African American Studies Center This link opens in a new windowOxford reference collection that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The core content includes: African American National Biography, Dictionary of African Biography, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America (2nd ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, and The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.