African Studies at the University of Chicago Library

University of Chicago Resources

At the Library

• Background on Africa
• Finding Films
• Finding Journal Articles and Journals
• Research Guides by Subject: includes African American Studies (with a section on The History of Slavery and the Diaspora), Anthropology, History and other guides
• Your Librarians

Campus-wide

• African Studies Workshop
• Committee on African and African American Studies (under Interdisciplinary Opportunities, p.24)
• African Studies from the University of Chicago Press

Chicago Area

• Center for Research Libraries: Note African Studies information, the Cooperative African Microform Project's Guides to Collections, the guide to Dissertations, and holdings of Foreign newspapers.
• Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: University of Chicago students, faculty and staff are eligible for reciprocal borrowing privileges at Northwestern’s libraries.
• Northwestern University's Program of African Studies

and Beyond

• Africa South of the Sahara, Stanford Libraries
• African Studies Association
• H-Africa