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Introduction to Ethnic Studies (ETH100)

This guide includes primary and secondary sources related to Introduction to Ethnic Studies.

Overview Sources

Comprehensive Works

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (Sage, 2008)
Cambridge History of America and the World (2022)
Includes four online volumes: 1500-1820; 1820-1900; 1900-1945; 1945-present.
Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia (Sage, 2013)
Race and Racism in the United States : An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (Greenwood, 2014)
Race (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 24, Univ. of North Carolina, 2013)

Introductory Works

Race and Society: The Essentials (Sage, 2021)
Increasing Multicultural Understanding, 3rd ed. (Sage, 2014)
Includes individual chapters introducing ten American ethnic and racial groups.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
This work contains multiple chapters specifically covering slavery in the Americas and in the United States.
Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition, 2nd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
World of a Slave : Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States (Greenwood, 2011)
Enslaved Women in America : An Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2012)
Abolition and Antislavery : A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (Greenwood, 2015)
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad (McFarland, 2006)

Indigenous Studies

Library Guides

Indigenous Voices (SU Library Guide)

Overview Articles

Native American (Researcher Starters Topic)
This page directs the user to a vast array of Research Starters on Native American topics.
Native Americans Overview (Oxford Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, 2023)

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Black and African American Studies

Library Guides

Guide to Anti-Racist Books and Resources (SU Library Guide)
This guide is an ongoing project to provide the Shippensburg University community and the general public with an extensive guide to suggested books and other resources relating to the many aspects and dimensions of anti-racism work.
Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists & Thinkers (SU Library Guide)
This guide is a companion website to the Guide to Anti-Racist Books and Resources. While that guide focuses on published books, videos, essays, and tutorial sources, the Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers, includes a wider array of material, including biographical and autobiographical sources, obituaries, writings, archival videos and texts, documentary films, comprehensive archival sites and other websites.

Overview Articles

African Americans Overview (Oxford Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, 2023)

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Film Introductions

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
This film is an excellent, accessible introduction to the complex history and experience of racism in America.

Latinx Studies

Overview Articles

Latinas and Latinx Overiew (Oxford Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, 2023)

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
An extensive encyclopedia of the Latinx experience in the U.S. Since this set is now twenty years old, locating additional updated information is necessary.

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Encyclopedia of Latino Culture : From Calaveras to Quinceañeras (Greenwood, 2014)
50 Events That Shaped Latino History : An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (Greenwood, 2018)

Asian American Studies

Overview Articles

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Asian Americans : An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History (Greenwood, 2014)
Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (Taylor & Francis, 2010; Reprinted, Routlege, 2015)
Organized by group, it includes extensive coverage for twelve Asian-American groups, with brief entries for an additional nine groups.
Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia (Sage, 2014)
Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (Sage, 2006)
SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies
25 Events That Shaped Asian American History : An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (Greenwood, 2019)

Middle Eastern American Studies

Library Guides

Anti-Muslim Discrimination (SU Library Guide)

Overview Articles

Arab Americans (Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. Sage, 2013)
This is a helpful overview article. See links in article to overviews on specific groups (i.e. Egyptian Americans, Iraqi Americans).

Selected Primary Sources

References in the Primary Source List Below

Reynolds/Kendi refers to Reynolds, Jason and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. New York: Little, Brown, 2020.

Kendi refers to Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books, 2016.

Selected Primary Sources

Indigenous Peoples

George Washington's Circular to the States, 8 June 1783

African Americans

Azurara's Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea - Complete Edition
[Reynolds/Kendi, Chap. 1, pp. 5-9]
Azurara's Chronicle of the Discover and Conquest of Guinea - Chapter 25
[Reynolds/Kendi, Chap. 1, pp. 5-9]
George Best. A True Discourse of the Three Voyages of Discoverie, 1578 - Selections
[Reynolds/Kendi, chap. 2, pp. 12-13]. One of the earliest references in English to the Curse of Ham being used to explain the origin of black skin.

Germantown Friends' Protest Against Slavery, 1688
[Reynolds/Kendi, Chap. 2, pp. 23-24].This is the first formal protest in the colonies against slavery. Scans of the original document can be viewed here.

Cotton Mather. The Negro Christianized. Boston, 1701 - Selections
[Reynolds/Kendi, chapter 4, pp. 25-36] These are some extracts from The Negro Christianized in which Mather tries to convince his readers that they should attempt to convert their slaves, even though they will still remain slaves. The whole book can be viewed here.

Benjamin Rush. An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements, on the Slavery of the Negroes in America. Philadelphia, 1773
[Reynolds/Kendi, Chapter 5, pp. 45-47]. An early important work, by a leading figure in Colonial America, Benjamin Rush. A significant treatment rejecting slavery.
Benjamin Rush Portal: On Abolition and Slavery (Penn Libraries)
A Dialogue Concerning Slavery of the Africans: Shewing it to be the Duty and Interest of the American States to Emancipate all their African Slaves. Norwich, 1776
[Kendi, Chapter 9, p. 107]. An early appeal for the full emancipation of slaves, to which is prefixed documents from the Institution of the Society in New York for promoting the Manumission of Slaves.
Stowage of the British Slave Ship "Brookes" under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788 (Library of Congress)

Virginia: History. Government. Geography, 1957 (Internet Archive)
Starting in 1957, this seventh grade textbook was required in Virginia schools. It presented a romanticized vision of the role of slavery in the state. It was not replaced until 1980. (Setup a free Internet Archive account to view the text.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Selections from Stride toward Freedom

Japanese American Internment Camps

Personal Justice Denied: Report on Wartime Internment

Additional Library Guides

SU Library Guide to Anti-Racist Books and Resources
This guide is an ongoing project to provide the Shippensburg University community and the general public with an extensive guide to suggested books and other resources relating to the many aspects and dimensions of anti-racism work.
SU Library Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists & Thinkers
This guide is a companion website to the Guide to Anti-Racist Books and Resources. While that guide focuses on published books, videos, essays, and tutorial sources, the Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers, includes a wider array of material, including biographical and autobiographical sources, obituaries, writings, archival videos and texts, documentary films, comprehensive archival sites and other websites.

ETH100

Start

Introduction to Ethnic Studies (ETH100)

Overview Sources

Comprehensive Works

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Introductory Works

Slavery and Anti-Slavery

Indigenous Studies

Library Guides

Overview Articles

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Black and African American Studies

Library Guides

Overview Articles

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Film Introductions

Latinx Studies

Overview Articles

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Asian American Studies

Overview Articles

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Middle Eastern American Studies

Library Guides

Overview Articles

Selected Primary Sources

References in the Primary Source List Below

Reynolds/Kendi refers to Reynolds, Jason and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. New York: Little, Brown, 2020.

Kendi refers to Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books, 2016.

Selected Primary Sources

Indigenous Peoples

African Americans

Japanese American Internment Camps

Additional Library Guides

Additional Library Guides

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