This site is meant to provide a starting point for students and other researchers in Afro-American studies.

The site includes:

~Reference materials for Afro-American Studies

~Databases for finding research articles in Afro-American Studies

~Journals in Afro-American Studies, both in paper and online

~Topical and course guides on subjects such as:

• The Minority Experience in American Life and Culture (Afro Am 171)
• The Blues (Afro Am 290c/753)
• Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies (Afro Am 691C)
• Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Afro Am 652/234)
• African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery (Afro Am 691B)
• African American Women's Narrative (Afro American Studies 692G)
• African American Women Playwrights (English 891BB)
• Popular Culture in the African Diaspora (Anthropology 597t)

This guide was created by Isabel Espinal, Reference & Instructional Services Librarian for the Humanities. She is available to instruct classes and schedule individual research consultations in the use of print and online materials for Afro American Studies. Contact her directly:

Isabel Espinal, (413)545-6817
iespinal@library.umass.edu

Please remember that if you need help at any time, there are also staff in the Reference Department of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library and online through the Ask A Librarian service who can assist you.