
- PsycInfo (Psychological Abstracts)
- Provides access to abstracts from over 1300 journals, dissertations and technical reports in the areas of psychology and related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology and psychiatry.
The LSU Libraries has many online periodicals related to African Americana. This is only a select few. Search the online catalog on the home page, or ask a librarian to find more.
- African American Review
- Publishes essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts and culture generally; interviews, poetry, fiction and book reviews. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum, and between 1976 and 1991, under the title Black American Literature Forum.
- The Black Collegian Online
- " . . . electronic version of the 26 year old, national career opportunities magazine. In addition to the abundance of career planning/job search information, there is commentary by leading African-American writers, lifestyle/entertainment features, general information on college life, and news of what's happening oncollege campuses today." Also available through Academic Search Premier, 1990- present
- Callaloo
- The premier African and African-American literary journal, publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide. From Project Muse, a gateway to over 100 scholarly journals.
- Journal of Black Studies
- Available through JSTOR, 1970 - (three year embargo)
- Journal of Negro History
- Available through JSTOR as The Journal of Negro History from 1916 - 2001; changes to The Journal of African American History, available 2002 - present with a three-year embargo period,
