Internet
Links for Afro American Studies
Metasites
(sites covering a range of topics)
African-American
Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/afam/index.html
Developed at Columbia University, includes: bibliographies, biographical
sources, chronologies, historical documents, and other texts.
AFRO-American
Almanac
http://www.toptags.com/aama/
Categories include: a search engine (AFRO-Search), biographies, AFRO-Books,
historical documents, historical events, folktales, trivia games, AFRO-Links,
AFRO-Polls, AFRO-Voices, issues in the news, AFRO-Store, awards.
Afro
American Web Ring
http://www.soulsearch.net/aawr/
Over 2600 African American related web sites. Includes clip art sites,
Black History software sites, sites about the Black Panthers, lawyers
and law professors, Afro American women, Afro American dance troupes,
African art sites, as well as personal web sites and other topics.
Black
American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/blackfeminism/
An extensive bibliography of Black American Feminist thought from across
the disciplines. References date back to the early nineteenth century.
Black
Cultural Studies
http://www.blackculturalstudies.org/
Focusses on ethnicity, race, and gender among populations of the African
diaspora. Includes bibliographical information, essays, and interviews
on cultural workers working in such areas as Black literary criticism,
Black popular culture, Critical Race Theory and film theory.
Black
Studies
http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html
An extensive site with links in 51 broad subject categories. Produced
at City College Libraries of New York.
H-Afro-Am
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~afro-am/
Online discussion group and logs of past discussions. "The main mission
of H-Afro-Am is to provide an exchange of information for professionals,
faculty and advanced students, in the field of African American Studies
(also called Afrocentricity, Africology, Africana Studies, Afro-American
Studies, Black Studies, and Pan-African Studies)." A member of H-Net Humanities
& Social Sciences OnLine.
Subject-specific
sites
Dance
Free
to Dance
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/
A web companion to a PBS documentary that chronicles the crucial role
that African-American choreographers and dancers have played in the development
of modern dance as an American art form. Includes a dance timeline, historic
essays, biographies, lesson plans and related Internet links.
History
American
Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
A sample of slave narratives and related sites from the 1930s Works Progress
Administration slave narrative project.
Black
History Quest
http://blackquest.com/link.htm
Links to many African American history sites.
The
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory
Includes 600 articles and is illustrated with historical film clips and
audio recordings, as well as hundreds of photographs and other images.
The Related Internet Links and Bibliography sections provide source material
and areas for further study, as does the Study Guide for Students.
Harlem:
1900-1940
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/
Includes a photo exhibition, timeline, resources, and a searchable database
of names associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Hartford
Black History Project: A Struggle from the Start
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/exhibit/
African Americans in Hartford, Connecticut from 1638 through the twentieth
century. Offers a view of slavery, emancipation, and the formation of
a black community in New England. Among the topics covered are immigration,
legal matters, abolitionist efforts, the "Black Governors" (black individuals
"co-opted" to help whites maintain control over the Black communities),
and Black military and political participation.
Historical
TextArchive: African American section
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=8
Miscellaneous collection of historical texts.
Library
of Congress:
Literature
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.
WRITING
BLACK
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit-black.html
Links to literature and history written by and on African Americans.
Music
African-American
Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/
Over 1,300 pieces of music from the abolitionist movement and the Civil
War, and on into the twentieth century. African American popular composers
include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will
Marion Cook. "Particularly significant in this collection are the visual
depictions of African Americans which provide much information about racial
attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
Center
for Black Music Research
http://www.cbmr.org/
A research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to research, preservation,
and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a
global scale.
Hip
Hop Research Portal
http://www.hiphopportal.net
This searchable database covers the four elements of Hip Hop:DJ's, MC's,
Graffiti, and Break dance. The scope includes, books, periodicals, some
a/v, and theses & dissertations. Surprisingly, most of the interesting
topics of Hip Hop culture are being documented by Masters' and Ph.D. students.
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