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 To find books, documents, maps,
music and
videos which cover Africana topics you will need to search the library's
catalogue which we call Yorkline.
For a lesson on how to use Yorkline check out the online User's
Guide, and for information on how to do library research look at the following online tutorial Library
Research Roadmap.
To find material
in Africana studies you can try using these suggested search terms in
Yorkline:
Africa / African
Afro-Americans
Afro-Caribbean
Afrocentrism
Afro-Asian
Afroasiatic
Black Canadians
Black english
Black nationalism
Black power
Black race
Blacks
Caribbean
Discrimination
Ethnicity
Micegenation
Minorities
Prejudices
Race relations
Racial
Racially mixed people
Racism
West Indian
For information on how to
construct a bibliography for the social sciences see the APA
style sheet and to do one for the humanities see the MLA
style sheet . If you need to find out how to cite material you found
electronically see the Online
Citation style sheet.
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To find articles in newspapers,
magazines and academic journals the following indexes
and databases should be useful. As a starting point try using the same
keywords as suggested above. For a lesson on how to search electronic
databases see the Finding
Articles Tutorial.
Electronic Periodical Indexes / Databases
- African Studies
African Studies is an exclusive combination of databases and provides unique
access to over 300 periodicals and edited works on Africa in the social sciences and humanities.
- Alternative Press Index
This source is an index to alternative and radical publications.
Numerous subjects headings deal with Africana topics including both the
continent and the diaspora, as well as issues like racism and
discrimination.
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Expanded Academic
Use this database to find articles in the humanities, social sciences, arts, science and
technology. This database indexes and abstracts approximately 1580 scholarly and general interest
periodicals and provides full text of over 520 periodicals.
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International Index to Black Periodicals
This database includes citations from over 150 scholarly and popular
periodicals and has a multidisciplinary Black studies focus. Full-text coverage is available for 25 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
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PAIS
This database indexes 1600 periodicals and 8000 books annually on topics
of international economics, social issues and politics. One of it's
major strengths is global issues and as such countries in the Two-Thirds
world, including Africa and the Caribbean, are well covered.
Print Periodical Indexes / Databases
- Africa South of the Sahara - Index to Periodical Literature
1900-1970
Z 3503 U47 Scott Reference
This index provides access to primary source articles about Africa.
It is a challenge to use and will be of most use to the student
conducting historical research.
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Africana book reviews, 1885-1945
Z 3501 E35 Scott Reference
This guide provides access to reviews of books which were being
written about Africa from 1885-1945. Useful for uncovering a historical
perspective about Africa and colonialism.
- Caribbean Abstracts
2nd floor Scott Index Shelves
This source contains abstracts of books and articles in the humanities
and social sciences which are held at the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (Netherlands). Their strong Caribbean Studies
collection is featured in this tool.
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Index to Black Periodicals
2nd floor Scott Index Shelves
This is an index to African-American periodicals of general and
scholarly interest. Topic coverage is interdisciplinary and includes
all aspects of the African experience, especially the diasporic
viewpoint.
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The Kaiser Index to Black resources 1948-1986 -
Z 1361 N39 K34 Scott Reference
This index includes 174, 000 records documenting the experiences of
African-Americans. It was compiled by librarians at the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture over the corse of almost 40 years.
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Multicultural Education Abstracts
2nd floor Scott Index Shelves
This abstract scans major international journals and books to find
material relevant to multicultural education. The subject index provides
good coverage of Africana issues under such headings as
African-American, African-Canadians, Black parents and Caribbean
families.
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Sage Race Relations Abstracts
2nd floor Scott Index Shelves
Each quarterly issue of this source offers clearly-written summaries of the best and most recent journal articles, books and conference papers
dealing with race relations. Sage Race Relations Abstracts assesses more than 300
publications and includes topics such as discrimination, culture,
community relations and politics.
General Periodical Indexes / Databases
Electronic Journals
You may also want to try browsing the following online journals:
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There is lots of interesting and worthwhile information available on the
internet for Africana studies. However, you need to be careful about
what you decide to use because there are also lots of dated, low-quality,
incorrect and biased websites out there. To find out more about how to
critically evaluate websites check out our section on Evaluating
the Internet. Below are a few metasites which should provide a good
jumping off point for internet research.
Search Engines and
Websites
- African Canadian Online
This site is hosted by York University's Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada.
It aims to provide links and information relating to African Canadian
artists and writers.
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Caribe Search
This site is primarily an Internet Subject guide which organizes it's
information about the West Indies into useful topic directories. It's
goal is to foster the development of the Caribbean online community.
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Columbia University's African Studies websites
This site is a collection of online resources
pertaining to study of the African continent. Links are organized by region and country
and include journals, library catalogs, news archives, reports and art
exhibitions.
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H-Net Gateway to African Studies
H-Net Africa is an international network of teachers and students
who are
interested in Africana. It is a collection of list serves (in this
case such topics as African/African-American culture, politics, literature,
history) where scholars discuss issues of interest.
- International
Cultural Centre Caribbean Links
This metasite provides access to search
engines, newspapers and general websites on the Caribbean. It is
organized geographically allowing one to search for information on
the particular West Indian island of interest.
