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Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Thousands of articles by scholars in the field, with primary source documents, maps, and images.
Oxford Bibliographies: African Studies This link opens in a new window
Research guides on a variety of topics within African Studies. Combining features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource directs researchers to top scholarship within specialized topics.
Oxford Bibliographies: African American Studies This link opens in a new window
Research guides on a variety of topics within African American Studies. Combining features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource directs researchers to top scholarship within specialized topics.

African Studies Centre
Database of abstracts of books and articles on all aspects of Africa in the social sciences, from the Netherlands-based research center.
Callaloo
"The premier journal of African-American and African arts and literature [which] publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide."

Keywords for Caribbean Studies
A project by Caribbean Digital that explores selected keywords through curated digital artifacts introduced with short essays

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.

HistoryMakers Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The HistoryMakers is a growing collection of over 3,000 interviews of African American first person video oral history. By recording the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans, The HistoryMakers seeks to preserve and elevate the cultural equity of the African American community.