AAAS 7760 African Popular Culture

Handbook of Black Studies   Asante, Molefi Kete and Maulana Karenga. Handbook of Black Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.

The African Diaspora and The Disciplines  Olaniyan, Tejumola and James H. Sweet. The African Diaspora and the Disciplines.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Mass Media Research: An Introduction Wimmer, Roger D, and Joseph R. Dominick. Boston, Mass: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014.  

Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies   Brennen, Bonnie. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources., 3^rd ed   Kagan, Alfred and Atoma Batoma. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

Research Methods in Africana Studies  McDougal, Serie, III. Research Methods in Africana Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 2014.

The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods  Margolis, Eric, and L Pauwels. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011.

SAGE Research Methods Online SRMO  SRMO is a research methods tool that covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.  SRMO assists users design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.

Studying Africa: A Guide to the Sources   The Studying Africa handbook is available as a free download from the website of the Nordic Africa Institute. Prepared by the NAI’s librarians, it is regularly updated and contains a thorough guide to different kinds of sources that support research in African Studies.

Visual Research Methods in Fashion  Gaimster, Julia. Oxford: Berg, 2011.