African-American Research Resources
Online
- Africana
Studies General Information
Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center is concerned
with the examination of the history, culture, intellectual development,
and social organization of Black people and cultures in the Americas, Africa,
and the Caribbean. Its program is structured from an interdisciplinary
and comparative perspective and presents a variety of subjects in focus
areas of history, literature, social sciences, and African languages including
Mandinka, Swahili, and Yoruba.
- Black
English, Looking to the Future 21st Century Racism?
A good article about Ebonics, and it has a links page for other resources
on the subject.
- African
American Pamphlets
This exhibit from the American Memory program of the Library of Congress
presents this look at African American History through the written word.
The collection can be searched by keyword or browsed by topic. This page
also presents links to the otyher collections relating to African American
History.
- Virtually
Afrocentric
Repository of Links
- NetNoir:
The Soul of Cyberspace
This site has areas devoted to lifestyle, community, and empowerment issues
of Afrocentric culture. The site is searchable and contains numerous links
to other pages of interest (search and links are found at the bottom of
each page.)
- Documenting the African American Experience.
Full-text historic documents.
- Deconstructing Black Academic Underachievement by Rochelle Brock
- Art McGee's extensive African/African-American
links
- Links
to Anti-Racism articles, as well as other online
materials dealing with the work of Cornel West
- Beyond the Nationalism of Fools: Toward An Agenda for Black Intellectuals by Eugene F. Rivers, Excerpts
from "The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals in the Age of Crack"
A Panel Discussion on November 30, 1992
- Richard
Hooker's site includes online primary and secondary
texts by and about Fredrick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois,
Henry Louis Gates Jr., and more.
- "On
the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack" by Reverend
Eugene Rivers
- Response to "On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the
Age of Crack" - from the Boston Review.
- Literature
on Race Ethnicity and Multiculturalism.
- Cyber
Sisters and Virtual Visionaries: A Celebration of Women of Color in the
Information Age, offers a number of resources
for the participants to explore, such as interesting websites by women
of color.
- Pop and Politics
- Website of Farai Chebya, author of The Color of Our Future.
- The Digital Schomburg. Images of African Americans
in the 19th Century, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The
New York Public Library.
- Art McGee's List of African American
related websites - http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/mcgee.html
- The Black
Radical Congress. Amasses regional and
national data on human rights, and justice issues. Offers emailed newsletter.
- Georgetown University American
Studies Weblinks. Comprehensive catalog of race and gender related
weblinks and journal articles.
Books and Journals
- "An
American Dilemma Revisited"
DAEDALUS proudly announces the publication of its Winter 1995 issue, "An
American Dilemma Revisited." The essays in this volume investigate
the changes that have occurred in race relations in the United States in
the fifty years since Gunnar Myrdal published his monumental work, An American
Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
- JAC
Online: A Journal of Composition Theory
Special Issue: Race, Class, Writing.
- African Studies
Quarterly. The online journal of African Studies
Other
- Searchable Gopher Server
African resources from the African Studies Program at the University of
Wisconsi at Madison.
- The Black Collegian
Online. The electronic version of the
29 year-old, national career opportunities magazine. In addition to the
abundance of career planning/job search information, there is commentary
by leading African-American writers, lifestyle/entertainment features,
general information on college life, and news of what's happening on college
campuses today.
- The AfroAmerican
Newspaper Company of Baltimore. News, culture, and exhibits
from around the world.
- Internet Publication by Harlem
Youth. http://www.harlemlive.org/
- THE
CONDUIT, a technology Web site and newsletter written from an
Afrocentric perspective.
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