Oxford African American Studies Center A digital compendium of historical and cultural Africa, African American, and Africans in the Diaspora resources.
Publications by Dr. Geneva Smitherman
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Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," is a Michigan State University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of English; Co-Founder of the Department of African American and African Studies, Michigan State University and; Founder and former Director of "My Brother’s Keeper Program" an outreach mentoring program for Detroit, Michigan's middle school students. |
Welcome to the African American and African Studies Research Site, your information gateway for research, teaching, and learning. Feel free to contact me for your research and classroom needs. Leta Hendricks
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Ethnologue is a dynamic language portal of the world's known living languages. The database provides summary information for identified languages. Entries are based upon contributions from cultural and language experts.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
This database covers all aspects of the study of language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Covered media include articles, books, dissertations, papers, and reviews.
Cambridge Histories Online
This historical reference compendium provides digital access to the Cambridge Histories series. Titles include: "Cambridge History of Africa," "Cambridge History of African American Literature," "Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature," "Cambridge History of Latin America," and "Cambridge History of South Africa."
Oxford Bibliographies
This bibliographic driven database provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, Childhood Studies, Latino Studies, Music, Public Health and other humanities/social science research areas.
EBSCOHost Databases (Linguistics)
A multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain content from popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other digital media. Features Open Cluster Searching. Select Academic Search Complete; Education Research Complete; ERIC; Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective; Humanities International Complete; MLA International Bibliography; and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Oxford African American Studies Center
A digital compendium of historical and cultural African and African American resources. Database features articles from Oxford's reference works, primary sources with specially written commentaries, images, maps, charts and tables. The core content includes: "African American National Biography," "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition," "Black Women in America, Second Edition," "Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass," "Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century," "The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature," "Oxford Companion to Black British History," "Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought," and "Oxford Dictionary of African Biography.”
Oxford Art Online
Database provides search and browse capabilities that allow users to refine results and choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images. Database includes Grove Art Online The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
Oxford Bibliographies
This bibliographic driven database provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, Childhood Studies, Latino Studies, Music, Public Health and other humanities/social science research areas.
Oxford Music Online
Major music reference database providing online access to “Encyclopedia of Popular Music,” “Grove Music Online,” “The Grove Dictionary of American Music,” “The Oxford Companion to Music,” “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,” “The New Grove Dictionary of Opera” and “The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,” and “The Oxford Dictionary of Music.”
Oxford Reference
The prestigious Oxford University Press online reference resource provides access to general reference dictionaries and encyclopedias, language dictionaries and thesauri, quotations and timelines, and subject reference works.
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)
Comprehensive research database offers access to digital academic resources in humanities, law, medicine, social sciences, sciences, and other subject areas.
