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 the 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/o 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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Census to replace “Negro” with “black” or “African-American”/ Post Staff Report, New York Post, Feb. 25, 2013.News report explaining the history of the usage of negro, black and African American terms and decision by the US Census to change this race category in 2013 for the 2020 Census.
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Useful Non-UConn Guides
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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
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Photo Caption: In this Oct. 10, 2015 file photo, a man wears a hoodie which reads, "Black Lives Matter" as stands on the lawn of the Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
