Research & Subject Guides: Cultures of the African Diaspora: Countries and Cultures

Country Databases

NewsBank
Read newspaper articles from newspapers published in countries around the world to get the local perspective on foreign and international events.

News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (featuring Newsweek) This link opens in a new window
An archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events, trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth century. The collection will provide valuable primary source content for researchers in fields ranging from history and political science, through to law and economics.

Culture Databases

ACLS Humanities eBooks
Includes books online from humanities topics including history and cultural studies. Some social sciences material such as cultural studies and anthropology is included.

Full Text Social Science Databases

These databases in sociology and other social sciences include the full text of some articles. Watch for check-boxes to indicate the types of limits you want to put on your search, like "full text only" (returns only results with whole articles) or "Peer Reviewed" (returns only scholarly journals).

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This resource was replaced by Sociology Source Ultimate, which is an upgraded version with additional content. The link redirects to the updated resource.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.

Books on Countries & Cultures

These books are good starting places for information on cultures and countries. See the "Books" tab for information on how to locate books in the library.

Countries and their Cultures
Call Number: A&T REF GN307 .C68 2001 v.1-4
Culture and customs of Ghana
Call Number: A&T REF DT510.4 .S25 2002
Culture and Customs of Nigeria
Call Number: A&T REF DT515.4 .F35 2001
Culture and Customs of Somalia
Call Number: A&T REF GN650.S65 A34 2001
Culture and Customs of the Congo
Call Number: A&T REF DT649 .M85 2002
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
Call Number: A&T REF DT2908 .O96 2002
Doing cultural anthropology : projects for ethnographic data collection
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN346 .D65 2002
Doing fieldwork : ethnographic methods for research in developing countries and beyond
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN346 .F537 2005
Encyclopedia of food and culture
Call Number: A&T REF GT2850 .E53 2003 v.1-3
Encyclopedia of rap and hip-hop culture
Call Number: A&T REF ML102.R27 B96 2006
Europa World Year Book
Call Number: A&T READY REF JN1 .E85
Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN33 .D5 2000
Fashion, Costume, and Culture : clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages
Call Number: A&T REF GT511 .P46 2004b v.1-5
Girl culture : an encyclopedia
Call Number: A&T REF HQ798 .G523 2008 v.1-2
Greenwood Guide to American popular culture
Call Number: A&T REF E169.1 .H2643 2002 v.1-4
Handbook of ethnography
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN345 .H365 2001
Men and masculinities : a social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia
Call Number: A&T REF HQ1090.3 .M436 2004 v.1-2
Naturalistic observation
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN345 .A56 2007
Oxford handbook of global religions
Call Number: A&T REF BL74 .O94 2006
Quick Ethnography
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN345 .H39 2001
Race, place and globalization : youth cultures in a changing world
Call Number: A&T STACKS HQ796 .N3677 2003
Sage dictionary of cultural studies
Call Number: A&T REF HM623 .B374 2004
Sports culture : an A-Z guide
Call Number: A&T REF GV706.5 .C383 2000
The ethnographic imagination
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN345 .W52 2000
Writing the New Ethnography
Call Number: A&T STACKS GN307.7 .G66 2000
World musics in context : a comprehensive survey of the world's major musical cultures
Call Number: A&T STACKS ML160 .F64 2004
Understanding The Cultural Landscape
Call Number: A&T STACKS GF41 .W354 2005
Handbook of World Families
Call Number: A&T STACKS HQ515 .H3356 2005