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Caribbean Studies: electronic resources

  • Contact the Subject Librarian for Caribbean Studies: Mark Preston

The library collection relating to the Black presence in Britain and the wider world is incorporated in the main sequence of books. The classification scheme used is the Dewey Decimal Scheme. Books of relevance to Caribbean studies are distributed throughout the Library, according to the subjects they cover. Therefore Caribbean history is in the history section, Caribbean music in the music section, and so on. Many subjects are subdivided geographically. The classification numbers include material relevant to Caribbean Studies. Other numbers are exclusively Caribbean related materials.

Reference material, periodicals (also called journals), School Practice items and Audio-Visual material include information students and researchers may find useful. Undergraduate and post-graduate dissertations examining the Black community's historical, sociological, educational and cultural impact in Britain are also available for consultation. The Lloyd and MacColl special collections contain an eclectic mix of items for those interested in the music and folk traditions of the Black Diaspora.

Please ask at the enquiry desks, if you have any further enquiries.

Internet resources

Reference material

For statistical research into the Black population in Britain see:

  • National Census
  • Population Census and Survey
  • Population Trends
  • Ethnicity in the Census
  • Office of National Statistics publications

For publications in the Library produced by the CRE and IRR see:

  • Commission of Racial Equality: 44 titles listed
  • Institute of Race Relations: 68 titles listed

To access relevant titles in the Library catalogue (ALEPH) search by typing the full title: "Commission of Racial Equality" or the "Institute of Race Relations". The catalogue will display the relevant publications by these organisations held in the library.

CD-ROM

  • The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database contains the records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. These records are the most complete at this time, and account for 70% of the Atlantic slave trade. This database was compiled at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University by experts in the field of history and economics of the slave trade and draws on archival work of scholars working in Portuguese, Danish, French, Spanish, Dutch and English.

Microfilm

  • Correspondence of the military intelligence division relating to "Negro subversion" 1917-1941. On the six rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced record cards and correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division (MID) that relate to activities of blacks in both civilian and military life, 1917-41. The documents reproduced are primarily from World War I and the immediate postwar years and consist of War Department memorandums, investigative reports, and correspondence with other agencies, particularly the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Investigation, predecessor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The MID file label for these records was, "Negro Subversion", although most of the records are considerably broader in coverage than that title would suggest. This file is part of Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, Record Group. Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association is one subject covered.

  • The library holds on microfilm Slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves with narratives from throughout the south; Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma etc(13 reels)