Getting Started: Basic Works

Martin, Philip and Midgley, Elizabeth, "Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America". Population Bulletin 58(2), June, 2003. [Entire Issue].YRL: HB 881 A2 P82

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Edited by Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge, Mass., Belnap Press, 1980.
"A guide to the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of the more than 100 ethnic groups who live in the United States."
College Library Reference Desk: E 184 A1 H26

Ethnic Chronology Series. A series of 39 volumes that chronicle a variety of ethnic groups in America. In the UCLA Library Catalog, search the name as a title phrase to retrieve a list of the book titles.

Refugees in the United States : a reference handbook / edited by David W. Haines. 1985. College Library Reference Wall Collection, YRL Stacks, SRLF: E184.A1 R43 1985

We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity. By James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner. New York, Macmillan, 1988.
Data based on the 1980 Census, this atlas maps the geographical patterns of 67 ethnic and racial groups in the US

College Library Reference Atlases, YRL Reference Atlases, YRL Reference Reading Room: ** E184.A1 A479 1988

Executive Summary: U.S. Immigration: A Legislative History
"Highlights the history of U.S. immigration legislation and the parallel rise and fall in numbers and changing ethnic makeup." From the Population Resource Center.

Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 1990
22 Detailed tables.

Bibliographies

Kilpinen, Jan T. American Ethnic Geography: A Selected Bibliography of the Ethnic and Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada. Contains most of the major secondary sources prepared by geographers or which have appeared in geographical publications.”

Online Archive of California. Finding Aid for the Collection About Immigration Research, ca. 1980-1989

Collection consists of brochures, newsletters, publications, and other printed material relating to research in immigration. Mostly includes material from U.S. institutions and organizations, i.e. Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, American Jewish Committee, Boston University Special Collections, Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College, University of Texas Population Research Center, and more

Immigration Issues: A Bibliography
Topical list of books and government documents dealing with American immigration issues. Includes ethnic groups, e.g. Mexicans, Latin Americans, East Europeans, Etc

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The 20th Century: How They Saw It

Eugenic Laws Restricting Immigration
Virtual exhibit with accompanying essay by Paul Lombardo. From the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

"Two Immigrants Out of Five Feebleminded," The Survey 38, September 14, 1917, 528-529.
Report published in the leading social work journal of the day on a 1913 study by psychologists at the Training School in Vineland, N.J. who spent two and a half months at Ellis Island administering intelligence tests to immigrants ("35 Jews, 22 Hungarians, 50 Italians and 45 Russians"). The study concluded that two out of every five immigrants studied was feeblemined.

"Biological Aspects of Immigration," Testimony of Harry L. Laughlin before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, April 16-17, 1920.

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Finding Books: Library Catalogs

Use the UCLA Library Catalog to locate materials available in the UCLA Library.

MELVYL catalog: This catalog provides information on materials owned by all UC libraries. Especially useful for locating California government documents.

Subject Headings

When conducting searches using subject headings take note that they can be sub-divided by geographic area, time period, or both.

In addition to subdivisions by location or time period, you may add the following sub-headings to any group or topic:

• History (example: Chinese Americans California Los Angeles History)
• Social Conditions (example: Croatia Social Conditions)
• Economic Conditions (example: Armenia (Republic) Economic Conditions
• Social Life & Customs (example: Jews United States Social Life & Customs 20 th century)
• Cultural Assimilation (example: Asian Americans Cultural Assimilation History 20 th century)
• Biography (example: Vietnamese American - Biography)

  The following sub-headings can be added to countries, ethnic groups, institutions, etc. to retrieve primary sources documents:

• Archives
• Correspondence
• Diaries
• History Sources
• Interviews
• Personal Narratives
  General Subject headings that you can use to search UCLA Library Catalog include:
• Immigrants - [Country Name]
  (example: immigrants Mexico)
  
• Country - Emigration and Immigration
  (example: Croatia - Emigration and Immigration)
  
• Children of Immigrants (can be subdivided geographically by country, state, city)
  
• Assimilation (Sociology)
• Nativism
• Acculturation
• Pluralism (Social Sciences) –United States
• Illegal Aliens California Los Angeles
• Refugees

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Finding Articles: Indexes

America: History and Life(UC Only) 1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations.

Historical Abstracts (UC Only) 1955- . The most comprehensive index to world history (excluding that of the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Indexes over 2,000 history and history-related journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations. Search Guide available.

ISI Web of Science (UC Only) Through the Web of Science, users can access the three ISI Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (1945- with full-text author abstracts for many items from 1991-); Social Sciences Citation Index (1956- with full-text author abstracts for many items from 1992- ; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- with full-text author abstracts 2001-); . Cited reference searching, unique to ISI, lets you search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

JSTOR (UC Only) Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines.

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Indexes to Newspapers

[Historical] New York Times (UC Only) Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851.

The New York Times Current (UC Only) (1995-) offers fulltext coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions and presidential press conference...

Ethnic NewsWatch (UC Only) A full-text collection of over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic (including Arab and Middle Eastern, Asian-American, European, and Jewish), minority, and native press. Complete articles dating back to 1960, in English and Spanish.

