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| Stone Center Guide to the Web - Research Centers (18 items) |
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- Africana Research Center
- The Africana Research Center at Pennsylvania State University works to promote research “that will advance the historical and contemporary understanding and enhancement of the lives of people across the African Diaspora.” The website includes information on initiatives, outreach programs, lectures, news, events, information on submitting research proposals, and a database of Pennsylvania Black Writers. (Source: Pennsylvania State University)
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- Avery Research Center
- The Avery Research Center in Charleston, SC is dedicated to African American history, preservation, research, scholarship, and community outreach. The website features information on the museum and archives, a program and events calendar, and links to related information. (Source: College of Charleston)
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- Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
- The Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of business and economics from an African-American perspective. The website contains information on conferences, research, and publications as well as links to information on African American business history. (Source: University of Texas)
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- Center for Contemporary Black History
- The Center for Contemporary Black History, housed at Columbia University, “promotes the critical study of black history, culture, and politics within urban America since 1900, with an emphasis on understanding the central role of black intellectuals and public leaders in the making of modern society.” The site features information about projects in progress at the Center, the journal Souls, a calendar of sponsored events, and a list of related academic and educational resources. (Source: Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia University)
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- Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
- The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago is dedicated to “promoting engaged scholarship and debate around the topics of race and ethnicity.” The site includes information on CSRPC events, programs, projects, and workshops. Also included are news articles and links to related resources. (Source: Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture)
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- Center of Black Music Research
- The Center of Black Music Research, based at Columbia College in Chicago, "documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information about black music in all parts of the world and promotes understanding of the common roots of the music, musicians, and composers of the global African diaspora." The Center offers fellowships, periodically hosts conferences, and has a library and archive. (Source: The Center of Black Music Research)
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- David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora
- The Driskell Center celebrates the legacy of artist and art historian David C. Driskell, focuses on the fields of visual arts and diasporic studies, and works to preserve the legacy of African-American visual art and culture. Included are information on programs, grants, and an events calendar. (Source: David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland)
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- Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
- The Environmental Justice Center works to assist research, education, and policy-making in a multitude of areas related to race and the environment. Included on the website are relevant news articles, reports, information on conferences and events, and links to further online resources. (Source: Clark Atlanta University)
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- Furious Flower Poetry Center
- The Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University provides “opportunities for education, research, and publication” in African American poetry to the campus and local community. The site includes extensive poetry resources, as well as information on the Center including conferences, publications, and poetry slams. (Source: James Madison University)
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- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
- The Gilder Lehrman Center seeks to "foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world" through educational outreach and scholarly research. Included in the site are many educational resources, including extensive online feature exhibits on topics such as the Amistad case, the Gullah, and Harriet Jacobs. (Source: Yale University)
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- Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora
- The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora site is a “digitalized research facility that focuses on the history of the African diaspora and the movement of Africans to various parts of the world, particularly the Americas and the Islamic lands of North Africa and the Middle East.” The site features areas of research available through the Centre at Canada’s York University and information on the graduate program, conferences and lectures, and publications. Also available are newsletters, publications, and links of related subject materials. (Source: Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University)
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- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is "one of the nation's premier think tanks on a broad range of public policy issues of concern to African Americans and other communities of color." The website provides visitors with digital access to data developed across subject areas such as health, poverty, and voting. (Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies)
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- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
- Based at Howard University, The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center "collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience." (Source: Howard University Library)
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- MS-Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center
- The Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center houses the papers of Margaret Walker Alexander and her contemporaries. The Research Center, located in Jackson, Mississippi, contains oral histories and papers and sponsors symposia, conferences and festivals. (Source: Margaret Walker Alexander Research Center)
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- Muhammad Ali Center
- This site contains information about the Muhammad Ali Center, which aims to “preserve and share the legacy and ideals of Muhammad Ali, to promote respect, hope, and understanding, and to inspire adults and children everywhere to be as great as they can be.” The site features programming information, as well as community forums and volunteer opportunities. (Source: Muhammad Ali Center)
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- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Part of the New York Public Library, the Schomburg Center is the nation's premier repository for documents about African-Americans and others of African descent. The site includes links to online exhibits, digital collections and finding aids of materials housed in the manuscript division. (Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library)
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- Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
- Based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Center’s mission is “to encourage and support the critical examination of all dimensions of African-American and African diaspora cultures through sustained and open discussion, dialogue and debate” on campus and in the community. The site includes information about Center and their programs. (Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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- West African Research Center
- The West African Research Center, the overseas research center for the West African Research Association located in Senegal, is a “center for academic exchange between American and West African scholars that encourages research on the region of West Africa.” Included on the site are information on the center, research projects, grant information, and events. (Source: West African Research Center)
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