LibGuides: Asian American Studies: Databases

Recommended Databases

Covers of Gidra, the 'monthly of the Asian American community,' was a revolutionary magazine that ran from 1969 to 1974. Courtesy of the Gidra Collection, accessible through Densho Digital Repository.

Asian American Drama
1891 - present. Documents the Asian American experience as dramatized in works by writers from the 18th century to the present. Brings together biographies, a performance database, production details, and associated visual resources, including photos, playbills, and manuscript images.
Ethnic NewsWatch
1985 - present. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America (some international coverage).
Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
Primary source documents of investigations made by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states;
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files:
- Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913
- Part 1: Supplement: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898-1941
- Part 2: Mexican Immigration, 1906-1930
- Part 3: Ellis Island, 1900-1933
- Part 4: European Investigations, 1898-1936
- Part 5: Prostitution and White Slavery, 1902-1933
- Part 6: Suppression of Aliens
LANTERN SLIDES OF THE NIPPON RIKKOKAI: Japanese Immigrants to Americas (力行会海外日本人移民関係幻燈資料)
19th - 20th century. The collection features 179 black/white and hand-colored images of the lantern slides, which were created and provided by the Nippon Rikkokai Foundation 日本力行会.
Migration to New Worlds
1800 - 1980. Presents thousands of unique original sources focusing on the growth of colonisation companies during the nineteenth century, the activities of American immigration and welfare societies, and the plight of refugees and displaced persons throughout the twentieth century.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
1840 - 1950.