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AFST 101: Introduction to Africana Studies (HC)

Africana Studies 101: Introduction to Africana Studies (Quin) Fall 2024

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search (called Any Field) in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles and content summaries.

     "black feminis*" AND history [Any Field]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

     "african american feminists"  AND history [Subjects]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon 

      (enslave* OR slavery OR slave*) AND ("united states" OR brazil* OR caribbean) history [Subjects]  AND (resistan* OR rebel* OR sabotag*)  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  

      (photograph* OR art) AND ("african american*" OR black OR blacks) AND "19th century" [Subjects]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  

   **  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million title records owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.