Online Resources & Databases
- African American History from the Library of Congress Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection, this website leads you to excellent primary sources-- books, music, interviews and more-- all available on the Internet.
- Black Freedom Struggle Black Freedom Struggle is a new resource freely available from ProQuest, containing primary sources for teaching and learning about Black American history. Curated with input from Black history scholars and advisors, Black Freedom Struggle spans the abolitionist movement of the 1790s to the present day.
- Black Studies multimedia database Videos, audio and text on historical periods, people, performances,
- Chicken Bones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes. Features on Education, the Caribbean, Baltimore, and World Issues.
- HistoryMakers Digital Archive The HistoryMakers Digital Archive aims to be the nation's largest African American Video Oral History archive, with over 148,000 stories from 2,691 storytellers. Their aim is to provide oral history interviews on both individuals and African-American groups and movements.
- In Motion: African-American Migration Experience The African-American Migration Experience presents texts, illustrations and maps to describe the migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation.
- National Museum of African American History & Culture The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.
Featured Books
How Racism Takes Place by
White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in "How Racism Takes Place." An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life chances along racial lines. That is, these practices assign people of different races to different spaces and therefore allow grossly unequal access to education, employment, transportation, and shelter. Revealing how seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain hidden racial assumptions and imperatives, Lipsitz examines the ways in which urban space and social experience are racialized and emphasizes that aggrieved communities do not passively acquiesce to racism. He recognizes the people and communities that have reimagined segregated spaces in expressive culture as places for congregation. "How Racism Takes Place" not only exposes the degree to which this white spatial imagining structures our society but also celebrates the black artists and activists who struggle to create a just and decent society. a
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- The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States byE185.615 .A37 2010
Forged in the Fiery Furnace by
This essential introduction to African American spirituality shows how spirituality has nurtured their survival through slavery, segregation, and the challenges of society today.
Call Number: BR563.N4 H3788 2012- Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics byE185.615 .H288 2012
