Library Guides: African and African American Studies Research Guide: More Articles & Journals

Open Access African & African American Journals

African & Black Diaspora
"Advances the analytical and interrogative discourse that constitutes the distinctive field of African diaspora studies in the production of knowledge by focusing on issues such as power, knowledge, gender, race and other forms of social identity." (publisher's description)
African Journals Online (AJOL)
AJOL is "the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals." Includes more than 200 open access journals!
Africa Spectrum
"Focuses on the social sciences dealing with Africa and aims to promote a deeper understanding of African peoples and cultures." (publisher's description)
Black Activist
Journal of the Black Left Unity Network
Black Diaspora Review
From Indiana University, this journal provides "... a forum for the scholarly critiques; debates every aspect of Black Diaspora studies, including its mission, curricula, ideology and/or scholarly methodologies, linkages to other academic disciplines links to extra-academic communities, and its future." (publisher description)
The Crisis (from the Modernist Journals Project)
Important journal founded by W. E. B. Du Bois, covering years 1910-1922.
Ebony
Amazing full text archive of this important African American news and culture magazine, 1950-2008
Journal of African American Males in Education
"Devoted to advancing scholarship and practice on African American males in education" (publisher's description)

Other Important Full Text Journals

Here are a few important subscription journals. If you're off-campus, you'll be prompted to login to access these paywalled journals...

African American Review
Full-text and complete back issues to this important literary criticism journal, including articles, reviews, editorials, individual poems, etc. Coverage includes 1967-96 (some under previous titles).
African Journals Online (AJOL)
Access to African published research in over 200 scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Table of contents and abstracts are freely available. Links to online full text where available (currently provides full text articles for 70 journals).
African Languages & Cultures
From JStor, 1987-1997 - renamed Journal of African Cultural Studies in 1998.
Callaloo (JSTOR)
Back years of this important journal, available via JStor; see Callaloo via Project Muse for more recent issues.
Callaloo (Project Muse)
Online full-text current articles (1995-present) of this important literary and arts research journal. See Callaloo via JSTOR for older volumes of this journal.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Higher education information, statistics, and short articles relevant to African American issues & diverse populations in the U.S.
Journal of African Cultural Studies
In Jstor; continues formerly titled African Languages & Cultures, 1998-present.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Complete online full-text, 1993-1997. Includes powerful search engine; from JStor.
Journal of Black Studies
Complete full-text facsimiles of this important core journal in African American and African studies. Coverage is 1970-1996; includes powerful search engine. From J-Stor.
Transition Magazine
Complete online full-text from 1961-1994 of this important and unique contribution to radical Black cultural studies worldwide. From J-Stor; includes powerful search engine.