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
- 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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Finding Books
To find books at UMass
Start with the Discovery Search, the general search box on the library home page, www.library.umass.edu.
This search gives you access to books and articles and more.
Citations can be exported directly to Zotero or other citation managers.
Some Books by UMass Afro Am Faculty
- Fugitive Science by Britt RusertCall Number: E185.89.I56 B78 2017Publication Date: 2017Also available as an ebook
- Advancing Democracy by Amilcar ShabazzCall Number: LC214.22.T48 S53 2004ISBN: 0807855057Publication Date: 2004-01-3020th floor. Also available as an e-book
- African American mosaic : a documentary history from the slave trade to the twenty-first century by John H. Bracey, Jr., Manisha SinhaCall Number: E184.6 .A333 2004ISBN: 0130922870Publication Date: 2004
- After winter : the art and life of Sterling A. Brown by edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. TracyCall Number: PS3503.R833 Z54 2009ISBN: 9780195365795Publication Date: 2009
- Long George Alley: a novel by Richard HallCall Number: PS3558.A3737 L66 2004ISBN: 0743478991Publication Date: 2004
- Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction by A. Yemisi JimohCall Number: PS374.N4 J56 2002ISBN: 1572331720Publication Date: 2002
- The African American roots of modernism: from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Edward SmethurstCall Number: PS153.N5 S555 2011ISBN: 9780807834633Publication Date: 2011
- The counterrevolution of slavery: politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina by Manisha SinhaCall Number: F273 .S64 2000ISBN: 0807848840Publication Date: 2000Also available as an e-book!
Some books by Afro Am alums
- A Critical History of Soul Train on Television by Christopher P. LehmanCall Number: PN1992.77.S664 L44 2008ISBN: 9780786436699Publication Date: 2008Christopher P. Lehman earned his PhD in Afro American Studies from UMass Amherst in 2002.
- Black power at work : community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry by David A Goldberg; Trevor GriffeyCall Number: HD9715.U52 B53 2010ISBN: 9780801446580Publication Date: 2010David Goldberg earned his PhD in Afro American Studies from UMass Amherst in 2006.
- Black women in the ivory tower, 1850-1954: an intellectual history by Stephanie Y EvansCall Number: LC2741 .E93 2007ISBN: 0813030315Publication Date: 2007Stephanie Y. Evans earned her PhD in Afro American Studies from UMass Amherst in 2003.
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American agitator: a collection of writings, 1880-1928 by Timothy Thomas Fortune; Shawn Leigh AlexanderCall Number: E185.6 .F675 2008ISBN: 9780813032320Publication Date: 2008Shawn Leigh Alexander earned his PhD in Afro American Studies from UMass Amherst in 2004.
- The politics of Paul Robeson's Othello by Lindsey R SwindallCall Number: E185.97.R63 S95 2011ISBN: 9781604738247Publication Date: 2011Lindsey R. Swindall earned her PhD in Afro American Studies from UMass Amherst in 2007.
- The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World by Lindsey R. SwindallCall Number: E185.6 .S95 2014ebISBN: 9780813048802Publication Date: 2014Lindsey R. Swindall earned her PhD in Afro American Studies from UMass Amherst in 2007.
Spotlight on...
Two books by graduates of the Afro American Studies department were selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008. Both books began as dissertations in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- The Colored cartoon: Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954 by Christopher P. LehmanCall Number: NC1766.U5 L442 2007ISBN: 9781613761199Publication Date: 2007This book is based on Christopher Lehman's Afro American Studies dissertation, Black representation in American animated short films, 1928--1954, completed in 2002 and available online and in the Library.
- "Closer to the truth than any fact": memoir, memory, and Jim Crow by Jennifer Jensen WallachCall Number: E185.61 .W1925 2008ISBN: 9780820330693Publication Date: 2008This book is based on Jennifer Jensen Wallach's Afro American Studies dissertation, Remembering Jim Crow: The literary memoir as historical source material, completed in 2004 and available online and in the Library.
Spotlight on...
- Against Wind and Tide by Ousmane Power-GreeneCall Number: E448 .P786 2014ISBN: 9781479823178Publication Date: 2014
Ousmane Power-Greene received his PhD from the UMass Amherst Department of Afro American Studies in 2007.
E-Books
We have a robust ebook collection
- Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam by Carolyn Moxley RouseAlso available in paper format: Call # BP173.4 .R68 2004, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 20th floor.
Search our growing ebook collections for topics in Afro American Studies.
ebrary
Scholarly and popular books online in full text, from 1990 to present.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of several hundred current subject encyclopedias.
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Where are the books in Afro American Studies?
Call Number Locations
Information on Afro American studies can be found throughout the Library of Congress's classification system (the one we employ in the University Libraries). The subject of the work is the most important determinant as to where an item will be found, but the following Library of Congress call numbers mark areas where a significant number of books, journals, and other materials can be found.
TIP: When you look for a particular book on the shelf, make sure to browse the shelf and nearby shelves for related books. Take your time! Open the books!
E 184.5 - E 185.98 History of African Americans in the United States
14th floor
PS 508 .N3 Collections of literature by African Americans
11th floor
PS 628 .N4 Collections of plays by African Americans
11th floor
PS 591 .N4 Collections of poetry by African Americans
11th floor
PS 153 .N5 Literary history and criticism of works by African Americans
11th floor
Z 1361 .N39 Bibliographies on African American subjects
21st floor
What floor?
Reading Call Numbers
The Library Catalog provides a call number and location for each item. The call number consists of an alphanumeric string based on the Library of Congress classification system. Learn how to read a call number.
Note: If the Call Number of a book says "UM Reference," you will find it in the Learning Commons, lower level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Otherwise, for BOOKS and PERIODICALS in the UM W.E.B. Du Bois Library, use the chart below.
Call numbers beginning with | Floor | Subject(s) |
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A | 17 | General Works |
B | 20 | Philosophy, Psychology, Religion |
C | 15 | History |
D-DR | 15 | History |
DS-DZ | 14 | History |
E | 14 | History |
F | 14 | History |
G | 18 | Geography, Anthropology, Recreation |
H-HG 1999 | 18 | Social Sciences |
HG 2000-HZ | 17 | Social Sciences |
J | 17 | Political Science |
K (circulating) | 6 | Law |
K (non-circulating) | 6 | Law |
L | 20 | Education |
M | 6 | Music |
N | 9 | Art |
P-PQ 5999 | 8 | Language and Literature |
PQ 6000-PT | 11 | Literature |
PZ | 21 | Children's Literature |
Q | 23 | Science |
R | 23 | Medicine |
S | 23 | Agriculture |
T (except for TR) | 23 | Technology |
TR | 9 | Photography |
U | 23 | Military Science |
V | 23 | Military Science |
Z | 21 | Bibliography |
Note: If the call number is followed by either the word Folio or the word Oversize, it is too large to fit on the standard shelves and is located on Ranges 1 or 2 of the floor.
New Books!
Titles recently acquired in the Five College Libraries, on African American history.
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