HIST 3788: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in African History

In this guide, you'll find resources to help you with your research for Gender, Sexuality, and Power in African History:

• Resources to research background and contextual information on your topic and the approaches you might be bringing to your research 
• Places to find books in print and online
• Databases for locating articles, including scholarly and peer-reviewed articles
• Approaches to finding primary sources
• Resources for citing your sources and writing in Africana Studies
• Guidelines for getting required course texts for free via the Library

Please feel free to book an appointment with me on my calendar page, for further support with your research.

Image: Haroun, Lana (photographer). 4/8/2019. Photograph of Alaa Salah, a Sudanese student, speaking from atop a car in Khartoum, Sudan, at a protest. Image via Wikipedia. Fair use.

Here are some elements to keep in mind as you generate a question that is researchable:

• Does your question have a temporal, spatial, and/or conceptual definition? (In other words: are you defining what you are researching in terms of a scope of time, a spatial location or set of locations, and/or a concept or problem)?
• Does your question connect to a record that you can follow through time? 

KEYWORD GENERATING ACTIVITY