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Asian American Pacific Islander Studies

The Asian American and Pacific Islander population is made up of a number of groups who differ in language, culture, and length of residency in the U.S. This guide provides references to selected materials from a variety of disciplines on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and draws from McHenry Library's collection of print and electronic resources. Information in this guide is organized by the following categories, with annotations and instructions when necessary:

Background info || ARTICLES || Journals || Books || Web sites || Style guides

FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Use the following reference resources to read about your topic and find bibliographic references. Reference books at McHenry Library are shelved in the Reference Stacks on the 2nd floor.

Asian American Almanac (Call number: REF E184 .O6 A824 1995; 2 volumes)

Asian American Encyclopedia (REF E184 .O6 A827 1995; 6 vols.)

Columbia Guide to Asian American History (REF E184 .O6 C64 2001)

GALE Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (REF E184 .A1 G14 1995; 2 vols. or online)

FIND ARTICLES: Use the following online databases to search for articles by topic.

Expanded Academic ASAP, InfoTrac (Coverage varies: 1980- )
Contains citations to articles in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and popular media. Full text is available for selected articles. This database allows user to limit a search to refereed (peer-reviewed) publications.

America: History and Life (Dates covered: 1964- )
Contains citations to articles and other works in U.S. and Canadian history.

Sociological Abstracts (Dates covered: 1963- )
Contains citations to articles and other works in sociology.

MLA International Bibliography (Dates covered: 1963- )
Contains citations to articles and other works in the humanities. This database has an emphasis in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.

ERIC (Dates covered: 1966- )
Contains citations to articles and other works in education.

PsycINFO (Dates covered: 1840- )
Contains citations to articles and other works in psychology.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (Dates covered: 1971- )
Contains citations to articles and other works pertaining to East-, Southeast-, and South Asia published worldwide.

Women's Studies International (Dates covered: 1972- )
Contains citations to articles and other works in women’s studies, including core disciplines to feminist scholarship.

Ethnic Newswatch (Coverage varies: 1960- )
Contains the full text of articles in selected periodicals "of the ethnic, minority and native press".

LexisNexis Academic (Dates covered: 1980- )
Contains the full text of articles published in selected newspapers. Use Guided News Search for advanced search options. To find newspaper articles, complete the following steps: News category: General News; news source: Major Papers ; in text box, type your topic; set date to: All Available Dates.

Proquest Newspapers (Dates covered: current & historical coverage)
Contains the full text, in pdf format, of the following:
Current issues of: Los Angeles Times, 1985- ; New York Times, 1999- ; Wall Street Journal, 1982- .
Historical issues of: Los Angeles Times, coverage varies; New York Times, 1851-2001; Wall Street Journal, 1889-1987.

UC-eLinks, available in most databases, will connect you to the following: full-text articles, when available; call numbers for print copies of journals; forms for requesting items not owned by UCSC. See How to...use UC-eLinks (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/elinks.html) for more information. For full text availability or call numbers, you may also search the periodical title in CRUZCAT.

FIND CORE JOURNALS: Periodicals at McHenry Library are shelved as follows: Current issues are shelved on the 1st floor; back issues are bound by volume/year and are shelved in the stacks by call number.

AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Policy Practice and Community (Call Number: E184 .A75 A2455)

Amerasia Journal (E184 .O6A44)

Asian American Policy Review (E184 .O6 A83)

Chinese America: History and Perspectives (E184 .C5 C475); selected text available online 2001-present (links to Expanded Academic).

Journal of Asian American Studies (E184. O6 J68); also available online 1998-present (links to Project Muse).

FIND BOOKS: Use the following library catalogs to find books, and other materials

CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu) is UCSC's online library catalog. Melvyl (http://melvyl.cdlib.org) is the combined catalog of the University of California libraries. Melvyl allows you to request items not owned by UCSC.

