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Research Library: MULTICULTURAL MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTION
About the Collection
The Multicultural Collection was begun with a sizable donation of the personal collection of Dr. Richard Briscoe, a faculty member in the Department of Child and Family Studies and the Director of the Multicultural Mental Health Training Program. Dr. Briscoe's collection contained works of seminal African American writers, articles, and magazines from the early 1960s to the 1980s. Examples of works in the collection include The Negro in the Making of America (1957), The Me Nobody Knows (1969), The Nigger Bible (1972), The Man Who Cried I Am (1968), and Crisis in Black and White (1964). Authors include Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Robert McCoy, Jean Toomer, John Williams, Langston Hughes, and others. Currently the collection is predominantly African-American in orientation. As time progresses, we have plans to expand into other ethnic and cultural collections.
We have catalogued the book collection on WebLUIS/LUIS and you can also search it on a separate catalogue. This catalogue has abstracts and table of contents from the books, abstracts for the journal articles, and web sites of multicultural, crosscultural, or transcultural issues.
SELECTED MULTICULTURAL LINKS
Diaspora
The African Diaspora traces the existence of African descendants around the world. The continent of Africa, and specifically West Africa, has a common history and background of millions of Black people throughout the Caribbean, South America and North America. The better we understand this common history, the better we understand ourselves today.
The Diaspora- Links by country Country,demographic, and cultural information.
History
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.The Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
African American Perspectives
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900.
The American Memory Projectalso has a number of oral histories of African Americans and other Caribbean based cultures. Be sure to use their search engine to find topics of particular interest. Includes documents, photographs, movies, and sound recordings.
Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
Approximately 4,500 photographs of African-American educational scenes in the southern United States taken by Jackson Davis during the period 1915-1930 when he was affiliated with the General Education Board in New York, New York.
Newspapers & News
Philadelphia Tribune On-Line! : America's Oldest African American Newspaper.
The Universal Black Pages Search by category or by subject.
Reference Works
The Britannica Guide to Black History Contains a timeline, images, sound recordings, and bibliographies. Within the timeline, you can search by person or event or topic area.
Black Facts Online
The Internet Resource for Black History Information, search by date or by word.
Other Sites
Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List
This is an on-going project to list on-line resources related to African Studies which are not necessarily covered in Penn's African Studies Web site.
Art McGee's African American Resources PageThis is a list of online information storage sites (FTP, Gopher, Telnet, WWW, BBS, Database, etc.)that contain a significant amount of information relating to or of concern to Black or African people,culture, and issues around the world, either in files or conferences. Also included (in other sections of the list) are resources relating to Ethnic/Intercultural Relations, International/Sustainable Development (includes Global Networking), and Social/Progressive Activism.
Florida Black Heritage Trail
Includes a description of the book, a list of historic sites, and a list of Black heritage festivals.
Florida Cuban Heritage TrailIncludes a description of the book and a list of historic sites
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