Penn State University Libraries - Asian American Studies

Do you want to watch movies about Asian Americans, written by Asian Americans, and acted by Asian Americans?  Or read an Asian American classic (or soon-to-be classics)?  Do you need an AA history topic, something that will grab your interests?  Or just an idea to get started?  The Libraries at Penn State can offer you many opportunities to explore Asian America.  During the next few months, we will be creating lists of recommended movies, literary classics, history books, music and many other resources all available at the Libraries at Penn State.  By clicking on any of the below links, you will find treasures that you may not have thought were available here in the middle of Pennsylvania.  Click, discover, and enjoy.

The first offered link is to a list of recommended AA movies.  Please visit the list often because we will be adding more movies as we receive them.  Asian American cinema.

Interested in what AA books began it all?  Please visit this list often because we will be adding more books to it.  Asian American Literature Classics.  And do you want to keep up with all the new AA books and publications?  Try the Asian American Literature Fans. This is a great site for keeping up with the growth of Asian and Asian American literature.

Graphic novels and comics are now an established medium of expressing Asian American themes.  I recommend the webpage of an deserving artist Gene Luen Yang, author of the award winning American Born Chinese and co-author of Eternal Smile at http://geneyang.com.  Also, visit the website of Derek Kirk Kim, a brilliant graphic novelist, at http://www.lowbright.com and Lela Lee's Angry Little Girls at http://www.angrylittlegirls.com/.

Articles and Databases

Academic Search Complete - a robust, full text article database.  Indexes over 5,300 magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, trade publications, working papers, dissertations, etc.

America : History & Life - a citation database (full text articles may be available via "Get it!") of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada.  Indexes over 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch - A sub-database of Proquest.  Oftters full text articles of newpapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.  Indexes 315 publications offering both national and regional coverage.

JSTOR - a full text article, cross-disciplinary, database indexing over 1,000 journals, specializing in older journals (latest 3 - 5 year published issues of a journal may not be available).

Project Muse - a full text article database specializing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.  Indexes over 400 scholarly journals.

Race Relations Abstract - a full text article database concerning race relations issues (immigration, ethnics studies, global studies, discrimination, etc.).  Indexes over 450 journals for over 43,000 articles.

Sociological Abstracts - an abstract database (full text articles may be available via "Get it!") covering the international literature of the social sciences.  The database provides abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.  Indexes over 1,800 serials publications.