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American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. (Ref 305.8 L5782c). New York : Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997

The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 

Encyclopedia of American Immigration. (Ref 325.73 C490). Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001

Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies. (Ref 305.8 C268e) New York: Routledge, 2004

Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States (Ref 305.8 M660). Wesport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.

• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
• Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
• Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
• Minorities: Race and Ethnicity In America

• Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity
• Race Relations in the United States, 1900-1920
• Race Relations in the United States, 1920-1940
• Race Relations in the United States, 1940-1960
• Race relations in the United States, 1960-1980
• Race relations in the United States, 1980-2000

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (2nd floor 973.04 T343) Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1980.

The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. (Ref 325.73 W317). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2007

The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. (Ref 303.385 C441) Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.

• Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
• Sage Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995. (Ref 815.08 St82) New York: Gale, 1996.

Ellis Island: The American Familily Immigration History Center - Devoted to the history of immigration in the United States. Search passenger lists or read accounts of immigrants.

Multicultural Pavilion - This site has links for conferences, photos, art, and resources for the Web related to multicultural education

Reference Sources

Asian American Children : a Historical Handbook and Guide. (Ref 305.23 T613) Westport, CT : Greenwood , 2004.

The Asian American Encyclopedia. (Ref 973.0495 N499) New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. (Ref. 973.0495 L646) Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2010.

Asian American Playwrights : A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Ref 812.509 L740) Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2002.

Asian American Short Story Writers: an A-to-Z guide. (Ref 810.9895 H860) Westport, CT : Greenwood , 2003.

The Asian Databook : Detailed Statistics and Rankings on the Asian and Pacific Islander Population, Including 23 Ethnic Backgrounds from Bangladeshi to Vietnamese, for 1,883 U.S. Counties and Cities. (Ref 305.895 G190) Millerton, NY: Grey House, 2005

The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience. (Ref 973.0495 Od5) New York: Columbia University Press, 2002

Distinguished Asian Americans : a Biographical Dictionary. (Ref 920.073 K560) Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.

Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2010.

Web Sites

Asian American Studies - From UCLA, news, publications, and other scholarly information about the Asian community.

California Japantowns - A look at the historical aspect of "Japantowns" which include stories from those who helped to build them.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project - "Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished."  Includes inteviews and histories of people encarcerated during the war.

Korean American Digital Archive - A virtual library for the Korean American community during the period of Japanese rule in Korea, 1903-65. Includes 13,000 pages of documents, plus photographs and oral histories. Searchable.

SAWNET: South Asian Women's NETwork - A forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues. Includes organizations, cinema, legal issues, news, domestic violence...an eclectic collection. Also provides statistical information.

SEEAdoc: Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience - From UC Irvine's Southeast Asian Archives, Focusing on post-1975 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and the communities they have developed in the United States. It contains 1,500 visual images and 4,000 pages of searchable text selected from the Archive

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 - Approximately 600 photographs and slides of the internment of the Japanese during World War II in California, Oregon and Washington from the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. This site can take a long time to load!

Reference Sources

American Indian Biographies. (Ref 970.1 M342c) Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005

American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia. (Ref 299.7 C859) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996-2000

Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004.

Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume. (Ref 970.1 P272) Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 1994

Encyclopedia of Native American Healing. (Ref 299.7 L995) New York : W.W. Norton, 1998

Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. (Ref 970.1 M295) Detroit, MI: Gale, 1998.

- includes:

• American Indian Food
• Encyclopedia of American Indian History
• The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America

Handbook of North American Indians. (Ref 970.1 St97) Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1978-

Native American Education: A Reference Handbook. (Ref 371.97 H133) Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 2002

Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook.  (Ref 970.1 T379a) Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 2005

Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes. (Ref 810.9897 W617) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999

Native Americans. (Ref 970.1 G884) Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002

Native Americans in Sports. (Ref 796.0922 K580) Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2004

Shapers of the Great Debate on Native Americans--Land, Spirit, and Power: A Biographical Dictionary. (Ref 970.1 J599s) Westport, CT: Greenwood , 2000

Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic profiles of American Indian Reservations. (Ref 970.1 T463a) Albuquerque, NM: BowArrow, 2005

Web Sites

Calisphere California Cultures: Native Americans - Focused on Native Californians and their history. Includes images and documents.

History: Native American - From the University of Washington Libraries. Lists primary sources for the study of Native American history.

Indigenous World Yearbooks - Documents the situations of indigenous peoples worldwide.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project - Provides access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents. Compiled by the University of Oklahoma Law Library and the National Indian Law Library of the Native American Rights Fund.

National Museum of the American Indian - From the Smithsonian Institution.

Native American Sites - Lisa Mitten, the Social Sciences Subject Editor for Choice Magazine, has organized some sites on Native Americans and Nations. This includes cultural information on current musicians and artists, business resource links, as well as links to specific tribes and nations. There are also electronic journals and newspapers linked to the page.

NativeWeb - This is a great site to get general information on Native Americans, plus information on what is going on in the American Indian community now. This site includes statistical sites, and is not limited to American Native peoples, but other Aboriginal cultures around the globe.