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AFR155: Introduction to Black Women's Studies: Background

Fall 2015, R. Barnes

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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