Research Guide: Africana Studies Web Resources

General Resources | Africana Studies | African-American Studies | Statistics

General Resources

American Family Immigration History Center: This site contains a database of 22 million people who passed through Ellis Island and entered the Port of New York between 1892 and 1925.
Best of History Websites: Rated sites cover the following areas: Prehistory, Ancient/ Biblical, Medieval, US History, Early Modern European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources, and Maps.
Eldis: Resources include over 18,000 documents, as well as country profiles and resource guides on third world countries, including Africa and Latin America countries. Searchable. Excellent content.
Human Rights Library: Over 85,000 documents relating to human rights including treaties, UN documents, other government documents, and much more. From the University of Minnesota.
Minority Studies: Coverage corresponds to that of other Voice of the Shuttle literature pages, with a focus on Afro-American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish, and Native American literatures as well as on the literatures of other less well represented groups.
OCEANIndex: Essentially a history search engine that indexes web sites, images, and timelines and articles from HistoryWorld.
Social Science Data Archives
UC Atlas of Global Inequality: "The Atlas integrates data, maps, and graphs to create an interactive website for accessing and analyzing information addressing global change and inequality."
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: Provides information, in the form of text, tables, and charts, about the various types of foreign nationals who are inspected, naturalized, apprehended, or removed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Africana Studies

Africa: Country Pages
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent: "Brings together, in digital form ...primary and secondary resources...collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff. This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countires, as well as a large number of difficult to find texts
Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP): "Monitoring human rights and the law in Africa. Aims to monitor and promote compliance by African states with the requirements of good governance, democracy, human rights and the rule of law."
African Women's Bibliographic Database
African South of the Sahara Database: Provides information on the region's social science research and training institutes and periodicals.
African South of the Sahara: selected internet sites
africabib.org: "Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database; indexes over 27,000 articles from over 246 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or cover the African continent."
African Journals Online
African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania
African Studies Internet Resources (Columbia U)
afrol News
Archival Research Catalog (ARC): Search tips: Click on the yellow search button (top left). Type key words into the search box. Select the type of material you're looking for from the dropdown box under "Type of Archived Materials" (optional). Click on "Go." From the search results, look for the designation "Digital Copy Available."
Black Studies (City College)
Index on Africa
Internet African History Sourcebook
Resources in Black Studies
WorldBank: Africa: Includes press releases, data and statistics, publications and reports, programs and initiatives related to African countries.

African-American Studies

African American Web Connection (AAWC)
African Americans (U.S. Department of State)
Documenting the American South: "A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs."
The American Civil War Home Page: Sections include graphic images, letters and diaries, general resources, timelines, bibliographies, etc. Lists of sources, primary documents, pictures. Frequently updated; award winning site.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: "American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and cultural developments of the United States." African American History section includes over 15 collections.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Primary sources mostly post American Revolution.
Catalog of United States Government Publications (CGP): A key index to over 500,000 federal publications, some going back as far as 1976. Includes descriptions of historical and current publications and provides links to those available online. Plans are underway to include documents going back to the early 1800s. Search by agency, title, subject, and general key word.
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights: The Thurgood Marshall Law Library is working towards creating "a complete electronic record of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications held in the Library's collection and available on the USCCR Web site." Documents are available in pdf format.
In Motion: The African-American migration experience including narratives, illustrations and documents.
Women Working, 1870-1930: Uses documents from Harvard libraries.

Statistics

CenStats Databases
EarthTrends: Population, Health and Human Well-being: Searchable database covering statistics on population, health, education, literacy, transportation, and water and sanitation for countries around the world.
FAOSTAT: "Provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs."
International Economic Statistics Database (FRB/St. Louis): Links to over 700 official publications of foreign national governments with economic data. The database is title, country, subject and keyword searchable.
Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity: Special reports from the 2000 census regarding African Americans and Latinos.
Population Index on the Web
UN Statistical Databases

Africana-Related Online Journals

Many of the journals listed here provide online full-text of articles free of charge.

African Journals OnLine (AJOL): "AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines." Browse or search journals. Abstracts only, but articles can easily be ordered through Interlibrary Loan.
Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa
African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies
CODESRIA Bulletin
Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: "Forty four periodical titles have been selected from a very comprehensive list, with a view to presenting not only a wide spectrum of political views published during these years, but also a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion, health, culture, and gender." Searchable index of these journals in full text.
Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa
Freedom's Journal: "The first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829." This website includes photographic images of the text of the Journal.
Journal of Pan-African Wisdom
Sage Journals Online (must be using a computer on SUNY Oneonta campus): "SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine."
Southern African Journal of Information and Communication
Umrabulo: Quarterly journal on issues that impact the African National Congress.
West Africa Review

Miscellaneous

Ebonics Links

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