Library Guides: Africana Studies Library Guide: Websites

Scholarly and Trusted Sites

The selected sites are of scholarly and trusted value. As a researcher, you are responsible for evaluating sources for their research value. Consider:

Who has created this website? Is their work respected and trusted? What are their credentials?
Who is the intended audience? Is the intellectual thrust of the website appropriate to higher education?
What is the purpose of the website? To openly share scholarly research and intellectual knowledge production? or is it commercially driven?
When was the last time the site's information was updated? A site that is not well maintained may offer out of date and incorrect information.

African American Studies

African Activist Archive Project
The African Activist Archive preserves and makes available online records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.The website includes a growing archive of historical materials--pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings--that bear witness to social movements addressing every African country. Includes primary sources on Mozambique and Zimbabwean resistance movements.
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.
Black History and Culture
Vast collection of more than 4,000 online primary sources including documents, photographs, and other artifacts that illustrate African American history.
Crunk Feminist Collective
The Crunk Feminist Collective (CFC) will create a space of support and camaraderie for hip hop generation feminists of color, queer and straight, in the academy and without, by building a rhetorical community, in which we can discuss our ideas, express our crunk feminist selves, fellowship with one another, debate and challenge one another, and support each other, as we struggle together to articulate our feminist goals, ideas, visions, and dreams in ways that are both personally and professionally beneficial.
Blackpast
BlackPast is dedicated to providing a global audience with reliable and accurate information on the history of African America and of people of African ancestry around the world.