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Ethnic Studies

Learn more about the study of cultural understanding of how different groups have struggled and worked together.

Books and eBooks - Ethnic Studies (General)

Books and eBooks - Black Studies

Books and eBooks - Indigenous & Pacific Island Studies

Books and eBooks - Latine/Latinx Studies

Books and eBooks - Asian and Asian-American Studies

Articles - Ethnic Studies

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

This database has full-text academic articles in almost every subject, including quite a few peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. A good choice for almost any topic.

Gale eBooks (GVRL)

Gale eBooks has reference encyclopedias that you can view online, which are useful for giving you a brief overview and important aspects of your topic.

Ebook Central (ProQuest)

Search and read over 100,000 books---all in digital format. Books cover a wide array of subjects.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)

Database featuring current events and social issue articles, facts, and pro/con viewpoints.

Films - Ethnic Studies

Sociology - Films on Demand

Watch award-winning documentaries and educational programs about topics of race and ethnicity as they intersect with gender, sexuality, disability, and other identities.

American Studies - Academic Video Online (AVON)

Educational programs from well-known producers like A&E, BBC, and PBS.

Web Resources - Ethnic Studies

The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Legacy Exhibits

The Balch Institute, which merged with the Historical Society of Philadelphia in 2002, was a leading repository of information regarding immigrant and cultural material. Some of their exhibits are available online serving and offer rich insight and primary materials.

Migration Policy Institution (North America)

North America, and the United States in particular, is the globe's leading destination for migrants. Research presented "focuses on everything from visa policy and border management to immigrant integration, national identity, the demographics of immigrants in the region and their educational and workforce outcomes, and ways to more effectively use migration policy as a lever for national and regional competitiveness."

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JADA)

Thousands of primary sources materials documenting Japanese American internment--diaries, letters, photographs, drawings, US War Relocation Authority materials and other documents relating to the day-to-day administration of the camps and personal histories of those who lived in the camps and administrators who worked there.

A Different Asian American Timeline

This timeline, created by ChangeLab, covers nearly 600 years of history starting with the early Atlantic slave trade in the 15th Century, tracing the rise of modern nation-states, and covering events that have affected people across racial boundaries.

Digital Collections of the Ibero-American Institute

The Digital Collection contain all the digitalized publications of the Ibero-American Institute.

Berkeley Revolution Digital Archive

A digital archive of Berkeley's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s. The site features projects that document different social movements.

Plateau Peoples' Web Portal

This Portal is a gateway to Plateau peoples' cultural materials held in multiple repositories including WSU's Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, the National Anthropological Archives and the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution.

Freedom Archives

The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings as well as print materials dating primarily from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. These collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice.

Chicana por mi Raza

Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective is a group of historians, educators, researchers, archivists and technologists dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era. The online digital repository currently contains approximately 4900 available digital records and over 439 interview clips taken from interviews with over 52 women.

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