Children dancing with their instructors, Leon Llewellyn, [1970s]. Leon Llewellyn fonds, F032-02-016, Concordia University Library, Special Collections. Reproduced with permission.
Black Studies Subject Guide
This guide is being developed and updated by Concordia librarians, faculty members, and students to support research in Black Studies at Concordia. It showcases Concordia's archival collections, and brings together relevant resources for academic work in this field including database and journal recommendations, tips for designing search strategies, and links to online collections and tools.

Article databases and journals
Looking for articles from academic journals, newspapers, and magazines? Here is a list of databases where you can search, with a list of specific journals with Black Studies content.

Terminology and Search Strategies
Tips on vocabulary, subject headings, search strategies, and call numbers to focus on while doing research in Black Studies.

Online tools & resources
Black Studies guides and reading lists, university programs, community projects, authors and artists, organizations and associations. Resources from across Canada but with a focus on the local.

Black Studies at Concordia
Looking for information on Black Studies at Concordia?
Find out more about this newly launched program and how to apply! Black and African Diaspora Studies in the Canadian Context (Minor)
Selections from the Concordia Library collection


Yume
A fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan

Beauty in a box: Detangling the roots of Canada's Black beauty culture

Abolitionist intimacies
A poetry collection examining the prison abolitionmovement throough Black feminist principles of care and collectivity

Rehearsals for Living
A revolutionary collaboration and letter exchange

Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History

Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal
