Subject librarians
Benjamin Stone
About the African American Studies collection
Our collection supports interdisciplinary research focused on Black life including social movements, politics, racial ideologies and the distinctive artistic, literary, and cultural experiences of people of African descent in the United States as well as on Stanford's campus. Our material supports scholars in departments and centers across campus including our African and African American Studies (AAAS) faculty and students.
Featured collections
Black @ Stanford
View collectionThe Black @ Stanford Anthology, a collaboration of Stanford's Black Community Services Center and the Stanford Archives, gathers archival documentation and information on the history of Black activism and community at Stanford, from Ernest Houston Johnson, the first Black student to graduate Stanford in 1895, to the present day.
Further resources
Guides
- African American studies resources in Special Collections
- Ernest Houston Johnson scholars program course guide
- Still waters run deep: troubling the archive with filmmaking and photography
- Black August honors Black political prisoners and freedom fighters
- Juneteenth African American Independence Day
- KNOW Systemic Racism (KSR) resources