About African Diaspora Press
A
new voice on the Africana publishing scene, African Diaspora
Press is a scholarly imprint specializing in bibliographies
about expressive culture of Africa and the African diaspora.
Aimed primarily at the library market its works are meant to
provide the scholarly community—librarians, researchers,
students and others—with state-of-the-art reference tools
that help bridge the print world of the past and the digital
world of the present and future.
In an era in which most
reference publishers have abandoned bibliography as a subject
ADP has made it its core mission to provide comprehensive,
annotated, and up-to-date surveys of the literature—print,
electronic, and audio-visual—for each of the titles it
publishes. We believe passionately that, despite the wealth of
electronic resources currently available to the library user,
there is still a sizable universe of materials, both print and
digital, archival and visual, that is missing from these
sources. In addition, as the number and size of online
databases has grown it has become increasingly difficult to
determine what, if any, of the information they include might
be relevant for a term paper, a thesis or book.
Our
works, based on years of dedicated archival research, help to
open a window into these hidden resources as well as to offer
a guide to relevant materials from online databases, the
Internet and beyond. Forthcoming titles, most to be issued in
series, include volumes on music and dance, theatre, film and
religion of sub-Saharan Africa and its global diaspora. The
defining characteristics of each work will be their clear
organization, exhaustive research, and careful attention to
details of design and production. Amongst their literally
thousands of entries users will find both scholarly and
popular materials, principally from the humanities and social
sciences, in most European languages as well as several from
Africa and the Creole-speaking Americas. In addition, all
titles will be accompanied by scholarly forewords and
introductions, thorough cross-referencing, full, and
frequently annotated, citations, appendices, subject and
author indexes, and more.
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