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Library and Media Center: Internet and Electronic Resources

Electronic Pathfinder

Prepared for UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Library and Media Center: Internet and Electronic Resources

By students in IS 201 Spring 2008 class:
Sarah Buchanan
Elizabeth Guth
Courtney Hoffner

Instructor: Dr. Clara Chu

Table of Contents:

Electronic Journals & Article Databases (43)

Primary & Biographical Sources (20)

Bibliographies, Research Guides, & Pathfinders (17)

News & Newspapers (18)

Online Exhibits, Collections, & Finding Aids to Archives and Manuscripts (11)

Associations, Organizations & Societies (6)

Book Reviews and Literary Criticism (3)

Government Resources and Data Sets (3)

Web Megasites (5)

Electronic Journals & Article Databases
About ... Time (Selected article text online in Ethnic NewsWatch)
Description: Magazine devoted to the African-American experience covers people, politics, and arts.
Electronic holdings: v.21:no.8(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430297

African American Research Perspectives
Description: an occasional report of the Program for Research on Black Americans, African American Mental Health Research Center, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Electronic Holdings: v.1(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=5703

African American Review
Description: The official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture.
Electronic holdings: (EBSCOhost) v.26(1992)- (selected text)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=5705

American visions (Selected article text online through various UCLA databases)
Description: This bimonthly magazine of African-American culture and history focuses primarily on visual arts, music, and literature.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=6777

Annual bibliography of English language and literature
Description: Index of periodical articles, books, reviews, dissertations, essays on English language and literature.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=32761

Biracial child (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.)
Description: Periodical about racially mixed children.
Electronic holdings: v.1:no.1(1994)-no.6(1995)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3786386

Black American literature forum (via JSTOR)
Continued by: African American Review
Electronic holdings: v.10(1976)-25(1991)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=10513

Black book review (via Ethnic NewsWatch)
Electronic holdings: v.3:no.3(1996)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=52986

Black child (Selected article text online in Ethnic NewsWatch)
Electronic holdings: v.[1](1995)-v.4(1998)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430298

Black enterprise
Electronic holdings: v.24(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=10522

Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Periodicals (1948-1986) [NISC]
Description: The Kaiser Index to Black Resources is a computerized bibliographic database drawn from the handwritten notes of librarians and other staff of the Schomburg Center.
http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll

Black parenting today (Selected article text online in Ethnic NewsWatch)
Electronic holdings: v.1:no.4(1998:Oct.)-v.3:no.1(2002:July)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=5359209

Black professional: the insider's guide to career savvy
Electronic holdings: v.5(1994)-spring/summer(1995)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430299

Black renaissance = Renaissance noire
(Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.)
Electronic holdings: v.1(1996)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=51615

California voice
Description: African-American newspaper published in Oakland, Calif.
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database): v.72(1991)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430202 .

Call and post
Description: African-American newspaper ed. published in Cincinnat i, Ohi o.
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.77(1992)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430203 .

Callaloo
Description: African-American journal published in Baton Rouge, LA including minority authors.
Electronic holdings: v.1(1976)-17(1994) (JSTOR Project Muse)
Electronic holdings: v.18(1995)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=12715 .

Chicago independent bulletin .
Description: African-American newspaper published in Chicago, IL.
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.24(1996)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430209 .

Child of colors.
Description: Newspaper about ethnicity and racially mixed children published in Atlanta, GA.
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.1(1996)-v.7(1997)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430300 .

Colorlines
Description: Newspaper about minorities and political activity published in Oaklan d, Calif .
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database): v.1(1998)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=53328 .

Ebony.
Description: One of the oldest and most successful African American magazines which provides business, health, fashion, sports, entertainment and general interest articles.
Electronic holdings: Bunche call # TT617 .E26 .
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=18835 (LexisNexis) & http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=5977265 .

Emerge
Description: African-American journal published in New York , N.Y.
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.4(1993)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3818630 .

Gaither reporter
Description: African-American periodical published in Houston, Tex .
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.1(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430335 .

