Starting Research in Ethnic Studies

Contact Librarian: Miriam Rigby, rigby@uoregon.edu; 346-7202

Encyclopedias and dictionaries are a useful place to gather background information on your topic.
Ethnic Newswatch Full-text U.S. ethnic and minority community newspapers, back to 1990.

Web of Science is an interdisciplinary index to articles in the sciences and social sciences, making it particularly useful for the multidisciplinary needs of ethnic studies researchers.
Sociological Abstracts Citations are included from 1963 to the present, with abstracts included from 1974 to the present.
America: History & Life The main index in American history; it covers the history of the U.S. & Canada from prehistory to the present. Check out the ClioNotes feature that allows browsing by chronologies and includes brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.

International Index to Black Periodicals Wide coverage of international scholarly and journalistic sources on topics including literature, social justice, history, education and more.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index Indexes journals on/from North & South America, no particular emphasis on the U.S.
PRISMA Full-text of key titles from HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index
Bibliography of Native North Americans

Maintained by: Miriam Rigby, rigby@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 04/18/2011