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- Afro Am 117: Survey of African American Literature I
- Afro Am 118: Survey of African American Literature II
- Afro Am 170/171: The Multicultural Experience in American Life and Culture
- AFRO AM 222 Black Church In America
- THE BLACK CHURCH IN AMERICA - A Library Guide
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- Spotlight on Music Online: American Song
- Databases for Secondary Sources
- Websites to check : Black Church and Sustainability
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- Afro Am 236: History of the Civil Rights Movement
- Afro Am 254 Introduction to African Studies
- Afro Am 290c/753: The Blues
- Afro Am 293B: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND THE WAR ON DRUGS (Afro American Studies 293B
- Afro Am 297A: Black Springfield Matters
- Afro Am 326: Black Women in U.S. History
- Afro Am 331: The Life and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois
- Afro Am 491C: Cuba: A Social History
- AFROAM 494DI: The W.E.B. Du Bois Senior Seminar
- Afro Am 365: Composition: Style and Organization (Junior Year Writing)
- Afro Am 605/History 797S: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery
- Afro Am 652/234: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Afro Am 691C: Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies
- Afro Am 691C: Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies
- Afro Am 692G: African American Women's Narrative
- Afro Am 692U: Dynamics of Race and the Law
- Afro Am 701 & 702: Major Works in Afro American Studies
- English 891BB: African American Women Playwrights
- History 591FG: First Generation-Urbanism and Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier
- History 593K: African Americans in Antebellum New England
- History 594Z: Black Women’s Political Activism
- Black Women Suffragists
- Educ 218: Hip Hop Nation Language and Literacy Practices
- Journalism 395M: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Mass Media
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Library Guide for Afro American Studies 222:
The Black Church in America
Taught by Professor Amilcar Shabazz, Fall 2016
Library Guide by Isabel Espinal
*Special focus: Sustainability and the Black Church
Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first female elected as bishop in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Featured Books
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinCall Number: PS3552.A45 G62 2016ISBN: 9781101907610Publication Date: 2016Library has 1985 and other editions. If our copy is checked out, request through Inter-Library Loan via link above. Give it a few days to arrive.
- Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion by Bettye Collier-ThomasCall Number: BR563.N4 C644 2010 And online (Only one reader at a time)ISBN: 9781400044207Publication Date: 2010-02-02
- The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Anthony B. PinnCall Number: BR563.N4 P49 2002ISBN: 1570754233Publication Date: 2002
- The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches by Korie L. EdwardsCall Number: BR563.N4 E39 2008Publication Date: 2008
Spotlight on Music Online: American Song
Music Online: African American Music Reference is a music history database that lets people hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes Gospel Music as well as other African American music.
Album examples:
When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel, 1926 - 1936
Check out Track 7. Hiding Behind the Stuff from Vol. 1
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 1 (1938-1941)
Preachers And Congregations (Many volumes)
Rev. Kelsey And His Congregation (1947-1951)
- African American Music Reference This link opens in a new windowBrings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Databases for Scholarly Research on the Black Church
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, dissertations, and book reviews, many in full text, relating to United States and Canadian history and prehistory, 1954-present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowArts and humanities journal literature from 1975 to present. Searches by author, topic, cited reference and more.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new windowCovers journal articles, essays and book reviews that make up the research literature of all major religious faiths and denominations, 1949-present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowCombines key indices (Schomburg, IIBP, etc) to scholarship and primary sources in Afro-American studies.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Contemporary Black Biography This link opens in a new windowBiographies of thousands of African Americans.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication scholarly journals and trade journals, plus articles on communication topics from related disciplines, 1915-present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Gale In Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new windowSearch by topic and/or geography: agriculture, food, energy, pollution, economic development, social factors and in journals, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias as well as primary sources.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCore scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowIndex to articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines.Search by cited reference, topic, author, and more. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1900-present; and Science 1900-present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Websites to check : Black Church and Sustainability
- National Black Church Initiative Environmental Initiative"The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34, 000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans dedicated to the eradication of racial disparities around the world is urging all religious communities to join together in the promotion of peace. Our Black leadership partners - 66,000 churches nationwide – are called upon to use the full force of our combined 100,000 churches to draw attention to the problem of global warming, the concept of which the Black church has accepted for over 20 years."
- Green the Church"Black Churches Are Going Green. Green The Church engages congregations in the fight against climate change, and helps churches serve as centers of resilience that ensure their communities survive—and thrive—in the face of disasters."
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