Guide to African American Studies Research

African American Studies Liaison

Elizabeth Parang

e-mail: Elizabeth.Parang@pepperdine.edu
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African American Studies Research Blog

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Last changed Oct 14, 2009 12:44 by Elizabeth Parang

Oxford African American Studies Center's latest Focus On article looks at the landmark Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford. The United States Supreme Court has a long history of court cases concerning issues of race. In the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, Dred Scott, a man born into slavery, sued his owner for his freedom based on the fact that he had lived in U.S. territories where slavery was outlawed. …

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Databases

American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Updated quarterly with hundreds of new and revised entries, the ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Includes over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, providing historical and social context to the biographies. Includes special collection on Black History
Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The database is composed of three parts. Part 1 covers key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by critically acclaimed dramatists of the 1940s. The second part of the collection covers the Black Arts movement of the sixties and seventies and works performed by the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (BARTS), The Negro Ensemble Company, and other companies. Part 3 focuses on plays that deal with the social and political ills stemming from colonialism, slavery, and apartheid; the struggle for independence; African history; and neo-colonialism.
Black Thought and Culture provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. In addition to well-known works, when completed, the collection will feature unique, fugitive and never-before-published materials, including the first-ever complete full run of the Black Panther newspaper. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. This ninth release of Black Thought and Culture includes approximately 1297 sources and 1100 authors (March 2007).
JSTOR includes an extensive archive of journals in 30 subject disciplines in the Arts and Sciences, including 13 journals in African American Studies. Records are presented in high-resolution page images in combination with full-text searching.
Naxos Music Library Jazz , a comprehensive collection of jazz on the Naxos and Fantasy Jazz labels, features close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1900 albums with over 500 jazz artists represented.
Oxford African American Studies Center contains over 7,500 articles by top scholars and hundreds of primary source documents, images, maps, and charts and tables.
Primary Sources in African American History (LexisNexis) is a collection of documents pertaining to African American history. Using either the keyword search, subject search or browse option, users are able to access primary sources such as pictures and images, government documents, manuscripts, speeches, autobiographies and more.

Selected New Books at Pepperdine University Libraries

Gatekeepers of the Arab past
Gatekeepers of the Arab past : historians and history writing in twentieth-century Egypt / Yoav Di-Capua. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. DT107.824 .D53 2009

Concrete reveries
Concrete reveries : consciousness and the city / Mark Kingwell. New York : Viking, 2008. HN80.N5 K56 2008

Rise of the red engineers
Rise of the red engineers : the Cultural Revolution and the origins of China's new class / Joel Andreas. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. HN740.Z9 E413 2009

Cities and the creative class
Cities and the creative class / Richard Florida. New York : Routledge, c2005. HT201 .F56 2005