About
The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 20,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes:
- African American National Biography
- Dictionary of African Biography
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
- Black Women in America, Second Edition
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
- The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
In addition to the core reference works included in the site, the Oxford African American Studies Center draws on key resources from other reference titles included in Oxford University Press's first-rate reference program.
What's New
The January update of the Oxford African American Studies Center has published 5 new entries.
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Editor in Chief
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Read Dr. Gates's Letter from the Editor
Advisory Board
Ira Berlin, University of Maryland
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law
Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina Darlene
Clark Hine, Northwestern University
Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Colgate University Valerie Smith, Princeton University
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Library Advisory Board
Emily Belcher, General and Humanities Reference Librarian, Princeton University
Nicole Cooke, Reference Librarian/Assistant Professor, Montclair State University
Janice Franklin, Director, Library Media, Alabama State University
Joyce Henderson, Supervisor, Library Media Services, Prince George's County, Maryland
Linda Johnson-Towles, Consultant, Instructional Technology and Media Services, Standards and Assessment, Hamilton County Educational Service Center, Ohio
Jane Keeton, Acquisitions Department Head, Birmingham Public Library, Alabama
James Mouw, Assistant Director for Technical and Electronic Services, The University of Chicago
Janice Sikes, Auburn Avenue Research Library, African American Culture and History, Atlanta Fulton County Library System, Georgia