Hopscotch
Description: Hopscotch represents an invitation to look at past and present Hispanic cultures anew and to revisit its shared history. Published in Durham, N.C. & accessible through Project Muse.
Electronic holdings: v.1(1999)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4935187 .

Interrace
Description: Periodical about interracial dating, marriage and racially mixed children published in Schenectady, NY .
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.5(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=26299 .

It's about time
Description: Periodical about Black Panther Party and political activity published in Sacrament o, Calif .
Electronic holdings (since 2000): http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4433764

Jet
Description: Popular African-American newsweekly .
Electronic holdings: Bunche call E185.5 .J51 among others, http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=55190

Journal of black studies
Description: African-American periodical published in Newbury Park, CA.
Electronic holdings: v.1(1970)- [Latest 3 years not available online] (JSTOR)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=27394 .

Journal of blacks in higher education
Description: Periodical about African-Americans in higher education published in New York.
Electronic holdings: no.1(1993)- [Latest 3 years not available online] (JSTOR)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=27395 .

Journal of Negro history.
Description: African-American periodical
Electronic holdings: v.1(1916)- [Latest 3 years not available online]
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=28042 .

Michigan chronicle
Description: African-American periodical published in Detroit, Mich .
Electronic holdings: v.57(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=54824

Michigan citizen
Description: African-American periodical published in Highland Par k, Mich .
Electronic holdings (till 1998): v.13(1991)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430257

Negro History Bulletin
Description:The Negro History Bulletin aimed at providing teachers, students, and the general reader a foundation in Black history.
Electronic holdings: v.1(1937)-v.50(1987), v.60(1997)-v.64(2001)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=34268

Network Journal
Description: Electronic magazine is dedicated to educating and empowering Black professionals and small business.
http://www.tnj.com/index.php
Electronic holdings: v.3(1994)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430260

Phylon (1940)
Description: The Atlanta University review of race and culture.
Electronic holdings: v.1(1940)-v.17(1956).
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=37584

Phylon (1960)
Description:A scholarly journal published by Atlanta University on race relations.
Electronic holdings: v.21(1960)-v.48(1987).
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=37585

Phylon Quarterly.
Description: A review of race and culture.
Electronic holdings: v.18(1957)-v.20(1959).
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3930902

Raising Black and Biracial Children: The Parenting Journal of Color
Description:A journal on parenting geared towards African Americans.
Electronic holdings: 1999:Jan.31-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430322

Review of Black Political Economy
Description: The Review of Black Political Economy examines issues related to the economic status of African-American and Third World peoples.
Electronic holdings: v.1(1970) - v.24(1996), v.18 (1990) -
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=40217

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies
Description: A quartely peer-reviewed academic journal.
http://www.safundi.com/

Western Journal of Black Studies
Description: An interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing scholarly articles, from a wide range of disciplines that focus on the experience of African Americans in the United States.
http://www.wsu.edu/~wjbs/

Womanist Theory and Research
Description: A biannual, peer-edited, interdisciplinary, intercultural, international journal on women of color.
http://www.uga.edu/~womanist/

YSB
Description: A periodical about African American youth.
Electronic holdings: 1993:Nov.30-v.6(1996)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3982758

Primary & Biographical Sources

African American Biographical Database (AABD)
Description: Full text, with illustrations and photographs, of more than 40,000 African American biographies, from 1790-1950.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=53965

African American Magazine (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database)
Continued by: The Messenger Magazine
Electronic holdings: v.2(1999)-v.3(2001)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4432383

African American Musicians Biographies
Description: This Internet Public Library pathfinder was designed for individuals interested in finding biographical information on African-American musicians involved in all musical forms and styles. It includes print resources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and books, as well as databases, and web sites.
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/78528

