Gale Searchbank Databases (InfoTRAC). Available via Library web site or at: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/umn_moorhead Includes comparable databases to WebPALS Periodicals Databases, but includes graphics. Databases included in InfoTRAC are: Expanded Academic ASAP, General Business File ASAP, Health Reference Center, and General Reference Center (Magazine Index), Infotrac Onefile. Look at each article carefully to tell if it is research-based and critical and not just a news article from a popular magazine. Also try "Contemporary Authors."

JSTOR

http://www.jstor.org/

JSTOR is an electronic database of full-text back issues of 117 academic journals in the subject areas of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Sociology, and Statistics. Includes access to the journal:

African American Review. http://www.jstor.org/journals/10624783.html

Project MUSE

http://muse.jhu.edu

Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Particularly good for arts/humanities research!

FirstSearch. Available via Library web site or at:

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP

For Multicultural Issues, and Arts & Humanities, try these databases within FirstSearch:

• Art Index

• AHSearch (Arts & Humanities Search)

• Humanities Abstracts

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

• Wilson Select

• Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI)

MLA Bibliography on CD-ROM

The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography is an international index of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures. It covers all areas of literary study including critical works in literature, language, and folklore. The two CD-ROMs of the MLA Bibliography covers the years 1963 to the present. (Available for use in the library only at the Guest 1 CD-ROM Station.)

Reference Books (remember Reference books are just a "starting point" and do not replace a scholarly journal article -- it is not the same as critical research)

Literature

African American Writers. REF. PS153.N5 A344 2001 – Newly revised, includes critical biographical chapters on:

v. 1. James Baldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka

-- Black Arts Movement -- Gwendolyn Brooks – Sterling Brown -- Octavia Butler -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Lucille Clifton -- Countee Cullen -- Samuel R. Delany

-- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ralph Ellison -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Leon Forrest -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Lorraine Hansberry – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Michael S. Harper – Robert Hayden -- Chester Himes -- Pauline Hopkins – Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Charles Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Gayl Jones. v. 2. June Jordan Adrienne Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid – Yusef Catalo

Komunyakaa -- Nella Larsen -- Audre Lorde – Clarence Major -- Paule Marshall - Claude McKay – Toni Morrison -- Gloria Naylor -- Ann Petry -- Ishmael

Reed -- Ntozake Shange -- The Slave Narrative in American Literature -- Spiritual Autobiography -- Melvin Tolson -- Jean Toomer -- Alice Walker --

Margaret Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- Shirley Anne Williams -- August Wilson -- Jay Wright -- Richard Wright.

African American Writers: A Dictionary. REF. PS153.N5 A3444 2000

Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers [Vol. 38 of Dictionary of Literary Biography]. Detroit: Gale, 1985. REF PS153.N5 A39 1985

Afro-American Writers: 1940-1955. REF PS153.N5 A386 1988

Afro-American Writers After 1955. REF PS153.N5 A34 1984

Black Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant Works of Black Authors Over the Past 200 Years. REF PS 153 .N5 B556 1999 Suppl.

The Columbia-Granger Index to African American Poetry. REF. PS153.N5 C65 1999

Can help you answer questions like:

What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? politics? patriotism? slavery? racism? money? sex? What have they written about Harlem? the civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr.? What did Audre Lorde write about grief? How often? Who wrote the poem Madam and the Rent Man, and where can it be found?

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. REF PS 153 .N5 O96 1997

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Index to biographical (with critical comments) articles about authors. Use the index located at: REF. PN452 .D5

Contemporary Authors. REF. PN451 .C63. Index to biographical (with critical comments) articles about contemporary authors (must have still been alive as of 1956). Use the index at the end of the volume set. Also available in the Gale/IAC Databases with full-text entries.

Art

Dictionary of Art (Grove). REF. N31 .D5 1996

St. James Guide to Black Artists. REF. N40 .S78 1997

The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions. REF. N6538.N5 T46 1991

Music

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. REF .ML 105 .S67 1982

Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. REF. ML102.J3 F39 1999

Jazz: A-Z. REF. ML 102.J3 C6 1986

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. REF. ML 102.J3 N48 1994

The Oxford Companion to Jazz. REF. ML3507 .J32 2000

Jazz in Black in White: Race, Culture, & Identity in the Jazz Community. ML3508 .G47 1988

Film

Magill Survey of Cinema. REF. PN1995 .M3

Guide to American Cinema: 1965-1995. REF. PN1993.5.U6 C87 1998

The Oxford History of World Cinema. REF. PN1993.5.A1 O96 1995

Multicultural/African-American

Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995. REF PS 663 .M55 V64 1996

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. REF .E 185 .E54

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. REF. E184.A1 G14 1995

Reference Library of Black America. REF. E185 .R44 1997

Includes chapters on: African American history, Visual and Applied Arts, Literature, Media, Jazz, Music, and more.

Other Books of Note in the Collection

Cinema of Outsiders: the Rise of American Independent Film. PN1995.9.E96 L43 1999. 4^th Floor

[Includes a chapter on "African American Independent Film"

 

Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship. PN1995.9.N4 B45 1993. 4^th Floor

Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. PN1995.9.N4 R47 1997. 4^th Floor

Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison. PS 374 .N4 B59 2000. 4^th Floor

The Black Feminist Reader. PS 153.N5 B5536 2000. 4^th Floor

 

Style Guides/Citing Sources

NEW Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) REF. BF76.7 .P83 2001

Standard citation and style guide for the social sciences.

MLA Handbook for Writer’s of Research Papers REF. LB2369 .G53 1999

Standard citation and style guide to English, Literature, and Humanities.

MLA Style on the Web http://www.mla.org/ (Click on "MLA Style")

Internet: Try These Starting Points

Search Engines

http://www.mnstate.edu/library/instruct/search.htm

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Page

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html

 

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other than English Page

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/litother.html

 

Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/minority.html

 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

 

WNUR-FM: JazzWeb

http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/

Gateway to information on a variety of jazz topics, including performers, instruments, styles, and education.

Smithsonian Institution: America’s Jazz Heritage

http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/

Describes America's Jazz Heritage, a 10-year initiative of the Smithsonian Institution to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz. Details exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio programs, publications, and educational activities.

Sample Google Searches -- http://www.google.com

Phrase Searching Combined With Narrowing Terms:

Langston Hughes

 

Brittney Goodman, Updated 10/23/02, goodmanb@mnstate.edu, 236-2358

This page is on the web at http://www.mnstate.edu/library/mcsafricanamerican.htm