African American Studies: Books and Films

Books covering subjects within the humanities, including world history, philosophy, musicology, and film and media studies.

Primary and secondary non-fiction writings, speeches, interviews, trials and other materials by black Americans.

Books related to the Caribbean region.

Access to journals and select ebooks published by Cambridge University Press, covering sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Academic, peer-reviewed, open access books covering a wide variety of subjects.

Books from Duke University Press covering areas across the arts, humanities, social sciences, area studies, media studies, politics, and more.

Academic books published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Limited titles available.

Full-text archive of scholarly publications, including ebooks, in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

A collection of scholarly e-books from MIT Press covering a broad range of topics, including open access titles.

Full-text journals and books published by Oxford University Press. Includes Oxford Handbooks, Oxford Scholarship, and Oxford Journals.

Annotated bibliographies browseable by subject and searchable. Links to full text may need to supplemented by searching SU Libraries collections.

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Books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Books, reference works, handbooks, in the social sciences, from Sage and CQ Press.

Full-text ebooks published by Springer from across the sciences, mathematics, engineering, business, social sciences, and humanities. Includes titles from Springer, Palgrave McMillan, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, as well as Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science.

Access to select academic books published by Taylor & Francis, includes titles published by CRC Press, Routledge, and Apple Academic Press.

Ebooks in the humanities and social sciences with particular focus in performing arts, classical studies, political science, American studies (especially disability and class studies), Asian and African studies. These books are made available to libraries through the press’s own publishing platform, Fulcrum.

Streaming videos, including documentaries, newsreels and programs, interviews, and performances, on a wide range of subjects from providers such as CBS, Universal, and The Open University.
Note: To search all films provided by this and other Alexander Street streaming video databases, change the search-bar settings from the "Current Channel" default to "All Videos".

Selected films from the Criterion Pictures USA collection.

Selected titles from the Films on Demand collection.

Academic streaming video collection containing educational titles as well as U.S. and international feature films. Some titles include transcripts and closed captioning. The platform video player is WCAG-compliant.
To access titles, click on LOG IN TO SYR or WATCH THIS buttons at bottom of screen, and not LOG IN at upper right of screen. If you cannot find a title on Kanopy, please use the SU Libraries’ Request a title form

Streaming video titles, including feature films, on a variety of subjects, historic and current, from a number of production companies.