ART982: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
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The library subscribes to numerous databases that will help you locate articles related to the research you will be conducting for this course. Search the E-Research Tools page on the library website for subject areas related to your topic. From there, select a database that seems most relevant. Here are a few suggestions:
African American Studies
American Studies
Art & Architecture
Suggested Databases - Art & Art History
Art Full Text
Indexing from 1984-present. Full text from 1997 - present. Over 200 international publications on art and art history are indexed monthly.
Art Index Retrospective
The retrospective version of Art Full Text. Indexing from 1929-1984. Updated biannually.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Indexing from 1973 - present. Over 2,500 periodicals, art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs are indexed quarterly. Covers from late antiquity (4th c.) to present but should still be searched as it is the most important database for the history of art. Citations and abstracts, not full text.
Suggested Databases - African-American Culture
Black Studies Center
A fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
Black Thought and Culture
An electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures form the corpus. The collection includes the ideas of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Sidney Bechet, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Dorothy Height, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, J. Saunders Redding, Sojourner Truth, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, and dozens more. Targeted for inclusion are the written and spoken words of Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Rosa Parks, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others.
Ethnic News Watch
A full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
International Index to Black Periodicals - Full Text
This searches the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) and The Marshall Index. IIBP includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, with full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. The Marshall Index is a guide to black periodicals from 1940-1946. Results from this search are returned in reverse chronological order.
Suggested Databases - General/Humanities
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
MLA International
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. MLA International Bibliography is produced by the Modern Language Association. Index to articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.
Project Muse
Provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
1890-1982. Provides access to articles chronicling the daily lives and the momentous events of America in the 20th century.
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Oxford Art Online
Includes the Grove Art Online, an encyclopedia of art, with general introductions to a variety of topics related to this course.
African Americans in the Visual ArtsN6538.N5 O86 2003 ART REF
African American Visual Artists: an annotated bibliographyN6538 .N5 F79 2001 ART REF
Afro-American Artists: a Bio-Bibliographical Directory N6538.N5 C42 ART REF
The Black Artist in America: an Index to Reproductions N6538.N5T46 1991 ART READY REF
St. James Guide to Black Artists N40.S78 1997 ART REF
250 years of Afro-American Art: an Annotated Bibliography N6538.N5 I38 1981 ART REF, DAVIS REF; also on CD-ROM in the Art Library (in the CD-ROM tower near the public computers).
Women Artists of Color: a Bio-critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas N8354.W656 1999 ART REF
Related Journals & Newspapers
Also see International Index of Black Periodicals online for important full-text journals, and the "African-American Studies" subject list on the E-journals Finder page.
Another source to consider is the African-American newspapers and periodicals: a national bibliography. Davis Library and the Stone Center Library have this in their reference collection (PN4882.5.N39 S37 1998).
Art History Journals
American Art (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution) The Art Library has print holdings v. 5- (1991-) TO DATE.
International Review of African-American Art The Art Library has the print version: v. 6- (1984-) TO DATE. Full text available online in International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text.
African-American History and Culture Journals(including primary sources)
American Visions Available Full Text in the Black Studies Center database. (Copies of the print version are held in Davis Library and the Undergraduate Library) often includes articles on artists. (E185.5 .A533)
Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire Available Full Text in Ethnic News Watch.
The Crisis Davis Library has: v. 1-103 1-2 (1910-1996) Some issues missing. (E185.5 .C92)
Journal of Black Studies Current issues available via the E-journal Locator. 1970 - 2004 in JSTOR; print holdings at the Stone Center Library and Davis Library. (E185.5 .J8)
Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life Publication of the National Urban League. Davis Library has: v. 1-27 (1923-1949) Library has some vols. reprinted in New York by Kraus, 1969-71. (E185.5 .O6)
Survey Graphic, specifically the 1925 issue "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro". Few copies of this issue exist in libraries. UVA has posted an online version: http://etext.virginia.edu/harlem/contents.html. Print holdings at UNC include v.22 (1933)- v.37 (1948), Davis Library Folio.
African-American Newspapers
African American Newspapers in North Carolina
Newspapers - General
LexisNexis Academic Provides full-text access to general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information, and other topics such as biographical information
Newspapers in the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries and Sources for Newspaper Research
Archival Material & Images
AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
1800's-present. A database of approximately 500,000 current and archived photos from the Associated Press's 50 million image print and negative library.
ARTstor
Provides curated collections of art images and associated data for non-commercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. The Charter Collection is made up of over 300,000 images.
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Archives of American Art (Smithsonian) - collections online.
UNC - Wilson Library Special Collections
Duke University - Franklin Collection for African and African-American Documentation
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