Electronic Books / E-Books

NetLibrary

NetLibrary is an online full-text books service. Access from off-campus is restricted to UMass-Amherst students, faculty or staff with a UMAccess account. Please note that at this point although this e-book collection contains many good titles and is very convenient, it is no where near as extensive as the Library's print holdings. There are many topics for which no e-books exist at the present time.

Click here to access NetLibrary or go to the Databases list from the library's webpage and then choose NetLibrary. You should see a search screen like the one below. Type your subject in the subject line, then click on search. (We typed "African American" as an example, but that would probably be too broad a subject for most purposes. It's best to type a more specific subject such as "African American Leadership" or "African American Art." You can also do a search by the title or author of the book.

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Other E-Book Sources

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg
collection.

Classic African American Literature
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html
Links to full text of classic African American writings, such as The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois.

Finding E-Books Through the Library Catalog

In addition to searching the NetLibrary site, you can also find e-books through the Library Catalog, by selecting "Online Resources." Many of the electronic books found this way are actually made available through NetLibrary. Access from off-campus to NetLibrary electronic books is restricted to UMass-Amherst students, faculty or staff with a UMAccess account.

Sample Afro American Studies E-Books

African American leadership / Ronald W. Walters and Robert C. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1999.

African-American art / Sharon F. Patton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c1998.

Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement / Daniel Levine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2000.

Beetlecreek / by William Demby ; with an afterword by James C. Hall. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, c1998.

Black enterprise titans of the B.E. 100s : black CEOs who redefined and conquered American business / Derek T. Dingle. New York : J. Wiley, c1999.

Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle / Michael Keith
Honey. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1999.

Buffalo soldiers and officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898 : black & white together / Charles L. Kenner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1999.

Catching dreams: my life in the Negro baseball leagues / Frazier "Slow" Robinson with Paul Bauer ; foreword by John "Buck" O'Neil ; introduction by Gerald Early. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 1999.

The challenge of interracial unionism: Alabama coal miners, 1878-1921 / Daniel Letwin. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

Charles W. Chesnutt : essays and speeches / edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz III, Jesse
S. Crisler. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.

The color of crime: racial hoaxes, white fear, black protectionism, police harassment, and other macroaggressions / Katheryn K. Russell. New York : New York University Press, c1998.

The cry was unity: communists and African Americans, 1917-36 / Mark Solomon. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1998.

Crossing borders through folklore: African American women's fiction and art / Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown.
Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c1999.

Early Black American leaders in nursing: architects for integration and equality / Althea T. Davis. Boston, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c1999.

Florida's Black public officials, 1867-1924 / Canter Brown, Jr. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

Grass roots and glass ceilings: African American administrators in predominantly white colleges and universities / edited by William B. Harvey. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999.

Lift every voice: African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

New masters : northern planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Lawrence N. Powell. New York : Fordham University Press, 1998.

Not all Okies are white: the lives of Black cotton pickers in Arizona / Geta LeSeur. Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press, c2000.

Putting risk in perspective: Black teenage lives in the era of AIDS / Renée T. White. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1999.

Queen Bess: daredevil aviator / Doris L. Rich. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1993.

Race & excellence: my dialogue with Chester Pierce / Ezra E.H. Griffith. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c1998.

Reclaiming community in contemporary African-American fiction / Philip Page. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1999.

Tell us a story: an African American family in the heartland / Shirley Motley Portwood. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000.

The rise and decline of an alliance: Cuba and African American leaders in the 1960s / Ruth Reitan. East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c1999.

We are coming: the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century Black women / Shirley Wilson Logan. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999.

Women in chains: the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction / Venetria K. Patton. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.

Under "Black" as subject, then discarding unrelated items that simply included the word black, you will find the following e-books.

Africa and the blues / Gerhard Kubik. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, c1999.

The Black enterprise guide to starting your own business / Wendy Beech. New York, N.Y. : Wiley, c1999.

Racism in a racial democracy: the maintenance of white supremacy in Brazil / France Winddance Twine. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998.

Risks of faith: the emergence of a Black theology of liberation, 1968-1998 / James H. Cone. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1999.

Taking back control: African Canadian women teachers' lives and practice / Annette Henry. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.

We are not what we seem: Black nationalism and class struggle in the American century / Rod Bush. New York : New York University Press, c1999.

Working the spirit: ceremonies of the African diaspora / Joseph M. Murphy. Boston : Beacon Press, c1994.