*African American Studies: Getting Started

The definitive article database covering the history, culture, area studies, and current affairs literature of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

In addition to overview essays, this source provides access to historical primary resources, including films, as well as access to scholarly journals covering the African Diaspora.

Provides online access to reference resources in African American studies, including the Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, Black Women in America, and Africana, a history of the African American experience. Includes African American National Biography project, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture. 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(Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.