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Africana Studies: Almanacs, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

The critical study of the connections between historic Africa and the contemporary experiences of African diasporic people worldwide.

Almanacs, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (Titles A-D)

African American Almanac
WOO Reference E 185 .N385 2011
African American Autobiographers: a Sourcebook (c2002)
(Ebook Central-Academic Complete)
African American Education: a Reference Handbook (2001)
(OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC))
Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience, 2nd ed.
WOO Reference DT 14 .A37435 2005 (5 vols.)
Afro-American Encyclopaedia: Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race...[1895]
WOO Microfilm GN 645 .B53 roll 471
(Black Culture Collection)
Biographical Dictionary of Jazz
WOO Reference ML 105 .C59 1982
Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
WOO Reference ML 102.J3 F4 1999
Black Conductors
WOO Reference ML 402 .H36 1995
Black Women in America, 2nd ed, revised, 2005)
(Oxford Reference Library eBook)
Black Women in America, 2nd ed.
WOO Reference E 185.86 .B542 2005 (3 vols)
Chronology of African American American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present
WOO Reference E 185 .H64 1991
Chronology of African History
WOO Reference DT 17 .F73 [1973]
Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, 2012)
(Oxford Reference Library eBook)
Dictionary of Africanisms: Contributions of Sub-Saharan Africa to the English Language
WOO Reference PE 3401 .D3 1982
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
WOO Reference E441 .D53 1997
Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization
WOO Reference F 1408.3 .N86

Almanacs, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (Titles E-Z)

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, 2nd ed, 2005
(Gale ebooks)
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
WOO Reference BL 2462.5 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of African Literature
WOO Reference PL 8010 .E63 2003
Encyclopedia of African Peoples
WOO Reference DT 15 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the Blues
WOO Reference ML 102 .B6 E53 2006 (2 vols)
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
WOO Reference ML 100 .G16 1998 (10 vols.)
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century
Woo Reference E 185.61 .E54 2003
International Dictionary of Black Composers
WOO Reference ML 105 .I5 1999
New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd ed, 2008
(OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC))
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities [c1893]
WOO Microfilm GN 645 .B53 roll 486
(Black Culture Collection)
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
WOO Reference DT 14 .I74 2010 (2 vols)
Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia
WOO Reference E185.18 .J46 (3 vols.)
Race Relations in America : a Reference Guide with Primary Documents
WOO Reference E 184 .A1 D283 2006
Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent; vol. 1, 1915
WOO Reference E 185.96 .W6 1976
[Also available on Reel 465 of the Black Culture Collection microfilm]