ETHNIC AND AREA STUDIES

• Bibliography of Asian Studies. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1956–. An index to European-language scholarly publications in Asian studies. Organized by country, with subdivisions by topic, the index provides more than 410,000 bibliographic citations. Available in print and electronic formats.
• Ethnic NewsWatch. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 1985–. An electronic full-text database specializing in publications published by ethnic communities in the United States, which are often left out of general news and magazine databases. Providing valuable alternative insights, this work includes many publications in Spanish and can be searched in a Spanish-language interface.
• Handbook of Latin American Studies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1935–. A selective, annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. This is an excellent source of citations for any topic in Latin American studies, including Hispanic populations in the United States. Now prepared by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, an electronic version of this work, HLAS Online, is available at <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas>. The site can be searched by keyword or subject heading in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
• HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1970–. An index to articles in over 400 scholarly journals published in Latin America or covering topics relevant to Latin America and Latin Americans living in North America. Available in print and electronic formats.

• African American Digital Initiativeshttp://www.howard.edu/library/Assist/Guides/Afro-Am_Digital.htm A directory of links to high-quality archival material online from libraries and museums around the country. The list is maintained by the Howard University Libraries.
• Africa South of the Saharahttp://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html Selected, annotated sites arranged by country and topic, with sources for current news from Africa. The site is maintained by Karen Fung for the African Studies Association.
• Asian American Studies Resourceshttp://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/aas2.htm A no-frills list of links to bibliographies, publications, research institutes, movements, gay Asian resources, and more. The list was compiled by Daniel C. Tsang at the University of California, Irvine.
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Libraryhttp://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html Covers information on all regions of Asia and the Middle East. The site is comprehensive, frequently updated, and organized by both an alphabetical index and a hierarchical topical index. It is edited by T. Matthew Ciolek of the Australian National University.
• Center for World Indigenous Studieshttp://www.cwis.org Offers information on various indigenous peoples and issues of political and cultural identity and nationhood. Of particular note is the Fourth World Docu-Program, which provides full-text documents related to communities around the world as well as relevant international and multilateral documents.
• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Centerhttp://lanic.utexas.edu Provides over 12,000 links to Web resources for Latin America, arranged by country or by topic, such as economy, education, and government. The site is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, one of the premier Latin American Studies programs in the world.
• NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the Worldhttp://www.nativeweb.org A rich site for information on native peoples, particularly on Native North Americans, but global in scope. The site includes cultural, historical, educational, and current affairs information.
• PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resourceshttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/index.html A joint project undertaken by the libraries of the universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin–Madison, and Ohio State, this searchable database catalogs reputable Web resources originating in Asia, including Central, South, Southeast, and East Asia. Resources are also browsable by country.
• Pew Hispanic Center. http://www.pewhispanic.org/index.jsp Includes the text of several reports as well as information on demographics, economics, labor, immigration, education, health, and Latinos in the military. The Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization, is a project of the Pew Research Center.

• Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: Basic Civitas, 1999. A one-volume trove of information, lavishly illustrated and with scholarly essays.
• American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. Ed. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1997. Offers in-depth profiles of immigrant communities in the United States, including their defining features, patterns of cultural variation, immigration history, demographics, and cultural characteristics.
• Atlas of the North American Indian. By Carl Waldman. Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, 2000. Offers maps on tribal locations, reservations, sites of cultural and archaeological importance, and other significant places. Includes related text and bibliographies.
• Dictionary of Native American Mythology. By Sam D. Gill and Irene F. Sullivan. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1992. Provides quick access to information about individuals, events, and topics in Native American mythology, from all tribes and periods. Includes a bibliography.
• Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. Rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood, 2003. A dictionary of terms, events, and prominent people related to the civil rights movement. The work includes selected primary sources.
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Jack Salzman, Cornel West, and David L. Smith. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. With supplement. Offers extensive articles on people, institutions, events, issues, and themes related to African Americans. Includes many illustrations and bibliographies.
• Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. Ed. John Izard Middleton. 4 vols. New York: Scribner, 1997. Covers countries, ethnic groups, and topics in nearly 900 substantial articles.
• Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Ed. James Climent. 4 vols. Armonk: Sharpe, 2001. Covers immigration history, demographics, and political, economic, and cultural issues as well as background on specific immigrant groups. Includes the text of several important primary documents.
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader. London: Routledge, 1998. Short articles on a wealth of topics related to French and Francophone culture from 1945 to the present. Other volumes cover contemporary German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and other cultures.
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Ed. Barbara A. Tenenbaum and Georgette M. Dorn. 5 vols. New York: Scribner, 1996. Covers a wide variety of topics in over 5,000 articles that together constitute an overview of current knowledge about Latin America. Entries are organized by country and by topic (such as slavery, art, Asians in Latin America); biographical entries are included.
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. Ed. Reeva S. Simon et al. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. Covers political, historical, social, economic, and cultural topics in substantial, well-documented articles.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Julie Galens et al. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Offers more than 100 substantial essays on ethnic groups in the United States, covering origins, circumstances of arrival, family, community, culture, economy, politics, and significant contributions. Each essay ends with a bibliography and contacts for further research.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale Group, 1998. Offers information on the history and current status of nearly 400 tribes, with historical background, past and current location, religious beliefs, language, means of subsistence, healing practices, customs, oral literature, and current issues facing the tribe.
• Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. 4 vols. Houston: Arte Publico, 1993. A survey of art, history, sociology, and anthropology of Hispanic Americans. Chapters within each volume are arranged by topic, and articles are lengthy and well illustrated.
• Handbook of North American Indians. 13 vols. to date. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978–. Offers scholarly essays on the history, social situation, politics, religion, economics, and tribal traditions of Native American groups. The work covers aboriginal cultures in North America by region and topics such as white-Indian relations, the arts, and languages.
• The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans. By Molefi K. Asante and Mark T. Mattson. New York: Macmillan, 1991. A geographically oriented overview of African American life, experiences, and traditions. Included are maps representing African origins, the slave trade, the Civil War, current social and economic status, and other topics.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Covers Islamic peoples, movements, and issues throughout the world.