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eHRAF World Cultures (HRAF)
Updated: annually.
A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is the online portion, covering approximately 150 cultures. Together with the corresponding microfiche set (Murphy Library basement), over 400 cultures are covered. |
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Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (Sage)
Last Updated: 2008.
This e-book includes nearly 600 entries covering intergroup relations in the United States and the comparative examination of race and ethnicity worldwide. Themes include: * Biographies * Community and Urban Issues * Concepts and Theories * Criminal Justice * Economics and Stratification * Education * Gender and Family * Global Perspectives * Health and Social Welfare * Immigration and Citizenship * Legislation, Court Decisions, and Treaties * Media, Sports, and Entertainment * Organizations * Prejudice and Discrimination * Public Policy * Racial, Ethnic, and Nationality Groups * Religion * Sociopolitical Movements and Conflicts. |
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Ethnic News Search - LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
March 2001 to Current
Ethnic News is a database of highly selected articles from the ethnic and minority press in America. Publications from African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Native Americans as well as Asian, and European Americans are represented in Ethnic News. |
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Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1990 to present. Updated: weekly.
Full-text articles from 240 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Subject areas: general reference, history and politics, humanities and social sciences. Access the full text of Spanish-, English-language and bilingual newspapers, magazines, and journals plus other multicultural publications from the ethnic, minority, and native press through Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). Titles include La Opinion, El Nuevo Herald, El Diario/La Prensa, Mundo Hispanico, Hispanic, The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, and many more (none of which overlap PRISMA). |
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African American Music Reference (Alexander Street Press)
Is a new resource that will eventually contain 50,000 pages of coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. The fall 2007 release includes 1304 essays and images from 36 sources, over 13506 pages. Content includes biographies of 185 African American composers and 5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records. |
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ComAbstracts (CIOS)
Coverage: 1980 to present. Updated: monthly.
Citations and abstracts of journal articles published in over 50 primary professional journals in the communications field. |
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Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
Coverage: Early 20th century. Updated: Daily.
This resource includes full text from at least 25 communication studies journals (i.e. full text for the National Communication Association Journal), and citations for over 40,000 articles on mass media. Materials in this database are the result of merging CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index with ongoing enhancements and improvements underway. |
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JSTOR
Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001.
Access to the full text of over 490 scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001. |
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Project Muse
Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated: monthly.
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. |
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
 Resource Guide
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: Daily.
Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600 titles covering subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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JSTOR
Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001.
Access to the full text of over 490 scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001. |
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LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
Over 5,600 full text sources.
News: 350 newspapers, 400 magazines/journals, 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts, campus news, wire services.
Business: news, accounting literature, company information, directories.
Legal Research: secondary literature, case law, codes & regulations, tax law, international legal materials, patent research, career information.
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Periodicals | |
Ethnic and Racial Studies Periodicals
A title list of the library's individual periodical subscriptions in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Many more Ethnic and Racial Studies related periodicals are available through the library's article databases. |
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Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Gale)
Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts. |
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New Encyclopedia of Africa (Gale)
2nd edition, 2009.
Covers the history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent countries, some of them newly emergent in world commerce and others deep in conflict. Includes issues facing the continent such as global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism. |
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African American Biography Database (Chadwyck-Healey)
Access to this database ended July 1, 2009.
Coverage: profiles from 1790 to pre
With content from Black Biographical Dictionaries (1790-1950) and Black Biography (1790-1950): Cumulative Index, this resource includes portraits of well-known and everyday African American such as activists, business people, former slaves, artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, athletes, farmers, and scientists. As the database continues to grown, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added. |
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, & the Environment (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1534 to 1850
Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. |
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1800s to 1950
This database includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information intended to provide a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. It is composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, and some audio voices of the immigrants. |
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1700s to 1950.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. |
Plays | |
Black Drama - 1850 to present: (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: Mid-1800s to the present.
Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. |
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