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The Rhetoric of American Multicultural Experience

PWR 1AH - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Heredia, A.
Last Updated: 25-Mar-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1AH: The Rhetoric of the American Multicultural Experience. Focuses on the central theme of social acceptance,  how individuals from various ethnicities can negotiate the clash between old and new values to forge a new sense of identity, family, and community.  Other topics such as language and identity, ethnic labeling, growing up biracial and bicultural, and how ethnicity is represented in film, popular culture and the media.

Subject Librarians

Adan Griego
Curator for Latin American, Iberian & Mexican American Collections
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 384-9392

Subjects

Race and ethnicity studies

Around Stanford

Adan Griego's Rhetoric of Ethnic Identity Facebook Page
Martin Luther King Papers Project

Background/Reference sources about Ethnic Identity and Race

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument. Note the Library Location of these materials. Many are in the Information Center collection on the 1st floor of Green East.

Encyclopedia of race and racism (link to Stanford-only online resource in catalog record)
Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (link to Stanford-only online resource in catalog record)
New faces in a changing America : multiracial identity in the 21st century
"Citizenship," in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society.
Encyclopedia of American immigration
American diversity, American identity : the lives and works of 145 writers who define the American experience
Search Blackwell Reference for "American Identity - race & Ethnicity Studies

Ethnicity and American Identity

Dynamic list of books and other items in the Stanford Libraries' collections about the Ethnicity in America. Items will appear in the list as they are added to SearchWorks, with newest items at the top of the list.

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  1. Public intellectuals and nation building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900-1925 : the alchemy of identity

    Thomas S. Harrington. 2015

  2. Studying ethnic identity : methodological and conceptual approaches across disciplines

    edited by Carlos E. Santos, Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor. 2015

  3. American identity and the politics of multiculturalism

    Jack Citrin (University of California, Berkeley), David O. Sears (University of California, Los Angeles). 2014

Suggested Databases for Race and Ethnicity topics

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles about Ethnicity and American Identity

Ethnic newsWatch [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliography of native North Americans [electronic resource].
[Norwood, Mass.] : SilverPlatter Information,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Black thought and culture [electronic resource]
[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, 2003-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Chicano database [electronic resource].
Berkeley, Calif. : Chicano Studies Library Publications, University of California, c1990-
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » E184 .M5 C43
Oxford African American studies center [electronic resource] : the online authority on the African American experience.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)