Research Guides: *American Studies: Getting Started with American Studies

Getting Started with American Studies

Oxford Bibliographies
Authoritative essays recommending the best books, articles, and other sources by topic. Even though there is no module on American Studies, yet, they do have Latino Studies and relevant essays in Sociology, Anthropology among others, such as Identity Politics.
Keywords for American Cultural Studies by Bruce Burgett; Glenn Hendler
"revised and expanded second edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond"

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era
Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
Authoritative essays
Somalis in Maine - A Bibliography
Citations to news articles and other sources.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text journals and magazines across disciplines. ebsco scholarly articles asc
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Humanities, social sciences, and science full text journals. Recent years not included.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history journal articles. Citations with links to full text. Publication dates: 1964 to present america history and life ahl
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Sociology journal articles. Publication dates: 1895-present soc index
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Gender studies journal articles.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new window
U.S.-Hispanic, Latin American and Caribbean topics. Publication dates: 1970 to present

Latino Cultures in the US
A project of Google Arts & Culture
Discrimination in America
The 2017 series is based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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