{"id":1373,"date":"2009-02-06T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:18:49","slug":"african-american-studies-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1373","title":{"rendered":"African American Studies resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">February is <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/bhm1.html\">Black History Month<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and the Library has many resources to support research on African-American culture and life. Here are a few specialized sources for your research.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/douglass.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Frederick Douglass\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>African American Biographical Database<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/aabd.chadwyck.com\/\">African American Biographical Database<\/a> contains biographical sketches of African-Americans from 1790-1950 taken from rare biographical dictionaries and other reference works<\/li>\n<li>The database is available to all Wisconsin residents via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badgerlink.net\/\">Badgerlink<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ethnic News Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2UmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&amp;clientId=3852\">Ethnic News Watch<\/a> is a bilingual (English\/Spanish) database of magazine, newspaper and journal articles from the ethnic and minority press in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Presents perspectives different from those found in the much of the mainstream media<\/li>\n<li>Search by ethnic group, subject, document type (interview, editorial, etc.), geographic location and more\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Black Drama 1850-present<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.alexanderstreet2.com\/BLDRLive\/\">Black Drama<\/a> contains the text of 1200 plays by 215 playwrights<\/li>\n<li>Search for plays by title, author, character (including occupation and race), scenes, literary period and theater<\/li>\n<li>Locate unique and hard-to-find plays from the African-American theater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>African American Music Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/aamr.alexanderstreet.com\">African American Music Reference<\/a> provides access to 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/refuniv.odyssi.com\">Reference Universe<\/a> can help you find articles in specialized encyclopedias, biographical sources, handbooks and other reference-type books. And don&#8217;t forget the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">University Library Catalog<\/a> and the many other research databases available via the library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">Articles in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers<\/a> page that can help you with your research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is Black History Month and the Library has many resources to support research on African-American culture and life. Here are a few specialized sources for your research. African American Biographical Database The African American Biographical Database contains biographical sketches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065],"tags":[1655,539,1654,1651,1656,119,1653,132],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-resource","tag-african-american-studies","tag-african-americans","tag-biography","tag-black-history-month","tag-black-studies","tag-databases","tag-ethnic-news","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}