American Studies

Linked full text journals and indexes.

Documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife, covering an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans.

Provides a state-by-state collection of folksongs describing the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states.

This book explores the central myths and legends that have formed American culture. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.

Provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore to define the identity of every culture in the world.