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African-American Research

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Suggested Databases

Online Resources - Jersey City Free Public Library

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The below resources can assist with researching for information on Africana Studies:

Note: You may need to login using your CCC username/password, if you are a student Do Not include @student.ccc.edu

 

African-American Experience

This online database contains collections on African American history and culture.

 

Black Thought and Culture

Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and

interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.

 

Black Studies in Video

Contains hundreds of hours of documentaries, interviews, and archival footage detailing the black

experience.

 

Chicago Defender (1910-1975)  

Historical collection of Chicago's premier African-American newspaper.

 

Ethnic Newswatch 

This database presents multi-ethnic and multi-cultural points of view from newspapers,

magazines, and journals.