- InfoSurf's
Black Studies links
This site is a major gateway to online
information about Africa and the diaspora. Links are organized by
format (e.g.. fulltext essays and journals) and by topic (e.g.. Music,
Religion, Politics).
- Africa
Web Links - Penn State
This site is valuable for the numerous
subject headings under which you can search for African electronic
resources. These include such topics as Human rights, architecture and
the environment.
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Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center is committed to documenting the histories and cultures of peoples of African descent.
Their selected Internet resources are easily searched by geographic
region and topic area and provide access to a wide range of
sites.
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Soul Search
Soul Search bills itself as the search
engine for people of colour. One can use the search box to conduct a
keyword search or choose one of the topics (including Caribbean,
Religion, Genealogy and Health) in the subject tree.
- WoYaa! African Web Portal
WoYaa's subtitle reflects it's goal :
promoting Africa in the Digital Age. This site is both a search engine
and a subject guide and includes links to magazines, news, forums and
lists.
Digital Collections
Reference
Sources
The following print resources are all available in the Reference
collection which is on the 2nd floor of Scott library.
Guides to the Literature
Latin America and the Caribbean : a critical guide to research sources.
Paula H. Covington, David Block et al. New York : Greenwood Press, 1992. Z 1601 L3225 1992
Scott Reference
Interdisciplinary bibliographic guide to Black studies. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
New York, : G.K. Hall, 1998- Z 3509 N482 1998 Scott Reference
Reference guide to Africa : a bibliography of sources. Alfred Kagan and Yvette
Scheven. Lanham, USA : Scarecrow Press, 1999. Z 3501 K15 1999 Scott Reference
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American
experience. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates. New York : Basic Civitas Books,
1999.
CD-Rom in Scott or DT 14 A37435 1999 Scott Reference.
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. Simon Collier, Thomas E.
Skidmore and Harold Blakemore. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,1992. F 1406 C36 1992
Scott Reference
Dictionary of Caribbean English usage. Richard Allsopp. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
PE 3304 D33 1996 Scott Reference
Juba to jive : a dictionary of African-American slang. Clarence Major.
New York : Penguin Books, 1994. PE 3727 N4 M34 1994 Scott Reference
The Peoples of Africa : an ethnohistorical dictionary. James S. Olson.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. GN 645 O47 1996 Scott Reference.
Biographical Sources
Africa : a biography of the continent. John Reader. New York :
A.A. Knopf, 1998.
DT 20 R43 1998 Scott Reference
African American women : a biographical dictionary. Dorothy C.
Salem. New York : Garland, 1993. E 185.96 A45 1993 Scott Reference
Indo Caribbean Canadians : who's who : profiles of achievement. Stephen E.
Nancoo, Robert S. Nancoo and Stephen N. Nancoo. Mississauga, Ont. : Canadian Educators' Press, 1995.
FC 106 E2 N35 1995 Scott Reference
Notable Black American men. Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit : Gale Research, 1999.
E 185.86 N68 1999 Scott Reference
Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African writers. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander.
Detroit : Gale Research, 1996. PN 451 D53 V.157 Scott Reference
Bibliographies
A Black Canadian Bibliography. Flora Blizzard Francis. Ottawa : Pan-African Publications, 2000.
Z 1395 N39 F73 2000 Scott Reference
Africa, Asia, and South America since 1800 : a bibliographical guide.
A. J. H. Latham. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1995. Z 6204 A38 1995
Scott Reference
Bibliography of African Literatures. Peter Limb and Jean-Marie
Volet. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press,
1996. Z 6514 C7 A38 1996 Scott Reference
Black / White Relations in American history : an annotated bibliography.
Leslie V. Tishauser. California : Salem Press, 1998. Z 1361 N39 T57 1998
Scott Reference
Blacks in Canada : in search of the promise : a bibliographic guide to the history of
Blacks in Canada. Francine Govia and Helen Lewis. Edmonton : Harambee Centres Canada, 1988.
FC 106 B55 G68 1988 Scott Reference
Caribbean Literature : a bibliography. Marian Goslinga. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Z 1595 G69 1998 Scott Reference
Handbooks, Almanacs and Chronologies
Almanac of African peoples and nations. Mohamad Z.
Yakan. New Jersey : Transaction,
1999. DT 15 Y35 1999 Scott Reference
The Black handbook : the people, history, and politics of African and the
African diaspora. E. L. Bute and H. J. P Harmer. Washington : Cassell, 1997.
DT 20 B86 1997 Scott Reference
Pan-African Chronology : a comprehensive reference to the Black quest for
freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400-1865. Everett Jenkins, Jr.
North Carolina : McFarland & Co., 1996. DT 17 J46 1996 Scott Reference
Pan-African chronology II : a comprehensive reference to the Black quest for freedom
in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia, 1865-1915. Everett Jenkins, Jr.
North Carolina : McFarland, c1998. DT 17 J46 1998 Scott Reference
Tracing Memory : a glossary of graphic signs and symbols in African art
and culture. Clementine M. Faik-Nzuji. Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization,
1996. N 7380 F34 1996 Scott Reference
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Films and Videos
The
Sound and Moving Images library, located on the first floor of Scott, has some wonderful film and video
resources which are listed with annotations :
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