Guides: SWRK 6030: American Racism: Overview

Finding Biographies

Use the Library catalog to find biographies and autobiographies that discuss encounters with racism. Consider using the Advanced Search to search for keywords in subject headings. Try looking for groups of people + the word "biography", like the below:

Reference Works

Streaming Video

Black Studies in Video
featuring award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.

American History in Video
The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and documentaries.

Kanopy
Streaming videos. We have a patron driven model: if a video is watched more than four times, for more than 30 seconds, we are charged for one year of streaming access.

Article Databases

General Databases

JSTOR - Tip: Use Advanced Search, scroll down, and choose disciplines.
EBSCO MegaFILE
Google Scholar
Project Muse

Subject-Specific Databases

Social Services Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts
PsycINFO - Psychology
America: History and Life - U.S. History
Sociological Abstracts - Sociology
Race Relations Abstracts
Hein Online - Law
Education Source - Education
ERIC - Education
Criminal Justice Abstracts - Criminology
Search for databases by subject

Primary Sources

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal
Ancestry Library Edition

Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes); Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes); The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630; Social Security Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and a strong Civil War collection.

SWRK 6030: American Racism

Social Sciences Librarian

Finding Biographies

Reference Works

Streaming Video

Article Databases

Primary Sources

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