Citing your sources properly -- including any images that you include in your paper -- is important and required.
Purdue University's OWL Writing Lab Citation resources are the best ones out there on the web. Generally, Africana Studies courses require that you use either MLA style or Chicago style. Detailed information on both citation styles are availble here.
Diane can help with citations, too!
Welcome to the Africana Studies Research Guide!
This guide will help you to conduct serious scholarly research in Africana studies from beginning to end. Start by exploring in some encyclopedias and dictionaries and then use the tabs to navigate through finding scholarly articles and books, as well as web resources.
Start your research by using one of our subject-specific reference books, instead of turning to Wikipedia. Though Wikipedia is an excellent resource for general information, it can't always be relied upon, authorship is hard to determine and bias creeps in on controversial topics (and Africana Studies has plenty of those!). It shouldn't ever be cited in scholarly research.
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century
An African Biographical Dictionary
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
Encyclopedia of Black Studies
Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations
A Dictionary of African Mythology: the Mythmaker as Storyteller