Welcome to the AFAMAST 3086 Research Site, your information gateway for research, teaching, and learning. Feel free to contact me for your research and classroom needs.
General
The Credo Reference database provides vetted background information on academic subjects and topics. Users can access full-text atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, and thesauri covering every major subject. Unlike Wikipedia, Credo Reference provides credible resources for papers, presentations, and publications
EBSCOHost Databases is a multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Features Open Cluster Searching. Select: Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Premier; Gender Studies Database; Historical Abstracts; Literary Reference Center Plus; and Women’s Studies International.
Biographical
Black Women Writers contains literature and essays on classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other issues facing African women of the Diaspora.
Literary Reference Center Plus provides full-text access to articles and reference works. Database content includes the New Contemporary Literature Titles from Salem Press relating to fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy, quotations in context, religious literature, and biographies of Nobel literature prize winners.
Digital Humanities
Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century archive is a digital collection of autobiographies, biographies, essays, fiction, and poetry by 19th-century women of African descent.
Digital Records of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP) features primary documents of the Colored Conventions movement, dating from the 1830s through the 1890s.
Umbra: Search African American History is an online search tool that brings together digitized materials from United States archives, libraries, and repositories. The free digitalized content provides wider access to Africana history, culture, and life.
