Black Studies 22/History 11:
Black Diaspora: From Africa to the Escalera Conspiracy
Fall 2006
- Library Catalogs and Databases
- Bibliographies from Reference Collection
- Background
- On the Web
- Citing Sources
Library Catalogs and Databases
Five College Library Catalog: New catalog to all books, music, videos, online resources, etc., in Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMass libraries. Search all together or search one library at a time.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Catalog: Books and references to some journal articles from the many libraries in the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System Often good source for Africa and the Caribbean.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library : Search one of the best collections of materials about the African diaspora and African Americans.
Historical
Abstracts: Find articles, book reviews, and some books on world history excluding U.S. and Canada. Use AC Links to locate articles online or in print in the Library.
HAPI Online : Articles and book reviews about the Caribbean and Latin America from major journals in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. No AC Links in this database.
Expanded
Academic ASAP and Academic
Search Premier: Indexes to articles in many disciplines. Some references back to 1975.
Journal
Locator/Citation Linker See if an article or journal is available
at AC; connect to electronic copies or look in library catalog for print
journals
Some Bibliographies from the Reference Collection
The African Slave Trade and Its Supression: a Classified and Annotated Bibliographyby Peter C. Hogg (HT 1322 H64 1973): An excellent list of books, pamphlets, and articles up through the 1960s. See sections called "Contemporary Accounts" for primary documents.
Slavery and Slaving in World History: a Bibliography 1900-1996 by Joseph C. Miller (HT 861 M544 1999): Relatively modern secondary literature about slavery and the slave trade in all parts of the world in all centuries.
Black Slavery in the Americas: an Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865-1980 by John David Smith (HT 1049 S65 1982): A 2-volume compilation of readings (books, articles, theses, etc.) on slavery in the New World. Much more about the U.S. than other areas but still very useful. Older material only.
Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. Vol 2: the New World by Edward Godfrey Cox (G 150 C69 1935): Largely early travel accounts in English (whether originally in English or translated into English). A good place to look for primary sources.
Latin America and the Caribbean: a Critical Guide to Research Sources by Paula H. Covington (F 1408 L387 1992): Benefit from the work someone else put into listing relevant bibliographies, guides and basic texts. Not up-to-date but very useful all the same. Covers all disciplines.
Afro-Braziliana: a Working Bibliography (F 2659 N4 P67 1978): An older list of readings, many in Portuguese but a fair selection in English. Good for early literature and, perhaps, suggestions for primary sources.
Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975 by Lambros Comitas (F 2161 C63 1977): Not a current bibliography, and its contents are rather unpredictable -- but, still, good lists of readings on Caribbean history and culture that cover older material are hard to find.
Subject Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society, Vol 1: British Empire & Africa; Vol 2: Canada, Newfoundland, West Indies, Colonial America (DA 10.5 R59 1930): Get a glimpse of a historical library that may contain many valuable primary documents. Be realisitic in what you want; Five College libraries won't have all the book here.
Background (all in the Reference Collection)
Encyclopedia of African History (DT 20 E53 2005): Multi-volume
encyclopedia devoted to history of Africa. More specialized and
scholarly than a general encyclopedia. Good information for background
for the reading in this course.
Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Volume 9: Africa and the Middle East (GN 307 E53 1991 Vol. 9): Brief essays on peoples, organized by name of people. Look up ethnic groups from Africa here.
New Atlas of African History (G 2446 S1 F73 1991) and Historical Atlas of Africa (xxG 2446 S1 H5 1985): Graphic representation of African history. Can help you imagine lsave ports, cities, voyages, early European incursions into Africa, and more.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History E-book or in print (E 185 E54 2006): A scholarly, multi-volume encyclopedia with alargely North American focus -- but still good on many topics for this course.
Encylopedia of Latin American History and Culture (F 1406 E53 1996): Multi-volume, specialized encyclopedia that covers, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.
Caribbean History in Maps (G 1535 A8 1979): Good representation
of original inhabitants, European conquest and conflict, patterns of slavery,
economics, etc., up through the 1970s.
African Caribbeans: a Reference Guide (F 1629 B55 A37 2003):
Chapters covering history and culture of selected Caribbean islands and
countries. A place to begin, not end, a search for background.
Check the library catalog or -- even better -- ask at the Reference Desk to find handbooks and encyclopedias on individual countries and special topics.
On the Web
History: Slavery: Collection of links to many Web resources from Stanford University's Africa South of the Sahara
African Diaspora Studies: Links to college and univrsity programs for studying the African Diaspora from the same site at Stanford
African Diaspora in the Americas: a collection of study guide, bibliographies, film reommendations, and more form the Latin American Video Archives
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Collections of links divided by topic and historical period by Paul Halsall at Fordham University
Citing Sources
Be sure to credit the sources you use for a research project -- whether printed books and journals or online texts, websites, etc. The Chicago/Turabian Style from the Library at University of Wisconsin/Madison tells you how to cite all kinds of sources for courses in literature. Or use The Chicago Manual of Style at the Reference DeskDo you have questions about research in this course? Contact Margaret Adams Groesbeck (email:magroesbeck; voice: x2098)