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Asian-American
Studies
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to Subject Pathfinders
Books
You can search the
library
catalog by author, title, subject
or keyword (multiple fields at once). Some of the specific subject headings
for Asian-American studies are:
ASIAN
AMERICAN ARTS
ASIAN AMERICANS – BIOGRAPHY
ASIAN AMERICANS – CULTURAL ASSIMILATION
ASIAN AMERICANS – HISTORY
ASIAN AMERICANS IN LITERATURE
ASIAN AMERICANS – RACE IDENTITY
ASIAN AMERICANS – SOCIAL CONDITIONS
CHINESE AMERICANS
JAPANESE AMERICANS
KOREAN AMERICANS
Online
Databases
Ethnic
NewsWatch
[on-campus
login] [off-campus
login]
A bilingual (English/Spanish) database with articles dating back to 1990.
Includes full-text articles on culture, history, and news from over 250
ethnic, minority, and native publications. Indexed
Asian-American publications include:
Magazines
and Journals
AsianWeek
[also in print]
Filipino Reporter
The Asian Reporter
Asian Pages
Filipinas Magazine
The Filipino Express
Hinduism Today
India Abroad
India in New York
India Currents
Reference Books
Internet Resources
Society, Culture and History
AskAsia
http://www.askasia.org
A resource site for K-12 Asian and Asian-American studies programs. Collection
of country and regional maps and timelines, full-text articles on a broad
range of Asia-related themes.
'Chinatown'
PBS Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/index.html
Site includes resource guide, photographs, links and video clips.
Chinese-American
History Timeline
http://online.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/catimeline.html
Describes events from 1848 to 1995.
Documenting
the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/seaexhibit/index.html
Online exhibit from UC-Irvine Library.
Echoes
of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes.html
An illustrated history of early Indian immigrants to California, featuring
photographs, documents, and publications.
Hmong
Homepage
http://www.hmongnet.org
Collection
of resources relating to Hmong history, culture, language, and current
events.
Japanese
American Exhibit and Access Project
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/default.htm
Online
supplement to holdings at U. of Washington Library.
Statistics
Minority
Links
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html
Quick and easy links to the latest data on racial and ethnic populations
in the United States.
Health
Asian-American
Health
http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov
An information portal to issues affecting to the health of Asian Americans.
Legal
Asian
Law Caucus
http://www.asianlawcaucus.org
A SF Bay Area organization working in areas such as affirmative action,
anti-Asian violence, government benefits, housing, immigration, language
rights, youth, etc.
Other
Asian-American Sites
Asia Society
http://www.asiasociety.org
Includes text of speeches on current Asian events and issues and interviews
with scholars, politicians, artists, intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers,
and novelists.
Asian
American Village @ IM Diversity.com
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/village_asian_american.asp
Contains news, jobs, opinion, and features in history, culture, education,
careers, media, families, art, etc.
Asian
Americans
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/asianam.html
An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources.
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