Black Studies Resources

Looking for Scholarly Journals?

The Mesa Library provides access to thousands of scholarly journals through its online article databases.

  QUICK TIP:  When running a search in an article database, you can limit your retrieval to scholarly journals available in full text by applying the "full text" and "scholarly journal" limits available in the search platform.

Here we highlight selected journal titles relevant to Black Studies research.  But this is just a sampling.  Also, because Black Studies is interdisciplinary, you might find that journals from other disciplines (e.g., art, education, political science, psychology, sociology, etc.) are valuable for your research as well.

Scholarly Journals  

Sample Black Studies journals you can browse online:​

Assorted tutorials for more information about scholarly journals

Video tutorials:

• Anatomy of a scholarly article -- How to Quickly Scan and Evaluate a Scholarly Article (Quinebaug Valley Community College)
• Popular Magazines vs Scholarly Journals (University of Detroit)
• Identify an Academic Journal (University of Cincinnati)
• Parts of a Scholarly Journal Article Bowman Library, Menlo College)
• How to Read an Academic Article (University of Guelph)