Multicultural literature is a term used to describe literature of, by, or about various racial/ethnic/cultural groups. Sometimes the term is also used for books about sexual identity, disabilities, and age. Usually it is used to describe books portraying people that are not of Anglo-Saxon origin. Many books that are culturally neutral or generic do not have an assigned racial/ethnic subject heading, but most books that are "culturally specific" will have such a subject heading. The terms that are used as subject headings are chosen by the Library of Congress.

Multicultural literature is found throughout the collection in Easy, Fiction, and Non-Fiction

TO FIND IN INFOHAWK (Using Curriculum Lab database):

Select search type: Subject Heading <enter the following words or phrases>

African Americans Asian Americans Blind Chinese Americans Deaf Gay Haitian Americans Hispanic Americans Holidays Homosexuality Indians of North America (Note: Also Navajo, Dakota, etc.) Interracial Islam Japanese Americans

Jews Korean Americans Kwanzaa Lesbian Mexican Americans Old age People with disabilities Physically handicapped Prejudices Puerto Ricans Race relations Racially mixed people Sex roles Vietnamese Americans

INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

For books set in other countries:
Select search type: Subject heading <enter the name of the country>

For books originally published in another language:
Select search type: Keyword Anywhere: translated