Ethnic Studies Databases

An online listening service containing 50,000 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African-American music, documenting the history of black American music from the earliest recordings made in the late 19th century to performances of today. At least 5,000 of the tracks are rare or have never before been published. Updated continuously.

A streaming music database containing over 12,000 tracks of songs reflecting American history, from the Revolutionary War to pre-1960 popular music. Updated continuously.

Contains the full text of 1,200 English-language plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by black playwrights from North America, Africa, and elsewhere in the world.

An online listening service containing contemporary music from every continent. Included are such genres as reggae, calypso, neo-traditional, world fusion, Bollywood, as well as traditional music such as Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, and more. Updated continuously.

Information on diversity at SCU and in Santa Clara Valley. Links to electronic resources in diversity.

Multimedia encyclopedia on the history, geography, and culture of Africans and people of African descent.

A comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, with archival material back to 1985.

A database of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers published between 1808-1980 from 22 states, many of which are from California, Texas, New Mexico, and New York. Many newspapers are bilingual.

Provides access to more than 7,500 articles focusing on African American history and culture. The articles come from major reference sources and are written by leading scholars in the field. Also includes primary sources, images, and maps.

This resource brings together several encyclopedias, dictionaries, concordances and other reference sources along with over 3,000 scholarly articles and book chapters, hundreds of source documents and maps and links to other authoritative Web sites to provide thorough coverage of current and historical Islam.

A streaming music service containing more than 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Containing the complete recordings released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other ethnomusicological collections, it contains a wide array of American ethnic and folk music, as well as traditional music from around the world. Also included are music from American history (from the Revolution through the Civil Rights era), an extensive collection of children's songs, and many speeches, readings of poetry and drama, and sounds from the natural world. Updated continuously.