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America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations covering historical research of the United States and Canada from 1964 to the present.
Black Drama--1850 to Present, 3rd Edition This link opens in a new window
Find plays by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries from 1850-present.
Black Short Fiction This link opens in a new window
Full text African and African-Diaspora short stories, folktales, and selected literary magazines.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Find full text articles from major black newspapers, scholarly essays, and literary works, from the early 1800s onward. Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, and Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Find full text of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, interviews, journal articles, and other material of 20th century topics, including politics, religion, history, and sports.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Find articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses.
Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as Gale Ready Reference Shelf, this database integrates current editions of Gale's reference directories, containing listings for associations, research centers, publishers, publications, databases, and more.
Harper's Weekly: 1857-1912 This link opens in a new window
Browse the historic magazine, Harper's Weekly, a primary resource for examining 19th-century America. The magazines news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and ads shaped and reflected public opinion in this era.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Find citations to articles, books, and dissertations, covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience This link opens in a new window
Explore the experience of peoples of African descent throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines, research articles, images, and film clips.

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Callaloo
"A Black South journal of arts and letters." Some special issues devoted to the literature's of other minorities.
Journal of African American history
Sponsored by Morehouse College.
Journal of blacks in higher education
"...provides information about the governance, policies, and practices in our colleges and universities."
Journal of black studies
"Journal of Black Studies (JBS), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, for the last third of a century has been the leading source for dynamic, innovative, and creative research on the Black experience."
Journal of Negro education
"The JNE sustains a commitment to a threefold mission: first, to stimulate the collection and facilitate the dissemination of facts about the education of Black people; second, to present discussions involving critical appraisals of the proposals and practices relating to the education of Black people: and third, to stimulate and sponsor investigations of issues incident to the education of Black people."
Western journal of black studies
"Articles focus mainly on experiences of African Americans in the United States of America."

African American Review (AAR)
"African American Review (AAR) is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed. The official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences."
African Studies Quarterly
"African Studies Quarterly is an interdisciplinary, fully-refereed, indexed publication. While there are many other publishing outlets which focus entirely on scholarly writings concerning Africa, what distinguishes ASQ is its distribution method and its content."
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
"Jouvert: a journal of post-colonial studies is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal published online biannually."
The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
"Provides information on events, new publications, research collections, and other resources in the filed of African-American religious history."

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