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Sociology

Race & Ethnic Relations: Highlighted Resources

📗 Critical Race Theory

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, the new edition covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt.

🎓 Ethnic & Racial Studies

A leading international journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration, and forms of ethno-nationalism.

🎞 Driving While Black

Driving While Black explores the background of a phrase rooted in realities that have been a part of the African American experience for hundreds of years – told in part through the stories of the people who lived through it.

📊 Race Visualizations

Infographics from the US Census on the topic of race. Be sure to check out the other areas along the left with their publications. 

Databases for Race & Ethnic Relations

The following databases are strong in areas related to race, ethnicity, and the social issues related to these topics. 

Race Relations Abstracts

Covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Black Life in America

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.

Project MUSE

Many topics are covered including American studies, culture, and sociology.

Search Strategies for Race & Ethnic Relations

Asterisk: *

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
raci* racist, racism, racial, racialization, racialized
latin* latino, latina, latinx

Quotation Marks: "____" 

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:

  • "Black Lives Matter"
  • "student activism"

OR

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...
latino latin* OR hispanic OR mexican OR chican*
biracial biracial OR multiracial OR "mixed race" OR "mixed heritage"