Welcome to Oxford African American Studies Center
- The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 20,000 articles by top scholars in the field
- Over 2,500 images, more than 700 primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 200 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content
- Discover over 60 "Focus On" articles which feature essays, photographic essays, and a selected list of articles that will further guide the reader here.
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Amos Webber
Discover the life of civilian weather observer and chronicler Amos Webber. His journals provide an account of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction period from the perspective of a free, Northern, urban man, and reveal he was a courier for the Underground Railroad.
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Lucy Ariel Williams Holloway
Read about how Lucy Ariel Williams Holloway became a celebrated poet, concert pianist, and music educator. Her numerous poems as well as a volume of verse, ‘Shape Them into Dreams’, were published to critical acclaim.
Latest blog articles
- Why War Stories Could Reinjure Those Affected
- Nine Books To Read For Black History Month [reading list]
- Celebrating Black History Month With America’s Top Musicians [playlist]
- Letters from the Antebellum
- W.E.B. Du Bois and the literature of upheaval
- Black Press: The advent of the first African American newspapers
- Celebrating African American inventors
- The African Camus
- Jazz lives in the African American National Biography
The September update of the Oxford African American Studies Center has published 7 new entries.
Letter From the Editor
"The following is an excerpt from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, the companion book for the PBS series The Black Church, premiering in February 2021..."
Latest Publication
The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography is a major biographical reference work covering the lives and legacies of notable Afro-descendants from the Caribbean and Latin American, men and women from all eras and walks of life.
