General Sources
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America / REF E 184 A1 G14 1995
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups / REF E 184 A1 H35
Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage / REF E 184 A1 N2866 1999
We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity / REF E 184 A1 A479 1988 (atlas case)
Countries and Their Cultures / REF GN 307 C68 2001
Specific Sources
Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia / REF E 184 I8 T1673 2000
Encyclopedia of Japanese American History / REF E 184 J3 E53 2001
Asian American Encyclopedia / REF E 184 O6 A827 1995
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History / REF E 185 E54 1996
Native American Encyclopedia / REF E 76.2 P75 1998
New Oxford Companion to Literature in French / REF PQ 41 N48 1995
Guide to Chinese Literature / REF PL 2271 I3413 1997
Handbook of Russian Literature / REF PG 2946 H29 1985
Reference Guide to Russian Literature / REF PG 2940 R44
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature / REF PJ 7510 E53 1988
Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literature of India / REF PK 5416 H27 1996
Modern Japanese Writers / REF PL 723 M563 2001
Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula / REF PN 849 S6 D54
Diction of Italian Literature / PQ 4006 D45 1996
Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature / PQ 6006 O93
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature / PQ 7081 A1 E56 2000
Dictionary of Mexican Literature / REF PQ 7106 1992
Dictionary of Twentieth Century Cuban Literature / REF PQ 7378 D53 1990
Dictionary of Brazilian Literature / REF PQ 9506 D53 1998
Oxford Companion to English Literature / REF PR 19 O94 2000
Dictionary of Irish Literature / REF PR 8706 D5 1996
Oxford Companion to Canadian Literture / REF PR 9180.2 O94 1997
Oxford Companion to African Literature / PR 9340 C65 2000
Oxford Companion to Australian Literature / PR 9600.2 E55 1995
Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literture / REF PR 9620.2 O94 1998
Asian American Literature / PS 153 A84 A825 2000
Native American Literature / PS 153 I52 W47 1999
New Immigrant Literture in the United States / REF PS 153 M56 N475 1996
Oxford Companion to African American Literature / REF PS 153 N5 O96 1997
Encyclopedia of German Literature / REF PT 41 E53 2000
Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature / REF PT 7063 D5 1990
Topic volumes of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism / REF PN 771 G27
Indian Literature in English (v. 54 pp. 308-406)
Israeli Fiction (v. 94, pp. 1-137)
Jewish American Fiction (v. 62, pp. 1-81)
Nigerian Literature of the Twentieth Century (v. 30, ppl. 199-265)
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