Africana Studies Library Guide

Africa Commons is a collaborative project to preserve and disseminate African cultural materials. Tulanians have access to five modules: African History and Culture, a discovery tool to search for texts, images, maps, audio, and video across thousands of worldwide collections; West African Magazines; East African Newspapers, Magazines, and Films (from the archive of Kenyan journalist, Hilary Ng'weno); Southern African Films and Documentaries; and Black South African Magazines.

Scholarly journals indexed by Black Studies experts; essays from Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience; African American newspapers including The Chicago Defender from 1909-2010; and historical videos and images. Timeline feature allows you to search for materials on a specific chronological period.

Articles, books, reports, theses, and news sources indexed by African Studies organisations worldwide. Include contents from the Index to South African Periodicals, IBISCUS, the Africa Institute Database, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT (National Library of Namibia).

Disseminates Africa-centered knowledge of Africa and the African Diaspora. Within AKP, Tulane has access to the African Music Database, Biafran War Database, Archive of the Kiswahili Story Database, and the Enriching Resource Document & Language Archive.

Pre-curated search links to surface newspaper articles on major topics in Black history, such as slavery and flights to freedom; voting rights and voter suppression and disenfranchisement; segregation and civil rights; prejudice and discrimination; and activism and protest movements. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black newspapers.

Non-fiction writings by major American Black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, oral histories, and trial transcripts.

Streaming access to movies, television shows, and video podcasts from Africa and the African diaspora.

Covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.

Synopses of key historical topics and themes throughout the African continent. Each encyclopedia article includes overview information, a discussion of the scholarly literature, a list of key primary sources, links to digital resources, and suggestions for further reading.

Synopses of key historical topics and themes in the history of the U.S. and its connections to other nations and regions. Each encyclopedia article includes overview information, a discussion of the scholarly literature, a list of key primary sources, links to digital resources, and suggestions for further reading.

Synopses of key topics and themes in archeology and sociocultural, applied, linguistic, biological, international and indigenous, and histories of anthropology. Each encyclopedia article includes overview information, a discussion of the scholarly literature, and suggestions for further reading.

Synopses of key historical topics and themes spanning Latin America and the Caribbean. Each encyclopedia article includes overview information, a discussion of the scholarly literature, a list of key primary sources, links to digital resources, and suggestions for further reading.

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing to attempt to map literary expressions and criticism across the various fields and approaches that make up literature in its broadest sense.