Ethnic Studies Databases

This database covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to the present, this database also provides full-text coverage of more than 196 journals and more than 92 books.

A streaming music service containing over 50,000 tracks reflecting the music of all American ethnic groups and regions, from the Revolutionary War to the present. Includes all the music formerly available in the African American Song database. Updated continuously.

Contains the full text of 1,200 English-language plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by black playwrights from North America, Africa, and elsewhere in the world.

Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources such as Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender (1910-1975) and the Daily Defender (1956-1975).

Full-text of the Chicago Defender newspaper from 1910 to 1975.

An online listening service containing contemporary music from every continent. Included are such genres as reggae, calypso, neo-traditional, world fusion, Bollywood, as well as traditional music such as Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, and more. Updated continuously.

Information on diversity at SCU and in Santa Clara Valley. Links to electronic resources in diversity.

Multimedia encyclopedia on the history, geography, and culture of Africans and people of African descent.

A comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, with archival material back to 1985.

A database of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers published between 1808-1980 from 22 states, many of which are from California, Texas, New Mexico, and New York. Many newspapers are bilingual.

Includes citations for documents, journal articles, and original literary works on Latin American topics in the social sciences and humanities from 1970 to present. Over 500 journals, published worldwide, are indexed. Includes citations for articles and documents on Mexico, all Central American and South American countries, and the Caribbean. Hispanics/Latinos in the United States are also included.

Provides access to more than 7,500 articles focusing on African American history and culture. The articles come from major reference sources and are written by leading scholars in the field. Also includes primary sources, images, and maps.

This resource brings together several encyclopedias, dictionaries, concordances and other reference sources along with over 3,000 scholarly articles and book chapters, hundreds of source documents and maps and links to other authoritative Web sites to provide thorough coverage of current and historical Islam.

A streaming music service containing more than 41,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Containing the complete recordings released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other ethnomusicological collections, it contains a wide array of American ethnic and folk music, as well as traditional music from around the world. Also included are music from American history (from the Revolution through the Civil Rights era), an extensive collection of children's songs, and many speeches, readings of poetry and drama, and sounds from the natural world. Updated continuously.

Index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully covers over 1,400 journals spanning 50 disciplines. Coverage also includes items relevant to the social sciences selected from 7,000 other journals. 1994-present. Updated weekly.

This database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. 1963-present. Updated monthly.