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This guide consists primarily of printed reference resources and links
to electronic journal databases. Although
most major reference titles are included, this guide should not be
interpreted as an exhaustive list of the library's reference
holdings. Search the library catalog for additional titles or
for the most recent acquisitions.
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Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Manuals
African
America: Portrait of a people. /Kenneth Estell. Detroit:
Visible Ink, 1994. REF E185.96 .88
African American Almanac. Edited by Kenneth
Estell. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. REF E185 .N385 1994
African American Firsts in
Science and Technology. Detroit: Gale Research,
1996. REF Q141.W43 1999
African American History in the Press 1851-1899.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. REF185.2 .A25 1996
A
collection of first-hand reports as they were originally
presented in the newspapers of the day. Includes positive
and negative portrayals of African Americans in articles,
editorials, cartoons and engravings as depicted in thirteen
major newspapers of the nineteenth century.
Africana: The Encyclopedia
of the African & African American Experience.
Edited by Kwame A. Appiah. REF DT14 .A37435 2005
Black Firsts: 2,000 Years of Extraordinary Achievement.
Edited by Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Visible Ink Press,
1994. REF E185 .B574 1994b
Includes a pullout timeline of
important African-American events.
Chronology of
African American History: Significant Events and People from
1619 to the Present. / Alton Hornsby. Detroit: Gale Research.
REF E185 .H64
Civil
Rights in the United States. Edited by Waldo E.
Martin and Patricia Sullivan. NY: Macmillan, 2000. REF
E184.A1 C47
A two volume compendium of latest scholarship
on civil rights and the civil rights struggle in the United
States.
Dictionary of Afro-American
Slavery. Edited by Randall Miller. NY:
Greenwood Press. REF E441 .D53 1988.
Encarta Africana. (CD-ROM) RefDesk DT14 .M527.
A multimedia encyclopedia on the history, geography and
culture of Africans and people of African descent.
Wonderfully enhanced with music, photographs and video
clips.
Encyclopedia of African American
Society. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage,
2005. REF E185.E546
Encyclopedia of Black Studies.
Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
REF E185.E554
Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America.
Edited by David Bradley and Shelley Fishkin. Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe, 1998. REF E185 .E544 1998 (3 volumes)
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.
Edited by Jack Salzman, et al. REF E185 .E54 1998 (5 volumes)
Hippocrene
Guide to the Underground Railroad
/ Charles Blockson. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994. REF E450 .B65 1994
A
guidebook that lists historic sites by state and city.
Historic
Landmarks of Black America/
George
Cantor. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1991. REF E185.53 .A1 C36 1991
Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery.
Edited by Paul Finkelman and Joseph Miller. New York:
Macmillan Reference, 1998. REF HT861 .M24 1998
My Soul is
a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights
Era
/Bettye Collier-Thomas.
NY: Holt, 2000. REF E185.69 .C697 2000
New York
Public Library African American Desk Reference.
NY: Wiley, 1999. REF E185 .N49 1999
North Carolina Freedman’s Savings & Trust Company Records.
Raleigh: NC Genealogical Society. REF E185.96 .N67 1992
Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African
American Associations. Edited by Nina Majagkij.
NY: Garland, 2001
Pan-African
Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for
Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
/Everett Jenkin.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland& Co, 1998. REF E185.18
.J46 1998
Runaway Slave Advertisements: A
Documentary History from the 1730's to 1790.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1983. REF E446 .W73
1983
Slave
Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies.
/ David Streets. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986. REF E185.96 .S817 1986
Slavery In
America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War.
/ Dorothy Schneider. NY:
Facts on File, 2000. REF E441 .S36
Includes eyewitness
accounts of America slavery. Accounts are drawn for
newspapers, diaries, letters, speeches, laws, and other
documents.
The
Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the
Most Important People and Events in African American History
/ Sharon Harley.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. REF E185 .H295 1995
Travel Guide
to Black Historical Sites and Landmarks in North Carolina.
/Lenwood G Davis.
Winston-Salem, NC: Bandit Books, 1991. REF E185.93 .N6 D38
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Bibliographies
The
African American Male: An Annotated Bibliography.
