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These are the official Library of Congress Subject Headings that you can use for many of your searches in our databases. You would find subject headings such as these by browsing through the Library of Congress Subject Headings books or browsing the "Catalog Record" of every title found in our Library Catalog. |
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Asian Americans Pacific Islanders Bangladeshi Americans Chinese Americans Drukpa East Indian Americans* Filipino Americans Guamanians Hawaiians Hmong Americans Indonesian Americans Japanese Americans Korean Americans Laotian Americans Malaysians Pakistani Americans Thai Americans Tibetans Vietnamese Americans
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History Social Conditions Culture and Customs Ethnic Identity Personal Narratives Assimilation
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Buddhism Hinduism Islam Christianity |
United States California San Francisco Hayward (Calif.) East Bay (Calif.) Angel Island |
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INTERNMENT of Japanese Americans Concentration Camps World War II War Damage Compensation War Reparations Japanese Incarceration during WWII Executive Order 9066 (1942) Executive Order 9102 Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Internment Camps Korematsu v. United States (1944) Farewell to Manzanar (1973) Japanese Reparations |
Comfort Women Prostitutes Geishas
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Korean War
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Post World War II Period
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War Brides
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Model Minority Stereotype Anti-Asianism Racism
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Emigration and immigration -- Laws Undocumented Immigrants Chinese Exclusion Act CHINESE Exclusion Repeal Act
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Vietnam War My Lai Massacre “Boat People” Vietnamese Refugees Vietnamese Refugees and Stories Vietnamese Refugees and Trauma Vietnamese Refugee and Deportation Vietnamese Gangs |
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Korean War Family Separation Family Reunion “Korean American” and Trauma |
Cambodian Civil War Cambodian Genocide Killing Fields Cambodian Refugees Cambodian Refugees and Stories Cambodian Refugees and Trauma Cambodian Refugee and Deportation |
Anti-Asian Violence Vincent Chin |
Asian American Social Movements “Asian American Movement” |
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Asian Adoption Korean American Adoptees |
Filipino Farm Workers Filipino and Farmworkers Movement Manongs Larry Itliong Delano, California |
Transnational Immigration Chinese diaspora Japanese diaspora Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart–Celler Act) H1-B Visa Chinese H1-B Visa Indian Asian and Silicon Valley Asia Brain Drain International Student Enrollment |
Undocumented Immigrant Deportation Vietnamese Refugee
LGBT AND Asian Americans Gay Asian Americans |
*For Americans who have ancestry from the country of India, vs. Native Americans who are "Indians of North America."
While not official subject headings, these keywords can be very fruitful for your research. Try to also think of other terms such as these. Keyword searches look at all the information in the book or article record including title, author, abstract, table of contents, etc. It always helps to think of synonyms, as the way one person would describe something is not the same way another would.
South Asian Indians
Asian American Political Alliance
Confession Program
Yellow Peril
Redress
Using the correct words to search will help you find relevant information. Different authors and search tools use different words to describe the same concepts, so it is useful to have a list of similar and related terms in your arsenal when you set out to search for relevant information. The process of creating these alternative terms is called brainstorming terms or concept mapping.
EXAMPLE
Korean Americans AND Los Angeles
Using the correct words to search will help you find relevant information. Different authors and search tools use different words to describe the same concepts, so it is useful to have a list of similar and related terms in your arsenal when you set out to search for relevant information. The process of creating these alternative terms is called brainstorming terms or concept mapping.
EXAMPLE
Sex Differences AND Communication
If for some reason, you are getting results you do NOT want (say for example you want to find only articles on communication in opposite sex marriages) try a NOT search. Librarians caution that NOT searches often also weed out articles that may have been relevant for you. So only perform such searches if you have LOTS of results (say over ten that are in full text format):
EXAMPLE
Marriage NOT Same Sex
