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African and African Diaspora Subject Guide
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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
African Women's Bibliographic Database
This database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current and indexes six types of materials, including books, conference papers, and journal articles.
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Aluka
 Aluka is an international collaborative initiative building an
online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Aluka includes high-quality scholarly
content from institutions and individuals across the
globe and features powerful
tools for research, teaching, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.
Scholarly
materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, range from archival
documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference
works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant
specimens, photographs, and slides.
Hekman Library access to Aluka is currently free of cost. The possibility of a subscription will be considered when complementary access expires. If you are benefiting from this resource please contact us.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
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Europa World Plus
Europa World Plus incorporates the full text contents of some of the Europa World Year Book and the eight Europa regional surveys. This database provides authoritative and current analytical information about countries and international organizations. Country overviews include historic, economic, trade, and political information.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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Reference Materials
African Development Indicators - HC800.A1 A356
The most detailed collection of development data on Africa in one volume.
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience - DT14 .A37435 2005
A five-volume reference set which includes more than three thousand articles, with a focus on political, social, and cultural history.
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Companion to African Literatures - PR9340 .C65 2000
Authoritative and up-to-date, this comprehensive compendium is useful for anyone working on African literature.
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Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara - DT351 .E53 1997
Topics include the intricate ties of family and kinship, the complex matrix of government, politics, and law, and the beauties of African arts, cultures, and languages.
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Encyclopedia of African History - DT20 .E53 2005
Examines the well-established topics in African history but also looks at the social, economic, linguistic, anthropological, and political subjects that are being re-evaluated or newly opened for historical analysis by recent research and publication.
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Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations - DT14 .E43 2002
From the Facts on File Library of World History and compiled by the diagram group, this reference book details the continent of Africa's civilization and history.
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Encyclopedia of African Peoples - DT15 .E53 2000
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Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 - DT30 .A35 2003
This collection brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years.
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Web Sources
All Africa Global Media
This website posts over 1000 stories daily in English and French and offers over 900,000 articles in a searchable archive.
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Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South is a large-scale digital publishing
initiative that features primary resources in history for the study of
the history, literature, and culture of the American South.
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GlobaLink-Africa Online Curriculum
The UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa (GRCA) GlobaLink-Africa
Online Curriculum is an interactive online resource for thinking
critically about globalization and its relationship to Africa, Africans
and United States-Africa policy.
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H-Africa
H-Africa offers online discussion of Africa's history, culture, and African studies.
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H-Afro-Am
Provides an exchange of information for professionals, faculty and advanced students, in the field of African American Studies.
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Pan-African Perspective
Resources for topics relating to Pan-Africanism.
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Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art
The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art website provides lists of high quality and content-rich internet resources from thousands of educational web sites.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
A collection of approximately 1,200 images selected from a wide range of sources dating from the period of slavery.
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Periodicals
ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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