Inclusion at Penn
Click Videos Resources tab for more videos
Resources for Students Affected by Sexual Violence, Dating Violence or Stalking
On September 21, President Gutmann and Provost Price sent a letter to the Penn community with a call to make the resources available to students more prevalent. Attached is a document listing and describing all of the resources at Penn and in the larger community. You can also link directly to the Penn site for the most up-to-date information.
Penn Resource Centers
-
Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity
Charged with ensuring that the University meets its obligations as an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and educational institution.
-
African American Resource Center
Dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Pennsylvania with a particular focus on those of African descent.
Library contact: Ancil George
-
Albert M. Greenfield Intercultural Center
Building intercultural communities at Penn
Library contact: Ancil George, GIC Board Member
-
La Casa Latina
Promotes greater awareness of Latin@ issues, culture, and identity at Penn. La Casa Latina works closely with the Penn community to offer a supportive environment where all students are welcomed and engaged in programs, events, and dialogues that address important issues affecting Latin@s/Hispanics locally, nationally, and internationally.
Library contact: Joe Holub
-
LGBT Center
A home away from home for sexual and gender minorities and their allies at the University of Pennsylvania. Whether you are questioning your identity, in the process of coming out, or proudly identify as LGBTQ, the Center is your space.
Library contact: David Azzolina
-
Makuu Black Cultural Center
The focal point for student activities, ideas, outreach, and support linked to Black culture and the African Diaspora
Library contact: Ancil George
-
Pan-Asian American Community House
A center where South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander cultures are celebrated. PAACH is a community center that develops and implements innovative programs for leadership development and community service in close collaboration with Asian American student and community groups.
-
Penn Women's Center
Visit the Web site for a variety of services from the sustainable kitchen to lactation and parenting information to intensive dissertation writing support groups. -
TRiO Veterans Upward Bound at the University of Pennsylvania
TRIO Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) Program at the University of Pennsylvania is a FREE, non-credited, non-profit, pre-college program federally funded with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The primary goal of TRIO VUB is to prepare eligible veterans to enter college, be successful in college, and to graduate from college.
Databases for Diversity Related Research and Current Events
For the most detailed selection of databases, see research guides linked to in righthand column. The list below represents highlights from the collection.
-
Ethnic NewsWatch, 1959-Provides access to more than 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers and magazines.
-
America: History and LifeA bibliographic database indexing books, book chapters, and over 1,800 journals relating to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
-
Black Literature Index"This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article."
-
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United States and Canada, this database focuses on newspapers first published before the Civil War. The collection includes over 900 newspapers. Includes the Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-1900), Philadelphia Public Ledger (1836-1876) and Philadelphia North American (1839-1879) as well as many other Philadelphia Newspapers.
-
Hispanic American Periodicals Index HAPICovers Latin America and U.S. Latinos in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from over four hundred journals. 1970 to the present.
-
Proquest History VaultLinks to collections of documents including the following:
Black freedom struggle in the 20th century: Federal government records; Black freedom struggle in the 20th century: Organizational records and personal papers, part 1; NAACP Papers: Special Subjects; NAACP papers : Board of directors, annual conferences, major speeches, and national staff files; NAACP papers : The NAACP's major campaigns--education, voting, housing, employment, armed forces; NAACP papers : The NAACP's major campaigns--legal department files; NAACP papers : The NAACP's major campaigns--Scottsboro, anti-lynching, criminal justice, peonage, labor, and segregation and discrimination complaints and responses; Slavery and the Law; State slavery statutes. -
Archives UnboundCollections of documents including: Feminism in Cuba; Federal Surveillance of African Americans; Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Movement; Papers of Amiri Baraka; Republic of New Afrika; The West's Response to Jewish Immigration; Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s; The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism; National Domestic Workers Union; Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newspapers; American Indian Correspondence; European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century; Japanese American Relocation Camp Newspapers; Women, War, and Society 1914-1918
-
Jewish Exponent 1887-1990An historical newspaper fully searchable through Proquest Historical Newspapers. See also JSTOR: Jewish Studies for access to 60 journals ranging in publication dates from 1899 to 2014.
-
Jewish newspapers at Penn LibrariesTo connect to the libraries other Jewish newspaper subscriptions and access...
-
Independent VoicesOpen access collection of the alternative press of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s with over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries.
Library Guides for Diversity Related Services and Research
Area Studies Collections @ Penn
Speak to one of Penn's Area Studies librarians for Russia and Slavic speaking countries, Japan and Korea, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia, Judaica, and China and East Asia.
