Ethnic Studies: Home

Peer-reviewed journals in African-American/Black/Africana Studies, American Indian/Native American Studies, Asian-American Studies, and Hispanic-American Studies.

Collection housing resources that examine the histories, cultures, struggles, and contributions to American society by historically marginalized groups in the United States. These works may also explore race and ethnicity in various social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Current struggles to make colleges welcoming and relevant for students of color continue movements which swept across campuses fifty years ago. Agents of Change tells the timely and inspiring story of how successful protests for equity and inclusion led to establishing the first Black and Ethnic Studies departments at two very different universities: San Francisco State (1968) and Cornell (1969).

Through interviews with past and recent student leaders and faculty juxtaposed with footage of campus demonstrations over the course of a generation, On Strike offers a historical and political overview of what it took to establish and sustain ethnic studies at one of the nation's leading universities.