Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email or Ask a librarian.
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Library guides
- Welcome video -- for a quick introduction to using the Library website for research and to get help.
- Library tutorials
- How to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request
- History of Africa
Selected encyclopedias and handbooks
- African American almanac
- African American writers
- Ashgate research companion to black sociology
- Black power encyclopedia : from "Black is beautiful" to urban uprisings [print]
- Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas
- Encyclopedia of African American Religions
- Encyclopedia of African history
- Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement
- Encyclopedia of Black studies
- Encyclopedia of race and racism
- Encyclopedia of racism in American films
- Handbook of African American literature
- Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
- Routledge companion to African American art history
- Routledge companion to African American theatre and performance
- Routledge handbook of queer African studies
- Routledge handbook of the ethics of discrimination
- Sage eReference
- Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America
- St. James encyclopedia of hip hop culture
Databases
- Black Drama - Full texts of over 1,200 plays from mid-1800s - present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries.Includes: biographies, playbills, images, production notes, performance information. Playwrights include: Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston etc.
- Black Short Fiction and Folklore - Contains over 11 000 stories and folk tales from Africa and the African Diaspora (mid 1990s - present) in their original languages and English. Includes: oral traditions; contemporary tales of modern life; complete runs of thematic literary magazines (e.g. Kyk-Over-Al, The Beacon); early North American black-owned and edited journals and newspapers.
- Black Thought & Culture - Monographs, speeches, essays, and interviews written by leaders from the black community in America
- Oral History Online - English language oral histories from around the world. It includes Ellis Island oral history narratives, rare Black Panther Party interviews, and more.
Biographical
- African American Biography [print]
- African American Lives
- African American national biography [print]
- Africville : the life and death of a Canadian Black community
- Contemporary black biography
- Contemporary black biography : profiles from the international black community
- Millennium minds : 100 Black Canadians [print]
- Policing Black lives : state violence in Canada from slavery to the present [print]
- Who's Who Among African Americans
Selected books
- 50 events that shaped African American history : an encyclopedia of the American mosaic [print]
- African Diaspora in Canada
- The Black Americans : a history in their own words, 1619-1983 [print]
- Black British history : new perspectives
- Black Communities in British Columbia 1858-2008- Art Exhibit Posters (22 Posters)
- Black like who? : writing Black Canada [print]
- Black slavery in the Maritimes : a history in documents [print]
- Canada's colour coded labour market : the gap for racialized workers
- Canadian critical race theory : racism and the law [print]
- Cartographies of Race and Social Difference
- Daily life of African Americans in primary documents
- Deferred dreams, defiant struggles : critical perspectives on blackness, belonging, and civil rights
- Discourses of denial mediations of race, gender, and violence [print]
- Ebony roots, northern soil : perspectives on blackness in Canada
- Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada
- New perspectives on African-centred education in Canada [print]
- Refugees from slavery : autobiographies of fugitive slaves in Canada
- Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
- Selected Writings on Race and Difference
- The skin we're in : a year of black resistance and power [print]
- Taking responsibility, taking direction : white anti-racism in Canada [print]
- Trials and triumphs : the story of African-Canadians [print]
- Until we are free : reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Black radical democrat
- "Where are you from?" : growing up African-Canadian in Vancouver
Selected subject headings
- Black Canadians
- Black Canadians -- Education
- Black Canadians -- Social conditions
- Blacks
- Equality -- Canada
- Race discrimination -- Canada
