The
Ohio
State University LIbraries Women's Studies Library
This site is organized to provide an extensive amount of informational
resources on women. Some of the resources include metasites for women
studies, history and archieves, web resources such as bibliographies and
syllabi, also it has a selected feminist, gender and women studies
sites. The international resources include the resources for Gender
Studies of Latin America and the Caribbean. This page is straigtforward
and easy to naviagate because of the organized subheadings of topics.
Multicultural
Web Sites/Diversity and Ethnic Studies
These are websites that focus on more than one racial or ethnic
group, or on diversity issues in general. This site provides links to
the Institute for Ethnic Studies' catalogue, the UMD Diversity database,
and Women's Studies research centers, archieves and libraries. Also on
this site is information on immigrant populations and an extensive online
catalog of videos, music cd's and books on historic and contemporary
ethnic music and dance. This site is again straigtforward in its
navigation.
Race, Ethnicity and Identity
The American Studies Electronic Crossroads (ASEC), a comprehensive,
integrated, information platform on the internet that is supported at
Georgetown University by the Center for Electronic Projects in American
Culture Studies (CEPACS). ASEC contains pedagogical, scholarly, and
The site provides research information and tools such as links to
full-text books and articles, information about associations and
conferences relevant to your particular field. Though the Crossroads
website is quite extensive, navigating it is fairly easy. What I
especially like about this site is that there are links to international
databases such as PAIS, also there is an international index of Black
Periodicals in full-text. There are also electronic journals such as the
Journal of Post-Colonial Studies and Callalloo, a premier African Diaspora
literary journal. The site is organized by topic of which some include diaspora,
colonialism, post-colonialism, frontiers and borderlands studies, ethnic
and national identities, and race, ethnicity and identity.
African Diaspora
This pathfinder is a collection of resources to help with general library
research, and completing assignments, for Africana courses. Africana is
defined as the study of the cultures, societies, and arts of people of
African descent, whether they are from the continent or the diaspora.
The site provides research information and tools such as links to
full-text books and articles, information about associations and
conferences relevant to your particular field. Though the Crossroads
website is quite extensive, navigating it is fairly easy. What I
especially like about this site is that there are links to international
databases such as PAIS, also there is an international index of Black
Periodicals in full-text. There are also electronic journals such as the
Journal of Post-Colonial Studies and Callalloo, a premier African Diaspora
literary journal.
Webster
University Haiti Library Program by Bob Corbett
This website is a personal collection compiled by Professor Bob Corbett
of Webster
University in St. Louis, MO. He has been a professor of Philosophy since
1965 and developed this website that features his collection of resources
on and about Haiti. What I find useful in this site is that his site
offers a free bibliographic search of the 1,100 books in English, about
1,500 journal articles, 100 books in Creole, and the 50 books on the
Creol
e
Language that are a part of his collection. Also included are book
reviews, a list
of films, historical information on Haiti and a bibliography of works on
the Haitian Revolution.
African Diaspora Resources: Questia Online Library
Questia is an online library that consist of over 48,000 books and 390,000
journal, magazines and newspapers. This consist of information on
specific Caribbean areas such as Haiti, Caribbean History, African
American History, African Diaspora, Migration, and Transnationlism, to
name a few. Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access
to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in
the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper
articles. This site searches every word of all of the books and journal
articles in the collection. Researchers can also view contents of books
online as well as have acess to online articles.
To complement the library, Questia also offers a range of search,
note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most
relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly,
and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies
automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to
meet students' academic needs. Navigating this site is pretty easy because
it so organized and detailed.
ADDITIONAL SITES
Meridians: Feminism,
Race and Transnationalism
International Cultural Center
Library (ICC)
Haiti Program
Windows on Haiti
Haiti Links
Haiti
Archives
AMST
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Main Page
University of Maryland
Homepage