Multicultural Literature: Home

The purpose of this page is to help you with your research in Multicultural Literature. Need more help? Please let us know! We'd love to sit down with you one-on-one to help you with your research or answer any questions you have. You can contact us through e-mail at reference@ngu.edu, by phone at (864) 977-7094, or just stop by the reference desk located upstairs in the library. 

Surnames are not always indicative of ethnicity, and it can be difficult to compile a list of authors by ethnic background. To identify writers of a specific ethnic ancestry, try the following strategies:

• Search the Literature Resource Center:
  1. Click on the "Person Search" link
  2. Click on the "Person Search" link
     To find an author with a specific ethnicity or nationality, scroll down to the "Ethnicity" menu box and select one of the six categories and/or scroll down to the "Nationality" menu box and choose from the options there.

• Use Poets & Writers' online Directory of Writers. From the "Identifies as" menu, choose an ethnicity and click the Search button. The next screen should display a list of writers who have self-identified themselves with that ethnic group.

• Use the Library Catalog to search subject headings for anthologies/multi-author collections: For example: indians of north america--literary collections