Race and Ethnic Studies Subject Guide

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Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1988 - current
Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.
JSTOR
Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Complete list of databases for Race and Ethnic Studies

Accessible Archives
Coverage: 1728 - 1900
Access to archival fulltext newspapers including the Pennsylvania Gazette, African American and Civil War Newspapers, and Godey's Lady's Book.
Alternative Press Index
Coverage: 1991 - current
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Subjects covered include anarchism, labor, socialism, feminism, ecology, gay and lesbian issues, political and social change.*Password required for full text. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
America, History & Life
Coverage: 1967 - current
Covers American history.
American Memory
Coverage: historical
Digitized collections from the Library of Congress. Oral histories, letters, photographs, documents. Search by keyword.
Asian American Drama
Coverage: 1891 - current
70 full text plays by 17 Asian American playwrights, searchable by title, author, character, scene, subject, theater, production company, and more. Includes biographies, photos, playbills, and other images.
Black Drama
Coverage: 1850 - current
Contains the full text of approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850's to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. Search by author, title, subject, date, full-text, etc.
Black Thought And Culture
Coverage: 1700 - 1975
438 sources by 192 leading African Americans include monographs, essays, articles, speeches, interviews, letters and correspondence, and other fugitive material. Materials are searchable by author, source, year, historical event, subject, influences, geographic location and more.
Chicano Database
Coverage: 1960s - current
Interdisciplinary database, indexing all types of materials for Chicano studies (journal articles, books, chapters, and newspaper articles).
Early American Imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Coverage: 1639 - 1800
Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1639 to 1800. Not yet complete.
Early American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Coverage: 1801 - 1819
Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1801 to 1819. Not yet complete.
Early Encounters In North America
Coverage: 1474 - 1600
Full text works by 1,076 authors in the form of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between American Indians, Europeans, Americans, and Africans in the area of present-day Canada and the United States, with limited coverage of Mexico. Searchable by author, source, year, encounter, people, image, place, fauna, flora, environment, cultural event, personal event, and more.
HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Coverage: 1970 - current
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key journals published throughout the world.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, And Oral Histories
Coverage: 1804 - current
The full text letters, diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of 342 men and women are searchable by author, source, year, place, nationality, personal event, subject, and more. Includes some audio recordings and scrapbook images.

Online journal archives

Unlike the subject-specific article databases, these online journal archives don’t concentrate on any one academic subject. Instead, they take leading journals from many fields, or all the journals from one publisher, and provide extensive archives of the full text of those journals online, usually in the form of PDF files.

Blackwell Journals
Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's to current
Searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
JSTOR
Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Oxford University Press Journals
Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's - current
A searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
Periodicals Archive Online
Coverage: 1770-1995
Fulltext journal collection covering the humanities and social sciences. Includes 500 journal titles covering the first issue of the journal until 1995.
Project Muse
Coverage: 1993 - current
Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.

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