LibGuides: AFROAM 101: Introduction to African American Studies: Searches & Databases

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Daley Library Homepage & Search
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Recommended Online Resources to Continue Your Search

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
General database of academic journals in the sciences and humanities. Includes full text scholarly / peer-reviewed articles.
African American Experience This link opens in a new window
The African American Experience is the widest ranging and easiest-to-use online database collection on African American history and culture.
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains hundreds of hours of documentaries, interviews, and archival footage detailing the Black experience.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
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.
Chicago Defender (1909-2010) This link opens in a new window
Historical collection of Chicago's premier African-American newspaper.
Ethnic NewsWatch‎ This link opens in a new window
This database presents multi-ethnic and multi-cultural points of view from newspapers, magazines, and journals.
Gender Studies This link opens in a new window
The database covers gender inequality, masculinity, postfeminism, gender identity, and other topics related to gender studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Latino American Experience This link opens in a new window
This database is dedicated to the rich heritage and current culture of Latinos in the United States.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Covers hottest social issues, such as offshore drilling, climate change, health care, and immigration. Has full text, editor selected articles. Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of information for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 2010) This link opens in a new window
Historical Chicago Defender content covering 1909-2010.
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

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