AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES  Subject Guide

This guide lists selected print and electronic sources of information available to the students, faculty, and staff of Prince George’s Community College.

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Help with course assignments

Come to the Reference desk on the first floor of Prince George’s Community College Library or phone 301-322-0476.

Journal articles

Use these online databases and indexes to locate journal articles on your topic. These databases are best searched using keywords. Many articles in the databases are full-text. If you locate an abstract or citation only, check the Library’s Periodicals List to find if the Library has a copy of the journal.
    Expanded Academic ASAP
    Ethnic NewsWatch
    Research Library

Online newspaper:

• Baltimore Times

Definitions

    Print Source:

• African American Culture Reference GN 307 .D35 v. 5

    Online:

• NPS Ethnolography:African American heritage & Ethnolography

Consult encyclopedias to get an overview of a topic.

    Print Sources:

• African American Desk Reference Reference E 185 .A 2528 1999

• African American Encyclopedia Reference E 185 .A253 1993
   
• African American History Reference E 185 .A25355 2006

• Africana Ready Reference DT 14 .A37435 2005

• Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History Reference E 185 .E54 2006
   
• Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration Reference E 185.6 .E54 2006
   
• Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance Reference NX 512.3 .A35 E53 2004

Books and Videos

Search by keywords, subject, title or author in the Online Catalog.

Tip: Browse the shelves in the area E 185 to look at many of the Library’s holdings that are available.

Tip: To do a subject search, also use the Library of Congress subject heading
Afro American as well as African American.

• Black Americans Reference E 185.5 .B512

• Statistical Record of Black America Reference E 185.5 .S83

    Online:

• Black Population in the United States

Associations and Organizations

• African American Web Connection: Organizations

Directories of Web Sites

Consult the Library Web Site Subject Sources WWW: African American Studies

Additional web sites:

• African-American Archaeology, History and Cultures
   
• African American Resources 
   
• American Slave Narratives 

• Black History Hot List 
   
• The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
   
• Black Studies
   
• Howard University Libraries Afro-American Studies
   
• Java Noir
   
• Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web

Style Guides

        Print Sources:

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Ready Reference LB 2369 .G53

• Publication manual of the American Psychological Association  Ready Reference BF 76.7 P83
   
  Online:
  
•  Consult the Library Web Site Ready Reference WWW: Ready Reference WWW: Grammar, Style Guides and Evaluating Internet Resources

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