ETHN 120
Introduction to Black Studies

Reference Books

These are reference books that may provide information on the various concerns, issues, and topics in Black Studies. There are many more in the Reference Area, just browse in the vicinity of the books listed below.

Finding Books

Indexes/Abstracts

Index to Black Periodicals

Index A13.04 1950-

Index to Periodicals By and About Blacks. 1950 - 1994

Index Area A13.O4

Social Work Abstracts

Print 1994 - 2002, Index Area HV1.S6455

Online:  http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000082

Social Work Research and Abstracts. 1965 to Present

Index Area HV1.A2

Black Studies Web Sites

Black Studies: Historical Text Archive: African American History

http://historicaltextarchive.com/

Sites pertaining to the history of African Americans.

Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/

The Center utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to the comparative study of people of African descent living in Africa and the Americas.

Multicultural Pavilion: Cultural Diversity: Multicultural Resources

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/index.html

General resources for minority groups and diverse language populations.

The Ohio State University Libraries Black Studies Library Website

http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/bslweb/

Civil Rights Museum

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

Congressional Black Caucus

http://www.congressionalblackcaucus.net/

African American Women Health Information

http://www.4women.gov/

African American Health Issues and Information

http://www.healthgap.omhrc.gov/

Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program

http://againsttheirwill.journalnow.com/

American Association for Affirmative Action

http://www.affirmativeaction.org/

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

http://www.naacp.org/

National Urban League

http://www.nul.org/

African American Literature Book Club (AALBC)

http://aalbc.com/

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

http://www.asalh.com/

Black Quest Power Resource Links

http://blackquest.com/link.htm

Black History Hotlist

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/blackhistory.html

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

How Race Is Lived in America

http://nytimes.com/library/national/race/web-guide.html

A series of articles from the New York Times. The series focused on racial issues and identity.

U.S. Census Bureau Minority Links

http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html

The Legacy of Megar Evers

http://www.npr.org/template/story.php?storyId=4700724

Information about the legacy of the 1963 murder of the Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/

Tells the epic maritime story of how enslaved Africans were transported from the coasts of African to American shores.

Freedom Now an Archival project of Tougaloo College and Brown University

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/

A student created web site on the Mississippi Movement.

History of CORE Congress of Racial Equality

http://www.core-online.org/history%20opening.htm

Oh Freedom Over Me

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/oh_freedom/

This site is a companion to a report from American Radio Works and National Public Radio (NPR) News about the "Freedom Summer of 1964."

Web Sites for Debate Topics

Jim Crow Museum

http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/index.htm

American Pictures: racism, oppression

http://www.american-pictures.com/english/

Racism, race and the Law

http://www.udayton.edu/~race/

ACLU American Civil Liberties Union

http://www.aclu.org/

New York Times article series: How Race is Lived in America

http://nytimes.com/library/national/race/web-guide.html

mgwrighten/bgsul

Civil Rights Museum

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

http://www.naacp.org/

National Urban League

http://www.nul.org/

Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report

http://www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?dirnames=/intelligenceproject&pagename=ip4.html

Balch Institute For Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia,PA

http://www.balchinstitute.org/

The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., USA

http://www.urban.org/

Measuring Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in America

http://www.urban.org/civil/report_card.html

American Coalition for Fathers & Children (ACFC) in the News Articles and Quotes

http://www.acfc.org/

Divorce Reform Page

http://patriot.net/~crouch/anti.html

Childstats

http://www.childstats.gov

The Madness of the American Family

http://www.policyreview.com/sept98/family.html

Children's Defense Fund

http://www.childrensdefense.org

Women's Employment and Care of Children in the United States

http://www.ethno.isr.umich.edu/

Readers' Guide to Adoption-Related Literature: Transracial Adoption

http://members.aol.com/billgage/

Multiethnic Placement Act and Interethnic Placement Provisions

http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/

Administration for Children and Families

http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/

Adoption and the African-American Child: A Guide for Parents

http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/

Barriers to Same Race Placement

http://www.nysccc.org/

Selected Articles on Transracial/Transcultural Adoption

http://www.nysccc.org/

Faculty Attitudes Toward Regulating Speech on College Campuses

http://journals.ohiolink.edu:6873/journals/review_of_higher_education/v020/20.1dey.html

Academic Freedom VS. Civil Rights

http://www.csulb.edu/~crsmith/acadfree.html

War of Words: Speech Codes at Colleges and Universities in the United States

http://www.fac.org/publicat/warwords/warofwrd.htm

Hate Crimes, 1995

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.htm

Uniform Crime Reports

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

Death Penalty information Center

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

A non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.

Urban Institute: a nonpartisan economic and social research organization

http://www.urban.org/

Policy Review

http://www.policyreview.org/

A preeminent publication for new and serious thinking and writing about the issues of our day published by Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

Focus on The Death Penalty:

Index http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/index.html

Death Penalty Information Center:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

Death Penalty Related Web Sites:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=547&scid=37

Research Aids

Searching the World Wide Web

Evaluating Web Sources

You must be very careful when using documents found on the Web for research. Check out Evaluating Web Pages for tips on how to evaluate a web site.

Citing Electronic Documents

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