Resources in Black Studies

Organizations, Programs, Centers & Archives
Historical Texts & Documents Politics & Government
Web Links to the African Diaspora Discussion Forums
News Media
Radio, TV & Film Literature Religion Arts & Images
Music Online Magazines & Journals
Slavery and the Slavetrade
Slavery Scholars & Researchers

Organizations, Programs, Centers, & Archives

Africa Policy Information Center (APIC)

The Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) aims to widen the policy debate in the United States around African issues and the U.S. role in Africa by providing accessible policy-relevant information and analysis. The website includes documents and links to APIC, U.N., U.S. and other organizational policy publications. Information on APIC listserves and links to African book publishers is also on the website.

African-American Studies Programs in the U.S.

African Studies (Central Connecticut State University)

The African Studies Center Online (University of Pennsylvania)

African Studies Library Collections, Indiana University

Africana Studies (formerly Black Studies), University of Pittsburgh

Archives of the African American Music Center, Indiana University

Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University Bloomington

African Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Black Studies at Wooster

James S. Coleman African Studies Center

The Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University

Department of Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara

Center for Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara

H-Net

H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line, encourages scholarly discussion, aids in the development of public humanities projects, and in general is involved in the development of the educational potential of the Internet. Online resources include research and teaching aids, calls for papers, conference announcements, bibliographies, exhibition announcements, resources, syllabi and dissertations, archive and manuscript collections, academic programs and internet links. H-Net electronic discussion groups include H-Africa (African History); H-AfrLitCine (Teaching and Study of African Literature and Cinema); H-Afro-Am (African-American Studies); H-AfrTeach (Teaching African History & Studies).

John Hope Franklin Research Center

The center "collects, preserves, and promotes the use of library materials bearing on the history of Africa and people of African descent" through activities including grant support to scholars and researchers; public programming; and work with local teachers and students to promote the use of primary documents.

UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Founded in 1970, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a national nonprofit institution that conducts independent research on public policy issus of special concern to black Americans.

MOLIS, Minority On-Line Information Center

MOLIS provides current information about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), job and scholarship information, campus news from HBCUs and HSIs.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa

UCLA Summer Institute for Educators

TransAfrica Forum

TransAfrica Forum, an African-American foreign policy institution, was founded in 1981 to provide a forum for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information about Africa and the Caribbean and about the United States' policies affecting these regions.

UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in: African Studies

UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in: African-American Studies

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Washington Office on Africa (WOA)

The Washington Office on Africa (WOA) is a not-for-profit church, trade union and civil rights groups supported organization that works with Congress on Africa-related legislation. Documents and information from WOA are included on the APIC website.

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Founded in 1975, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research is dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans.

William Monroe Trotter Institute

William Monroe Trotter Institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston was founded in 1984 to address the needs and concerns of the local and nation Black community through research, technical assistance, and public service.

Historical Texts & Documents

African-American Women On-line Archival Collections (Duke University)

African American Resources for the University of Virginia

Letters, broadsides, pamphlets, slave bills, antislavery circulars and texts from free Blacks, dating from 1795-1864. These documents are from the UV Library Special Collections.

The African-American Mosaic: Selections from a Library of Congress Exhibit

These selections include text and photos from rare and significant Library of Congress holdings on Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA.

African Indigenous Knowledge Systems

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of the 2300 plus slave narratives, collected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1936-1938. Included are selected photographs, audio bits from the original interviews, an annotated index, related readings and internet sites.

American Memory: Historical Collections from the Library of Congress

Primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history, including: "AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES" (351 rare pamphlets on African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War); "LIFE HISTORIES: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,1936-1940"; "PORTRAITS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 1932-1964", and other collections pertinent to Black Studies.
N.B.: Files can be viewed as plain text. Or, for enhanced visual and text, use an SGML viewer.

Christine's Genealogy Website

Early obituaries, census records, ships lists of emigration to Liberia in the 1800s, early newspaper accounts, essays, and links to other African-American and related genealogical resources.

