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Welcome!
This guide highlights websites, books, journals, and other scholarly sources useful to students and scholars of Africana Studies -- otherwise known as the study of the history, culture, contributions, and experiences of people of African descent in the United States and abroad.
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Not sure where to begin? Do you need help finding sources or talking through your project idea? Send me an email and we'll set up a time to meet. Contact Samuel Boss, at samuel.boss@uconn.edu.
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Quick Links
- Africana Studies Institute at UCONNEstablished 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.
- Race and Anti-Racism: Featured UConn Library EbooksExplore and read this selection of more than sixty UConn Library ebooks.
