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Index to Sources on Women


Last Updated: November 10, 2003
This page is maintained by Deborah LaFond.

 

Scope of Index

An example of an index, arranged alphabetically within each category, indicates sources referenced throughout the"Guide to Africana Studies Resources." Sources specifically state the topic "women" or have key relevance for research on women. Please also refer to other subjects listed under Subject Pages & Guides particularly, the Guides and Internet Sources listed under Women's Studies.

African American Woman, Social and Economic Conditions: A Bibliography. 1993. [HN 17.5 Z999 C53x No. 32]
Contains citations for books, pamphlets, dissertations, government docs, works from small presses and activist organizations on topics such as: female headed families, education, health, AIDS, crime, violence against African American women, teen pregnancy, male/female relationships, families, feminism, and politics.

American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. [E 185.86 Z999 W55x 1994]
Features works by or about African American women in the arts and social sciences.

Black Music in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Reference and Research Materials. [ML 128 B45 F6 1983]

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. [REF E 185.86 B542 1993]
Darlene Clark-Hines edited this two volume set which contains scholarly biographies of individual African American women. Documents organizations and social participation of these women. Topics which played a central role in black women's history include "Sexual Harassment," "Religion," "Beauty Culture." Entries are submitted by major scholars in African American History and Womens Studies. Bibliographies include key primary source references.

Black Women in Television: An Illustrated History and Bibliography. [PN 1992.8 A34 H55 1990]
This book spans 50 years (1939-1989) of television history and highlights the exceptional contributions black women have made to the medium. Contains extensive bibliographies broken down into subject such as "Personalities," "Programs," "News/Sports," "Off Camera," and others.

Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils. [LB 2332.3 B53 1997]

Black Women in the Academy: The Secrets to Success and Achievement. [LC 2781 G74 1999]

Black Women in United States History. [E 185.86 B543 Bldg Only]
This sixteen volumes series published in 1990, includes more than 10,000 entries on black women's history. Many of the entries utilize primary resource material. There is a "comprehensive guide" at the end of each volume which divides the volumes by monograph titles such as "To Better Our World: Black Women in Organized Reform, 1890 1920.", "Daughters of Sorrow: attitudes toward Black Women." Sometimes the contents of each monograph title are listed and sometimes one must actually look at the particular monograph to determine what the contents are. There is also an author and subject index at the back of each, indexing that specific volume. Included are historic illustrations, extensive notes and excellent bibliographies.

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. [REF E 185.96 F2 1997]

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1950. [REF PS 153 N5 R65 1989]

Harriet Tubman. 1961. [E 444 T894]

Notable Black American Women. [REF E 185.96 N68 1992, 1996]
Contains 500 biographies of African American women, ranging from colonial times (1700's) to the (1990's).

The Progress of Afro American Women: Selected Bibliography and Resource Guide. [E 185.86 Z999 S54x 1980]
Remains one of the most comprehensive work covering the experience of black women in the US. Non print as well as printed materials are included.

Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas. [HQ 1161 S74 2002]

With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth Century African American Women. Logan, Shirley Wilson. (Carbondale. Southern Illinois University Press, 1995). [PS 663 N4 W5 1995]

Women of Color and Southern Women. [HQ 1421 Z999 W65 1988]
Cites social science research on women of color between 1975 and 1988.

Women of Color in the United States. [HQ 1410 Z999 R43x 1989]
Concentrates on recent (1975+) scholarly works on African American and other women of color. Along with the previous bibliography, it is the most current source on women cited here.

Primary Sources in Microform Format

Charlotte Eugenia (Hawkins) Brown, 1883-1961: Papers, 1900-1961. [MIC Film LA 2317 B66 C43X 1984]

Ku Klux Klan: Official, Unofficial & Anti-Klan Sources. [MIC Film HS 2330 K63 K82X]

Papers of the NAACP. [MIC Film E 185.61 N23X 1982]

Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs 1895-1992. [MIC Film E 185.86 R37X]

Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1918-1965. [MIC Film HD 6095 U62X 1986]

Women and Law: Microfilm Edition of the Women's Law Library of the Women's History Research Center. Section VI. Black and Third World Women and Law. [MIC Film KF 478 W64X]

Works of Frederick Douglass. [MIC Film E 185 D68X]

Primary Sources in Monograph Format

Black Women Oral History Project: From the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College. [E 185.86 B545 1991]
This source includes a guide to oral histories as well as the printed texts of actual oral histories. The index and the oral histories are shelved together.

Primary sources in Special Collections and Archives

Resources for African American History M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, Web page by Brian Keough

For more information on these resources, refer to the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives home page at http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/. The Special Collections Reading Room is open 9-5 Monday-Friday and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings until 9:00 p.m. Special Collections is located in the Science Library. Please contact University Archivist, Geoffrey Williams at 442-3541.

Selected Special Collections at the University at Albany

Alice P. Green, Papers. Dr. Alice Green (1946- ) is known for her work as a criminal justice activist in Albany and New York State.

Business and Professional Women's Clubs: 1934-82.

Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs: 1938-87.

Isabella Beacher Hooker Project (women's suffrage).

M.C. Lawton Civic and Cultural Club: 1921-87.

NAACP, Albany Branch: 1968-87.

National Organization for Women, New York State: 1966-88.

Women's Press Club of New York State: 1984-89

Women's Studies Department, SUNYA 1972- and SUNYA Women's Club 1953-81, 1984, 1987