African American Studies

Pittsburgh Region

• Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE)
  http://www.hss.cmu.edu/departments/history/research/cause.html
  A graduate and postgraduate program at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of History.
• University of Pittsburgh Department of Africana Studies
  http://www.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/bj.htm
  Formerly Black Studies, Africana Studies is the study, research, interpretation, and the dissemination of knowledge concerning African American, African, and Caribbean affairs and culture.

Pennsylvania

• University of Pennsylvania: Center for Africana Studies
  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/africana/
  The Center for Africana Studies, formerly known as the Afro-American Studies Program, is a space for the critical examination of the human, cultural, social, political, economic and historical factors that have created and shaped the African American and African Diaspora experiences.
• University of Pennsylvania Library
  http://www.library.upenn.edu/
  • African American Studies Research Guide
    This special bibliography concentrates on reference materials in the area of African American Studies that can be found in the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
  • African Americans in Philadelphia - Research Guide
    This special bibliography concentrates on materials relating to the African American experience in Philadelphia that can be found in the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions.

United States

• About: African American Culture
  Articles and Web resources on african american topics maintained at About.com (formerly the mining company)
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
  The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Association operates as local, state, and international branches promoting greater knowledge of African American history through a program of education, research, and publishing.
• H-Afro-Am
  http://www.h-net.org/~afro-am/
  H-Afro-Am, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, is a discussion network that provides information for professionals, faculty and advanced students, in the field of African American Studies (also called Afrocentricity, Africology, Africana Studies, Afro-American Studies, Black Studies, and Pan-African Studies).

• Princeton University: African-American Studies Programs in the United States
  http://www.princeton.edu/~aasprog/aasps.htm
  A collection of links to various university programs within the United States.

International

• Africa Research Central
  http://www.africa-research.org/
  Africa Research Central has as its goal to centralize and constantly update information about institutions with African primary source collections so as to facilitate international research in African Studies.