Compiled by Jacob U. Gordon. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1999. REF E185.86 .B14
Afro-American
Nationalism: An Annotated Bibliography of Militant
Separatist and Nationalist Literature. /
Agustina Herod. New
York: Garland, 1986. REF E185.625
Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. New
York: G.K. Hall, 1995. A Catalog of 1995 acquisitions at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. REF E185.B1
S3 1995
Black Books Galore!: Guide to
Great African American Children's Books. New
York: Wiley, 1998. REF E185.B1 R33
Black
White Relations in American History: An
Annotated
Bibliography. / Leslie Tischauser.Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press, 1998. REF E185.61 .B1 T53
Blacks in the
American West and Beyond - America, Canada, and Mexico: A
Selectively Annotated Bibliography. /George
June. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. REF
E185.925 .B1 J86
Generations
Past: A Selected List of Sources for Afro-American
Genealogical Research. / Sandra Lawson. Washington, DC: Library
of Congress, 1988. REF E185.96 .B1 G46 1988
Harvard Guide to
African-American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2001. REF E185 .H326 2001
Racism in
Contemporary American. / Meyers Weinberg. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1995. REF E185.61 B19 1996
Voices of the
Spirit: Sources for Interpreting the African American
Experience. / Denise Glover. Chicago: American Library Assoc.,
1995. REF E 185 .N39 1995
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Biography
Black Americans in Congress,
1870-1889.
Washington, DC: US
Government Printing Office. REF E185.96 .R25 1990
Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia.
Edited by Darlene C. Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing,
2005. REF E185.86 .B542
Dictionary of
American Negro Biography. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1982. REF E185.96 .D53
Distinguished African American Political and Governmental
Leaders. Compiled by James Haskins. Phoenix: Oryx
Press, 1999. REF E185.61 .H359
Notable Black American Men. Edited by Jessie
Smith. Detroit: Gale, 1999. REF E185.86 .N68
Notable Black American Women. Edited by Jessie
C. Smith. Detroit: Gale, 1992. REF E185.96 .N68 1992
Powerful Black Women. Edited by Jessie C.
Smith. Detroit: Visible Ink, 1996. REF E185.96 .69
Who’s Who Among African Americans. Detroit:
Gale Research (annual -- ). REF E185.96 .W52
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- Individual Biography
Search the library catalog by
subject and enter the
individual's name (last name first) as the subject term
- Autobiography
Search the library catalog by
author and enter the
individual's name (last name first) as the author.
Guides to
Autobiographies/Diaries/Narratives
Afro
American Biographies: A Bibliography. Edited by Sara
Mitchell. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2000. REF E 185.96
.B1 A375 2000
American Diaries: An
Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals.
/ Laura Arksey. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. REF CT214 .B1 A75 1983 (Vols. 1-2). See
"Afro-Americans" in the index.
Autobiographies by
Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography. /
Rebecca Stuhr-Rommereim. Troy,
NY: Whitston Publishing, 1997. REF CT220 .B1 S88 1997
A
Comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave. Compiled by
Howard E. Potts. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. REF
E444 .A45
This index is keyed to The American Slave, a multi-volume
collection of slave narratives collected by the Federal Writers Project
Workers Progress Administration (WPA). The index identifies names by
counties and states, and also includes an index arranged by masters'
names. Online access to the slave narratives is available on the
American Memory Project Web site.
Microform Collection
Sabin’s Slavery
post-1850 [Microform]. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications,
1992.
This microfiche collection of primary source material on slavery
in the United States represents 303 different titles on approximately
1300 microfiche. Viewpoints from pro-slavery to abolitionist are
covered. A printed index to the collection is shelved in Ref E441 .S23
1993.
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Statistical sources
African Americans and the
Color Line. Washington, DC:
Population Reference Bureau
REF E185.86 .S856
Black Americans: a
Statistical Source Book.
