Afro American Studies

A general guide to library research in Afro American Studies.

Course guides

Afro American Studies Course Guides

Librarians conducting sessions for classes create library guides to resources for those courses. Course guides are starting points for finding print or electronic resources.

The following course guides are currently available for Afro American Studies:

AfroAm 117: Survey of African American Literature IAfro Am 118: Survey of African American Literature II

Afro American Studies 133: Afro-American History, Civil War to 1954

- Afro American Studies 170/171: The Minority Experience in American Life and Culture

- Afro American Studies 188: Introduction to African American Literature

- Afro American Studies 290c/753: The Blues

- Afro American Studies 331: The Life and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois

- Afro American Studies 365: Composition: Style and Organization (Junior Year Writing)

- Afro-Am 491C: Cuba--A Social History (by Peter Stern)

- Afro American Studies 605/History 797S: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery

- Afro American Studies 652/234: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

- Afro American Studies 691C: Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies

- Afro American Studies 692G: African American Women's Narrative

- English 891BB: African American Women Playwrights

- History 494T: Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement (Junior Year Writing)

- History 591FG: First Generation-Urbanism and Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier

- History 593K: African Americans in Antebellum New England (Junior Year Writing)

- History 594Z: Black Women’s Political Activism (Junior Year Writing)

Professors and instructors of Afro American Studies may contact Isabel Espinal to discuss creating course guides for their classes.