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Pan African Studies 420- The Black Child
Professor Okoye-Johnson
Contact Information | Finding Books | Recommended Databases & Electronic Resources | Internet | Citation Styles | Avoiding Plagiarism
Contact Information
California State University, Northridge
Oviatt Library (http://library.csun.edu)
Librarian
Lynn Lampert (http://library.csun.edu/llampert)
CSUN Pan African Studies Homepage
(http://www.csun.edu/csbs/departments/pan_african_studies/index.html)
Finding Books
Search the Library Catalog
- for books, videos, and archival materials that will help you identify
informative and persuasive topics. Use the KEYWORD search if you aren't
sure of the official Subject Headings for your topic.
Books may be searched in the Library Catalog by author, title, Library of
Congress Subject Heading, or keywords.
Keyword searching allows the use of Boolean Logic (AND, OR, NOT) and truncation/wildcards
symbols (*, ?, etc.).
For books not held by the Oviatt Library, request an Interlibrary Loan,
but allow about 2 weeks.
Some Subject Headings to consider are:
- African American children
- African Americans -- Education
- African American families
- Children of minorities -- Education -- United States
- Race awareness in children
- Prejudices in children
- Teacher-student relationships.
Reference Books -- Need to look up a term or theory?
- Encyclopedia of African American society / Gerald D. Jaynes, general editor. (Reference Room # E185 .E546 2005 )
- Encyclopedia of Black studies / editors Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama. (Reference Room # E185 .E554 2005 )
Recommended Databases & Electronic Resources (e-Reference Books)
Below are recommended databases for Pan African Studies. They can be accessed along with other databases from either Databases A-Z or from the Find Articles and Research Data selection for Pan African Studies at http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/databases/PanAfricanStudies
Black
Studies Center brings together essential historical
and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans,
the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several
cross-searchable component databases
combining several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies:
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black
Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature
Index
Academic Search Elite. A large interdisciplinary index
and full text database of over 1700 full journals. Journal articles go back
to the early 1990s to the present date.
ERIC (EBSCO) . Full text to more than 2,200 digests, and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
PsycINFO on EBSCOHost. Indexes over 2,000 journals plus books and book chapters, 1987-present.
Lexis Nexis Academic. Provides full text searchable access to several thousand journals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and international publications. Coverage begins around the 1970s to the present. CSULB authentication required.
Project Muse. An online full text access to more than 160 scholarly journals, many in the humanities and social sciences.
Internet
In addition to the databases and Web sites listed above, the Internet can be a valuable source of information. However, remember to think critically about the authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage of the information you find.
- Internet Search Engines - (links to favorite search engines of CSUN librarians)
- SearchEngineWatch - (comprehensive directory of search engines by type)
- Evaluating Web Pages - (criteria used to critically evaluate web pages)
Citation Style Guides
Avoiding Plagiarism
Prepared by Lynn Lampert , Pan African Studies Librarian
18111 Nordhoff St. Northridge CA 91330 (818) 677-2285 |
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