African American Studies

Sources on African American Studies

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S.

There are over 13,500 sub-headings for the subject heading African Americans

Such as: (Only a few of the 13,000)
African Americans --
African Americans -- Biography
African American leadership
African American athletes
African Americans -- Europe
African Americans -- Africa
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Encyclopedias
African Americans -- Dictionaries

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans accessed June 25,2025

Subject Headings for African American Materials by Lorene Byron Brown
Call Number: Z 695.1 .B57 B761 1995

ISBN: 1563082527

Publication Date: 1995-09-15

Brown's work offers subject access to materials on all aspects of African American life and culture-from the A.M.E. Church to zoning. Using the same format as the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the book lists approximately 3,000 subject headings that are interfaced with and interlinked to the LCSH and provide a logical continuum for the subject access of materials on the African American experience in the United States. As a supplement to LCSH, this list will be invaluable to catalogers. Useful as a search tool for patrons of academic, public, special, and school library/information centers, the book will also serve library professionals in collection development and benefit students and faculty involved with African American studies.