Boulder, CO: Numbers & Concepts, 1990, 1999, 2001. REF E185.5 .B512
Historical Statistics
of Black America. Compiled and edited by Jessie C. Smith and
Carrell Horton. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. REF E185. H543 1995 (2
volumes)
Statistical Record of
Black America. Compiled and edited by Jessie C. Smith and
Carrell Hotrod. Detroit: Gale Research. 1990-- REF E185.5 S83
United States Census.
The library owns various census reports.
1790-1900 census reports are shelved in Reference HA 201.
1970 –1990 census reports are shelved in the government documents area C
3.
2000 census reports are available online. See
American Factfinder.
Searching the library catalog
A search of the library cataYou can search the online
library catalog by author, title, subject headings, or keywords that
describe your topic. Select a keyword search or subject search from the
menu to begin exploring the combined library catalogs of the
Western North Carolina Library Network.
Subject Searching
Works on citizens of the United States of
black African descent are entered under the subject
African Americans.
Works on blacks who temporarily reside in the United States, such as
aliens, students from abroad, are entered under
Blacks--United States.
Works on blacks outside the United States are entered under
Blacks--[place].
Consult the
Library of Congress
Subject Headings (LCSH) located on the Research Support Desk or
browse
the online guide to subjects for a complete list of LC subject headings.
These lists also include cross-references, related, narrower, and
broader terms, and Library of Congress classification numbers for many
subjects
The subject,
African Americans,
has numerous subdivisions. For example:
African Americans – history
African
Americans – social conditions
Many other subject headings begin with
the term
African American. For
example:
African American abolitionists
African American historians
Persons as subjects
Be aware that personal
names will not be listed in the subject lists, but may be searched as
subjects by entering the name (last name first) in a subject search.
Keyword searching
Keyword searches identify terms in the subject,
title, and content description fields of a catalog record. Simply enter
one or more distinctive words describing your topic and the catalog will
retrieve and display titles in which all of these words appear in the
catalog record.
Many
early works about African Americans used the words,
Negroes
or coloreds
in their titles or descriptions. Do not exclude these terms if you are
searching for materials published prior to the mid-1900’s. Use
African American
in keyword searches for recent materials.
UNCA Ramsey Library's Special
Collections site lists finding aids for manuscripts, oral
histories, photographs, archives, and more. Below are two major
collections that contain information about African Americans in Western
North Carolina.
Black Highlanders Collection
contains important institutional and biographical materials on African
Americans in Asheville, NC. Accounts of African American congregations
and schools are included, as are representative issues of local African
American newspapers such as the
Church Advocate
and
Southern News, and other
publications. Included also are biographies of leaders in education,
business, and religion, and various photographs.
The South Asheville Colored Cemetery, 1840-1943
Information and documentation on Asheville's
early African-American burial ground.
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Journal Articles
Aspects of African American
history and culture can be found in all subject disciplines. For a
complete list of electronic indexes available in Ramsey Library
see Electronic
Resources by Subject.
Specific Periodical Databases (UNCA Users only)
Academic Search Premier.
Multi-disciplinary database with indexing for
more than 8,000 publications and full text for
4,500+ of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975
or further.
America History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature on American history.
Includes abstracts.
Humanities Full Text
Indexes major scholarly journals in the humanities. Includes some full-text.
JSTOR
The scholarly journal archive; provides full
text for over 450 journals covering a broad array of
disciplines. UNCA collections include Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and
IV. See detailed
lists.
Project Muse.
Search over 200 full-text journals from major university presses
Locating Articles in Ramsey Library
Search the online catalog to determine whether a certain journal is
located in Ramsey Library or is in the Western North Carolina Library
Network (WNCLN). The catalog record will indicate:
- whether we have a current print or online subscription
- which years of the periodical we own
- the format (bound, microform, online) of older issues.
Obtaining periodicals not owned by Ramsey Library
- Check the online catalog. If ASU or WCU
owns the title, you can
request it through ABC Express.
- If the title is available online in full-text, you can print the
article from the computer.
- If the title is not at UNCA, ASU, or WCU, you may request an article
copy through Interlibrary Loan.
- Detailed information about
ABC Express and
Interlibrary
Loan is
available at the Research Support Desk.
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