Multiracial Studies

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1911 - 2002

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1934 - 2005

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1931 - 2003

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile from 1893-1988. Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1893 - 1988

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America contains 152 original essays (about 8,000-12,000 words each) on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The Encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish. 3 v.

2nd edition 2000

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfiles of six major African American community newspapers--Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1909-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002). Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1909 - 2005 (Varies by title) For all titles except The Chicago Defender, one year of additional content is added to the backfile annually.

This database provides access to more than 5,000 years of culture, history, and leaders. 320+ Native American groups are presented through subject entries, biographies, primary source documents, maps and charts, and photographs. Updated semiannually.

Prehistoric to present

Information on materials by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry. Includes the catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and citations from the Index to Black Periodicals (1988-2002).

700 A.D. - (cataloged items); 1988 - 2002 (periodical index) 2003 Edition. ## ##Schomburg Center catalog includes 217,000 records describing over 2 million books, serials, microforms, audio and audio-visual resources, photographs, manuscript collections, art, artifacts and ephemera. (Manuscripts, photographs, art works and other special collection materials are cataloged at the collection level.) ## ##Index to Black Periodicals includes records describing all articles appearing in 36 popular magazines and scholarly journals from 1988 to 2002.

The Encyclopedia is a 5-volume set and a supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses a wide array of subjects in over 2,300 articles to fully define in one source the cultural roots and current condition of the African-American community. Included as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

2nd edition, 2006 1619-present

This two-volume reference work details the ways in which the tenets and foundations of African American culture have given rise to today’s society. Approaching the field from a “street level” perspective, these two volumes cover topics such as rap music, sports, television, cinema, racism, religion, literature, among others. Included as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Current edition, 2005