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Black Thought
and Culture
 collection of
approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders
in North America
Works by teachers,
artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans,
entertainers, and other figures form the corpus
collection
encompasses 100,000 pages of materials, including letters, speeches,
prefatory essays, political leaflets, trial transcripts, and interviews
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
A 5-volume eBook
covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the
present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many
by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses a wide array of subjects
in over 2,300 articles to fully define in one source the cultural roots and
current condition of the African-American community.
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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade Database
information on almost
35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for
transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries
the African names
database identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships using name, age,
gender, origin, and place of embarkation.
look for particular
voyages in this database of documented slaving expeditions. Create listings,
tables, charts, and maps using information from the database.
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JSTOR
contains
the full text of articles from scholarly journals
covers
a wide variety of subjects such as history, literature, biology, business, and
African-American studies
articles
published from early 1900s to 2 or 3 years ago.
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Project
MUSE
includes
full-text of articles from scholarly journals
covers
social sciences, arts, and humanities
covers
items published from 1993 to present
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Black Drama
contains the full
text of 1,379 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present
includes plays
from more than 222 playwrights from North America,
English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries
Many of the works
are rare, hard to find, or out of print and each play is extensively indexed
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Black Short
Fiction
brings together
80,000 pages and an estimated 6,200 works of short fiction produced by
writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the
present
materials have
been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal
collections of the authors
Some 30 percent
of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published
before
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African
American Song
includes streaming
audio of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical
expression
includes collections
of recordings by the fifty top names in the history of black American music
will contain at
completion 50,000 audio tracks
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