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Core Reference Sources
The Robert W. Woodruff Library subscribes to large reference databases that contain many digital encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works. Here is a selection:
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new windowAccess wide-ranging materials that focus on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African history and culture. Comprised of five major encyclopedias and additional reference sources from Oxford University Press.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online. African American Studies This link opens in a new windowGuide to scholarly literature in the field of African American studies. Subdivided into articles by established scholars covering major categories of research with corresponding bibliographies of recommended resources.
Select Companions & Handbooks
Cambridge Companions related to African American Studies:
Oxford Handbooks related to African American Studies:
Blackwell Companions related to African American Studies:
- American Legal HistoryIncludes essays on the legal history of "African Americans and Slavery," "African Americans in Freedom, Reconstruction and the Origins of Jim Crow," "African Americans and the Law since the Civil Rights Movement."
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