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Pathfinder: African-American Women
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: In the disciplines of
literature, the arts, science, and business,
Afro-American women have played an instrumental role in
advancing society. Topics covered include materials of
both a historical and contemporary nature. The purpose
of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for
student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive
listing of all the materials available in the library on
this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many
types of resources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with African women are listed in the
Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following
subject headings:
African-American women—History
United States-Race relations-History
Afro-American women-Employment-History
Afro-American families-History
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF CT3202.C66 1989 The Continuum Dictionary of Women’s
Biography
Some representative books from the Circulating
Collection (located upstairs in the library)
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Andolsen, Barbara Hilkert.
“Daughters of Jefferson, Daughters of Bootblacks”:
Racism and American Feminism. Macon, GA: Mercer
University Press, 1986.
Andrews, William L.
African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical
Essays.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth.
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women
of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1988.
Harrison, Daphne Duval.
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New
Brunswick,
N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Jones, Jacqueline.
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and
the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York:
vintage Books, 1986.
Painter, Nell Irvin.
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1996.
Ruiz, Vicki L. and Ellen Carol Du Bois.
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in
U.S. Women’s History. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Sterling, Dorothy.
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth
Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB SITES
Black American Feminisms
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/speeches.html
Women of Color Women
of Words
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/critical.html
Women’s History
Resources
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/womensstudies/hist.htm
Updated
08/07/2007
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