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WGST 064: Plantation Lullabies: Literature by and about African American Women: Home
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The databases highlighted below are essential to Women's & Gender Studies research. You may also want to browse all Women's & Gender Studies databases.
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Academic Search PremierFind information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.
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America, History and LifeAn index for North American history consisting of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations & book reviews. America, History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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Articles PlusIndex to hundreds of millions electronic resources, including journal and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and media in campus library collections.
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GenderWatchFull-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
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Historical AbstractsCovers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) and indexes nearly 2,300 journals in over 40 languages.
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Women's Studies InternationalInterdisciplinary, international database covering the core literature of the field of women's and gender studies with links to full text.
Articles on women's colleges in the 19th Century
Harris, J. (2012). "Ushered into the Kitchen": Lalia Halfkenny, Instructor of English and Elocution at a 19th-century African American Women's College." Acadiensis (Fredericton), 41(2), 45-65.
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The library catalog is often the best place to start your search as it has good relevancy ranking, it offers suggestions as you type, you will find helpful subject headings and terminology, and it links not only to books but to full-text journals and databases.
Suggested searches
- Subject: Women -- United States -- History
- Subject: Women's Studies -- Biographical method
- Subject: Women -- Caribbean area
- Subject: pioneers -- west (u.s.) -- biography and Women pioneers
- Keyword: women narratives
- Author: truth, sojourner
- Title: Out in public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America
- Subject: Seminole Indians -- history
- Religion subject headings: Santeria, Vodou, Islam -- United States, Judaism -- United States -- History
- Subject: Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- History
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Growing up with the Country
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Call Number: e-book"The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants." -
When Affirmative Action Was White
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Call Number: Print or E-book (1 user at a time)"Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity." -
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
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Call Number: e-bookIn Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. -
Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico
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Call Number: e-bookIn this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Jaffary details how, across time, localized contexts shaped the changing history of reproduction, contraception, and maternity.
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