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Black Lives Matter
Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and Occupy Wall Street, the Black Lives Matter movement has challenged issues that have long plagued the African American community, such as police brutality and racial profiling.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Oxford African American Studies Center turned ten years old in 2016, a milestone that was difficult to imagine in the early days of online reference publishing. Since its founding, AASC has built on its initial foundation by adding thousands of new articles, primary source documents, and learning resources.
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| Use the Oxford African American Studies Center to bring online learning into the classroom. | Vital statistics and reference articles on countries that have been central to the history of Africans and African Americans. | Explore photo essays on important events, people, and themes in African American history. |
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Franklin W. Knight
Franklin W. Knight introduces the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.
What's New
- Volume 1 of the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
- New articles from the African American Studies Center and the Dictionary of African Biography
- A new entry in our Community Spotlight on Southern California
- Photo essay on the Black Lives Matter Movement
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- Black History Month
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- The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography has been added to the African American Studies Center. Over 2000 biographies of notable Afro-descendants from the Caribbean and Latin America ranging from the colonial period to the present are now available.
- African American Studies Center: New entries including an analysis of Boyz N the Hood and Killer Sheep by Ellen Scott and a spotlight on Los Angeles' culinary landscape by Tracy Augustine.
- Dictionary of African Biography: 25 new biographies, including social activist Michael Scott, and South African musician Raymond Chikapa Phiri.
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Using Digital Sources to Teach about Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southern Indiana
This lesson plan explores the legacy of the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio as well the effect it had on the nation at large..
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Building a Community of Scholars
Dr. Theresa Vara-Dannen discusses her work with high school students to create scholarly entries for the African American National Biography.
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This feature allows you to scroll through the tables of contents for each of the major reference works on the Oxford African American Studies Center, including the African American National Biography, Africana, Black Women in America, the Encyclopedia of African American History, as well as the newly added Dictionary of African Biography and the Encyclopedia of African Thought.
What's Inside
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Over 10,000 articles from Oxford's authoritative reference program — with primary source documents, images, maps, chart and tables, and much more!
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Search and Browse features allow you to focus and refine results by era and subject category.
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Primary Source Documents, with specially written commentaries, take you through the personal and public histories of African Americans.
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Charts and tables provide information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts
