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Africana Studies

Use this guide to start your research in African American studies, African diasporic studies, African history and contemporary issues, Caribbean Studies, and more.

More to Come Soon!

This page is a work-in-progress! More resources coming soon. In the meantime, please feel free to email suggestions to alan.delozier@shu.edu

General Reference Sources

Africana Studies Reference Books

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews (Editor); Frances Smith Foster (Editor); Trudier Harris (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 1997
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance by Lois Brown
Publication Date: 2005
Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature by Tarshia L. Stanley (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu
Publication Date: 2006
The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (Editor)
Publication Date: 2003
A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia by Hans A. Ostrom
Publication Date: 2001
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia by Jerry W. Ward (Editor); Robert J. Butler (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2008