PRINTED MATERIAL

Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology.
By Thomas M. Stephens. Gainesville: University Press Florida, c1999.
[Davis Reference: GN562 .S74 1999]
Divided in three sections: Spanish American terms, Brazilian Portuguese terms, and French American and American French Creole terms. Contains aproximately 7,000 entries of "terms, phrases, and expressions referring to physical type, skin color, ethnically marked national, regional, or geographic origin, social class, religion, and combinations thereof, many of which are charged with judgmental or prejudicial significance relating to the period and place of use."

Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture.
Edited by Cordelia Chávez Candelaria. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.
[Davis Reference: E184.S75 E59 2004]
Illustrated encyclopedia with focus on Latinas/os in the United States. Contains aproximately 500 essay entries on noted people, festivities, movements, sports, food, events, places, film, institutions, fashion, literature, organizations, the media, and the visual and performing arts.

Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture.
Edited by Harold E. Hinds, Jr. and Charles M. Tatum. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1985.
[Davis Reference: F1408.3 .H316 1985]
Articles on popular music, popular religion, comics, television, sports, photonovels, film, festivals and carnivals, the single-panel cartoon, and newspapers. Includes analysis by country or region, reference works, and a bibliography.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
Provides online access to currently produced annual installments from Human Relations Area Files, Inc. The online version draws from monographs, journal articles, and manuscripts of cultural anthropology materials relating to cultural groups (past and present) both in North America and worldwide. Over 350 cultural groups are covered; the files facilitate cross-cultural study of these groups by subject.

Ethnic NewsWatch
This is a full-text database dating back to 1960 that contains newspapers, journals, and magazines of the ethnic, minority and native press, including Hispanic, African-American, Native American and many other minority communities in the United States. It is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish. Use search terms that are natural language and boolean: Plan Colombia. Plan Colombia AND paramilitary. Use additional fields to limit the search.

GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. GenderWatch also contains a significant body of archival material dating back to the mid 1970's.

PsycInfo
The American Psychological Association's PsycINFO database contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations. It covers research and practice literature in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines. Material comes from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages.