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AFR155: Introduction to Black Women's Studies
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AFR155: Introduction to Black Women's Studies: Background
Fall 2015, R. Barnes
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African American Literature
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Search for long essays on specific authors, for example Alice Walker.
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers
Call Number: ref PS 153.N5 E49 2007
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature
Call Number: ref PS 153 .N5 G73 2005
Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Call Number: ref PS 153 .N5 O96 1997
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color
Call Number: ref PS 153.N5 W756 2006
African American Studies/Feminism Social Movements
African American National Biography
Call Number: ref E 185.96 .A4466 2008
See Oxford African American Studies Center for the online version.
Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref HQ 1115 .B38 2008
Black Women in America
Call Number: ref E 185.86 .B542 2005
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas
Call Number: ref E 185 .E54 2006
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
Encyclopedia of American Social History (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref HN 57 E58 1993
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (4 vols.)
Call Number: ref HN 57 .E594 2004
Encyclopedia of Women in American History (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref HQ 1410 .E53 2002
Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States
Call Number: ref HQ766.5.U5 H57 2002
Oxford African American Studies Center
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
Call Number: ref HQ 1410 .R43 1998
Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref HQ 1115 .W644 2006
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