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Description: Full text from five 19th Century African American newspapers: Freedom’s journal (Mar. 16, 1827-Mar. 28, 1829) -- The Colored American / Weekly Advocate (Jan. 7, 1837-Dec. 25, 1841) -- The North Star (Dec. 3, 1847-Apr. 17, 1851) -- The National Era (Jan. 7, 1847-Mar. 12, 1860; complete only through Dec. 1853) -- Provincial Freeman (1854-1857) -- Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859; complete only through Dec. 1852) -- The Christian Recorder (1861-1902; complete only through December, 1870).
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=58477

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, Library of Congress
Description: Review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early 19th through the early 20th centuries. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4226105

African American Warriors
Description: Information on African Americans in the military from the American Revolution to the present.
http://www.aawar.net/

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
Description: strives to preserve African-ancestored family history, genealogy, and cultural diversity by teaching research techniques and disseminating information throughout the community.
http://www.aahgs.org/

American national biography
Description: Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped this nation.
http://www.anb.org/articles/
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=56256

American Slave Narratives : An Online Anthology
Description: From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Amistad Research Center
Description: The official repository for the archives and institutional records of the American Missionary Association (AMA), dedicated to preserving America's ethnic heritage.
http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Archives
Description: Records and documents relating to events that occurred during the civil rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's in the city of Birmingham and the United States.
http://www.bcri.org/archives/index/index.htm

California Newsreel
Description: Founded in 1968, Newsreel is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country and it produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films.
http://www.newsreel.org

Digital Special Collections Library, Duke University
Description: Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/index.html

Documenting The American South
Description: Univ. North Carolina provides texts, images and audio file s related to Southern history, literature, and culture .
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Faces of Science : African Americans in the Sciences
Description: Lists of biographies of African-American scientist s.
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html

Frederick Douglass Papers
Description: The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. Includes approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images) relating to Douglass' life.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ (LOC resource) + http://www.iupui.edu/~douglass/ (IU-PU@I resourc e)

Gale's Literary Index
Description: Master index to 43 published literary series, includin g Contemporary Authors & Contemporary Literary works.
http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex & http://www.twu.ca/Library/gale.htm (publisher’s index)

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina
Description: A guide to African-American documentary resources in North Carolina state.
(http://www.upress.virginia.edu/epub/pyatt/PyaAfro2.html )

Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
Description: A research project of th e James S. Coleman African Studies Cent er, UC LA
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/

Valley of the Shadow
Description: Digital Archive containing primary source material created by Civil War era communities.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Bibliographies, Research Guides, & Pathfinders
African American Musicians Biographies
Description: This Internet Public Library pathfinder was designed for individuals interested in finding biographical information on African-American musicians involved in all musical forms and styles. It includes print resources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and books, as well as databases, and web sites.
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/78528

African American Narratives
Description: Internet sources to oral histories ranging from slave narratives to more recent accounts involving segregation and civil rights
http://wotan.liu.edu/~lrr430/oralhistory.html

African American Studies Research Guide & Websites
Description: Compiled by Susan A. Vega Garcia, Iowa State University Library. Includes selected African American web resources useful for academic research and information purposes.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/afr_amer.htm

African-Americans in the Armed Forces
Description: This Internet Public Library guide is designed for researching the role African-Americans have played in major American conflicts and their relationship to the United States Armed Forces.
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48433

African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
Description: LoC’s first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections, covering 500 years of the Western black experience.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Afro-American Sources in Virgina : A Guide to Manuscripts
Description: Gathered texts and images related to manuscript repositories in Virginia.
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/mfp.html

Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Research Guide
Description: Pathfinder put together by the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Library at the University of North Carolina.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/stone/afam_latin_guide.html

Ethnic NewsWatch
Description: Contains the complete text of articles since 1990 from 200 publications of the ethnic and minorit y publications.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=20002 + YRL holding

Internet Public Library African-American Musicians Biographies
Description: Pathfinder for individuals interested in finding biographical information on African-American musicians involved in all musical forms and styles.
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/78528

Internet Public Library Pathfinders
Description: Multiple pathfinder listings for research in arts and humanities, business and consumers, computers and internet, education and libraries, entertainment, leisure, and hobbies; general reference; health, medicine, and nutrition; history and war; law, politics, and government; science and technology; society and culture.
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/

Literature online : LION
Description: World’s largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticis m; An array of literary databases (including the full text of poems, plays, and fiction) and reference work s.
http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/

Malcolm X: A Research Site
Description: Comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm X.
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/

MLA International Bibliography
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in the fields of literature, language, linguistic s among others.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3867233 & http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3867234 & http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=3867235 (YRL Reading Room).

“Researching African Americans: a pathfinder for exploring African American culture and history.” Illinois libraries [0019-2104] Collins yr:1998 vol:80 iss:4 pg:227 -35.
Article is available in print in SRLF: call no. Z732.I29 I2

UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in African-American Studies
Description: Pathfinder created by UCLA librarian.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/url/colls/africanamer/index.htm#rci

Voice of the Shuttle: General Resources for African-American Literature
Description: Links to webpages about African-American writers.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=1168

Women of Color Web
Description: A list of noteworthy sites that focus on women of color in the United States and around the world
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_wc.html

News & Newspapers
African American Newspapers
Description: List by state of African American newspapers with addresses and telephone/fax numbers
http://www.allied-media.com/Publications/african_american_newspapers.htm

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Description: Full text from five 19th Century African American newspapers: Freedom’s journal (Mar. 16, 1827-Mar. 28, 1829) -- The Colored American / Weekly Advocate (Jan. 7, 1837-Dec. 25, 1841) -- The North Star (Dec. 3, 1847-Apr. 17, 1851) -- The National Era (Jan. 7, 1847-Mar. 12, 1860; complete only through Dec. 1853) -- Provincial Freeman (1854-1857) -- Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859; complete only through Dec. 1852) -- The Christian Recorder (1861-1902; complete only through December, 1870).
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=58477

African Newspapers Currently Received By American Libraries
Description: 1999 ed., compiled by Mette Shayne.
http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/newscurrent99.htm

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md.: 1915) (via Ethnic NewsWatch)
Electronic holdings: v.101(1992)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=5705255

Big red news (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.)
Description: African American newspaper
Electronic holdings: v.16(1991)-v.17(1992)
Continued by: New York Beacon
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430336

Black World Today
Description: News and views about African American and other Black communities around the world
http://www.tbwt.org/

Center for Research Libraries & Foreign Newspapers Database
Description: A directory of over 6,000 newspaper titles published outside the United Stat e available at the Center for Research Libraries (a consortium of North American educational institutions and libraries).
http://catalog.crl.edu/

Chicago weekend .
Description: African-American newspaper published in Chicago since 1970s.
Electronic holdings (Selected article text online in the Ethnic NewsWatch database.): v.19(1992)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430210 .

New York Amsterdam News
Description: Black oriented multiracial newspaper.
http://www.amsterdamnews.org/News/default.asp
Electronic holdings: v.84(1993)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=54827

New York voice, inc.Harlem USA
Description: An African American centered newspaper.
Electronic holdings: v.33(1992)-v.40(1999)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID= 4430269

Precinct Reporter
Description: Newspaper serving Southern California's African American communities.
Electronic holdings: v.27(1993)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430283

Richmond Afro-American and Richmond Planet
Description: A newspaper that chronicled the history, culture and social life of Virgina's African-American community.
Electronic holdings: v.111:no.7(1992)-v.115:no.23(1996)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430286

Sacramento Observer
Description: The African American information source for Sacramento, published weekly.
http://www.sacobserver.com/index.shtml
Electronic holdings: v.28(1991)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4429578

San Francisco Metro Reporter
Description: Where San Francisco and Bay Area doctors, lawyers, business executives,
political and religious leaders and educators obtain the news throughout the black community.
Electronic holdings: v.19(1991)-v.23(1994)
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=5359221

Skanner (Portland, Ore.)
Description: The Skanner is a weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Established in 1975, The Skanner News Group has advanced the cause of the Black Press in the North Western United States.
http://www.theskanner.com/
Electronic holdings: v.17(1991)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430282

