Guides: Black Studies: Home

Welcome

Black Studies is a new interdisciplinary program at Middlebury open to all students. This guide highlights a variety of resources to get you started with researching black studies topics in all disciplines.

Not Sure Where to Start?

LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches almost everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, newspapers, films, images, primary sources, reference works and more in all disciplines. (go/LibrarySearch/)

African American periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
More than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
Black Life in America This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience. Sourced from nearly 20,000 American and global newspapers from 1704 to 1975, including over 400 African American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in African American History.

ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
Search the digital full-text editions of the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), and the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003).

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Search across journals, newspapers, and magazines content from multiple ProQuest databases.

Featured Books

Black Faces, White Spaces

By Middlebury College Environmental Studies Scholar-in-Residence Carolyn Finney

Black Studies and the Democratization of American Higher Education

African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States

African Europeans

Afro-Latin American Studies : an Introduction

I am a Girl from Africa: a Memoir

Audiobook and print

They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement

Between the World and Me

Print and E-book

Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation

Midcat link for The short and tragic lif of Robert Peace

The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League

The mother of black Hollywood : a memoir

Print and Audiobook.

Black girls rock! : Owning our magic, rocking our truth

Black Europe and the African Diaspora

The color of Sound : Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil

Featured Resources

New York Times 1619 Project (NY Times Magazine)
"The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. Essays were published in a special issue of the August 18, 2019 New York Times Magazine. It's also a website and a podcast! Shortcut go/1619.