LibGuides: ACRL/EBSS Library Resources for Communication Studies (LRCS): Diversity, Race, & the Media

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This guide is designed to give a basic starting point for researchers, librarians, and students who would like to find resources on the topics of media, diversity, and race. This is by no means an exhaustive guide. Any additions you would like to make will be considered by the committee.

Current Page Editor: Molly Strothmann

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Databases

See General Communication Databases to get started.

Alt-Press Watch (fee-based) Full text database of over 230 independent and alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals.
Alternative Press Index (fee-based) A bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. 1991 - present.
Alternative Press Index Archive (fee-based) Archive of Alternative Press Index, 1969-1990.
Black Studies Center (fee-based) The Black Studies Center provides coverage of the black experience in fields such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion. It includes resources from Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, historical backfiles of The Chicago Defender, and current scholarly journals.
Chicano Database (fee-based) Produced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley, this bibliographic index covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants from 1992 onwards.
Ethnic NewsWatch (fee-based) A current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the resources is the inclusion of unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies.
Film & Television Literature Index (fee-based) This comprehensive bibliographic database provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications related to film and television studies. A version including journals in full text is also available.
Gender Studies Database (fee-based) Gender Studies Database provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship.
GenderWatch (fee-based) Includes over 300 titles, 250 in full text, on gender and women's studies and LGBT research. 1970 - present.
LGBTQ+ Life (fee-based) This comprehensive database indexes and abstracts literature regarding LGBTQ subjects.
LGBT Thought and Culture (fee-based) An online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection contains 150,000 pages of rare archival content, including seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers (fee-based) ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers offer essential primary source content and editorial perspectives of the most distinguished African American newspapers in the U.S.
SocINDEX (fee-based) SocINDEX is a bibliographic database for sociology research. It offers indexed records from top sociology journals covering many related studies. A version including journals in full text is also available.
Sociological Abstracts (fee-based) Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. 1963-present.
Women's Studies International (fee-based) Women’s Studies International is a bibliographic database for women’s studies and feminist research. Providing indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications, it is a valuable resource for many disciplines, including sociology, history, international relations and humanities.

Selected Journals

Websites

American Indian Library Association (AILA) Includes a list of resources for academic libraries, including the American Native Press Archives.
Media Diversity Forum The Media Diversity Forum is designed to serve inclusiveness by seeking resources, supporting research, stimulating dialogue, sponsoring programs and sharing techniques.
Newsroom Diversity Survey (ASNE) The ASNE Newsroom Employment Diversity Survey (previously known as the Newsroom Employment Census) is a tool ASNE uses to measure the success of its goal of having the percentage of minorities working in newsrooms nationwide equal to the percentage of minorities in the nation's population by 2025.

Associations & Organizations

American Jewish Press Association (AJPA)
Asian American Journalists Association
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Minorities and Communication Division
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
National Association of Black Journalists
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
National Center on Disability and Journalism
National Hispanic Media Coalition
National Multicultural Alliance Member organizations are Latino Public Broadcasting, Black Public Media, Vision Maker Media, Pacific Islanders in Communications, and Center for Asian American Media.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Native American Journalists Association
NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists Diversity Toolbox

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography
Danky, James P. and Maureen E. Hady. Harvard University Press, 1998.
African Americans in the Media Today: An Encyclopedia
Riley, Sam G. Greenwood Press, 2007.
American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals
Littlefield, Daniel F., and James W. Parins. Greenwood Press, 1984-86.
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America
Hunt, Darnell M. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television
McCann, Bob. McFarland & Co, 2010.
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
Johnston, Donald H. Academic Press, 2003.
Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture
Candelaria, Cordelia. Greenwood Press, 2004.
Handbook of Spanish Language Media
Albarran, Alan B. Routledge, 2009.
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
Berry, Torriano, and Venise T. Berry. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 2nd ed.
Historical Dictionary of African American Television
Fearn-Banks, Kathleen, and Anne Burford-Johnson, Rowman & Littlefield. 2014.
Swingin' on the Ether Waves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955
Sampson, Henry T. Scarecrow Press, 2005.
U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996
Keever, Beverly D., Carolyn Martindale, and Mary Ann Weston. Greenwood Press, 1997.