ETHNIC GROUPS

 

Asian Americans :: African Americans :: Hispanic Americans :: Native Americans

Reference ::Databases :: Periodicals :: Websites

REFERENCE
For facts, statistics, and background reading begin here.

Encyclopedia of North American Immigration
REF JV 6465 .P68

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
REF E 184 .A1 G14 .........also, online

Marriage Customs of the World
REF GT 2690 .M65

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Race and Ethnicity
SPEC E 184 .A1 T338

Worldmark Enyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
REF GN 333 .W67 1998 Vol. 2

ASIAN AMERICANS

Asian Americans : a Statistical Sourcebook.
REF E 184.A75 A842647 2006

Becoming Chinese American
E184.C5 L355 2004

Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience
E 184 .O6 C63 2002

Multiculturalism in the United States
REF E184.A1 M85 2005

Reference Library of Asian America
REF E 184 .O6 R45 1995 3v.

AFRICAN AMERICANS

Black Population in the United States / online

Black Firsts
REF E 185 .B574 2003

Reference Library of Black America
REF E 185 .R455 2003 (5 v.)

State of Black America 2006
REF E 185.86 .S725

Timelines of African American History: 500 Years of Black Achievement
REF E 185 .C86 1994

HISPANIC AMERICANS

Atlas of Hispanic American History
REF E 184 .S75 O287 2001

Hispanic-American Almanac
REF E 184 .S75 H48 1995

Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook
REF E 184 .S75 H56 2006

Reference Library of Hispanic America
REF E 184 .S75 R44 2003 (4 v.)

U X L Hispanic American Biography
REF E184.S75 U943 2003

NATIVE AMERICANS
Books on this topic that you can check out are in the General Collection E 76-99.

Atlas of the North American Indian
REF E 77 .W195 2000

Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900
REF E 89 .W35 2001

British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America
REF E 76.2 .G74 1999

Encyclopedia of the American Indian Contributions to the World
REF E 54.5 .K46 2002

Encyclopedia of Native American Healing
REF E 98 .M4 L96 1998

Encyclopedia of Native American Religions
REF E 98 .R3 .H73 2000

Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
REF E 76.2 .W35 1999

Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
REF E 77 .G15 1998 2 vol.

Handbook of North American Indians
REF E 76.2 .H36 17 vol.

Historical Atlas of Ancient America
REF G 1101.E6 B3 2001

Indian Tribal Series
REF E 99 .A6 D6

Native American Education: A Reference Handbook
REF E 97. H138 2002

Native American Ethnobotany
REF E 98 .B7 M66 1998

 

NAVAJOS

Dine : a history of the Navajos
E99.N3 I88 2002

Healing ways : Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century
E99.N3 D32 2001

DATABASES
Use databases to find journal, magazine and newspaper articles:

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Premier

Databases>Categories>Culture

Databases>Categories>General Databases(Any Topic)

Databases>Categories>Newspapers

Ethnic NewsWatch

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

 

PERIODICALS
This is a current list of our ethnic journal subscriptions located at the Library. You can access other journal titles through our databases.

Black Collegian Black Enterprise Black Issues in Higher Education Hispanic Business

Hispanic Journal of Behavior Studies Native Peoples National Museum of the American Indian

 

WEBSITES
For additional websites, see Internet Links selected by librarians at:
http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/internetlinks/social.htm#EthnicGroups

African American Culture
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues1999/january1/africanamerican.htm

American Community Survey - U. S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

American Factfinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Asian-Nation
http://www.asian-nation.org/index.html

Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/articles/index.html#

MedlinePlus Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics_a.html

Office of Minority Health - Racial and Ethnic Minorities Populations
http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Populations/populations.htm

Navajo Central
http://www.navajocentral.org/

Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/search/index.cfm?CFID=9419389&CFTOKEN=74111749

U.S. Census Bureau-Subject Index
http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html