Subject Guides: Africana Studies Research Guide: Articles & Databases

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Finding Articles

To find magazine/journal articles about Africana Studies try the library databases listed below. Many other databases, however, can be found on the Libraries database page. NOTE: If you are searching off-campus, you will need to log in with your Auburn ID and password.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Academic Search Premier is a large multi-disciplinary database containing full text for thousands of publications, many of which are peer-reviewed. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to various databases, including current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.

Newspapers

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window Provides access to the full text of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
Access World News This link opens in a new window Provides access to the full text of over 500 US and Canadian newspapers, as well as selected international newswires.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window Provides access to the full text of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

Primary Sources

African American Communities This link opens in a new window Contains pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, photographs, and oral histories focusing on African American culture, social conditions, and identity in Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window Documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries, with 16 areas of focus: slavery in the early Americas; African coast; the Middle Passage; slavery and agriculture; urban and domestic slavery; slave testimony; spiritualism and religion in slave communities; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement and the slavery debate; legislation and politics; freed slaves, freedmen and free black settlements; education; slavery and the Islamic world; varieties of slave experience; slavery today and the legacy of slavery. Also includes case studies from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window Provides access to primary source materials in American history, including a collection of African American newspapers.
African American Newspapers, Series 1: 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window American Newspapers, Series 1, features 280 newspapers published for or by African Americans from 35 states. The collection includes many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles, including Freedom's Journal (NY)-the first African American newspaper published in the United States-The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L'Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN).
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Slavery in America and the World This link opens in a new window Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes colonial, state, and federal statutes along with pamphlets, magazine articles, and books about slavery.

Humanities: History & Literature

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window A bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window A bibliographic reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window Provides access to a variety of document and primary resources pertaining to women and social movements from 1600 to 2000. Includes documents related to such social movements as the Anti-Slavery Movement, American Civil Liberties Union, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Provides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Additional topics covered include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and the history of printing and publishing. Coverage is from 1926 to the present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window LLBA abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations, as well as citations to book reviews. Coverage is from 1973 to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides access to the full text of several collections of scholarly publications covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window Offers access to the full text of journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers and covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.

Social Sciences: Sociology, Psychology, & Communication

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage is from 1952 to the present.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Contains abstracts (and some full text) of the journal literature in psychology and related disciplines, as well as dissertations and technical reports.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window Provides citation information and abstracts for more than 770 journals in Communication Studies.