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Africana Studies

Primary Sources

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African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature.  [more info]
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American Song (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. American Song is a history database with music from America's past.  [more info]
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Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.  [more info]
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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (OCLC / Firstsearch)
This digital image database offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources...  [more info]
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eHRAF World Cultures: Collection of Ethnography (Yale University)
A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.  Check out these online tutorials for a quick introduction to eHRAF.  [more info]
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Empire Online (1492-1962) (Adam Matthew Digital)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material...  [more info]
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Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 (Gale)
Contains FBI files on African Americans and others considered "politically suspect" from 1920 to 1984.  People of interest to the FBI were members of protest groups, Socialists, Communists, militant labor unionists, and many more.  [more info]
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Global Missions and Theology (Gale)
Contains documents from and about missionary activity in the United States during the 19th Century.  Includes reproductions of personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of churches, church leaders, and missionaries.  Also contains material on missionary activities in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the Sandwich Islands.  [more info]
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National Museum of African Art
Provides online exhibits of traditional and modern African art. Also links to Radio Africa, which provides streaming audio from the Smithsonian’s Global Sound collection.  [more info]
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North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street Press)
NATO provides detailed reference information for many theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies, from Colonial times to the present...  [more info]
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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866...  [more info]

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