Lloyd Sealy Library

Africana studies

** Guide to Africana Studies	A library guide to researching topics in Africana Studies
** Guide to Ethnic Studies and Multicultural America	A library guide to researching topics in ethnic studies and multicultural America
America: History and Life	Index and some fulltext to journal articles and reviews on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Inlcudes CLIO notes (see top of interface) providing chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in history. Access level: John Jay
American History in Video	More than 5,000 hours of videos from commercial and governmental sources, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Note: The content of this collection is now available through Academic Video Online (AVON/Alexander Street Press). Access level: John Jay
AnthroSource	From the American Anthropology Association, provides full access to AAA's current publications including an archive of all AAA journals. Access level: John Jay
Black Drama	Full text of plays by playwrights from the USA, the Caribbean, and English-speaking countries in Africa. Excellent source for Harlem Renaissance writers. Access level: John Jay
Black Thought and Culture	Contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, and includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other ephemeral material. Alternate access via CUNY login credentials Access level: CUNY
Diversity Studies Collection	Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines from AcademicOneFile and General OneFile databases that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. Access level: John Jay
Ethnic Newswatch	Provides access to more than 200 newspapers, magazines and journals from the ethnic, minority and native press. Includes materials in Spanish. To find movie reviews limit the document type to movie review. Alternate access via CUNY login credentials Access level: CUNY
Films on Demand (Infobase Learning)	A comprehensive streaming video collection of 1,000s of full length educational videos and clips covering a broad range of topics. You can search by title, by keywords in segments, browsing titles alphabetically, and browsing or searching within the subject area. Most of the titles in the collection have closed-captioning and many have interactive transcripts. Access level: John Jay
New York State Slavery Records Index	A searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and their owners, beginning as early as 1525 and ending during the Civil War. Data comes from census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources. The index contains over 35,000 records and it is expected to grow as John Jay College professors and students locate and assemble data from additional sources. Access level: Freely available to the public
Oxford Bibliographies Online	Topic overviews and bibliographies on pertinent topics in African Studies, Atlantic History, Chinese Studies, Criminal Justice, Islamic Studies, Latino Studies, Military History and Psychology with links to the full text of sources when available. Access level: John Jay
Slavery and Anti-Slavery	Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. Alternate access via CUNY login credentials Access level: CUNY
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law	Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Much of the non-legal material in this collection is based on the holdings of the Buffalo Public Library. Its rare book collection contains hundreds of nineteenth century pamphlets and books on slavery. A quick reference guide on how to ue this collection can be found at https://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/SlaveryQRG.pdf Access level: Freely available to the public
Social Sciences Full Text	Provides accesses to journals in anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies from 1983 to the present and indexes material from 1929 to 1983. Alternate access via CUNY login credentials Access level: CUNY
SocINDEX with Full Text	Contains core coverage journals dating back to 1895, and some priority coverage journals. Also includes full text for many books, monographs, and conference papers. Alternate access via CUNY login credentials Access level: CUNY
Sociological Abstracts	Scholarly articles, books, and dissertations in sociology and subdisciplines. Coverage from 1952 to the present. Access level: John Jay
Umbra Search	A searchable collection of over 500,000 primary source documents relating to African American history and culture digitized by over 1,000 libraries libraries and archives across the country. Access level: Freely available to the public