Library Guides: African American Studies: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Civil Rights in the United States
ISBN: 0028647653
Publication Date: 2000
This two-volume work examines the efforts of our diverse nation to secure civil rights for all its people including African-Americans, Native-Americans, Chicanos, women, Asian-Americans, workers, gays and lesbians, children, seniors, and numerous others.
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery by Randall M. Miller; John David Smith
ISBN: 0275957993
Publication Date: 1997
Alphabetical list and signed entries, terms, concepts, associations, and people important to an understanding of African American slavery in the United States. Includes maps, tables, chronology, brief bibliographies.
The African American Encyclopedia by R. Kent Rasmussen; Barbara Bair (Editor); Carl L. Bankston (Editor); David Bradley (Editor); Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor); Wendy Sacket (Editor)
ISBN: 0761472088
Publication Date: 2001
This encyclopedia retains its three-tiered approach, with short entries of less than a page, signed articles of two or three pages, and five- to seven-page essays that focus on more general topics.
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights by Charles D. Lowery (Editor); John F. Marszalek (Editor)
Publication Date: 1992
Covers the general area of civil rights since the Emancipation Proclamation, and contains over 800 entries written by 157 experts in African American history. In addition to people, important laws, books, newspapers, journals, events, and landmark court cases are covered. All entries provide bibliographies and are cross-referenced.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by Jack Salzman (Editor); David L. Smith (Editor); Cornel West (Editor)
Publication Date: 1995
Covers all aspects of the African American experience: biographies, events, legal cases, profession, sports, and places.
online version
online: Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
A five-volume set and supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.
online: Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (HathiTrust)
Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics by Jeffrey D. Schultz (Editor); Kerry L. Haynie (Editor); Anne McCulloch (Editor); Andrew L. Aoki (Editor); Helen Thomas (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1573561290
Publication Date: 1999
The "Encyclopedia" is the only resource available that focuses exclusively on the expanding role of minorities in U.S. politics. Containing more than 2,000 entries, this two-volume set is divided into four distinct sections covering African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. It makes a broad range of information readily accessible, including historical and contemporary biographies, descriptions of major events, and coverage of important legal decisions and organizations.

Libraries' Databases

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (First Edition) This link opens in a new window
This encyclopedia database comprises 4,000 articles commissioned by 52 section editors and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets, modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines, Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices, searchable full-text, and embedded electronic reference links. Annual updates are planned for release from 2004.
Oxford African-American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
The "Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture."
African American Studies Center The AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine in 2005, the highly acclaimed five volume Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience The Center also includes content from much-anticipated forthcoming print publications including the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
A retrospective index to backfiles of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences in over forty languages. Though the focus is on the twentieth century, coverage of many titles dates to the eighteenth century.
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 4,250 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.