Selected Library Resources for Ethnic Studies

• Reference Books and Background Sources
  1. General
  2. African Americans
  3. Hispanic Americans
  4. Asian Americans
  5. Native Americans
• Subject Headings in OSCAR
• Bibliographies
• Finding Journal Articles
• World Wide Web Resources

Reference Books and Background Sources

1. General

2. • American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, 2 v., Ref E184.A1 A63448 1997
   • Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, 198), Ref E184.A1 H35
   • Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 3 v, Ref E184.A1 G14 2000
   • Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, 6 v. 1994 (plus 2 v. 1998 supplement), Ref E184.A1 E58
   • Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 3 v., Ref E49 .R33 2000
   • Civil Rights in the United States, 2 v., Ref E184.A1 C47 2000
   • We the People: an atlas of America's ethnic diversity, Ref E184.A1 A479 1988
   • The Official Guide to Racial and Ethnic Diversity, (Statistics), Ref E184.A1 R8 1996

3. African-Americans

4. • The African American Encyclopedia, 10 v., Ref E185 .A253 2000
   • Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 5 v. (plus supplement), Ref E185 .E54 1996
   • The African-American Almanac, 7th ed. 1997, Ref E185 .N385
   • Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia, 2 v. , Ref E185.86 .B542 1993
   • Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights, Ref E185.61 .E54 1992
   • Statistical Record of Black America. 1995, Ref E185.5 .S83
   • Historical Statistics of Black America, 2 v., Ref E185 .H543 1995
   • Contemporary Black Biography, 30 v., Ref E185 .C85
   • Notable Black american Men, Ref E185.86 .N68 1999
   • African American Atlas: Black history and culture, Ref E185 .A79 1998

5. Hispanic Americans

6. • The Latino Encyclopedia, 6 v., Ref E184.S75 L357 1996
   • The Hispanic-American Almanac: a reference work on Hispanics in the United States, Ref E184.S75 H557 1993
   • Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States, 4 v. (Literature and Art; Anthropology; History; Sociology) Folio E184.S75 H365 1993 (main stacks)
   • Statistical Record of Hispanic Americans, Ref E184.S75 S74 1995
   • Notable Hispanic American Women (Biographical Dictionary), 2 v. 1993, 1998, Ref E184.S75 N68
   • Hispanic Firsts: 500 years of extraordinary achievement, Ref E184.S75 K36 1997

7. Asian-Americans

8. • The Asian American Encyclopedia, 6 v., Ref E184.O6 A827 1995
   • Dictionary of Asian American History, Ref E184.O6 D53 1986
   • The Asian American Almanac: a reference work on Asians in the United States, Ref E184.O6 A824 1995
   • Japanese American History: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present, Ref E184.J3 J3355 1993
   • Statistical Record of Asian Americans, Ref E184.O6 S73 1993
   • Notable Asian Americans (Biographical Dictionary), Ref E184.O6 N67 1995
   • Distinguished Asian Americans: a biographical dictionary, Ref E184.O6 D57 1999

9. Native Americans

10. • American Indians, 3 v., Ref E76.2 A45 1995
    • Handbook of North American Indians, 15 v. 1978-, Folio E77 .H25 (Main Stacks)
    • Native North American Almanac: a reference work on native North Americans in the United States and Canada, Ref E77 .N37 1994
    • Native America in the Twentieth Century: an Encyclopedia, Folio Ref E76.2 .N36 1994
    • Native American Almanac: a Portrait of Native America Today, Ref E77 .H59 1993
    • Native Americans: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples, Ref E77 .P89 1998
    • Encyclopedia of North American Indians, 11 v., Ref E76.2 .E53 1997
    • Chronology of Native American History, Ref E77 .C555 1994
    • Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Ref E77 .G15 1998
    • Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships, 5 v., Ref E76.2 .H43 1987
    • Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: an encyclopedia, Ref E77.9 .A72 1998
    • St. James Guide to Native North American Artists, Ref E98.A7 S8 1998
    • Notable Native Americans (Biographical Dictionary), Ref E89 .N67 1995
    • Statistical Record of Native North Americans, Ref E98.P76 S73 1995

Subject Headings in OSCAR

Use OSCAR, the library online catalog, to find books. Here are some examples of subject headings relevant to the broad topic of ethnicity and ethnic identity in the United States:

• Ethnicity
• Ethnic Relations
• Race Relations
• Multiculturalism
• Afro-Americans
• Asian Americans
• Mexican American
• Ethnic Groups
• Minorities
• Assimilation
• Racism
• Indians of North America
• Hispanic Americans
• Racially Mixed People

Remember that all these subject headings can have subdivisions:
Examples:
Hispanic Americans - Ethnic Identity
Asian Americans - Religion

Bibliographies

The library has hundreds of bibliographies on the various ethnic groups in the US. To have an idea of what is available, do a keyword search in OSCAR using the subject heading for a particular ethnic group and the word "bibliography"

Example:
Afro-Americans and bibliography

Finding Journal Articles

The library subscribes to numerous journals related to ethnic studies. Here is a small sample of what we have:

• Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Journal of American Ethnic History
• MELUS
• Race and Class
• The Black Scholar
• Amerasia Journal
• American Indian Quarterly
• Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
• Forkroads: a journal of ethnic American literature
• Multicultural Review
• Research in Race and Ethnic Relations
• The Western Journal of Black Studies
• Americas Review
• News from Native California

To find journal and magazine articles, the best indexes and databases would be the following:

Databases:

Ethnic NewsWatch

This is a wonderful database! It provides the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. It includes more than 300,000 items dating as far back as 1985.

Academic Search Elite / Ebsco Host

another multidisciplinary database, mostly full-text

Sociological Abstracts

 

Social Sciences Index

 

America: History and Life

Printed Indexes (all located in the reference room):

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (index table T)

 

Sage Race Relations Abstracts ( index table E)

 

Index to Black periodicals (index table T)

 

The Chicano Index (index table T)

 

Alternative Press Index (Ref AI3 .A27)

 

Handbook of Latin American Studies (Ref Z1605 .H23)

This last one is a bibliography of books and articles published annually since 1935

World Wide Web Resources

Use the Santa Clara University Diversity Web page to connect to various sites related to the major ethnic groups in the U.S.