Chocolate Cities provides a provocative, broad, and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America's social, economic, and political landscape.
This section of the ASA regularly updates its site with recent publications, conference news, and topics of interest.
Articles explore sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to social issues affecting rural people and places.
Documentary tales of the ways in which ordinary citizens respond to the policies, processes, and institutions driving contemporary forms of spatial violence and gentrification.
Topics related to communities can be found in a variety of places, depending on what aspect of the rural, urban, or suburban community you are researching. In addition, these databases may be particularly useful as they relate to some aspects of these types of communities.
Including bibliographic records covering essential areas related to the study of cities and regions, this database explores such topics as urban affairs, community development, urban history and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
You can browse the Urban Studies section of the databases by clicking browse and going to the bottom of the list.
Journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
An asterisk ( Shift+8 to get *) after a series of letters tells the search to provide results that match the letters you typed along with any word ending as long as it is part of the same word. Keep in mind that this may not always work the way you expect! Applications for this could be:
| Base plus * | Sample of Possible matches |
|---|---|
| gentrif* | gentrify, gentrification, gentrified, gentrifying |
| farm* | farm, farms, farmers, farming, farmed |
Placing quotes around two or more words tells the search to provide results with those words in that exact order with only one space between them. This is especially helpful when words have meanings separately that are changed when combined or are given a more specific meaning when used in conjunction. Some examples are:
The word "or" means something very different to databases, and might be helpful when searching for similar concepts that either don't all start with the same letters or has too many irrelevant matches.
| Instead of just... | Try... |
|---|---|
| "food deserts" | "food deserts" OR "food security" OR "food access" OR "food insecurity" |
| "urban renewal" | "urban renewal" OR "city renewal" OR "micro-regeneration" OR "urban revitalization" OR "urban redevelopment" |