More than 500 entries cover history, literature, art, popular culture, politics, geography, sociology, demographics, and civil rights relating to Africans dispersed from their home continent in forced and voluntary migrations for economic, military, or mercantile reasons.
GVRL provides access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized reference sources. Scroll down and select the appropriate subject area. Relevant titles include:
Marquis Who Who on the Web provides biographies of over 1.4 million people of note, in the United States and around the world. It is the online counterpart of Marquis renowned biographical dictionaries. All biographies since 1985 are included.
Oxford University Press searchable versions of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. Search "african american" to find relevant entries.
A good place to start, but note that it is an index to over 15 million articles in 11,000 subject encyclopedias and handbooks, both print and online and does not provide full-text articles. Instead, it will connect you to our catalog so you know where to find the appropriate encyclopedia, dictionary or other reference work. You will be linked to UCLA's holdings for any entries you find.
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E-books and reference works in the social sciences. Includes scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. Includes books published by both Sage and CQ Press. UCLA subscribes to only a small fraction of the books available, and not all content from Sage.
Contains biographical profiles of people from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide. Compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 20th century, and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen.
biography; people; biographical archive
Print Resources
The UCLA Library has many useful reference sources available in print, including the titles below. Search for their location in the UCLA Library Catalog.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Blacks in Selected Newspapers, Censuses and Other Sources: An Index to Names and Subjects
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience in the Americas
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
General History of Africa
Index to Black Periodicals
The African American Almanac
The African Heritage of American English
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color
Includes the complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. plus quarterly updates of new and revised entries. Trace the origin and history of words and their meanings in this etymological dictionary.
Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney ‘abaht’ to the American term ‘zowie’, this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.