Information from Non-Dominant Perspectives

Find digitized newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative press from the 20th century.

Find citations to articles from alternative, radical, and left publications, 1991-present, covering racial and gender issues, gay and lesbian studies, labor, and more.

Search and browse fully-digitized American Indian newspapers covering 1828-2016.

Find full text of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, interviews, journal articles, and other material of 20th century topics, including politics, religion, history, and sports.

Find fiction, poetry, and other works by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Online content of the Chicago Defender which became the most influential black newspaper in the US within its first 10 years begins in 1909 and goes through 2010. Includes full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of this newspaper.

Find journal articles, book chapters, and newspapers about Mexican Americans/Chicanos in art, education, health, history, labor, literature, and politics.

Find articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses.

Find citations to articles and book reviews from the social sciences and humanities about Central and South America, Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.

Find hundreds of fully digitized Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the United States from 1808-1980. Based on the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project" directed by Professor Nicolas Kanellos.

Digitized primary sources and other collections from Canadian and American institutions, covering the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century. Includes manuscripts; book collections; newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations; materials such as Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages.

Find books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social, and cultural movements throughout the 20th century and to the present day.

Explore the experience of peoples of African descent throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines, research articles, images, and film clips.