Research Guides: Africana Studies: Getting Started

Background Reading and Topic Development

Take a look at the Library's guides on choosing a topic and the research process to help you get started. Explore a topic in the resources below.

CQ Researcher
In-depth reports on national and international topics, including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.
Global Issues in Context (Gale)
Focuses on broad issues such as war, terrorism, human rights, poverty, globalization, world trade, and global warming, as well as specific events and topics related to these broad topics. Includes articles and multimedia.
Sage Reference & Academic Books
Provides access to social science books, videos, handbooks, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. Formerly called Sage Knowledge.

ProQuest Black Studies
Provides primary and secondary sources, leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents, key government materials, video, writings by major American Black intellectuals and essays by top scholars in Black Studies.
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
Coverage: Some Full Text
Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.
JSTOR
Coverage: Full Text
Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I - XV; Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Public Health Journals, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Sustainability, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants.

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of Africana Studies, you may want to review additional research guides: