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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Gloria Ford Gilmer
Read more about mathematician Gloria Ford Gilmer, who helped found and became president of the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics. Gilmer taught at many academic institutions, encouraging aspiring mathematicians, and she once wrote, “Education is the gift of influence, the ability to inspire. Never forget to pave a way for the next generation. We must lift as we climb”.
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Évelyne Trouillot
During her life, Évelyne Trouillot published an impressive collection of works, including several novels, short story collections, children’s books, poetry collections, a play, and a series of articles and essays. Across these genres, Trouillot charts the inner thoughts and interpersonal entanglements of Haitian girls and women and the historical events they experienced, from the Haitian Revolution to natural disasters.
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 January update of the Oxford African American Studies Center has published 8 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.
