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Ethnic Narratives and the Rhetoric of American Identity

PWR 2AH - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Heredia, A.
Last Updated: 25-Mar-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 2AH: Ethnic Narratives and the Rhetoric of American Identity. Course topics include: how race and ethnicity in America have become subjects of personal negotiations and public perception; private and public aspects of ethnic identity.

Subject Librarians

Adan Griego
Curator for Latin American, Iberian & Mexican American Collections
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 723-3150

Around Stanford

Adan Griego's Rhetoric of Ethnic Identity Facebook Page
Martin Luther King Papers Project

Background/Reference sources about Ethnic Identity and Race

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument. Note the Library Location of these materials. Many are in the Information Center collection on the 1st floor of Green East.

Encyclopedia of race and racism (link to Stanford-only online resource in catalog record)
Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (link to Stanford-only online resource in catalog record)
New faces in a changing America : multiracial identity in the 21st century
"Citizenship," in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society.
Encyclopedia of American immigration
American diversity, American identity : the lives and works of 145 writers who define the American experience
Search Blackwell Reference for "American Identity - race & Ethnicity Studies

Ethnicity and American Identity

Dynamic list of books and other items in the Stanford Libraries' collections about the Ethnicity in America. Items will appear in the list as they are added to SearchWorks, with newest items at the top of the list.

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  1. Performing Nordic heritage : everyday practices and institutional culture

    edited by Peter Aronsson, Lizette Gradén.. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » DL30 .P47 2013

  2. Power to the poor : Black-Brown coalition and the fight for economic justice, 1960-1974

    Gordon K. Mantler. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » E185.8 .M19 2013

  3. Puro arte : Filipinos on the stages of empire

    Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » E184 .F4 S29 2013

National characteristics American

The results of this search are limited to books in Green Library, which were published in English in the last 10 years. You can change the limits of the search.

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  1. Time of useful consciousness : Americus, Book II

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » PS3511 .E557 T56 2012

  2. Understanding America : the anatomy of an exceptional nation

    Peter H. Schuck and James Q. Wilson, editors. 2008

    Green Library » Stacks » E169.12 .U479 2008

  3. Americus : book I

    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 2004

    Green Library » Stacks » PS3511 .E557 A83 2004

  4. Who are we? : the challenges to America's identity

    Samuel P. Huntington. 2004

    Green Library » Stacks » E169.12 .H78 2004

Suggested Databases for Race and Ethnicity topics

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles about Ethnicity and American Identity

Ethnic newsWatch [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning
Bibliography of native North Americans [electronic resource].
[Norwood, Mass.] : SilverPlatter Information,
Black thought and culture [electronic resource]
[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, 2003-
Chicano database [electronic resource].
Berkeley, Calif. : Chicano Studies Library Publications, University of California, c1990-
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » E184 .M5 C43
Oxford African American studies center [electronic resource] : the online authority on the African American experience.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006-

Additional Race and Ethnicity Databases

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  1. African American newspapers [electronic resource] : the 19th century

    This enormous collection of African-American newspaper contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 18...

  2. African-American newspapers , 1827-1998 [electronic resource].

    A compilation of African American newspapers taken from the America's historical newspapers collection

  3. African-American poetry [electronic resource].

    "The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1...

  4. Afro-Americana imprints, 1535-1922, from the Library Company of Philadelphia [electronic resource].

    "Created from the Library Company of Philadelphia's acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection - an accumulation that begain with Benjamin Frank...

  5. Alternative press index [electronic resource].

    Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » Z7164 .S66 A52

  6. Alt-PressWatch [electronic resource].

    Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.

  7. Asian American drama [electronic resource].

    "When complete, the collection will include more than 250 plays, of which some 50% have never been published before. The database also in...

  8. Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) [electronic resource].

    "Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy Sr. when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the mo...

  9. Bibliography of native North Americans [electronic resource].

    Indexes works from the sixteenth century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, dissertations and U.S. and Canad...

  10. Black abolitionist papers [electronic resource].

    This primary source collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and public...

  11. Black drama, second edition [electronic resource].

    "Black Drama, Second Edition contains the full text of 1,310 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights...

  12. Black studies on disc [electronic resource].

    Information on materials by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry. Includes catalog of the Schomberg Center...

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