African-American Studies - Indiana State University

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES:
A Selected List of Library Resources
The materials listed below have been selected to give you an idea of the range of resources available to
you in the Library. If you find that your particular research topic is not adequately covered by the
resources listed below, consult a reference librarian at the Information Desk (1st floor).
Indexes to Magazine, Journal and
Newspaper Articles
Index to Black Periodicals, 1984 to 1994
(previous title: Index to Periodical Articles By
and About Blacks, 1973- 1983) -- Reference
AI 3 .O4
Black Studies Ondisc, 1988-1995 (consists of
Index to Black Periodicals plus the catalog of
the Schomberg Center for Research in Black
Culture) – available via the Library Homepage
Ethnic Newswatch, a full-text database of
ethnic and minority newspapers from the early
1990s to the present.
Historical Resources
In Black and White : a guide to magazine
articles, newspaper articles, and books
concerning more than 15,000 Black individuals
and groups (2 v.) -- Reference Z 1361.N39 S655.
Africa : a biography of the continent –
Browsing DT 20 .R43 1998
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
(1990) – Ref. E185.96 .R25 1990
Black firsts : 2,000 years of extraordinary
achievement (1994) – Ref. E185 .B574 1994.
Black History & Achievement in America : an
overview of the Black struggle, its heroes and
heroines -- Main Library E 185 .S895 1982 --
An overview of Afro-American history,
emphasizing the struggles of black Americans
to achieve full citizenship and overcome discrimination
as well as their contributions in
science, the arts, politics, sports, and other
fields.
The African-American Almanac (6th ed.) --
Information Desk E 185.5 .N34 6th
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and
History (1996) – 5 volumes -- Reference E 185
.E54 1996.
Timelines of African-American history : 500
years of Black achievement (1994) – Ref. E185
.C86 1994.
Timetables of African American History: A
Chronology of the Most Important People and
Events in African American History (1995) –
Main Library E185 .H295 1995
A Chronology of Notable Dates in the History of
Africans in the Americas and elsewhere (1976) -
- Main Library E 185 .C924.
Black Immigration and Ethnicity in the United
States: an annotated Bibliography -- Ref. Z 1361
.N39 B553 1985.
Bibliography of Black Music (Dominique-Rene
De Lerma, 1984) -- Ref. ML 128 .B45 D44.
Blacks in the Humanities, 1750-1984: a
selected annotated bibliography (Donald F.
Joyce -- Ref. Z 1361 .N39 J69 1986.
The Progress of Afro-American Women: a
selected bibliography and resource guide (Janet
L. Sims-Wood, 1980) -- Ref. Z 1361 .N39S52.
Black Slavery in the Americas: an
interdisciplinary bibliography, 1865-1980 (John
David Smith) -- Ref. HT1049 .S64 1982.
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery --
Reference E 441 .D53 1988.
The Development and History of Education for
the Afro-American, 1704-1954: a selected
bibliography of secondary sources (1988) -- Ref.
Z 7164 .A2 P82 no. 2329.
Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook -- Ref. E
185.96 .Y67 1987.
Historical guide to world slavery – Ref. HT 861
.H59 1998
Biographical Resources Specific to
Black Biography

African America : portrait of a people (1994) –
Ref. E185.96 .E87 1994.
African American women : a biographical
dictionary -- Reference E 185.96 .A45 1993
American Black women in the arts and social
sciences -- Reference Z 1361 .N39 W56 1994
Contemporary Black biography (1992 to the
present, 8 volumes) – Ref. E185.96 .C66.
Dictionary of American Negro Biography --
Reference E 185.96 .D53 1982 -- Brief
sketches, both living and dead; brief
bibliographies.
Black women in America : an historical
encyclopedia -- Reference E185.86 .B542
1993
Notable Black American women -- Reference
E185.96 .N68 1992
Who's Who Among African Americans --
Reference E 185.96 .W52 (bi-ennial; most
recent volume in Reference, older issues in the
general collection) -- 15,000 entries; indexes by
geographical location and occupation.
In Black and White : a guide to magazine
articles, newspaper articles, and books
concerning more than 15,000 Black individuals
and groups (2 v.) -- Reference Z 1361.N39 S655.
A Pan-African Index to Current Biography, 1940-
1970 -- Main Library Z 5942 .C68 NO.951.
Black Americans in Autobiography; an
annotated bibliography of autobiographies and
autobiographical books written since the Civil
War -- Ref. Z 1361 .N39 B67 1984.
African American Resource Guide (1994) –
Reference E185 .D45 1994
Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century --
Main Library E 185.96 .B535 1988.
Black Artists in the United States: an annotated
bibliography of books, articles, and
dissertations on Black Artists, 1779-1979
(1980) -- Ref. N6538 .N5 D3 1980.
Free At Last: a bibliography of Martin Luther
King Jr. (William Harvey Fisher, 1977) -- Ref.
and Main Z 8464.44 .F57.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. : an annotated
bibliography (Sherman E. Pyatt, 1986) –
Reference Z8464.44 .P9 1986.
Malcolm X: a comprehensive annotated
bibliography (Timothy V. Johnson) -- Ref. Z
8989.7 .J64 1986.
W.E.B. DuBois: a bibliography of his published
writings (Paul G. Partington) -- Ref. Z 8244.9
.P37 1979.
Langston Hughes: a bio-bibliography -- Ref. Z
8423.3 .M53 1990.
General Biography Resources
Biography and Genealogy Master Index --
available via CD-ROM Network and in print
(latest years in Reference, earlier years in
general collections at Z5305 .U5 B56)-- Check
this multi-volume, regularly supplemented set
first, especially if you don't know anything more
about the person than their name; consists of
citations to more than 6 million biographical
sketches appearing in more than 500 current
and retrospective biographical dictionaries.
Biography Index -- Reference Z 5301 .B5 (1946
to the present) -- An index to biographies
appearing in books and magazines; includes
references to obituaries, collections of letters,
diaries, memoirs and bibliographies; probably
the second best place to begin your research,
after the title above.
Current Biography -- Reference CT 100 .C8
(1940 to the present) -- Brief, objective,
documented articles about living leaders in all
fields of human accomplishment the world over;
included obituaries for persons previously
covered; 11 monthly issues cumulate into
hardcover annual volumes (alphabetical), with
cumulated indexes by name, profession;
selected citations to magazine and newspaper
articles for each biographee.
The New York Times Biographical Service --
Reference CT 120 .N45 (1982 to the present) --
Monthly, looseleaf reprints of articles from the
New York Times; arranged in chronological
order with an alphabetical index on inside front
cover of each monthly issue.
Specific Literary Resources

