Guides: African American Studies: Find Articles

E-Journals Available through the Library

The Library provides electronic access to a number of African American Studies oriented journals. To access these journals, use the Library's E-Journal Search. Search by title, ISSN, or keyword.

Alternatively, you can also search the Catalog. After you have entered your search term and retrieved the results, be sure to limit to journals by checking the "journals" box under on the right side of the results page under "Material Type."

Note: If you are off campus and not already logged into the University of Detroit Mercy system, you will be prompted to log in to access the journal.

African American Studies Periodicals

If you are off campus and not already logged into the University of Detroit Mercy system, you will be prompted to log in using your Office 365 username and password to access the journal.

Black Scholar
Callaloo
Griot
The Journal of African American History
Journal of African American Studies
Journal of Black Studies
Obsidian
Western Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
"... publishes original, peer-reviewed datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants drawn from documents produced from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries."

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Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African American authors. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.
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General Databases

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Full text newspapers and news magazines from all over the state and country. Coverage goes back to 1980's to 1990's, depending on source.

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