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ENGL 217 - African-American Literature - Gray

This guide supports Professor Gray's analytical research report assignment.

Finding Articles

Magazine, newspaper, and journal articles can be great sources. For the more scholarly material, most of the databases linked here have a place where you can limit your search to scholarly/peer-reviewed. 

 

 

General Article Databases

Academic Search Complete

Articles from scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers covering every area of academic study and news.

ProQuest Central

Searches across all ProQuest databases. Articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers covering every subject area and news topics.

Newspaper Databases

Black Lives in America

Black Life in America

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.

NewsBank America's Newspapers

Articles from Pennsylvania and national newspapers.

US Newsstream

Over 1,000 news sources including Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and LA Times.

Literature Databases

Literature & Language (ProQuest)

Articles covering English, American literature, world literature, and linguistics.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences Archive Collection

Contains digitized back issues of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

EBSCOhost

Academic Search Complete

Articles from scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers covering every area of academic study and news.

Biography In Context

Biographies of influential people worldwide and from many time periods. Includes encyclopedia articles, magazine articles, and some multimedia.