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Pan-African CD-ROM Workstation

 


This is an in-house collection of resources about African American and African diasporan studies.  It provides a place to access bibliographic references, full-text, folk music, art, speeches, historical documents, and video clips from some of the most important Black Studies CD-ROMs and e-books available.  The collection currently includes ten CD-ROM, three e-books, and one locally produced database.  We expect the volume of resources to grow as new materials become available.  Please stop by room 246 Main Library to try them out.

 

Database Descriptions

African American Almanac

Provides a range of historical and current information on African American history, society and culture and includes coverage of Africa and the Black Diaspora. Has chronologies, texts of important documents, legislation, speeches, biographical profiles, essays, and more than 650 photographs, illustrations, maps and statistical charts.

African-American Culture & History

Over 250 articles and many appendices have been revised, and more than 30 new articles have been added. In addition to the 2,300 articles in the Encyclopedia, the CD-ROM includes maps, graphs, photographs and illustrations, about 45 primary source documents, a timeline, and historic tours of significant eras and events.

 

The African-American Experience

Covers the beginning of slavery in Colonial America through the post-Civil Rights era of the 1990s.  Topics include African American religions, folklore, family structure, art, literature, and music.  Resources include timelines, essays, document descriptions, pictures, captions, essays, maps, more than 200 documents, and 500 pictures.

 

African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census

"Heritage Quest has extracted all heads of households listed as 'Black' or 'Mulatto,' as well as those listed with African birth who were listed in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census Index ... Includes 1,672,418 entries"

Black Caribbean Database

More than 8,000 citations to books, journals, archival collections, theses, magazines, and audiovisual materials about the Black experience in the Caribbean.  Focus is social science and humanities themes from slavery to present.
 

Black Studies On Disc

Information on materials by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry. Includes catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and citations from the Index to Black periodicals, 1989-.

  

Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition

The CD features an array of oral performances in the form of speeches, sermons, stories, poems, and songs. The contents are organized in chronological order, beginning with the African oral epic Sunjata and ending with poetry by Amiri Baraka and jazz by John Coltrane.
  

Civil Rights in the United States

This multimedia CD-ROM explores many primary source documents that guarantee rights to U.S. citizens.  It offers a collection of resource documents that include Supreme Court cases, pictures, maps, historical texts, and video clips that established or affected civil rights.

 

Encarta Encyclopedia Africana

Explores the history, culture and achievements of African people and their descendents around the world. Rich in music, dance, art and literature, African history and traditions come to life through articles, interviews, maps, timelines and songs.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History

The central focus is on the experience of African-Americans throughout North and South America.  Volume 6 is a selection of primary documents.

 

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism

Contains articles on race, ethnicity, sociology, and other social sciences.  Full text of civil rights speeches and other relevant documents is included.

  

Harvard Guide to African American History

A companion to the book, this CD-ROM makes more than 150,000 bibliography entries available for computer searching.
    

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature: Audio Companion

Vernacular tradition -- Spirituals -- Gospel -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rap -- Sermons -- Folktales --Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865 -- Reconstruction: 1865-1919 -- Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940 -- Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960 -- Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970 -- Since 1970.
    

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade: A Datatabase on CD-ROM

Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.
     
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