New E-Resources at Northwestern

Encyclopedia of Race and Crime

The Encyclopedia of Race and Crime covers issues in both historical and contemporary context, with information on race and ethnicity and their impact on crime and the administration of justice. Explores the similar historical experiences of varied racial and ethnic groups and illustrates how race and ethnicity has mattered and continues to matter in the administration of American criminal justice. – Publisher’s blurb.

Black Literature Index

Black Literature Index is the electronic index to the Black Literature microfiche collection. This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827 and 1940. – Publisher’s blurb.

African Diaspora

African Diaspora seeks to understand how African cultures and societies
shape and are shaped by historical and current diasporic and transnational
movements. – Publisher’s blurb.

Black Music Research Journal

Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of each year and includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. BMRJ is an official journal of the Center for Black Music Research.

Earlier issues available via JSTOR.

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

Comprises nearly 600 entries ranging from 500 to 6,000 words in length, covering important topics, events, and persons relevant to race and ethnicity in society. Also addresses other issues of inequality that intersect with race and ethnicity, including ability status, age, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore

Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. In addition to these works, the database includes complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon. <!–Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora currently features over 9,300 short stories and more than 102,000 pages.–>

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) is a fully refereed journal publishing three issues per volume on ethnicity, race and nationalism. The sources and nature of ethnic identity, minority rights, migration and identity politics remain central and recurring themes of the modern world. The journal approaches the complexity of these questions from a contemporary perspective.

African and Black Diaspora

African and Black Diaspora is a publication of the DePaul Center for Diaspora.  It is the first academic journal that directly addresses the needs of scholars working in the important field of African Diaspora studies.  It will advance the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute this distinctive interdisciplinary study of deterritorialised  and transnational nature of the African and Black Diaspora.

Black Drama

Black Drama, now in it’s second edition, has been significantly expanded.   The Second Edition contains the full text of 1,310 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection of black drama, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than a quarter of the collection will consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Alice Childress, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.