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Area Studies Collections

INTRODUCTION
Area Studies Reading Rooms
The Experiences of Women
Foreign-Language Newspapers and Periodicals
Women's Publications
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USING AREA STUDIES COLLECTIONS

CASE STUDIES: AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN AND LATINAS

CONCLUSION

AREA STUDIES EXTERNAL SITES

VISIT/CONTACT

Special-Format Divisions
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Americanized Chinese gals. 1965. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-113493 (b&w film copy neg.)

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The Library's special-format divisions also provide numerous opportunities to research the lives of women from different backgrounds, some of whom are current immigrants and others of whom are fourth-and fifth-generation Americans. For example:

  • With Silk Wings—Asian American Women at Work: Four Women (Lone Ding Vox Productions, 1983, VBC 3836, MBRS), a series of four films that focus on the challenges and conflicts of adjusting to a new culture, is available for viewing in the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room;
  • Polish-born American actress Helena Modjeska appears in photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, and several letters from her can be read in the Manuscript Division;
  • The Thomas Čapek Collection of Material Relating to Czechoslovakia and Czech Americans, also located in the Manuscript Division, has a photograph, bibliography, and sketch of the life of Čapek's wife and collaborator, Anne Vostroveský Čapek.

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Helena Modjeska, 1893. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-77307 (b&w film copy neg.)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

A Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities. 2 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1976. Z1361.E4 M529, MRR Alc, EurRR.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 3 vols. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. E184.A1 G14 2000, MRR Alc.

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1980. E184.A1 H35, MRR Alc, EurRR, N&CPR, HispRef, LH&G.

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