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Africana Studies Resources (all) 
 
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Articles (from journals)
Africa Resource
An educational portal that develops and distributes academic research materials and products on Africa and African Diaspora.   Includes peer-reviewed journals, bibliographies, hip-hop, scholarly essays, art exhibitions, poetry, profiles, autobiographies, syllabi, multimedia, a who's who directory, and much more. [more info]
America: History and Life (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present... [more info]
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Audio (Music, Spoken word , etc.)
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
African American Song (Alexander Street Press)
African American Song has merged with American Song. Please begin accessing this information through American Song or Music Online. This access point will expire. 16,000 tracks of historical blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narrative recordings from the first half of the 20th century. [more info]
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Biography
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
Indexes more than 15 million biographical sketches from reference books. Find a citation and then look in LEO to see if JMU Libraries has the reference book it is in. [more info]
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Biography Resource Center (Gale)
A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people... [more info]
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Books / Book Chapters
Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans... [more info]
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info]
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Countries & Regions
Europa World Yearbook (Taylor and Francis)
Europa World provides the latest information covering political elections, country profiles, and industry statistics.... [more info]
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Current Events
Access World News (Readex)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources. [more info]
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Africast

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Drama
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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Images
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (The Art Museum Image Consortium)
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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Literature
African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature. [more info]
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African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]
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Primary Sources
African American Song (Alexander Street Press)
African American Song has merged with American Song. Please begin accessing this information through American Song or Music Online. This access point will expire. 16,000 tracks of historical blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narrative recordings from the first half of the 20th century. [more info]
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African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature. [more info]
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Reference Information
Bibliographic Index Plus Full Text (HW Wilson)
Full text bibliographies on almost every topic help guide you in your search. [more info]
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Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
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Reviews
Book Review Digest Plus (HW Wilson)
Indexes and abstracts reviews of English language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles... [more info]
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Index Islamicus (CSA)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info]
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Statistics & Datasets
eHRAF World Cultures: Collection of Ethnography (Yale University)
The interface to this database has changed, effective Feb 1, 2008. A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and ... [more info]
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UNdata
Provides statistical information for every country in the world on numerous topics... [more info]
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Videos
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
Africast

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Websites
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
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]
  
See more Africana Studies Resources by type of information:
Articles (from journals)
Audio (Music, Spoken word , etc.)
Biography
Books / Book Chapters
Countries & Regions
Current Events
Drama
Images
Literature
Primary Sources
Reference Information
Reviews
Statistics & Datasets
Videos
Websites
Contact the Africana Studies Librarian:
Patricia Hardesty