Recent Acquisitions
A selection of new titles at the UConn Library you may have missed!
- African Americans and community engagement in higher education: community service, service-learning, and community-based research (Evans, 2009)
- African American cinema through Black lives consciousness (Reid, 2019)
- African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization (Falola, 2013)
- Assata Taught Me State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives (Murch, 2022)
- At the heart of it all?: discourses on the reproductive rights of African American women in the 20th century (Overbeck, 2019)
- Black butterfly: the harmful politics of race and space in America (Brown, 2021)
- Black interdictions: Haitian refugees and antiblack racism on the high seas (Kretsedemas, 2022)
- Critical Black Pedagogy Reader: the Brothers Speak (Pitre, 2019)
- Dark side of the criminal justice system: war crimes & the Black community, 1960-1990 (Morris, 2022)
- Ensuring inequality: the structural transformation of the African-American family (Franklin, 2015)
- Mark of slavery: disability, race, and gender in antebellum America (Barclay, 2021)
- More than our pain: affect and emotion in the era of Black Lives Matter (Hinderliter & Peraza, 2021)
- Moving spaces: Creolisation and mobility in Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean (Berthet et al, 2019)
- People get ready: African American and Caribbean cultural exchange (Meehan, 2009)
- Philosophy of African American studies: nothing left of blackness (Ferguson, 2015)
- Post traumatic slave syndrome: America's legacy of enduring injury and healing (DeGruy, 2017)
- Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America (Savitt, 2007)
- Streets belong to us: sex, race, and police power from segregation to gentrification (Fischer, 2022)
- Struggle for black history: foundations for a critical black pedagogy in education (Pitre et al, 2008)
- Toxic debt: an environmental justice history of Detroit (Rector, 2022)
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Purchase Requests
The UConn Library now has an annual budget dedicated to Africana & African Studies collection development.
- Who can request library purchases?
- Anyone! — students, staff, faculty, community members
- What types of materials can be requested?
- Print and electronic books, films (DVDs, streaming)
- What types of materials cannot be requested?
- Databases, journal subscriptions
- How to submit requests?
- Click on the ‘Request a Purchase’ button below to use the Library’s online form system, or send me an email directly if you are requesting multiple items
For questions, email me at stephanie.birch@uconn.edu
You can also refer to the Library’s collection development policy
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As the new academic year kicks off, remember that as your librarian I am here to help connect you with valuable library services and resources:
- Library instruction (virtual and in-person) for Africana & African Studies courses to help your students better navigate the research process and utilize library collections
- Consultation on course & assignment development with library collection & resource integration
- Liaison support with course reserves, keeping you up to date with library workflows, policies, and practices
- Research consultations to support information and discovery for your own scholarly activities
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Please also remember to refer your students and classes to the library for virtual or in-person assistance through access to online resources and tools. Students can also get one-on-one help at the iDesk, via chat, or by contacting me.
Library student services and resources to know about:
- UConn Library Research Guides where students can find information on Africana & African studies databases, journals, collections, media, primary sources, and digital resources:
- Research consultations with students working on individual or small group assignments. We walk through the research process together – designing the project, refining research questions, and discovering sources. Contact me if you’d like to include a research consultation as a course requirement.
- Tools for students:
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