Smith College Libraries Class Guides - AAS212: Culture and Class in African American Families

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African Heritage of American English
Call Number: ref PE 3102.N4 H65 1993
Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner
Call Number: ref PE 3102 .N4 S65 2000
The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States
Call Number: ref E 184 .A1 H466 1997
Fresh Fly Flavor: Words and Phrases of the Hip-hop Generation
Call Number: ref PE 3727 .N4 F3 1992
Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang
Call Number: ref PE 3727 .N4 M34 1994b

The majority of encyclopedias and research guides relating to African Americans generally are located in the Neilson Library reference collection (level 1 north) in this call number area: E 184 - E 185.
Encyclopedias and research guides on specific topics are located in other call number areas of the reference collection. For example: HQ = The Family, Marriage & Women (including African-American); HM = Sociology (including African-American); etc.
When starting research in a specific discipline (film, psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, etc.), please ask a reference librarian for help. S/he can suggest many sources beyond those listed below.
Or, try searching for them yourself in the online catalog using Subject Keywords; for example: sociology encyclopedias.
Use these sources for background information and a list of suggested readings.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas (6 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185 .E54 2006
Oxford African American Studies Center
Includes all articles from these core reference works: African American National Biography; Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; and Black Women in America.
Encyclopedia of African American Society (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185 .E546 2005
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
Call Number: ref BL 2462.5 .E53 2001