African Music Encyclopedia

Music from Africa and the African Diaspora. Has photographs and biographies of musicians, a glossary of African styles of music, a directory of distributors and places to buy music. By Janet Planet. http://africanmusic.org/

Afro-Asia (Salvador, Brazil)

In Portuguese. Published by the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador, Brasil). On African-Brazilian issues and Africa-related issues. Full text articles on-line. Created in 1965. http://www.afroasia.ufba.br/

Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions (Paris)

In French. Has full text articles on Afro-Latin American religions. Journal "fondée en 1956 sous l’égide du CNRS." Published by Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales / Éditions de l’EHESS. Its purpose is "promouvoir une perspective comparative, élargie à toutes les religions, et à toutes les aires culturelles." http://assr.revues.org/

Handbook of Latin American Studies Online

Keyword searchable bibliography from the U.S. Library of Congress Hispanic Division. Find references to Africans and African influence in Latin America. A search for ex. on African diaspora retrieves 100 citations. Search also for African influences. Covers 1935 onwards. [KF] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

Latin American Video Archives - African Diaspora in the Americans

Sells videos on the "histories, political struggles, and everyday life of the black people of Latin America." Study guide for the videos, related web sites, bibliography. Latin American Video Archives, LAVA, is a "non-profit organization dedicated to the distribution and dissemination of Latin American and Latino video to educational institutions in the United States and Canada." Based in New York, N.Y. [KF] http://www.latinamericanvideo.org/africandiaspora/

Studies in the History of the African Diaspora – Documents, SHADD [Latin America]

Published by the York University. Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora. "publishes manuscripts in Arabic, French, Portuguese, English, Spanish and other languages relevant to the history of the African diaspora." Selected documents are online. http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/shadd/shadd.htm

Includes the full text of -

Slavery Question in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1900-1906, by Paul Lovejoy and Jan Hogendorn

Texts of Ocha Ifa and Santeria, Regla, Cuba, 61 volumes; introduction by Henry Lovejoy (3 pages) http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/shadd/cuba/page1.htm

Robin Law (ed.), Documents on the History of the Oyo Empire; texts relevant to the history of Oyo, drawing on published documents and translations of non-English texts (previously published, Department of History, University of Ibadan). http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/shadd/law/index.asp

Documents of the French Slave Trade on West Africa (in French)

Universidade Federal da Bahia. Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO)

In Portuguese. Information on its museum, library, publications, courses, programs (Programa de Estudos da Alimentação, etc.) Full text books on-line such as DE OLHO NA CULTURA: PONTOS DE VISTA AFRO-BRASILEIROS and UMA HISTÓRIA DO NEGRO NO BRASIL. Based in Salvador, Brazil. http://www.ceao.ufba.br/

Wisconsin Historical Society. Newspapers / Periodicals of the African Diaspora - [Latin America]

Project to identify newspapers and periodicals outside of North America. The project has a database of titles including African titles published in Europe. Bibliography of print publications on the African Diaspora in Latin America and Brazil. http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~danky/diaspora/index.html