Skanner (Seattle, Wash.)
Description: The Skanner is a weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Established in 1975, The Skanner News Group has advanced the cause of the Black Press in the North Western United States.
http://www.theskanner.com/
Electronic holdings: v.2(1991)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430287

Tennessee Tribune
Description: A newspaper aimed at Tennessee's Black population.
http://www.thetennesseetribune.com/
Electronic holdings: v.5(1995)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4430292

Tri-state Defender
Description: An African American owned newspaper serving Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Electronic holdings: v.34(1985)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=4432252

Online Exhibits, Collections, & Finding Aids to Archives and Manuscripts
Anacostia Museum
Description: The Smithsonian Institution's museum of African American history and culture.
http://anacostia.si.edu/

Archives of African American Music and Culture
Description: Repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

Art and Life in Africa
Description: A multimedia project at the University of Iowa with extensive material on African peoples, their arts and culture.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html

Arthur Hall Collection
Description: Materials related to the work of Arthur Hall and the history of the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble, the Ile Ife Black Humanitarian Center and the Ile Ife Museum.
http://bbparkslope.com/IleIfe/ahc/

Center for Black Music Research
Description: Center contains bibliographies, discographies, teacher resource s.
http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/index.php

Department of History
Description: UCLA History Department
http://www.history.ucla.edu/

Digital Schomburg
Description: Digital library collection contains images of 19th century African-American s, full name: New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultu r e.
http://digital.nypl.org/Schomburg/images_aa19/

National Civil Rights Museum
Description: Website with archived online exhibits and oral histories.
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

National Museum of African American History and Culture
Description: The museum's website (a division of the Smithsonian) includes online exhibits (a good source for art and photographs).
http://nmaahc.si.edu/

NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Description: The website includes links to digital exhibits and online collections.
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Associations, Organizations & Societies
Africa Action
Description: National organization based in Washington, D.C. working to change U.S. foreign policy and the policies of international institutions in order to support African struggles for peace and development.
http://www.africaaction.org/

African American Museums and Historical Societies
Description: List of resources provided by University of Delaware.
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/internet/afammus.htm

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Africa Program
Description: Promotes technological collaboration, sustainable development and information exchange between American institutions and scientists
http://www.aaas.org/programs/international/

Race, and Ethnicity Online
Description: Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics of the American Political Science Association.
http://www.apsanet.org/~rep/

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research
Description: Institute hosted by Harvard University that publishes the DuBois Review: Social Science on Race.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/

Book Reviews and Literary Criticism
Annual bibliography of English language and literature
Description: Index of periodical articles, books, reviews, dissertations, essays on English language and literature.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=32761

Black book review (via Ethnic NewsWatch)
Electronic holdings: v.3:no.3(1996)-
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=52986

QBR: The Black Book Review Online
Description: First national book review exclusively dedicated to books about the African experience.
http://www.qbr.com/

Government Resources and Data Sets

Program for Research on Black Americans
Description: An University of Michigan site that organization that collects, analyzes, and interprets
empirical data on African Americans as well as international data on people of African descent.
Many of their data collections are avaliable online.
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/prba/

Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
Description: Data sets held by the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin
http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/

U.S. Census Bureau
Description: Population and demographic data on the United States population.
http://www.census.gov/

Web Megasites

African American Links
Description: Web listings publications, organizations, business resources and more.
http://www.littleafrica.com/links.html

American West: Multicultural Perspectives
Description: A resource site for the interactive exchange of ideas, information, and educational tools related to the US West in multicultural and intercultural perspective.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/

Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
Description: “Blacks on the net” web resource
http://www.javanoir.net/

PCI : Periodicals Contents Index
Description: Database index to article literature in thousands of U.S. and foreign
periodicals in the social sciences and other disciplines.
Electronic holdings: database access available through UCLA online catalog

http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID= 5374457

Itibari M. Zulu, Librarian
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
160 Haines Hall, Box 951545, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1545
(310) 825-6060