Comparative Studies 1100: Introduction to the Humanities–Intensive

This guide contains recommended resources for doing research on relevant issues in comparative cultural studies.

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Welcome to the Comparative Studies 1100 Research Site, your information gateway for research, teaching, and learning. Feel free to contact me for your research and classroom needs.

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Cultural Databases

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Librarian's Choice

Librarian's Choice

Orpheus and Power

Hanchard Michael George. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio De Janeiro and São Paulo Brazil 1945-1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.  Print 

Hanchard Michael George. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio De Janeiro and São Paulo Brazil 1945-1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.  E-Book

Cultural Databases

Access World News: Research Collection  database provides access to newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires and journalist-written blogs from Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.  Log into NewsBank and create an account to save your search history, save articles, save searches, set up alerts to receive the latest news from your newspapers of choice. 

African Diaspora, 1860-Present  Primary Source database provides content on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent. With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes never-before digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean  Comprehensive resource contains a collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video. 

Fuente Académica  Database contains scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology.

Oxford Bibliographies  This bibliographic driven database provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, Childhood Studies, Latino Studies, Music, Public Health and other humanities/social science research areas.

Project MUSE  The Project MUSE is an online collaboration between libraries and publishers to provide complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and university press books.

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