African American and Black Diaspora Studies

This guide presents a selection of African American and Black Diaspora studies resources available through NYU Libraries and beyond. It is by no means exhaustive and will be updated overtime. 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Aspects of Negro Life" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 3, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/634ad849-7832-309e-e040-e00a180639bb.

Black studies and its variants, African American studies, Afro-American studies, African and African American studies, Africana studies, Pan- African studies, diaspora studies, or the more recent Africology, Africa New World studies, and black women diaspora studies, have emerged since the 1960s as full-fledged academic departments in colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Black studies is the systematic study of the knowledge, thoughts, and modes of being of African people in both their current and historical manifestations. It intersects various methodologies and perspectives; its unit of analysis is the black world, but it also engages white hegemonic powers and their history of exclusion and dominance. 

Citation
Michel, Claudine. "Black Studies." Oxford African American Studies Center. 1 Dec. 2009; Accessed 3 Oct. 2024. https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-45290.