Selected Databases
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases, including International Index to Black Periodicals, Black Literature Index and Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience). To browse most relevant articles, try using subject term searches like "African American art," and specific artists' names and art movements such as "Harlem Renaissance" or "Black Arts Movement." - Black Studies Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Indexes both scholarly and popular press journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, including cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues. Formerly titled International Index to Black Periodicals (IIPA). Searching by subject terms such as "Visual Artists," "Visual Art," and specific artists' names can help narrow to most relevant results for browsing. - Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
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Full-text coverage of more than 600 journals and 220 books on "a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design." It wholly incorporates and significantly expands on the coverage and contents of the Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective databases. Indexes illustrations. Coverage: late 1920s-present. - ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century onwards. Coverage includes performance art and installation works, photography, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media. Try using such subject terms as "Black Art" and specific artists' names for more relevant search results. - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10,000 publications, with the complete text of over 5,500 periodicals, including a mix of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers. While relevant articles can be found in a range of publications and indexes, it may be helpful to limit the search to such databases as "Art & Architecture Source," "Art Index Retrospective," "Ebony Magazine Archive." - A&AePortal (Electronic Art and Architecture) This link opens in a new window
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The Yale Art & Architecture ePortal is an authoritative e-book resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design.
Selected Journals
- Liquid Blackness ProjectThe liquid blackness project builds on the study of arts and artists from the Black Diaspora to explore the intersection of aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black Studies. Through research projects, public events, and an online publication, it seeks to mentor the next generation of scholars of color and other scholars fully committed to the agenda of black studies.
- Callaloo
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Callaloo, the premier African and African-American literary journal, publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide. The journal offers a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters. Special issues on Haiti and on Puerto Rican Women Writers have received awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Association of American Publishers Professional Scholarly Publishing Division. - The International Review of African American Art
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Originally published as Black Art: An International Quarterly, this academic journal has addressed the topics of African American art and artists and art criticism since 1976. Please note that UCLA only has access to issues published between 1984 and 2014. - Black Camera
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Black Camera is devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States. It regularly features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.
