Asian/Pacific American Studies Subject Guide
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“Asian Americans’’ will be defined as the population living in the U.S. who are Asian or Pacific Islander descent, “in whole or in part, regardless of whether they’re U.S.- or foreign-born, a U.S. citizen or not, their length of residence, or in the U.S. legally or illegally. I also use the following terms to mean the same thing: Asian Pacific American (APA), and Asian Pacific Islander (API).”
C. N . Le, Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asia America . http://www.asian-nation.org
the Library Catalog for Books & Other Materials
To locate books
and other materials in CCSF Libraries, select the Library
Catalog from the Library's Homepage. You will notice
many ways to search, such as Title, Author, Subject, Subject Keyword,
Specific subject headings by ethnic group:
South Asians— United States
Chamorro (Microneisan People)
Khmers— United States
East Indian Americans
East Indians-- United States
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than regular circulating books.
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a book on reserve in the Library
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by Course or Reserves by Instructor.
When you have
located the materials, write down the Call Number and Title and
present this to a staff person at the Circulation Desk.
the Library Collection
the Library are shelved by call number according to the Library
of Congress classification system. Books are arranged on
the shelves by subject.
areas in the collection to find materials on Asian/Pacific American Studies include:
|Alien labor, Asian
American Literature--Asian American Authors
Asian American Families
Asian Americans in Television
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans--Politics and government
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation
Mail order brides
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women.
Key Reference Sources
provide background information and overviews on a given topic. Some
relevant reference books in Women's Studies include:
Asian Americans Information Directory. Detroit: Gale, 1994. Rosenberg REF E184.O6 A844 1994
Gall, Susan and Irene Natividad, eds. Asian American Almanac: A Reference Work on Asians in the United States. 1995. Rosenberg REF E184.O6 A824 1995
Gall, Susan and Irene Natividad, eds. Reference Library of Asian America.Rosenberg REF E184 .O6 R45 1995 (JAD)
Gall, Susan B. and Timothy L. Gall. Statistical Record of Asian Americans. Detroit: Gale, 1993.Rosenberg REF E184.O6 S73 1993
Kim, Hyung-Chan. Dictionary of Asian American History. New York: Greenwood, 1986. Rosenberg REF E184.O6 D53 1986
Kim, Hyung-chan. Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Rosenberg REF E184.O6 D57 1999
Nelson, Emmanuel S. Asian American Novelists : A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Rosenberg REF PS153.A84 A825 2000
Ng, Franklin, ed. Asian American Encyclopedia. New York: Cavendish, 1995. Rosenberg REF E184.O6 A827 1995
Sinnott, Susan . Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. New York: Children’s Press, 2003. Rosenberg REF E184.O6 S558 2003
Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed. Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Rosenberg REF PS153.A84 A82 1999
Who's Who among Asian Americans. New York: Gale, 1995. Rosenberg REF E184.06 W46 1995
Zia, Helen and Susan B. Gall, eds. Asian American Biography. Detroit: U.X.L., 2004. Rosenberg REF E186.06 .A822 2004
Zia, Helen and Susan B. Gall, eds. Notable Asian Americans. Detroit: Gale, 1995. Rosenberg REF E184.06 N67 1995
Ciment, James. Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 2001. Rosenberg REF JV6465 .E53 2001
Cordasco, Francesco. Dictionary of American Immigration History. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1990. Rosenberg REF JV6450 .D53 1990
Dinnerstein, Leonard. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration. New York: Columbia, 1999. Rosenberg REF E184.A1 D48 1999
Flanders, Stephen A. Atlas of American Migration. New York: Facts, 1998. REF G1201.E27 F5 1998 (DTN)
Haines, David W. Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Rosenberg REF E184 .A1 R43 1985
Allen, James Paul. We the People: An Atlas of America’s Ethnic Diversity. New York: Macmillan, 1988. Rosenberg REF E184.A1 A479 1988.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1995.Rosenberg REF E184.A1 G14 1995
Levinson, David and Melvin Ember. American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. New York: Simon, 1997.Rosenberg REF E184.A1 A63448 1997
Shcaefer, Richard T. Racial and Ethnic Groups. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 2000. Rosenberg REF E184.A1 S3 2000
Shinagawa, Larry Hajime and Michael Jang. Atlas of American Diversity. Walnut Creek, Ca.: AltaMira Press, 1998. Rosenberg REF E184.A1 S575 1998
Pacific Studies Reference
An Illustrated History of Samoans in California. Carson, CA: Kin, 1994. F870.S17 P68 1994
Lal, Brij V. and Kate Fortune. The Pacific Islands : An Encyclopedia. Honolulu: U Hawaii, 2000. DU17 .P3 2000
Asian Americans (Specific groups)
Do, Hien Duc. The Vietnamese Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. E184.V53 D6 1999
Pan, Lynn. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas. Cambridge: Harvard U, 1998.DS732 .E53 1999
Niiya, Brian. Encyclopedia of Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present. New York: Facts on File, 2001. E184.J3 E53 2001
for Articles in Periodical Databases
databases group together journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
by subject. They also usually provide abstracts (brief summaries)
and the full text of the articles. Do you need help identifying
the differences between scholarly
journal v. popular magazine articles?
databases are part of the private, passworded Web, so you
will need to have a current CCSF ID card with a barcode to access
those that CCSF subscribes to. You get the free barcode from the
Library either in person or online.
More information about obtaining a library bar code.
Suggested Titles of Periodicals: Amerasia Journal, Asian Pages (St. Paul), Asian Reporter, The (Portland), Asian Week (San Francisco), Filipinas, Filipino Reporter (NY), Journal of Asian American Studies, Little India (NY), Northwest Asian Weekly (Seattle), Hyphen Magazine, Jade Magazine, and Yolk.
At your local libraries, you may be able to access many of the journals with full-text by using various electronic periodical databases such as InfoTrac and Ethnic Newswatch or online from the Internet.
Infotrac is a brand name for several databases with coverage from
1980 to the present. Most useful for hospitality topics are the
InfoTrac Business File ASAP, Academic ASAP, and the OneFile. These
databases let you limit your results to articles only from scholarly
journals by checking the box "Refereed titles."
"Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database
of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to
provide the 'other side of the story,' ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Coverage begins in 1990."
are some examples of academic/scholarly web sites for Women's Studies.
If yu use a search engine, such as Google,
remember to evaluate
the quality of the results.
Stanford University Libraries offer a quick start guide to library research on Asian American Studies.
Asian and Pacific Island population census statistics and reports (1990 and 2000).
Facts on Feature: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2004. ( April 19, 2004 )
Asian Americans: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources from University of Redlands.
This is a short Asian American subject page from UC Santa Barbara Library.
The Smithsonian Program for APA Studies featured many excellent exhibitions.
Asian American History Timeline (Center for Educational Telecommunications) is adapted from Sucheng Chan’s Book Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1991.
Infoplease.com celebrates Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month —- a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Preliminary Guide to Resources on Asian Pacific American Artists is posted by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
UCI Southeast Asian Archive.
This site is run by the Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC) for resources on the study of Asian Pacific American politics.
Organization of Chinese Americans has compiled a searchable national directory of 2,300 APA organizations.
Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus lists over 100 Asian Pacific American community resources.
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and Web Research Workshops
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Several useful sources for evaluating the quality of web pages, how
to prepare citations for a "Bibliography" or "Works Cited" list, and
how to avoid plagiarism.
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