African American Studies: Books
A guide to resources in African American Studies, includes UIowa and web resources.
Selected Reference Books
African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic
Call Number: Main Reference Collection E185 .K48 2006ISBN: 0313337977African American Dramatists: An A-to-Z Guide
Call Number: Main Reference Collection PS338.N4 A36 2004ISBN: 0313322333African American Lives
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO E185.96 .A446 2004ISBN: 019516024XAfrican American National Biography
Call Number: Main Reference Collection E185.96 .A4466 2008ISBN: 0195160193African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO U52 .S88 2004ISBN: 1576077462Black Women in America
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO E185.86 .B5614 2005ISBN: 0195156773Encyclopedia of African American Business History
Call Number: Main Reference Collection HD2344.5.U6 E53 1999ISBN: 0313295492Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO E185 .E5453 2009ISBN: 0195167791Encyclopedia of African American Society
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO E185 .E546 2005ISBN: 0761927646Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History : the Black Experience in the Americas
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO E185 .E54 2006ISBN: 0028658167Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO E185 .A455 2000ISBN: 0816041253Encyclopedia of African-American Politics
Call Number: Main Reference Collection E185 .S655 2003ISBN: 0816044759Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Call Number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO NX512.3.A35 E53 2004ISBN: 157958389XThe Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore
Call Number: Main Reference Collection GR111.A47 G74 2006ISBN: 0313330352The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature
Call Number: Main Reference Collection PS153.N5 G73 2005ISBN: 0313329729The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights
Call Number: Main Reference Collection HT861 .H37 2001ISBN: 0582404371
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