Afro American Studies
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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
- 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
- Library Guide for Afro Am 326
- Readings in Black Women's History
- Databases
- Citation Management
- Finding Books
- 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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Librarian
University of Massachusetts
Office hours Wednesdays 3-4:30, room 325, New Africa house. Also available by appointment. I can meet via phone, Zoom, or other online venue. To request an online appointment or get any other help, please email iespinal@library.umass.edu or call:
Humanities Research Services Librarian
Library Guide for Black Women in U.S. History
(Afro American Studies 326)
Professor Amy Jordan, Librarians Isabel Espinal & Maria Rios
Databases
Secondary Sources
- 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.
- 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.
- ERIC This link opens in a new window
Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are requestable using the Microforms Request page and usable in the Microforms Vewing Room in the LC.
A free version of ERIC is available for all to use at this link: https://eric.ed.gov/.
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.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse to access many UMass online journal subscriptions.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.
You can access Google Scholar with UMLinks buttons from outside the UMass Amherst IP range ("off campus") by two methods:
1. Access Google Scholar through the Library web site by using this link.
2. Go to generic Google Scholar.
a. Click on "Settings."
b. Click on Library links.
c. Type in "University of Massachusetts" or "UMass Amherst" (or a few other variations).
d. Check "University of Massachusetts Amherst - UMass Check for Full Text" and Save.
e. You will be asked to authenticate somewhere along the way to full text.
Primary Sources
- African American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowSeven nineteenth-century African American newspapers in full text, including advertising, 1827-1902.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.
- American Memory This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of reproductions of primary source material from U.S. Library of Congress: pictures, pamphlets and recordings. Earliest dates from 1400s.Content is freely available for use by all.
- Black Abolitionist Papers This link opens in a new windowPapers and articles of 300 US and European anti-slavery activists of color, 1830-1865.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.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowPrimary and secondary sources on women's involvement in historical events in the United States. Includes books, pamphlets, papers, and articles.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.
- Historical Newspaper: Atlanta Daily World This link opens in a new windowFull-text of black newspaper, with coverage from 1931-2010.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.
- Historical Newspaper: Chicago Defender This link opens in a new windowFull-text of black weekly newspaper, with coverage from 1909-2010.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.
- Historical Newspaper: Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new windowFull-text of black newspaper, with coverage from 1893-2010.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.
- Historical Newspaper: Pittsburgh Courier This link opens in a new windowOne of the leading newspapers of the African American community in the U.S., with coverage from 1911-2010.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.
Citation Management
Use a citation manager such as Zotero to keep track of your research.
Put all your references in one place, create quick and easy bibliographies, build your knowledgebase for the rest of your career. For help, check out the online guides and webinars or Ask a Librarian.
Finding Books
To find books at UMass, you have two options.
1. Start with the Discovery Search, the general search box on the library home page, www.library.umass.edu.
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This search gives you access to books and articles and more.
2. Or, use the Five Colleges Library Catalog.
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This catalog lets you search in some very specifc ways, for example, by Library of Congress Subject Heading. Be as specific as possible in your searching. Start with a subject search (use keyword if subject yields no results). Search by author, title, subject, keyword, call number, journal title, etc. For materials on a specific subject, enter your term(s) into the Subject or Keyword search boxes.
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To find books outside the five colleges, try
1. WorldCat - The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries. Material not owned by UMass Amherst can usually be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
2. Commonwealth Catalog - Discover and request (with a UMass Amherst Libraries barcode) popular books, audio books, movies and more from a wide array of Massachusetts public and smaller academic libraries.
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