African American Writers (1991) – Ref. PS153
.N5 A344 1991
Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955
(Thadious M. Davis, 1984) -- Ref. PS 21 .D5 v.
33.
Afro-American Poets Since 1955 (1985) – Ref.
PS21 .D5 v.41.
Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists
and Prose Writers (1985) -- Ref. PS 21 .D5
v.38.
Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem
Renaissance (Trudier Harris, 1986) -- Ref. PS
21 .D5 v.50.
Afro-American Writers from the Harlem
Renaissance to 1940 (1987) -- Ref. PS 21 .D5
v.51.
A bibliographical guide to African-American
women writers -- Reference PS153 .N5 J67.
Black Literature Criticism (1992) – Ref.
PS153.N5 B556 1992 (international coverage)
Contemporary Black American playwrights and
their plays : a biographical directory and
dramatic index (1988) – Ref. PS153 .N5 P43
1988.
Early Black American playwrights and dramatic
writers : a biographical directory and catalog of
plays, films, and broadcasting scripts (1990) –
Ref. Ps153 .N5 P44 1990.
Southern Black Creative Writers, 1829-1953:
biobibliographies (Mamie Marie Booth Foster) --
Ref. PS153 .N5 F6 1988.
Selected Black American, African, and
Caribbean Authors: A Bio-bibliography (James
A. Page) -- Ref. PS153 .N5 P3 1985.
The Afro-American Short Story: a
comprehensive, annotated index with selected
commentaries (Preston M. Yancy -- Ref. PS153
.N5 Y3 1986
Black American Women Novelists: an
annotated bibliography -- Ref. PS153 .N5 W42
1989.
The Schomburg Center guide to black literature
: from the eighteenth century to the present –
Ref. PN 841 V36
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Bibliography of African literatures – Ref. PN 849
.A35 A38 1996
The Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary
biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-
1945 (1990) – Ref. PS153 .N5 R65 1990
Index to Black Poetry (1974) -- Ref. PN 1024
.C5
Masterplots II: African American literature
series (1994) – Ref PS153 .N5 M2645 1994 v.1-
3.
General Literary Resources
Book Review Digest (1905 to present) --
Reference Z 1219 .C96; and Book Review Index
(1965 to present) -- Reference Z 1035 .A1 B6.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews
in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 (15 volumes:
vol. 1-2, Authors; vol. 13-15, Titles) -- Ref. Z
1035 .A1 C64.
Contemporary Authors -- Available library
homepage and in print at Reference Z1224
.C59.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) -- Ref.
PN 771 .C59 (ongoing, multi-volume series).
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism -- Ref. PN
771 .G27 (ongoing, multi-volume series).
Access to Information via LUIS
Within LUIS –Library Catalog, access is
available through standard lists of subject
headings. LUIS uses the main subject
headings, Afro-American or Afro-Americans.
You can also use keyword searching to pick up
materials not easily accessible via subject
searching. When doing keyword searches,
avoid using hyphens, apostrophes and other
punctuation. Even though afro-american is
commonly hyphenated and will show up on
LUIS Record screens as hypenated, if you are
entering the searches below, you must type:
afro american or afro americans. However,
punctuation is acceptable in author, title, and
subject searches; and you do need to type the
two hyphens appearing between a main subject
heading and a subheading (afro americans-southern
states). Here are some sample LUIS
subject headings:

Afro-American Actresses
Afro-American Art
Afro-American Athletes
Afro-American Authors
Afro-American Composers
Afro-American Entertainers
Afro-American Inventors
Afro-American Women
Afro-Americans--Biography
Afro-Americans--Civil Rights
Afro-Americans--Dictionaries
Afro-Americans--Health
Afro-Americans--History
Afro-Americans--Migrations
Afro-Americans--Politics
Afro-Americans--Race Relations
Afro-Americans--Southern States
Afro-Americans--20th Century
Afro-Americans in Business
Afro-Americans in Medicine
American Fiction--Afro American Authors
American Literature—Afro American Authors
Short Stories American—Afro American
American Poetry—Afro American Authors
Black Muslims
Black Nationalism
Reconstruction
Slavery--United States
Slaves
Unites States--Race Relations
Note: for works on Black people outside the
U.S., use the heading BLACK
Note: remember to use truncation in your
keyword searches:
Example: afr? adj america?
This will pick up older items with “Afro-
American” in the title or newer items with
“African-American.”
Selected Periodical Titles
You should always check LUIS to ascertain
exact holdings of the titles listed below:
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African American Review (continues Black
American Literature Forum)
American Visions
Black Enterprise
Black Scholar
Callaloo
The Crisis
Ebony
Essence
Jet
Journal of Black Psychology
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Journal of Negro History
Negro History Bulletin
Phylon
The Western Journal of Black Studies
Feel free to ask the reference librarian
at the Information Desk (1st floor) for
assistance in using these or any other
library resources.
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