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) Ref. 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) Ref 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) Ref 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]

Bibliographies and Research Handbooks

Oxford Bibliographies Online
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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.

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.
(Limited User Access - 2 Copies)

General Reference Collections

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Salem History
Salem Press Reference Series online including The Reference Shelf, The Decades-Fifties through Nineties, Great Events, Great Lives, Milestone Documents, Encyclopedia of American Immigration.)
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Comprehensive collection and summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Data is downloadable to MS Excel.
Vital Statistics on American Politics
Comprehensive coverage of American political statistics from 1788.

Atlases

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

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.

Arts

Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television
Call Number: (RH) Reference PN1995.9.N4 M345 2010
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland and Company, 2010.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 2nd ed. by Palmer, Colin A.
Call Number: (LC, RH) Reference E185 .E54 2006
ISBN: 9780028658162
Farmington Hills : Cengage Gale [2005]
Encyclopedia of Black Radio in the United States, 1921-1955 by Ryan Ellett
Call Number: (RH) Reference PN1991.8.A35 E45 2012
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2012.

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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