LibGuides: Hip Hop and the Poetics of Liberation: Reference

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Oxford Bibliographies Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides searchable full-text e-book versions of many reference works, including multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. in a wide range of subject areas.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field.
Body Politics
Encyclopedia.com provides free access to over 300,000 reference entries. This essay titled, "Body Politics," was written by Professor Emerita Carolyn Martin Shaw from UC Santa Cruz.

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