Ethnic Studies: Home/Welcome
This guide provides interdisciplinary research information to facilitate your research endeavors.
What is Ethnic Studies?
It is the critical and interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with a focus on the experiences and perspectives of people of color within and beyond the United States. Since the emergence of ethnic studies as an academic field in the late 1960s, scholars have analyzed the ways in which race and racism have been, and continue to be, powerful social, cultural, and political forces and their connections to other axes of stratification, including gender, class, sexuality, and legal status (Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkley, 2022).
Quick Access - New & Recommended Resources
If you already know how to search databases for articles and other materials, the following are quick access links recommended for you.
- Race Relations in America This link opens in a new window
- Los Angeles Sentinel (1934 - 2010): ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new window
- Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new window
- Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946 This link opens in a new window
- Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
- North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
- Latin American Women Writers This link opens in a new window
Here are some Ethnic Studies topics
- Colonialism, Migration and Diasporas;
- States, Inequality and Resistance;
- Identities and Representation;
- Power (national, international, or global).
- Or, other topics that fall under Ethnic Studies, Humanities & Social Sciences.
Race or Ethnicities (covered in certain courses)
- African Americans
- Black Americans
- Asian Americans
- Pacific Islander
- Native American/Indian/Indigenous
- Chicanx
- Latinx
- Anti-Racists
