{"id":1714,"date":"2022-04-04T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oer.bmcc.cuny.edu\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2023-03-10T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:05:48","slug":"africana-black-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/oer-by-subject\/africana-black-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Africana\/Black Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OER @ CUNY<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/historynyc.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A People\u2019s History of New York City<\/a><br \/>This website, hosted at CUNY Academic Commons, was created by Samuel Finesurrey of Guttman Community College. The site &#8220;traces the history of NYC through the experiences of Immigrant and Migrant communities.\u201d Resources include a section on <a href=\"https:\/\/historynyc.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/black-new-yorkers-struggle-for-liberation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Black New Yorkers&#8217; Struggle for Liberation&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/historynyc.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/assignments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidance on conducting oral history interviews<\/a>; if consent for distribution is secured, interviews may be added to the Guttman Community College Undergraduate Scholars Oral History Collection.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccny.cuny.edu\/dsi\/digital-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CUNY Dominican Studies Institute: Digital Resources<\/a><br \/>These digital resources are provided by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York. These feature &#8220;various educational platforms to enhance teaching and learning on Dominican topics&#8221;; they are freely available, but check individual resources for information about permissions.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Open Books<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/the-ancient-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Ancient World History to 1300 C.E.<\/em><\/a><br \/>This textbook &#8220;explores the history of the world from prehistoric times to 1300 C.E., paying specific attention to the interconnections (or disconnections) between peoples and regions.&#8221; The first section is on the history of Africa.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/bright-continent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Bright Continent: African Art History<\/em><\/a><br \/>&#8220;This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop\u2013visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations\u2013and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient. It will also expose you to new art forms and the worlds that produced them, enriching your understanding and appreciation.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.gvsu.edu\/books\/8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bent Not Broken: A Family Remembers the War in Liberia and Sierra Leone<\/em><\/a><br \/>This interactive multimedia story tells about the life of a family trying to survive the brutal war that took place in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbookpublishers.com\/product\/228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective<\/em><\/a><br \/>&#8220;Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues.&#8221; A chapter on Africa gives an overview of the precolonial history of the continent with a focus on trade and migration.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/textbooks\/an-introduction-to-african-and-afro-diasporic-peoples-and-influences-in-british-literature-and-culture-before-the-industrial-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution<\/em><\/a><br \/>\u201cAn Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies.\u201d This textbook includes interviews with historians and literary scholars.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<!-- Removed on 3\/10\/23: http:\/\/www.oercommons.org\/courses\/the-meanings-of-timbuktu\/view is now a dead link and connect be found on OER Commons. -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zero-Cost Resources<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/afrolatinoproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AfroLatin@Project<\/a><br \/>&#8220;Our mission is to serve as a resource center and cultural advocate for documentation and preservation of cultures, histories, and experiences of Afrodescendant people in the Americas and the Caribbean.&#8221; Unless otherwise stated, the content at the site is licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu\/art\/archiving-art-life-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art &amp; Life in Africa<\/a><br \/>This website of freely accessible but not openly licensed materials is now available only in an archived version.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/caribbeanhistory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caribbean Histories Revealed<\/a> (The National Archives)<br \/>&#8220;The history of the British Caribbean is explored in this exhibition through government documents, photographs and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s and discovered during a cataloguing project at The National Archives of the United Kingdom.&#8221; Unless otherwise stated, the content in this collection is available under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/doc\/open-government-licence\/version\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Government License v3.0<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za\/centre-popular-memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centre for Popular Memory<\/a> at UCT Libraries Digital Collections<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za\/humanitec\/cpm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Centre for Popular Memory<\/a> was &#8220;an oral history-based, research, advocacy and archival centre located in Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town&#8221;; this digital collection includes a selection from its repository of oral history interviews, &#8220;featuring first-person life histories, testimonies, memories and shared reflections in nine languages,&#8221; with full transcripts and translations. Check the rights of each individual resource before using it.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dloc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)<\/a><br \/>&#8220;dLOC is a cooperative of Partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. [&#8230;] Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.&#8221; Check the rights on the resources in these collections before using them.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liberatedafricans.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liberated Africans<\/a><br \/>&#8220;This website retraces the lives of over 250,000 people emancipated under global campaigns to abolish slavery, as well as thousands of officials, captains, crews, and guardians of a special class of people known as &#8216;Liberated Africans.'&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dp.la\/primary-source-sets\/the-transatlantic-slave-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transatlantic Slave Trade<\/a><br \/>This set of primary sources from the Digital Public Library of America includes &#8220;documents, photographs, artwork, and maps that tell the story of the slave trade and its impact&#8221; and is accompanied by additional resources and a teaching guide.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World History Commons<\/a><br \/>This site provides digitized and annotated primary sources along with teaching guides on topics in world history and on working with particular types of primary sources. Guides that may be of interest include the following:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/long-teaching-module-children-slave-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Teaching Module: Children in the Slave Trade<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/short-teaching-module-slavery-labor-and-gender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Short Teaching Module: Slavery, Labor, and Gender<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/source-collection-slavery-and-haitian-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source Collection: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/short-teaching-module-race-gender-and-transnational-histories-solidarity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Short Teaching Module: Race, Gender, and Transnational Histories of Solidarity<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistorycommons.org\/short-teaching-module-modern-racism-us-and-south-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Short Teaching Module: Modern Racism in the U.S. and South Africa<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find open books and other zero-cost resources on Africana and Black Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oer-by-subject","8":"category-social-sciences","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}