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Welcome to our African American Studies Subject Guide.  This guide is to help you navigate the different resources available at the Mortensen Library to aid you in your research and assignments for African American Studies.

African American Studies includes a vast array of cross-disciplinary subject matter. The following guides are closely related. However, you will find that the majority of our research guides are useful if you are looking for information on the contributions, research, and/or history of African Americans in a particular discipline or subject.

Check out our research tutorial to learn more about doing your research:

Introduction

Part 1: Planning Your Research

Part 2: Finding Books in the Catalog and the Shelf

Part 3: Databases: An Introduction

Part 4: Searching in Databases

Part 5: Finding and Evaluating Websites

Part 6: Citing Sources