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Heather Gendron
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Research Centers, Museums, Libraries 

Amistad Research Center
An independent archive, library and museum of African-American history and culture. Includes significant African-American art holdings (Aaron Douglas and AFAC Collections) of over 400 works of artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The African-American Mosaic
A sampler drawn from the Library of Congress' rich resources: books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and sound.

H-Net and H-AfrArts Home Page
"African expressive culture" discussion and resources list, co-sponsored by H-Net and the African Studies Association.

Hampton University Museum
The oldest African-American museum, located at a major historically black university. International Review of African-American Art (see journals list) is published here.

Museum of African-American History
The homepage of Detroit's Museum of African-American History, the world's largest Black historical and cultural museum.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A major collection of materials related to Africa and African-Americans, including art collections, prints and photographs, film and recordings, as well as books and manuscripts.

SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution) Resarch Information System
The Smithsonian's resources include the National Museum of African Art, the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, all of which include African-American artists; also includes the Archives of American Art.

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC

Studio Museum in Harlem

UKY World-Wide Web Resources-African-American Sites
A good example of a university site, with extensive links, and many art-related sites. Useful feature is new sites at top of list.

Universal Black Pages This page is a quite comprehensive listing of Internet resources by, and, or about peoples of African descent. See the Art section.

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies The oldest research center for the study of African Americans in the United States, located at Harvard University. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the director. See also, Image of the Black in Western Art via ARTstor.

 

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This page was last updated Saturday, January 31, 2009.