Check out the Course Reserves.

Oxford African American Studies Center

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience in the Americas. Ref. E185 .E54 2006.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. PS153.N5 C345 2007

The Harlem Renaissance: an Historical Dictionary for the Era. Oversize: NX511.N4 H37 1984

 

A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements. PN2270.A35 S68 1999

Afro-Americana Imprints 1535-1922

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

 

1. Path of Discovery in the Catalog:

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Apply the descriptive language of the Catalog record in further searches

e.g. find this required text in the Catalog; follow the subject headings to more books on your topics:

Author	Leonard, David J.
Title	Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema
Publisher	Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Subject	African Americans in motion pictures.
	African Americans in the motion picture industry

 

2. More Searches & Results:

 

African American Film and Related Themes

race in motion pictures

Blacks in Motion Pictures

African Americans in Motion Pictures

 

Race relations in motion pictures.

Southern States -- In motion pictures.

 

Motion pictures Africa

 

On the Topic of performing blackness in films:

Advanced Keyword search, limiting to books:

Any Field: And Any Field: And Any Field: And
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

 

 

 

By and About filmmakers and Playwrights

Lee, Spike

"August Wilson"

 

 

Sample findings at Tisch:

Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now
Mark A. Reid.
PN1995.9.N4 R43 2005

 

African film: re-imagining a continent
Josef Gugler.
PN1993.5.A35 G77 2003

 

Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors
David Murphy and Patrick Williams.
PN1998.2 .M87 2007

 

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II / Cedric J. Robinson. PN1995.9.N4 R58 2007

Frame by Frame: a Black Filmography. Ref. PN1995.9.N4 K57

Frame by frame II: a Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994. Ref. PN1995.9.N4 K58 1997

African American Films Through 1959: a Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. Ref. PN1995.9.N4 R54 1998

A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters. Stacks: PN1995.9.p5 K57

 

Blacks in Film and Television: a Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers. PN1993.5.A35 Z999 1990

 

The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. PS153.N5 S56 2005

The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. E185.61 .B6 2006

A. Use Subject Databases for Journal Articles:

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

4. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings.

 

 

5. Film , Mass Media, America: History and Life, History and Africa Studies

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

 

 

 

6. Performing Arts

 

 

7. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

C. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

Alt-PressWatch (1970 -present)

Ethnic NewsWatch (1959-present)

 

B. Historical

African American Newspapers - 19th Century

 

American Newspapers (1690 - 1922)

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1860-1922)

 

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

 

 

OpinionArchives

     Some of the oldest continuously published magazines in America, including American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harpers Magazine, NACLA, The Nation, The National Review, The New Republic, New York Review, and The New Yorker.

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

MLA Style (for citing sources)