Guides: AFRS 243: African Literature: Reference Resouces

Reference Resources at a Glance

Reference resources are important for finding background information on a topic. As you learn about the local immigrant you are researching, you may want some contextual background.

For example, if the person you choose to research came from Ethiopia, you may want to:

Learn if there were particular time periods when Ethiopians migrated to the United States in large numbers
See where large numbers of Ethiopian immigrants settled in the United States

These are just a selection of reference resources we have available at Preus Library. You can search the catalog WorldCat for additional ones or ask a librarian for recommendations.

Reference Resources

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
Call Number: Ref DT14 .A37435 2005
American Immigration: an Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change by James Ciment; John Radzilowski
Call Number: Ref JV6465 .E53 2014
ISBN: 9780765682123
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
Call Number: E-BOOK
Identifies and addresses broad themes critical to understanding the texture of the cultures, achievements, challenges and comprise North America, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present (e-book)
Call Number: Ref E185 .E54 2006 vols 1-6 (also online)
ISBN: 9780195167795
Publication Date: 2009-02-02
This work contains over 2200 entries; most of them are biographies. The set includes a detailed index. Many of the entries in this excellent source are biographies and quite a few are for people who lived in the 19th century.