Oxford African American Studies Center
Access: On-Site Access Only
Description: AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience. The core content includes:
- Africana - presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 - documents the full range of the African American experience from the arrival of the black explorer, Esteban, who arrived with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass.
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the present - offers the most extensive treatment of African American history into the twenty-first century
- Black Women in America, Second Edition - explores the achievements and contributions of black women in America throughout history
- African American National Biography - presents African American history through the lives of its people, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies
- Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Selected articles from the resources listed below on subjects ranging from the history of African American culinary culture to dance traditions to legal cases to race and racism are also included:
- American National Biography Online
- Oxford Companion to American Law
- Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture
- Oxford Companion to American Military History
- Oxford Companion to the Body
- Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
- Oxford Companion to Music
- Oxford Companion to United States History
- Oxford Companion to World War II
- Oxford Dictionary of Dance
- Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s) Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology History, Genealogy & Archives
Literature & Language
Military Science & National Security
Music, Film & Performing Arts
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