Welcome!
This guide is designed to support the African American & Black Diaspora Studies program at Boston University by highlighting specialized library resources and collections. Materials focus on African American history and culture in the news through journals, databases, books, manuscripts, and other collections on the web. Resources are not comprehensive and intended to help you get started with research. Please contact the BU Libraries with questions at any time.
For related subject guides, see African American Art and Artists and African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship.
Articles & Databases
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Covers the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to present times; indexes journal articles, book titles and chapters, reviews from numerous multilingual sources; all abstracts in English.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database that includes scholarly journals in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, business, literature, and other subjects.
- Humanities Full Text / Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
These combined databases provide access to journal articles, book reviews, performance reviews, interviews, bibliographies and more from a broad range of humanities and social sciences journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides digital access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. The full text resources include journal articles, book reviews and book chapters.
Can't find what you are looking for?
No library has everything. If you come across a resource outside of BU Libraries' collections, we can still obtain it for you - for free. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services are available to current BU faculty, staff, and students to request books, articles, and other items not available at BU Libraries. Sign in with your BUID to request materials from partnering libraries.
