Overview

The World Wide Web is the greatest source of information used by students and teachers, media and library professionals, as well as the general public. There is so great a flow of information that it is necessary to have a tool for guiding one to the best and most reliable sources. This important new guide to the African American experience in cyberspace fills this need for people in all areas of Black Studies and Multiculturalism. There is no search engine list that can match the quality of sites to be found in this book. / Alkalimat provides an easy to use directory to the very best websites that deal with the African American Experience. The first section covers every aspect of African American history, while a second section deals with a diverse set of topics covering society and culture. Each chapter has a brief essay, extensively annotation on the five best sites for each topic, and then a group of good sites and a short bibliography. This book is designed for a course at the high school or college level. This book should be kept near every home computer that people use to surf the web for Black content./ Most people have found out that the major corporations and governments

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...accessible and straightforward...invaluable. -- Bacchra Online Highly recommended -- CHOICE This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library whose users want to use cyber-rources to better understand Africa and the Diaspora. -- Dorothy Washington, Librarian for the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University it provides an extensive annotation and an interpretation framework for black studies...no college or community library should be without it. -- Barnes and Noble [Alkalimat's book] is not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet. -- Mark Kornbluh, Director, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences On-Line, Michigan State University

'Highly recommended' -- CHOICE 'This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library whose users want to use cyber-rources to better understand Africa and the Diaspora' -- Dorothy Washington, Librarian for the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University 'Provides an extensive annotation and an interpretation framework for black studies ... no college or community library should be without it' -- Barnes and Noble 'Not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet' -- Mark Kornbluh, Director, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences On-Line, Michigan State University

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Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-activist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught and directed academic programs across the US, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and China. His activism extends from having been chair of the Chicago chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, to a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress in 1998.

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