Welcome to the African American Studies Subject Guide! This guide highlights websites, books, journals and other scholarly sources useful to those studying African American Studies.
When researching African American communities or topics be aware that historically the label "African American" is not the only one ever used to describe them. Currently both African American and Black are used to describe and research these groups. Other historic terms used are: colored and Negro. To complicate things, Black Latina/os may also refers to themselves as Afro-Latinos or Afro-[ethnicity], e.g. Afro-Cuban. Keep this in mind while creating your research question and developing keywords to research them in our databases and catalogs.
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UConn's Africana Studies InstituteEstablished in 1989, the primary mission of the Africana Studies Institute (formerly the Institute for African American Studies) is to enlighten and inform the University of Connecticut community and the people of the State of Connecticut, nation and the world about the history, culture, contributions and experiences of people of African descent in the United States and abroad.
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Race and Anti-Racism: Featured UConn Library EbooksExplore and read this selection of more than sixty UConn Library ebooks.
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1619 ProjectA New York Times Magazine project that "aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the U.S. national narrative."
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Black Feminism Introductory Research GuideThis guide from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the NYPL is an excellent place to learn more about Black Feminism in the US. It is also a great place to identify archival collections at the NYPL that could be useful for your research