To find books on Asian Americans, try a subject search using or adapting the following Library of Congress subject headings:

*Note: Subject headings are sometimes followed by Subheadings; together they provide a more descriptive and narrower subject, for example Chinese Americans -- Social Conditions.

FIND WEB SITES**: The following Web pages are on Asian American topics

Academic / Scholary Organizations

Asian American / Pacific Islander Resource Center, UCSC (http://www2.ucsc.edu/aapirc)
Promotes leadership, community on campus, and links students to community-service opportunities by offering education and dialogue on issues affecting Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, and addressing students' academic, social, and cultural needs

Association for Asian American Studies (http://www.aaastudies.org)
Dedicated to advancing the professional standard in teaching and research in the field of Asian American Studies and promoting better understanding and closer ties between various sub-components within Asian American Studies

Historical Societies (Organizations dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination of Asian American history)

Chinese Historical Society of America (http://www.chsa.org)
Also note that the Society publishes the journal Chinese America: History and Perspectives.

FANHS, Filipino American National Historical Society (http://www.fanhs-national.org)
Also note that the Society publishes the Filipino American National Historical Journal.

Korean American Historical Society (http://www.kahs.org)
Also note that the Society publishes the journal Occasional Papers.

National Japanese American Historical Society (http://www.njahs.org)
Also note that the Society publishes the journal Nikkei Heritage.

History

Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States (http://www.archives.gov/locations/finding-aids/chinese-immigration.html)
Finding Aid from the National Archives and Records Administration

Indian Diaspora (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Diaspora/diaspora.html)
Created by Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History at UCLA; includes section on Indians in the U.S.

Internment of San Francisco Japanese (http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html)
From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, primary-source newspaper articles documenting the internment of San Francisco Japanese

Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II (http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html)
From the National Archives and Records Administration

South/Southeast Asia Library (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/)
UC Berkeley's South/Southeast Asia Library, features many online resources

Magazines and Journals (Available on the Web without a subscription)

hardboiled: the asian pacific american issues newsmagazine at uc berkeley (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~hboiled/)
Student-run magazine covering politics, community, and pop culture in the Bay Area and the world

Hmong Studies Journal (http://members.aol.com/hmongstudies)
A publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong studies, including the Hmong experience in the U.S. and around the world

invAsian: the new asian american journal for the culturally ambivalent (http://invasianjournal.com)
Based in New York City, this publication addresses issues faced by growing and diverse Asian communities in the U.S. and worldwide

Little India (http://www.littleindia.com)
This publication addresses issues faced by Indians living in American

Yisei Magazine: Voices of Koreans at Harvard (http://hcs.harvard.edu/~yisei)
Student-run magazine featuring articles, personal essays, fiction, and poetry

Literature

Asian American Literature and the Importance of Social Context (http://www.adfl.org/ade/bulletin/n080/080034.htm)
An article published in the ADE (Association of Departments of English) Bulletin that examines how Asian American literature can provide a context for understanding the Asian experience in the United States

Asian American Literature (http://www.nypl.org/branch/features/index2.cfm?PFID=184)
A list of selected bibliographies, anthologies, and literary criticism from Mid-Manhattan Library

Asian American Writers' Workshop (http://www.aaww.org)
A resource for writers, readers, and publishers of literature written by Asians living in America

Social Issues / Statistics

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (http://www.aaldef.org/site.html)
Advocacy group

Asian Americans: A Guide to Resources In CSUF's Pollak Library (http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/asianamericans/#STATISTICS)
Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources

Asian and Pacific Islander Populations, U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/api.html)
Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (http://www.napalc.org)
Advocacy group

**Use the Library's How to...Evaluate Information on the Web (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/evaluate.html) to determine the quality of any Web site.

STYLE GUIDES: Use the following tools to organize your references

How to ... Use MLA Bibliographic Style (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/mla_citations.html)
UCSC's guide to citing in the MLA (Modern Language Association) style

How to ... Use APA Bibliographic Style (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/apa_citations.html)
UCSC's guide to citing in the APA (American Psychological Association) style