TCTC Library: African American Studies: African American Studies

Research Resources

Diversity Studies: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
This collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
Biography: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Includes authoritative reference information alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day news-makers. Search or browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.

Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History by Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrissette
This encyclopedia explores the many long-standing influences of Africa and people of African descent on the culture of the Americas, while tracing the many ways in which the Americas remain closely interconnected with Africa.
African-American Writers: A Dictionary by Shari Dorantes Hatch and Michael R. Strickland
A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, African American Writers examines a multitude of black cultural leaders from the 18th century to the present.
African American Almanac
The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America.
Black Firsts by Jessie Carney Smith
Tells stories of barrier-breaking pioneers in all fields-arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, inventing, journalism, religion, science, sports, and more.
Encyclopedia of African-American Writing
Covers the role and influence of African-American cultural leaders, from all walks of life, from the 17th century to the present.

Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World by Junius Rodriguez
Examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources.
Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom.
Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches by Josh Gottheimer
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure.
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia
A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects—social, political, and economic—of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through Reconstruction.

Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, English, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology