Library Guides: Gender, Race, and Identity: Ethnic Studies

Find Background Information

Social Science Database
Sponsored by: Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

Ethnic & Racial Studies
Interdisciplinary journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration and forms of ethno-nationalism, drawing particularly on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, international relations, geography, history, social psychology and cultural studies.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Journal exploring the formation and transformation of racial, ethnic, national, transnational and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world.
Journal of Asian American Studies
Journal exploring all aspects of Asian American experiences through original articles detailing new theoretical developments, research results, methodological innovations, public policy concerns, and pedagogical issues.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Articles, editorials, reviews, etc. from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Search in English or Spanish. 1990 - present.
Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The Chicago Defender was one of the most important Black newspapers of the 20th Century, covering Jim Crow through Civil Rights. This database offers full page and article images from the paper, with searchable full text back to the first issue, July 31, 1909, through 1975.
Note: Current news content can be found by searching U.S. Newsstream.

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
ISBN: 9781442220553
Publication Date: 2013
Documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify--racial inequalities.