LexisNexis Academic (UC Only) Select General News & Ethnic News to search for full-text news items of the ethnic press.

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Immigrant Groups

Armenian
Search these Useful Subject Headings in the UCLA Library Catalog:
Armenian Americans-History
Armenian Americans-Biography

Asian

Subject headings that you can use to search UCLA Library Catalog include:

• [Country Name] Emigration and Immigration
  Example: Philippines Emigration and Immigration
• [Country Name] Americans
  Example: Armenian Americans
• [Group] United States
  Example: Filipinos United States

Asian American Encyclopedia. Franklin Ny, editor. New York, Marshall Cavendish, 1995. 6 vols. Signed entries on topics dealing with various Asian groups in the U.S. Especially strong on cultural aspects and issues. Bibliographic references. An outstanding resource.
College Library Reference Wall Collection, YRL Reference Reading Room, Asian American Studies Center Reference: E184.O6 A827 1995

Bibliography of Asian studies
Index of western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.

Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans From 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History. Edited by Philip S. Foner and Daniel Rosenberg. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1993.
YRL & Law Library Stacks: E184.O6 R33 1993

Asian American Chronology From the 1600s to 1989.


Chinese
McCutcheon, James M. China and America: A Bibliography of Interactions, Foreign and Domestic. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Selective bibliography of English-language materials. Includes sections on Chinese immigration and exclusion, and on the Chinese community in the U.S.
College Library, Asian American Studies Center, SRLF: Z6465.U5 M13

The Chinese in America, 1820-1973: a chronology and fact book. By William L. Tung. 1974.
YRL: E 184.C5 T83

Vietnamese
Search these Useful Subject Headings in the UCLA Library Catalog:
Vietnamese Americans Biography
Vietnamese Americans Cultural Assimilation

Vietnamese Exile Narratives
Annotated bibliography of narratives written by Vietnamese in the West.

Changing identities : Vietnamese Americans, 1975-1995. By James M. Freeman. 1995.
YRL, Asian American Studies Center: E 184.V53 F73 1995

Voices of Vietnamese boat people : nineteen narratives of escape and survival. Edited by Mary Terrell Cargill and Jade Quang Huynh.
YRL: E 184.V53 V63 2000

Chicano/a Latino/a Hispanics

Chicano Database
Indexes all types of materials in the areas of Mexican-American topics from 1967 to the present and, since 1992, materials on other Latino cultures.

Hispanic-American Periodical Index [HAPI]
Authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals. Covers articles, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in leading journals published throughout the world. Produced by the UCLA Latin American Center.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography and essential guide to scholarly works on Latin America, consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:

• [Country Name] Emigration and Immigration
  Example: Cuba Emigration and Immigration
• [Country Name] Americans
  Example: Ecuadorian Americans
• [Group] United States
  Example: Mexicans United States Hispanic Americans

University of Texas at Austin Libraries
Includes the holdings of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, one of the major collections of Latin American materials in the world. Special emphasis on Mexico, Brazil, the Río de la Plata countries, and U.S. Latino culture

Latino Encyclopedia. Richard and Rafael Chabran, editors. New York, Marshall Cavendish, 1996. 6 vols. More than 1900 entries ranging from several paragraphs to signed full-length articles with annotated bibliographies relating to the Latino experience in the United States.

European
Subject headings that you can use to search UCLA Library Catalog include:

• [Country Name] Emigration and Immigration
  Example: Ireland Emigration and Immigration
• [Country Name] Americans
  Example: Croatian Americans
• [Group] United States
  Example: Croats United States

Italians
Italian American Timeline 1492-1998.

Annotated Bibliography of the Italian American Experience Fred Gardaphe, SUNY Stony Brook.
Note: This is a multi-page bibliography; to browse the bibliography, click on the "Next page" link at the bottom of each page.

Italians in the United States From the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia.

The Italians in America, 1492-1972; a chronology & fact book. Compiled and edited by Anthony F. LoGatto.
YRL: E 184 I8 L82

Eastern Europeans
Croats
Biondich , Mark. "We were defending the state" : nationalism, myth, and memory in twentieth-century Croatia . IN Ideologies and national identities : the case of twentieth-century Southeastern Europe / edited by John R. Lampe and Mark Mazower. 2004.
YRL: DR45 .I33 2004

East Germans
Useful Subject headings to use in the UCLA Library Catalog:
Germans Biography
Germany East – History

Germany --History --Unification, 1990

Jewish

Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:

• Jews United States
• Jews New Jersey
• Jews [Country of Origin]
  Example: Jews Poland

Patt, Ruth Marcus. New JerseyJewish History: A Bibliographic Guide.New Brunswick, N.J., Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey, 1987.

Ard, Patricia M. The Jews of New Jersey : A Pictorial History. Patricia M. Ard and Michael Aaron Rockland. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002.

Helmreich, William B. The Enduring Community : the Jews of Newark and MetroWest. New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, c1999.