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  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
  • "HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text." - HAPI Online

  • ProQuest General Reference
    This database is searchable in smaller modules or by subject: Multicultural Module; International Module; Criminal Justice (CJPI), and Education Complete, or by Ethnicity as a subject .



  • Academic Search Complete
    Another database with broad topic coverage, which is part of the family of EBSCO databases featuring sociology, psychology and behavioral sciences, philosophy and religion, health, and more.



  • JSTOR
    JSTOR includes a select subsets of periodicals in a number of subjects relevent to hispanic and ethnic studies, including anthropology, Asian studies, Afro-American studies, history, literature, population studies, and sociology.



  • Digital Dissertations - "access to citations and abstracts for every title in Dissertation Abstracts Subset A (Humanities and Social Sciences) plus all dissertations with a degree date of 2004 or 2005. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available. " --Dissertation Abstracts



  • Academic Universe
    Includes databases for law, health, business, and current news.



  • Science Direct
    In addition to the sciences, there are also database subsets for the business, psychology, social sciences, and arts & humanities.



Hispanic and ethnic studies are cross-disciplinary!
We recommend you also investigate other Killam Library subject pages relevant to your topic.

Citation/Abstract Databases

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Print Resources

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    Reference resources for ethnic and hispanic studies include:
    • Chicano Studies Index -- Ref Index Z1361 .M4 C47 (1992-1993 only)
    • HAPI - Hispanic American Periodicals Index -- Ref Index Z6953.8 H3321 (1975-95, 1997)
    • Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups -- Ref E184.A1 H35 (2 vols., 1980)
    • Ethnic Cultures of the World: A statistical reference -- Ref GN495.4 .P37 1997
    • Ethnic Relations: A cross-cultural encyclopedia -- Ref GN496 .L48 1994
    • Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism -- Ref E184.A1 E58 1994


    General resources under the subject headings "Ethnicity--study and teaching" and "Minorities--study and teaching" will be found in the Library of Congress (LC) classifications HT1501 and HT1521 on the 4th floor. Many resources for hispanic or latino studies will be found under the LC subject heading "Mexican Americans." Resources on "Chicano studies" are located at E184.M5


Web Resources

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