{"id":30,"date":"2016-12-06T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-06-25T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:13:59","slug":"afro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/afro\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Research Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>African American Research Center<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0is one of several units responsible for building the University Library&#8217;s African American Studies collections, and providing support for research and teaching in African American Studies. The AARC is primarily a virtual library, providing access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/library-resources\/databases\/\">search tools<\/a> (such as article databases), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/library-resources\/online-reference-sources\/\">online reference sources<\/a> (such as research encyclopedias and research hubs), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/library-resources\/subject-bibliographies\/\">research guides<\/a>, and information about collections of relevant source materials.<\/p>\n<p>The AARC operates out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/\">History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library<\/a>, where books relating to Black history, philosophy, and religious experience, as well as the University Library&#8217;s African American Studies print reference collection, can all be found.<\/p>\n<p>Students and researchers will also find research collections and subject expertise in African American Studies in a number of other units of the University Library. Please see our Collections page for more information about collections. To get in touch with a subject expert, please either send your query via email to: <a href=\"mailto:hpnl@library.illinois.edu\">hpnl@library.illinois.edu<\/a>, OR consult our list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/geninfo\/subject-specialists\">Subject Specialists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 African American Research Center \u00a0is one of several units responsible for building the University Library&#8217;s African American Studies collections, and providing support for research and teaching in African American Studies. The AARC is primarily a virtual library, providing access to search tools (such as article databases), online reference sources (such as research encyclopedias and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}