Almanacs

African American Almanac. 1997

Atlases

Institut Geographique National (France). The Atlas of Africa. Paris: Editions Jeune Afrique, 1973
Cultural Atlas of Africa. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1981.
Historical Atlas of Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Asante, Molefi K. and Mark T. Mattson. The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African-Americans. New York: Macmillan, 1991. 
Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. The New Atlas of African History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Bibliographies & Research Guides

Africa Bibliography.  1984 -.
African American experience : an historiographical and bibliographical guide. 2001
African-American Artists (CD-ROM)
African American women : an annotated bibliography. 2001
African Caribbeans : a reference guide. 2003
Afro-American Folk Culture:  An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central, and South America. 1978
Williams, Ethel L. Afro-American Religious Studies: a comprehensive bibliography with locations in American libraries. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972.
American Black women in the arts and social sciences : a bibliographic survey. 1978 
Scheven, Yvette. Bibliographies for African Studies, 1987-1993. New Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers, 1994.
Black Canadian bibliography. 2000
Matthews, Geraldine O. Black American writers, 1773-1949: a bibliography and Union list. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1975
Black Latin America:  A Bibliography.  1977
Evans, James H. Black Theology: a Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987
Black woman in American society : a selected annotated bibliography. 1975
Blacks in Canada : in search of the promise : a bibliographic guide to the history of Blacks in Canada.
Brazilian Slavery:  An Annotated Research Bibliography.  1977
Canadian black studies bibliography. 1971
The Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975:  A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature.  1977, 4 vols.
The Complete Haitiana:  A Bibliographic Guide tot he Scholarly Literature, 1900-1980. 1982, 2 vols.
Contemporary African American female playwrights : an annotated bibliography. 1998 
Eight Negro bibliographies. 1970  -- a bibliography on lynching
The Harvard Guide to African-American History. 2001 
G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. 2000
The Longman companion to slavery, emancipation and civil rights. 2001
Los grupos afroamericanos: Fuentes documentales y bibliograficas. 1985 
Moser, Gerald M. A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa. 2nd ed. Bibliographical research in African literatures; no. 2. New Jersey: H. Zell Publishers, 1993.
Hans M. A New Reader's Guide to African Literature. 2nd ed. New York: Africana Pub. Co., 1983. 
Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature. 2002
Progress of Afro-American women : a selected bibliography and resource guide. 1980
Racism in the United States : a comprehensive classified bibliography. 1990
Sacred fire : the QBR 100 essential Black books
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. 1975
Shades of Black: The Best Books on the Black Experience in Canada" by Nancy Sparks and Jane Thornley, CM Archive, Volume 22 Number 1, 1994 January/February
Musiker, Reuben. South African Bibliography; a Survey of Bibliographies and Bibliographical Work. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books,1970.
Women of color in the United States : a guide to the literature. 1989
Zora Neale Hurston : an annotated bibliography and reference guide. 1997

Biographies

African American Authors, 1745-1945:  A Bio-Biographical Critical Sourcebook. 2000
African American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Current Men and Women. 1992
African American Biographical Database (online)
African Americans in the Performing Arts.  2003
African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. 1993
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989. 1990
Black American writers past and present: a biographical and bibliographical dictionary. 1975
Biographical History of Blacks in America since 1528.  1971
Contemporary Black Biography. 1992, 33 vols.
Dictionary of African Biography. New York: Reference Publications, 1977.
Dictionary of American Negro biography.  1982
Dictionary of Black African Civilization. New York: L. Amiel, 1974. 
Notable Black American Women. 1992
Who's Who Among African Americans. 2001

Chronologies

Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991. 
Ross, Leon T. and Kenneth A. Mims. African American Almanac: day-by-day Black History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997. 
Sloan, Irving J.  The Blacks in America, 1492-1970: a Chronology and Fact Book. 4th rev. ed. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Pub., 1977. 
Pan-African Chronology III:  A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Australia.  2001
Timelines of African-American History:  500 Years of Black Achievement.  1994

Dictionaries & Handbooks

African American Writers:  A Dictionary.  2000
Black book publishers in the United States : a historical dictionary of the presses, 1817-1990. 1991
Black handbook : the people, history, and politics of Africa and the African diaspora
Black Heritage Sites: An African-American Odyssey and Finder's Guide. 1996
Dictionary of African mythology [electronic resource] : the mythmaker as storyteller / Harold Scheub. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Dictionary of Afro-American slavery. 1997 
Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization. 1980
Handbook of Black librarianship, 2nd ed.
Historical dictionary of school segregation and desegregation : the American experience. 1998
Historic Landmarks of Black America.  1991
Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang. 1994
New York Public Library African American Desk Reference. 1999
Racial justice in America : a reference handbook. 2003 

Directories

African Americans Information Directory. 1998
Directory of African American Religious Bodies. 1995
Freedom's lawmakers: a directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction. 1993

Encyclopedias

African Mythology: an Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend.  1995
African-American Encyclopedia.  1993
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 1997.
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. 1993, 2 vols.
Blacks in American films and television : an encyclopedia. 1988
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 1996, 5 vols.
Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage.  2000
Encyclopedia of African American Religions. New York: Garland Pub., 1993.
Encyclopedia of Black America. 1981
Encyclopedia of Black Studies.  2005
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. 2003
Langston Hughes encyclopedia. 2002
Modern African American writers. 1994
Oxford companion to African American literature. 1997
A Pan-African encyclopedia. 2003
Reference Library of Black America. 1990, 5 vols.
Toni Morrison encyclopedia. 2003

Indexes

Kaiser Index to Black Resources 1948-1986. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1992. 5 vols. 
Newman, Richard. Black Index: Afro-Americans in Selected Periodicals 1907-1949. New York: Garland, 1981. 
Index to Black Periodicals. Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1988- .     
Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1974-.
Index to Periodicals by and about Negroes. Boston: G.K. Hall. 

Readers Guides

Understanding I know why the caged bird sings : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents. 1998

Statistics

Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860: A Sourcebook. 1997
Historical Statistics of Black America. 1995, 2 vols.
Statistical Record of Black America. 1990



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