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This work provides information about nearly 300 ethnic periodicals in the US. The annotated entries are arranged by ethnic group, including such diverse groups as Greek Americans, Croatians, and Lithuanians. An appendix includes a list of ethnic periodicals that did not respond to the questionnaire sent out by the compiler. The entries in the main section address would-be contributors by providing practical information about submission and format and describing the focus of the materials considered useful by the journal editors. By contrast, The Oxbridge Directory of Ethnic Periodicals, ed. by Patricia Hagood (1979, now subsumed into The Standard Periodical Directory), had more than 3,000 US and Canadian listings but covered newspapers and other serials as well as periodicals. Ireland's compilation is recommended for use in undergraduate and graduate libraries as well as in public and special libraries. It will serve the interests of historians, sociologists, and political scientists. -M. Margolis, Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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