Research Guides @ Fordham: African American Studies: Reference

General History & Demographics

African American Members of the United States Congress : 1870-2018
Authors: Ida A. Brudnick and Jennifer E. Manning
Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2018-

The African American Citizenship, 1865-Present by Henry Louis Gates; Lawrence D. Bobo; Linda Darling-Hammond (Editor); Michael Dawson (Editor); Gerald D. Jaynes (Editor); Claude Steele; Lisa Crooms-Robinson (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Stacks E185.6 .O95 2012
New York : Oxford University Press.
Black America : A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. by Alton Hornsby (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Reference E185 .B517 2011
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2011.
Black Stats : African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century by Monique W. Morris; Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Introduction by)
Call Number: (RH) Stacks E185.86 .M637 2014
New York, NY : The New Press, 2014.
Encyclopedia of African American History by Leslie Alexander (Editor); Walter C. Rucker (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Reference E185 .E544 2010 vols. 1-3
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2010.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: (RH, W) Reference E185 .E545 2006 3 vols
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, 5 vols. by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Reference E185 .E5453 2009, 5 vols.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Milestone Documents in African American History by Echol Lee Nix; Keturah C. Nix
Dallas, Texas : Schlager Group ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History by Jessie Carney Smith; Lean'tin Bracks; Linda T. Wynn
Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2014]

Atlases

Atlas of African-American History, Revised Edition by James Ciment
Call Number: (RH) Reference E185 .C55 2007
New York : Facts On File, 2007.

Bibliographies and Research Handbooks

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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race by Paul C. Taylor (Editor); Luvell Anderson (Editor); Linda Martín Alcoff (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
New York : Routledge, 2018.
Black Academic Libraries and Research Collections by Jessie Carney Smith
Call Number: (LC, RH) Stacks Z675.U5 S64
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977.

Reference Books

Black Power : Radical Politics and African American Identity (updated edition) by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Call Number: (RH) Stacks E185.615 .O34 2019
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Black Power Encyclopedia by Karin L. Stanford (Editor); Jasmin A. Young (Editor); Akinyele Omowale Umoja (Editor)
Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018.
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General Reference Collections

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Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations by Retha Powers; Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)
Call Number: (RH) Reference PN6081.3 .B37 2013
Boston, New York, London : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Cultural History

African American Culture: an Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs [3 Volumes] by Omari L. Dyson (Editor); Judson L. Jeffries (Editor); Kevin L. Brooks (Editor)
Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2020]
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History : The Black Experience in the Americas, 2nd ed. by Palmer, Colin A.
Call Number: (LC, RH) Reference E185 .E54 2006
Farmington Hills : Cengage Gale [2005]
African American Folklore : An Encyclopedia for Students by Anand Prahlad (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Stacks GR111.A47 A35 2016
Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]

Racism

Racism in America: a Reference Handbook by Steven L. Foy
Call Number: ebook
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2020]
Racism in America : A Reader by Harvard University Harvard University Press (Editor)
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]
Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: ebook
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

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- W.E.B. Du Bois Addresses the “Race Issue” (1904)
- Booker T. Washington Addresses the “Race Issue” (1904)

African American Studies: Reference