Of the 26 databases we’ve looked at so far during Black History Month, this is far and away my favorite. The types of resources included are marvelously varied: podcasts, artwork, recipes, lectures, government documents, brochures, poetry, short stories, photographs, maps, playbills, essays, editor-selected external web sites, books, historical newspapers and magazines, documentary films, speeches, and more – all offering the voices of individuals of African descent.
What I had planned as a brief browse of the content turned into a three hour exploration. Here are some of the entry titles that caught my eye as I traversed the collection:
Candomblé Orisha Sculptures
Pan-Africanism: Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender, and Class Relations
100% Arabica Housing Project
Cross-culturalism and the Caribbean Canon
The Black Experience in Children’s Books
Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora
Glimpses of the Sugar Industry
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues on the Diaspora
Queer CoolieTudes
A Quick Ting on… The Black Girl Afro
There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel
Enjoy!
–Mary
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