The purpose of the Ethnic Studies Collection is to provide a casual reading area where undergraduates can locate magazine, newpapers, books, and DVDs about African Americans, American Indians, Chicanos/Latinos, and Asian Americans. The collection serves as a portal to cultural enrichment resources that include both contemporary issues and historical topic areas.
Students may expand their cultural horizons by finding materials which cover civil rights, bilingualism, labor, social issues, borderlands, biographies, multi-cultural education, history, treaty rights, interracial marriage, immigration, sports, literature, and art. To learn more about the history of the collection and what the collection contains, see the collection development policy.
The collection is in Room 1193, which is located on the west side of the first floor at College Library.
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Magazines & Resources
Magazines are shelved with the periodicals in the Open Book Cafe (room 1250).
Online Resources
These online resources are just a few of the ethnic studies related databases and directories that may be useful to you. For additional research ideas, be sure to ask a librarian.
Core resources that will include information on a variety of topics including ethnic studies or particular ethnic groups:
JSTOR
Academic Search Premier
Proquest Research Library
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Library database listings:
Ethnic Studies
African American
American Indian
Asian American
Latino Studies
Suggestions for Purchase
Know of something you'd like us to get? Just drop us a note in our suggestion box.
If you leave your email address, we can send you an update on your request.
New Items in Ethnic
 | None Call No: F1971 Y627 2007 Find in MadCat |
 | Sky Village Ashland, Monk Call No: PZ7 A8236 Sk 2008 Find in MadCat |
 | World in half Call No: PS3608 E565 W67 2009 Find in MadCat |
 | Invisible enemy : the African American freedom struggle after 1965 De Jong, Greta. Call No: E185.615 D436 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | I belong to South Carolina : South Carolina slave narratives None Call No: E185.93 S7 I2 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | From Du Bois to Obama : African American intellectuals in the public forum Banner-Haley, Charles Pete T. Call No: E185.89 I56 B36 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | African Americans in global affairs : contemporary perspectives None Call No: E185.615 A5927 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Call and response : key debates in African American studies None Call No: E184.6 C35 2011 Find in MadCat |
 | Speaking lives, authoring texts : three African American women's oral slave narratives None Call No: E444 S73 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Quest for equality : the failed promise of black-brown solidarity Foley, Neil. Call No: E185.615 F567 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Not in my neighborhood : how bigotry shaped a great American city Pietila, Antero Call No: F189 B19 A285 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | For labor, race, and liberty : George Edwin Taylor, his historic run for the White House, and the making of independent Black politics Mouser, Bruce L. Call No: E185.97 T39 M68 2011 Find in MadCat |
 | Fly away : the great African American cultural migrations Rutkoff, Peter M. Call No: E185.6 R87 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Kissed by Lightning None Call No: PN1997.2 K577 2009 Find in MadCat |
 | Oglala Sioux : warriors in transition Ruby, Robert H. Call No: E99 O3 R8 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Quixote's soldiers : a local history of the Chicano movement, 1966-1981 Montejano, David Call No: F394 S2119 M51736 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | None Call No: PM2591 H63 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Beyond the Indian Act : restoring Aboriginal property rights Flanagan, Tom. Call No: KE7739 L3 F53 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Borderlands : the new mestiza = La frontera Call No: PS3551 N95 B6 2007 Find in MadCat |
 | Black conservative intellectuals in modern America Ondaatje, Michael L. Call No: E185.89 I56 O53 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Alain L. Locke : biography of a philosopher Harris, Leonard Call No: E185.97 L79 H37 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama Tuck, Stephen G. N. Call No: E185 T797 2010 Find in MadCat |
 | Battle of Ole Miss : civil rights v. states' rights Lambert, Frank Call No: LD3413 L36 2009 Find in MadCat |
| Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey Kornweibel, Theodore. Call No: HD8039 R12 K67 2010 Find in MadCat |
| Preaching with sacred fire : an anthology of African American sermons, 1750 to the present None Call No: BV4241.5 P75 2010 Find in MadCat |