
	HENRY G. BENNETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY SUBJECT GUIDE: ETHNIC GROUPS

World Wide Web Sources to Try:

Multicultural Education and Ethnic Groups: Selected Internet Sources

http://www.library.csustan.edu/lboyer/multicultural/main.htm

Geneology.com: International, Ethnic, and Religious Organizations

http://www.genealogy.com/00000359.html

National Association for Ethnic Studies

http://www.ethnicstudies.org/

H-Ethnic

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~ethnic/

American Ethnic Geography

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/usa_maps.html

Ethnic Groups by Country

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_eth_gro-people-ethnic-groups

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis

Immigration at the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html

United States Government Publications on Cultures

http://www.se.edu/lib/govdocs/culturalgov.html

United States Government Publications on Native Americans

http://www.se.edu/lib/govdocs/nativegov.html

305.8 AL1e	Ethnic Identity: The Translation of White America	Alba, Richard
909.82 M88p	Pandemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics	Moynihan, Daniel P.
R 973.0468 H62	Hispanic-American Almanac	Kanellos, Nicolas
305.8 M58o	Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism	Michaels, Walter Benn
305.8 B63t	The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America	Bodnar, John E.
R 973.04968 R25b	Reference Library of Hispanic America	Bodnar, John E.
R 973.0496 R25L	Reference Library of Black America	Bodnar, John E.
R 973.0495 R25	Reference Library of Asian America	Bodnar, John E.
R 973.0496 EN1p	Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History	Bodnar, John E.
R 306 G15u2	Understanding Global Cultures	Gannon, Martin J.
R 306.03 C83E	Countries and Their Cultures	Ember, Melvin & Ember, Carol, eds.
R 306 En1	Encyclopedia of World Cultures	Levinson, David. ed.
305.80097303 G13L	Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America	Lehman, Jeffrey, ed.
R 297 W97n	The Muslim Almanac	Nanji, Azim A., ed.
R 304.873 TM4B	Immigration in U.S. History	Bankston, Carl L.
R 973.91 R24B	Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000	Blank, Carla.
R 704.0396073 L58a	African American Art and Artists	Lewis, Samella.
R 307.76097303 EN1s	The Encyclopedia of Urban America: the Cities and Suburbs	Shumsky, Neil L.
R 394.26 T37h	Holiday Symbols	Thompson, Sue Ellen.
R 305.8 C26D3	Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations	Cashmore, Ernest.

Subject Headings to Try When Using the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog):

Ethnic Groups
Minorities
Multiculturalism
Race

Government Documents Online:

One America

http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/OneAmerica/america.html

Ethnic Groups

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/start/keywords/ethnicgr.html

Where the Databases are:

FirstSearch	Article First This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 16,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present, and is updated daily.
EBSCOHost	Academic Search Premier The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975.
EBSCOhost, and FirstSearch	ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003. It contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides, results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. Many of the ERIC Documents from 1993-to the present are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm
EBSCOhost	Professional Development Collection "Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world."
EBSCOhost	PsychInfo "PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages."
EBSCOhost	PsycARTICLES PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 13 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present."
EBSCOhost	Communication and Mass Media Complete "Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields."
FirstSearch	H.W. Wilson Select Full Text Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: *Readers'* *Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science* *Abstracts, and Business Abstracts* and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text.
EBSCOhost	MasterFILE Premier "Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 85,827 biographies, 105,789 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
EBSCOhost	MAS Ultra School Edition "Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines."
EBSCOhost	Education Research Complete "Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers."
FirstSearch	MLA Bibliography This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association, and is one of the top indexes of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It contains over 1.3 million citations to over 6,500 periodicals and other publications. It covers from 1963 to the present, and is updated 9 times a year.
EBSCOhost	SocINDEX SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 136 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers." There should be many articles in this database dealing with discrimination issues.
ABI-Inform	ABI-Inform This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers. It would also contain many articles on discrimination in the business world.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index	Criminal Justice Periodicals Index This is a database containing journals from criminal justice.

Periodicals:

Multicultural Review

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Ellis Island

Color Adjustment

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Last Updated: June 23, 2008