Documenting the African American Experience

Sample African American texts published by Readex including writers such as Benjamin Banneker, Jupiter Hammon, and Phillis Wheatley.

Documenting the American South

Several full text narratives, including book covers and title pages, are included here. N.B.: To view each narrative without special software, click on "HTML" listed with each narrative.

Historical Museum of Southern Florida

Exploring culture, folklife & history of the in Greater Miami, South Florida and the Caribbean

The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA

National Park Service: Culture Groups: African-Americans

Information on national parks and issues around the exploration of African-American history.

Profiles in Connecticut Black History (Hartford Courant)

Race and Ethnicity Collection

Reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of race and ethnicity. Available from the English Server, English Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

William Grant Still Collection (Duke University)

The Survey Graphic Harlem Number

Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices (Duke University)

Valley of the Shadow Archives: Slavery & Free Blacks Records, Virginia

This page of public records contains links to: 1860 Augusta County Population Census; 1860 Franklin County Population Census; 1860 Augusta County Agricultural Census; 1860 Franklin County Agricultural Census; Virginia Slaveowner Census; Staunton City Tax Digests (1857 or 1860);Chambersburg City Tax Digests (1860 only); Register of Free Blacks, Augusta County, 1803-1865.

Politics & Government

African National Congress

The ANC is the majority party in South Africa's Government of National Unity. It came to power after the first democratic elections in April 1994.

Colorlines: A Series on Race (Hartford Courant)

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Links to various sources of information on the CBC.

Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC)

The Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC) is a U.S. Presidential initiative designed to create self-sustaining, long-term economic development in areas of pervasive poverty & unemployment, through alliances among private, public, and nonprofit entities.

INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict and Ethnicity in Sudan

INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, is a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. This INCORE guide contains a very useful list of content rich internet resources--news sources, email lists, online essays, megasites, etc., relating to conflict and ethnicity in Sudan.

South African Government Information

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report

Web Links to the African Diaspora

Black Information Link (BLINK)

Black Power Points

U.S. and Africa related texts and internet resources

BBC Education

The Electronic African Bookworm

INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict and Ethnicity in Sudan

INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, is a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. This INCORE guide contains a very useful list of content rich internet resources--news sources, email lists, online essays, megasites, etc., relating to conflict and ethnicity in Sudan.

SunSITE Southern Africa

The Universal Black Pages

Yahoo! - Africa

Yahoo! - Caribbean

Discussion Forums

H-Net's e-mail Discussion Lists

Academic exchange of ideas and materials on research, teaching, and scholarship, by subject area.

Black Talk

News Media

Addis Tribune Home Page

Africa2000

AllAfrica.com

Country-by-country coverage reports incorporating Africa News Online

Africa Online (Africa)

AFRO America

The Website of the AFRO American Company of Baltimore, publishers of the Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, VA editions of the AFRO newspaper.

Afronet.com

Arabic News

English language news on the Middle East and North Africa

BBC World Service

Black Camera, Newsletter of the BFC/A

Table of Contents of the Newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archive, University of Indiana Bloomington

The Black World Today (U.S. and the Diaspora)

Daily Mail & Guardian (eM&G) (South Africa)

Ethiopian News Headlines

Impact International

News and reports on Africa, Asia, Europe and the Islamic world.

Independent Online (South Africa)

The Post (Zambia)

Radio, TV & Film

Black Americans and Silent Film

Electronic Urban Report

Fespaco 2001

The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou

Lee Bailey's RadioScope

Entertainment and personalities magazine

Joy Online (Ghana/Independent)

South African Independent Film Site

Literature

The Coretta Scott King Award

This award honors African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promotes understanding and appreciation of culture and contribution of all people to the realization of the American Dream. The award is administered by the American Library Association's Social Responsibility Round Table.

Documenting the African American Experience

Sample African American texts published by Readex including writers such as Benjamin Banneker, Jupiter Hammon, and Phillis Wheatley.

Rita Dove

This site contains the poem "LADY FREEDOM AMONG US" (text & audio) by Rita Dove, published as the University of Virginia Libraries four-millionth volume, a bibliography of Ms. Dove's works and biographical information.

African-American Literature: A Reference Guide

Guide to resources in the UCSB Davidson Library

Religion

African American Religions

This page provides links to Yoruba, voodoo, Islam, Santeria, Baptist and other pages.

African Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Arts & Images

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture

The Baobab Project

Founded in 1994, the Baobab Project was established to make African visual culture available to a broader audience, as well as to create a research tool which can be used by scholars and students alike.

John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago

Illustrations from Documentary Sources, North Carolina

Early American (1800s-1940s) images of African Americans and manuscripts, held at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina. Please note: These images may be protected by copyright.

Illustrations from Documentary Sources, University of Virginia

Images and manuscripts, largely from the 1800s, held at the University of Virginia.

Without Sanctuary : Lynching Photography in America, James Allen (Editor)

Music

Duke Ellington's Washington

Electric Guitar

The Louis Armstrong Centennial Radio Project (NPR, National Public Radio)

The Red Hot Jazz Archive

Stanford Jazz Workshop

Online Magazines & Journals

Africa Update

Archives of Africa Update, the quarterly newsletter of the Central Connecticut State University African Studies Program.

Australian Humanities Review (AHR)

AHR is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks.

Essence

Essence, a magazine for contemporary African-American women.

Fespaco Newsletter

The newsletter of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou

Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies

Jouvert is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal published biannually concerning the interrogation of textual, cultural and political postcolonialisms.

Slavery and the Slavetrade

Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport

Amistad (motion picture): A Selective Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library

The Slave Revolt On Board The American Brig Creole

From the Creole Research Center

African Slave Trade Patrol 1820-1861 (Department Of The Navy -- Naval Historical Center)

A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie

From the Historical Museum of Southern Florida

Henrietta Marie (Mel Fisher Maritime Museum)

A description of the English merchant-slaver's shipwreck in 1700 and its excavation in 1972, thirty-five miles west of Key West, Florida, accompanied by text, illustrations and photographs. Click on "Wrecks and Excavations".

New York's African Burial Ground

On-Line Data Archive: "Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"

Records, data & other documentation of slave ships and the slave trade, including the Virginia, Cuba, Brazil, France, & England. Available from the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"The African Diaspora"

An essay by Paul E. Lovejoy, "The African Diaspora": Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity, Culture and Religion under Slavery.

Middle Passage Voyage

Classes are invited to participate in a number of educational activities as they follow the journey of Captain Bill Pickney and his crew sail the Middle Passage from West Africa to the Americas.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Steven Mintz (University of Houston)

Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices From the Broadside Collection, Special Collections, Duke University

Through letters, broadsides, receipts, bills of sale, & other documents (in part or in whole or with a citation only), this exhibits gives glimples of "life experiences of American slaves from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century". Several items include images.

Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories

This radio project is based upon text and audio files from the Works Project Administration, and the Archive of Folk Song (Library of Congress). Included are interviews and songs from former slaves and narrated slave narrative transcripts performed by Debbie Allen, Melba Moore, Louis Gossett Jr., Esther Rolle, James Earl Jones, Clifton Davis, and others.

U.S. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment:Annotations (FindLaw)

An Exhibit: The Emancipation Proclamation

Audio of Charlie Smith, a former slave, speaking about his life during slavery; an essay on the proclamation by historian John Hope Franklin; text and digital images of the original document. From the National Archives and Records Administration's Online Exhibit Hall.

The American Anti-Slavery Group, Inc.

Dedicated to abolishing existing slavery worldwide, AASG monitors, documents, and publicizes slavery around the world, with particular focus on black chattel slavery in North Africa and involuntary servitude in the United States.

Slavery Scholars & Researchers

Joseph E. Inikori

Stanley Engerman

John Hope Franklin

Winthrop D. Jordan

Leon F. Litwack

see also History 7B: American Society, 1865-1999

Orlando Patterson

Robert Watson - West African Slavery