African American African Diaspora Studies

Reference Materials

Print Reference Materials

This is a selected list of some of the more useful AAADS reference sources. Check IUCAT for more options. Keep in mind that you can search for a topic and add the terms Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dictionaries; Encyclopedias; or Bibliography to your search. If you need to find an e-book, you can also add the keywords electronic resource. For help with searching IUCAT, please see Books/DVDs/CDs/Videos or Reference Help.

These sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, indexes, handbooks, etc.) were chosen because they are usually excellent starting points for further research, rather than being quick-reference titles. All contain either bibliographies and or bibliographic notes. Some contain primary sources and most are indexed. This collection of books are well-designed and easy-to-use.

Note: All materials listed are found in the Reference Room and are listed in order by Library of Congress call number.

Print Reference Materials

• The Malcolm X Encyclopedia / Robert L. Jenkins
  BP223 .Z8 L573 2002
• Africana / Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  DT14 .A37435 2005 v.1-v.5
• African-American Culture and History: A Student's Guide / Jack Salzman
  E185 .A2527 2001 v.1-v.4
• The New York Public Library African-American Desk Reference / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  E185 .A2528 1999
• The African-American Encyclopedia
  E185 .A253 2001 v.1-v.10
• The Routledge Atlas of African-American History / Jonathan Earle
  E185 .E125 2000
• Encyclopedia of African-American History: 1619-1895 / Paul Finkelman
  E185 .E545 2006 v.1-v.3
• Encyclopedia of Black Studies / Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama
  E185 .E554 2005
• The Harvard Guide to African-American History / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  E185 .H326 2001
• Historical Statistics of Black America / Jessie Carney Smith and Carrell Peterson Horton
  H543 1995 v.1-v.2
• The African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience / Gabriel Burns Stepto
  E185 .S797 2003
• G.K. Hall Index to Black Periodicals 2004 / G.K. Hall
  E185.5 .I52 2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights / Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek
  E185.61 .E54 2003 v.1-v.2
• Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement / Ralph E. Luker
  E185.61 L84 1997
• Black Women in America / Darlene Clark Hine
  E185.86 .B542 2005 v.1-v.3
• Notable Black American Men / Jessie Carney Smith
  E185.86 .N68 1999
• Who's Who Among African Americans / Allan Hornsby, Jr.
  E185.96 .W52 2004
• International Dictionary of Black Composers / Samuel A Floyd, Jr.
  ML105 .I5 1999 v.1-v.2
• African-American Films through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography / Larry Richards
  PN1995.9 .N4 R54 1998
• African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography / James P. Danky and Maureen E. Hady
  PN4882.5 .A37 1998
• Afro-American Publications and Editors 1827-1946 / Vilma Raskin Potter
  PN4882.5 .P677 1993
• Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance / Aberjhani and Sandra L. West
  PS153 .N5 A24 2003
• African American Writers / Valerie Smith
  PS153 .N5 A344 2001 v.1-v.2
• African American Writers: A Dictionary / Sherri Dorantes Hatch and Michael R. Strickland
  PS153 .N5 A3444 2000
• African American Literature / Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr.
  PS153 .N5 G73 2005 v.1-v.5
• Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion / Janet Witalec
  PS153 .N5 H245 2003 v.1-v.3
• Oxford Companion to African American Literature / William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris
  PS153 .N5 O96 1997
• Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index / Bernard L. Peterson, Jr.
  PS153 .N5 P34 1988
• Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts / Bernard L. Peterson, Jr.
  PS153 .N5 P44 1990
• Harlem Renaissance and Beyond / Lorraine Elena Ross and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph
  PS153 .N5 R65 1990b
• Writing African American Women Literature: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color / Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu
  PS153 .N5 W756 2006 v.1-v.2

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Electronic Reference Sources

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Below is a select listing of general electronic reference sources that University has to offer. All of these sources and others can be located on the IUPUI University Library homepage under the alphabetically listed Resources by Title section.