Welcome!
Welcome to the African Diaspora Studies Guide! Please feel free to email or make an appointment with me via the "Schedule Appointment" button under my picture on the left.
This guide is intended to get you started with resources for any type of research project that may touch on the African Diaspora. While it relies heavily on more traditional scholarly and password protected material only available to the Kenyon community, we are working to add material of hidden and oppressed voices in order to help researchers fill out the gaps in our understanding of research, scholarship, and ourselves. Suggestions are very much encouraged and welcome!
K-Search
K-Search
Kenyon's one-stop search tool, K-Search, is a great tool to use if you have a particular author or title to search for; it's also a good place to start a general search for scholarly and peer-reviewed materials.
To the left of your results list, you'll see options for filtering your results:
- Peer-reviewed (under "Show Only")
- Publication Date
- Resource Type (e.g., Journal Article or Book)
- Subject area
Selected Reference Materials
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Literary Reference Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames, including criticism, reviews, plot summaries, synopses, poems, and short stories.
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeContains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage