Subject and Course Guides: Race, Gender, Disabilities Studies Libguide: Race, culture, and ethnicity resources

Race, culture, and ethnicity resources

The United States is a multiracial, multicultural, and multiethnic nation. The majority of Americans have their origin in other parts of the world, whether their families immigrated here centuries ago or more recently, whether they came here of their own volition or were forced due to slavery. It is important to work towards equity and inclusion for everyone, recognizing and celebrating our differences, while being aware of past discrimination towards different groups and working toward a more equitable future. The resources on this page will help you start your research into the vast diversity of the United States and beyond.

Library databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Articles from a wide range of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and trade publications. (Full-Text and Abstracts)
African American Communities This link opens in a new window
Primary sources documenting the history of the African American community. Includes pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports, and oral histories. Focuses predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and North Carolina. (Full-Text and Images)
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
Periodicals by and about African Americans, from pre-Civil War through the modern era. Includes journals, magazines, newsletters, organizational bulletins, annual reports, and other publications. Titles include African Repository, El Mulato, The Black Warrior, Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Bulletin, and more. (Full-Text)
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new window
Documentation of Native American history in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, from the 16th century through late 20th century. Includes manuscripts, artwork, photographs, treaties, speeches, diaries, historic maps, travel journals, and rare books. (Full-Text and Images)
Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
Digitized Native American newspapers covering the years 1828-2016. (Full-Text)
Bibliography of Asian Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles and books from publications concerning East, Southeast and South Asia, with a special focus on the humanities and social sciences. (Index)
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles, books, and government documents on the culture, history and daily life of indigenous peoples in North America. (Full-Text and Index)
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Modern and historical essays, journals, newspapers, fiction, literature, and poetry on the African diaspora experience. Includes the historical Chicago Defender newspaper. Material comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Full-Text)
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
Scholarly books, journal articles, dissertations, and conference papers on cultures from all regions of the world. (Full-Text)
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic and minority presses, including LGBT presses, providing access to essential and often overlooked perspectives not found in other mainstream resources. (Full-Text)
Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
Journal articles on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US. (Index)
HLAS Online This link opens in a new window
A bibliography of works regarding the social sciences and humanities in Latin America. Includes books, journal articles, conference papers, and electronic resources. (Index)
Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of Alternative Press This link opens in a new window
Alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals, produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and more during the latter half of the 20th century. (Full-Text)

Full list of UNL Libraries Ethnic Studies databases

Racial Healing Work at UNL Libraries

Here is a small sampling of projects from UNL Libraries. This includes work from UNL Students, Faculty, and Archivists and Librarians. These works are meant to promote healing and foster engagement around the issues of racism, bias, inequity, and injustice in our society. Please follow the links at the end to find even more projects.

Japanese American Nisei Students. “The Japanese-American/Asian Collections are housed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. The collection documents the experiences of Japanese-Americans in the United States, particularly during World War II. Second generation Japanese-Americans, or Nisei, were interned in concentration camps during the war.”
Unkissed Kisses “In 1970, the University of Nebraska became the first state University to offer a fully approved course in LGBTQ studies, a project initiated by gay scholar and activist Louis Crompton, a professor of English. This exhibit reaches even further back in the university’s history, and further forward, to feature over a century of queer expression by poets, novelists, memoirists, and scholars.”
Women’s Resource Center “Since opening in the Union in 1971, the Women’s Resource Center has been a staple of campus life at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the WRC continues to help students find information and receive counseling for a variety of situations regardless of their race, gender, or sexual orientation.”

Link to more exhibits.

Link to more student projects.

Link to Archives and Special Collections Site.