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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class

The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics 2002
Ref HQ1236.5 U6 M3778 2001

American Indian Women: A Guide to Research
Ref Z1209.2 N67 B36 1991

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Ref E185.86 B542 1993

Encyclopedia of Afro-American Culture and History
Ref E185 E54 1996

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender
Ref HQ1115 E43 2001

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States
Ref E184 S75 H365 1993

Immigrant Women in the United States: A Selectively Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography
Ref Z7164 I3 G33

Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Ref DS115.2 J49 1997

HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Ref Z1605 H491x

Index to Black Periodicals
Ref Z6944 N39 I51x

Databases

Ethnic NewsWatch
Designed to provide the "other side of the story", Ethnic NewsWatch full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. The articles are primarily from ethnic or minority newspapers. Both English and Spanish language search interfaces are provided.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
This database includes article citations to legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It includes all areas and topics related to the law including court cases and decisions. It is citation only.

International Index to Black Periodicals
This database includes abstracts and citations from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. It also includes the full text articles from 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward). The topics range from cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues. The citations and abstracts are from 1902 forward.

Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies contains only citations and abstracts not the full text articles in contemporary social, political and economic issues in Latin America. It does contain the complete text of four newsletters from the Latin America Database (LADB), and Part 1 (Hispanic Nations) of the World Law Index covering the laws, decrees, and regulations of 29 Spanish-speaking nations.

LexisNexis Academic
This database provides the full text articles primarily for major newspapers around the world. It is easy to use and provides a lot of article choices. Most of its sources are newspapers not academic journals, however.

LexisNexis Congressional
This database provides full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations as well as information on Congress, voting records, legislative histories from 1789 to the present, and current legislative activities.

P.A.I.S./Public Affairs Information Service
This database provides article citations and abstracts (not full text) for articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.

Sociological Abstracts
This database provides citations and abstracts (not full text articles) to articles published in some 2300 journals in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. It also includes citations to some books and many dissertations