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Comparative American Cultures
The Holland and Terrell Libraries contain many resources for students and faculty interested in Black Studies. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website or would like to request a book or journal on any subject related
to Black Studies, please contact Gabriella Reznowski. For questions about the Black Studies program, please see Department of Comparative American Cultures.
Library Resources
Library Catalog
GRIFFIN Library Catalog The library catalog includes holdings for all the WSU Library sites, in Pullman and across the state. Please note: Electronic journals and other 'virtual' publications are included in the catalog.
Indexes, Abstracts and Other Databases
- America: History, and Life Contains citations to journals, books, reviews, and dissertations related to the colonization of America (15th century)-present.
- Anthropological Literature Provides access to journal articles and essays from the 19th century to the present.
- Ethnic Newswatch. It is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. that provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Dates of coverage vary - usually from early to mid-1990's to the present.
- Sociological Abstracts. A First Search database containing citations with abstracts to articles on all aspects of sociology, social work, and other social sciences. It covers from 1963-present.
Reference Books
The Holland and Terrell Libraries' reference section is on the 1st floor behind the reference desk.
- African-American Culture and History
- The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference Hol Ref E185 .N483x 1999
- Contemporaray Black Biography E185.96 .C66
- Ethnic Information Sources of the United States E184.A1 E83x 1983
- Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religion BL2462.5 E53 2001
- Encylopedia of Multiculturalism E184.A1 E58 1994
Electronic Journals
WSU Lists its electronic journal holdings in two locations. First, electronic journals can be found by searching by title in the library's catalog. References to electronic journals in the Griffin catalog have hypertext links to the electronic journal themselves or the database that contains that electronic journal. The second place to look to check to see if the library has a subscription to an electronic journal is on the WSU Electronic Journals list. If you cannot find a journal that you have reason to believe should be available at WSU, or you would like to have electronic access to, please contact Gabriella Reznowski .
JSTOR: JSTOR contains 117 journals, many of which have an ethnic focus. This collection is a digital archive that does not contain current issues. Includes:
African American Review,
Black American Literature Forum,
Negro American Literature Forum,
Callaloo,
Journal of Black Studies,
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ,
Journal of Negro Education,
Journal of Negro History,
Transition,
American Historical Review,
American Quarterly,
Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Journal of American History,
Mississippi Valley Historical Review ,
Journal of Modern History ,
Journal of Southern History, and
William and Mary Quarterly
. - Ethnic Newswatch. It is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. that provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Dates of coverage vary - usually from early to mid-1990's to the present.
- Proquest:
An interdisciplinary database that contains some full articles
- Project MuseOver 90 full text journals, most of those in the humanities. Includes:
Biography,
Callaloo,
Demography,
Ethnohistory,
Human Rights Quarterly,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
Journal of Social History,
Postmodern Culture,
Research in African Literatures,
Social Science History and
Social Text.
Internet Links
- A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
- Academic Info: African American History & Studies
- John
Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African-American Documentation
: Includes digitized versions of finding aids, subject guides and materials from selected collections. Produced in conjunction with Duke University Library's Digital Scriptorium. Exhibits include: African-American Women; Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library; Still Going On: An Exhibit Celebrating the life and times of William Grant Still; Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South.- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909: This collection of pamphlets written by African-American authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries boasts "complete page images of 397 titles . . . as well as searchable electronic texts and bibliographic records." Part of the Library of Congress's American Memory project, the pamphlets constitute a wonderful collection of online primary resources in African-American history.
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920:This site contains 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The pieces span from the antebellum black face minstrelsy of the 1850s to the Civil War to Reconstruction to the early period of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. This too is a part of the Library of congress's American Memory Project.
- Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research This Center is at the University of Southern California and its foci are multilingual education, English-as-a second language, and foreign language instruction, multicultural education and related areas. The Site Index in the left side frame provides access to articles and other resources arranged by topic and by cultural group.
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