ENG 366: Black and Multiethnic Literature (Peters, Fall 2024)
Searching the Library Catalog
Discovery: Browsing for content with your themes
1. Go to Library One Search--Advanced Search link.
2. In the first search box type "juvenile fiction" OR "juvenile literature" and change the drop-down to "Subject Terms-SU".
- Capitalize OR
- Hint: If you just want fiction, type only "juvenile fiction." If you just want non-fiction, type only "juvenile literature."
3. In the second search box type your ethnic group in quotes with an asterisk instead of the s. Change the drop-down to "Subject Terms-SU."
- This will search for your group as a noun (African Americans) or an adjective (African American children).
4. Option to limit to "Online Access & In Library" under "Limit your Results."
5. Option to limit to "Source Types" Books or eBooks AFTER your search.
Suggested ethnic/cultural groups to search based on your assignment.
These are Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Books about these groups will have a subject heading with the term(s).
- African Americans
- Hispanic Americans (use this term for Latinx. Used for works on United States citizens of Latin American descent.) Hint, also use country of origin
- Mexican Americans
- Guatemalan Americans, etc.
- Puerto Ricans
- Latin Americans--United States (This is slightly different. Used for works on citizens of Latin American countries in the United States. Also used for Latinx)
- Asian Americans (Hint, also, search by particular country origin. See below examples.)
- Chinese Americans
- Japanese Americans
- Vietnamese Americans
- East Indian Americans
- Korean Americans
- Indians of North America (Also, search by individual tribe names.)
- Indian children (Refers to Native Americans, not Indian- Americans. For Indian-Americans, use East Indian American.)
- European Americans includes:
- Italian Americans
- German Americans
- Norwegian Americans
- Irish Americans
- Spanish Americans
- French Americans
- British Americans
- Scottish Americans
- Finnish Americans
- Dutch Americans
- Greek Americans
- Polish Americans
Here is a fuller list of ethnicities you could conceivably search for!
They come from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that are narrower terms for Ethnology--United States
Afghan Americans
African Americans.
Afrikaner Americans
Albanian Americans.
Alsatian Americans
Americans.
Arab Americans.
Argentine Americans
Armenian Americans.
Asian Americans.
Austrian Americans.
Azerbaijani Americans
Azorean Americans
Bahamian Americans
Bangladeshi Americans
Basque Americans
Belarusian Americans
Belgian Americans
Bengali Americans
Black Seminoles
Bolivian Americans
Bosnian Americans
Brazilian Americans
Breton Americans
British Americans
Bulgarian Americans
Burmese Americans
Burundian Americans
Cabo Verdean Americans
Cambodian Americans
Canadian Americans
Canary Islander Americans
Caribbean Americans.
Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
Catalan Americans
Central American Americans.
Central European Americans
Chilean Americans.
Chinese Americans
Colombian Americans
Cornish Americans
Costa Rican Americans
Croatian Americans
Cuban Americans.
Cypriot Americans
Czech Americans.
Czechoslovak Americans
Danish Americans
Dominican Americans
Dutch Americans
East Asian Americans
East European Americans
East Indian Americans--
Ecuadorian Americans
Egyptian Americans
Eritrean Americans
Estonian Americans
Ethiopian Americans
European Americans
Filipino Americans.
Finnish Americans
Flemish Americans
Franco-Americans
French Americans
Frisian Americans
Gambian Americans
Georgian Americans
German Americans.
Ghanaian Americans
Greek Americans
Grenadian Americans
Guatemalan Americans.
Gujarati Americans
Guyanese Americans
Haitian Americans
Hispanic Americans.
Hmong Americans.
Honduran Americans
Hungarian Americans.
Icelandic Americans.
Indochinese Americans
Indonesian Americans
Iranian Americans
Iraqi Americans
Irish Americans.
Italian Americans.
Ivoirian Americans
Jamaican Americans
Japanese Americans.
Kenyan Americans
Korean Americans.
Kurdish Americans
Kuwaiti Americans
Laotian Americans
Latvian Americans
Lebanese Americans
Liberian Americans
Liechtenstein Americans
Lithuanian Americans
Lushai Americans
Luso Americans
Luxembourg Americans
Macedonian Americans
Maltese Americans
Mà„ori Americans
Maratha Americans
Mexican Americans.
Middle Eastern Americans.
Minorcan Americans
Montenegrin Americans
Nepali Americans
Nicaraguan Americans
Nigerian Americans
Norwegian Americans
Pacific Islander Americans.
Pakistani Americans
Palatine Americans
Palestinian Americans
Panamanian Americans
Panjabi Americans
Peruvian Americans
Polish Americans.
Portuguese Americans
Romanian Americans.
Russian Americans.
Ruthenian Americans
Rwandan Americans
Salvadoran Americans
Sami Americans.
Samoan Americans
Scandinavian Americans
Scottish Americans.
Senegalese Americans
Serbian-Americans.
Sicilian Americans
Sierra Leonean Americans
Singaporean Americans
Slavic Americans.
Slovak Americans.
Slovenian Americans
Somali Americans
Sorbian Americans
South African Americans
South American Americans
South Asian Americans
South Sudanese Americans
Southeast Asian Americans
Spanish Americans.
Sri Lankan Americans
Sudanese Americans
Swabian Americans
Swedish Americans
Swiss Americans
Syrian Americans
Taiwanese Americans
Thai Americans
Tibetan Americans
Tongan Americans
Trinidadian Americans
Turkish Americans.
Ukrainian Americans.
Venezuelan Americans
Vietnamese Americans
Walloon Americans
WASPs (Persons)
Welsh Americans
West Indian Americans
Yao Americans (Asian Americans)
Yemeni Americans
Yoruba Americans
Yugoslav Americans
1. Type the author's name into the search box. If title of book, type the title.
2. Under the "Found In" limit, choose "Author/Contributor" to find all book authored by that person.
If you search by title, the book should be the first result., but you could also limit to the title field under "Found In."
Examples: