Africa Initiative - Research Guides and Websites
General Information
- Major Speeches - African Diaspora
- Primary Documents
- BlackPast.org
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
- H-Net Discussion Networks
- Digital Collections (SU Library)
AFRICA
- The Story of Africa
- African Voices—Smithsonian Natural History Web
- Africa Writes: Heroes, Rituals, and Legends
- Islam in West Africa
- South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
- South African History Online
- The Community Video Education Trust (CVET) (Cape Town)—Documentary Footage of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa
- Wangari Maathai and the Kenyan Greenbelt Movement
NORTH AMERICA
- Africans in America
- This Far by Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
- "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration": Isabel Wilkerson Tracks Exodus of Blacks from US South
- Eyes on the Prize
- Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, Frederick Douglass, the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest and President Obama’s First Two Years
- Housing Discrimination, “Where Race Lives: Your Home is Your Future”
CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA
Research
General
African
- African Studies Subject Guide (Syracuse University Library)
- Resources in Print
- Articles and Dissertations
- SU Library journals in print
- Maps
- Research Collections
- International Directory of African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and South Asain Studies Scholars (via Columbia University)
African American
- African American Studies Subject Guide (Syracuse University Library)
- Articles and Dissertations
- Journals
- Special Collections
- Statistical Sources
Caribbean and Latin American
- Latin American Studies Subject Guide (Syracuse University Library)
- Books
- Databases
- Journals
- Maps and Statistics
- Special Collections
- Center for Caribbean Studies
- National Archives Caribbean History
Newspapers and Journals
SU Library
(can access if affiliated with SU)
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Historical Newspapers
- International Newspapers
- J-STOR
- Project Muse
- Syracuse Newspapers
- U.S. Newspapers
Newspapers
Higher Education Journals
- Diversity Employers
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
- Inside Higher Ed
Professional Sites
African
- African Studies Association
- African Studies Center (UPenn)
- Association of African Universities
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
- African Literature Association
- Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
- Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
- Postcolonial Studies Association
- Society of Africanist Archaeologists
- UK Council for Area Studies Associations
African American
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
- National Council for Black Studies