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Oxford African American Studies Center
More than just an interconnected collection of
great reference worksit is a coherent site built
to guide research, provide thoughtful insight,
and to reassemble the lost and scattered
fragments of the African American past. --
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor in Chief
Editor in Chief Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard
University Editorial Advisory Board Ira Berlin,
University of MarylandGwendolyn DuBois Shaw,
University of PennsylvaniaPaul Finkelman,
University of Tulsa College of LawTrudier
Harris, University of North CarolinaDarlene
Clark Hine, Northwestern UniversityGraham
Russell Gao Hodges, Colgate UniversityValerie
Smith, Princeton University Library Advisory
Board Emily Belcher, General and Humanities
Reference Librarian, Princeton UniversityNicole
Cooke, Reference Librarian/Assistant Professor,
Montclair State UniversityJanice Franklin,
Director, Library Media, Alabama State
UniversityJoyce Henderson, Supervisor, Library
Media Services, Prince George's County,
MarylandLinda Johnson-Towles, Consultant,
Instructional Technology and Media Services,
Standards and Assessment, Hamilton County
Educational Service Center, OhioJane Keeton,
Acquisitions Department Head, Birmingham Public
Library, AlabamaJames Mouw, Assistant Director
for Technical and Electronic Services, The
University of Chicago Janice Sikes, Auburn
Avenue Research Library, African American Culture
and History, Atlanta Fulton County Library
System, Georgia
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Oxford African American Studies Center
Major works included

• Africana (Appiah Gates, 2005)
• Black Women in America, 2nd Edition (Hine,
  2005)
• Encyclopedia of African American History,
  1619-1895
• (Finkelman, 2006)

• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-
  
• Present (Finkelman, 2008)

• African American National Biography (Gates
• Higginbotham, 2008)

Plus, editorially selected articles from 18 other
acclaimed Oxford titles!
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Oxford African American Studies Center

• Over 8,000 total entries, hand selected by
  editors, from
• Oxfords acclaimed reference program

• 1,300 images, in addition to more than
• 300charts/maps/graphs and 50 thematic maps

• Nearly 300 primary sources, each accompanied
• by a specially written introductory essay
• detailing the historical, cultural and social
• significance of the text

• General timeline of African American history
• accompanied by thematic timelines on sports,
• business and labor, womens history,
  literature,
• and more

• Editorially-selected links, divided into key
  subject
• areas, to help guide further research

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NAVIGATING AASC Available from all pages, the
menu allows the user to search or browse content,
explore thematic timelines, visit outside sources
or check out the learning center!
IN A HURRY? Users always have access to the
Quick Search bar!
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SEARCH Users have the freedom to search through
all categories of content at once, or limit their
selection to biographies, images, primary source
material or bibliographies only.
BROWSE In addition to targeted searches, users
can also simply browse through the many entries
and images available through the African American
Studies Center.
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AT A GLANCE Basic biographical data, timelines,
images, and article information
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TIMELINES Exploring timelines, students can
follow events and watch how themes develop over
the course of history.
Know exactly what time period youre looking for?
Simply enter it in Jump to year and click Go!
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Oxford African American Studies Center

• Oxford and the Editorial Board are committed to a
  robust schedule of new material uploads to keep
  the African American Studies Center at the
  cutting edge of scholarship in the field.

African American National Biography
Additional Multimedia Content
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African American National Biography
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn
Brooks Higginbotham

• The most diverse and extensive collection of
  African American biographies eight volumes
  containing 4,000 biographies and 1,000 images of
  notable black Americans
• Biographies will be added to the Oxford African
  American Studies Center and updated on a regular
  basis, making new scholarship easily accessible
  and instantly available
• Entries written by more than one thousand
• scholars and experts
• A Further Reading section follows each entry
• The product of a remarkable scholarly partnership
  between Oxford University Press and the W. E. B.
  Du Bois Center for African and African American
  Research at Harvard University
• Due in print February 2008

"These stories, long buried in the dusty archives
of history, will never be lost again. And that is
what scholarship in the field of African American
Studies should be all about." Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.
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Additional Multimedia Content
Oxford is pleased to announce the exciting
addition of even more multimedia content to the
African American Studies Center. Over 75 videos,
taken from Encarta Africana, will be embedded
alongside images in article text. Content
includes

• Hank Aaron Breaks the Home Run Record
• Civil Rights March in 1963
• Wole Soyinka Receives the Nobel Prize
• Watts Riot of 1965
• Buck and Bubbles Perform
• Insurrection in South Africa, 1985
• United Negro College Fund TV Ad

Jesse Owens wins a gold medal at the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin
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Oxford African American Studies Center
Awards Reviews
Library Journal Best Reference 2006 Winner of the
2006 Besterman McColvin Award for Best Electronic
Reference Work

• Theres not enough space to extol OAASCs
  virtues sufficiently.Because it is so
  extraordinary, the resource makes it necessary
  this once to raise the usual rating scale of 1 to
  10 to an unprecedented 11! The Bottom Line A
  remarkable achievement in accessible scholarship,
  Oxford African American Studies Center is
  strongly recommended for all libraries. Cheryl
  LaGuardia, Library Journal
• Design and navigation are well thought out
  there seems to be very little Oxford hasnt
  considered in making the site easy to navigate
  and use.... Recommended for high-school, public,
  and academic libraries. Mary Ellen Quinn,
  Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
• A great subject-specific resource that, for
  years, has been lackingdatabase provides
  students with a new depth of historical,
  biographical, and scholarly materials on African
  Americans. Oxford African American Studies
  Center rates a strong A. With content updates
  every three months, this database will definitely
  surpass most collections found in school
  libraries. This is a great opportunity to offer a
  well-developed, easy-to-use specialized database
  on a subject area that is never fully covered by
  print resources. School Library Journal