African-American Studies: Encyclopedias, etc.

Search across Many Encyclopedias at Once

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library 
    Provides access to a large number of recent specialized encyclopedias in subject areas such as: the arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, law, library science, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, and social science.
     
  • Oxford African American Studies Center 
    Provides access to more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field. Among the core reference works included in the site are: Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; African American National Biography; Dictionary of African Biography; and The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought.

 

Selected Encyclopedias of Interest

For a full and current list of items in CLIO that have the words
african americans encyclopedias   in  Subject, click here. Below I have singled out some titles that seem likely to be of interest.

Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience.Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,  / editors. 2nd. ed. 5 vols. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005)
Butler Reference, 301 Butler, Call Number: R960 Af8321
More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but the history and culture of blacks throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in Africa itself have an equally strong presence.
This encyclopedia is one of the core reference works included in the site Oxford African American studies center

Encyclopedia of African American history 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass. Paul Finkelman, editor-in-chief. 3 vols. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2006).
Butler Reference, 301 Butler, Call Number:  R326 En195
This encyclopedia is one of the core reference works included in the site Oxford African American studies center.   

Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century. Paul Finkelman, editor-in-chief. 5 vols. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2009).
Butler Reference, 301 Butler, Call Number: R326 En1951
This encyclopedia is one of the core reference works included in the site Oxford African American studies center

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