Reference Sources on Race & Ethnicity
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience in the Americas
Call Number: Print: Olin Library Reference E185 .E54 2006Publication Date: 2006 (2nd ed.)6 vols. Culture broadly defined provides information on persons, events, and trends. Concludes with a collection of around 35 primary documents, section of "Statistics and Lists," and an overall index. -
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Call Number: Print copy: Olin Library Reference E184.A1 E584 2013 (also online)Publication Date: 20133 vols. Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modern era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Some of the nearly 400 articles address broad theoretical topics that have helped to shape modern ideas about race and racism; others address more specific subjects in the larger fields. -
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
Publication Date: 2008Covers important topics, events, and persons relevant to race and ethicity in society. Also addresses other issues of inequality that intersect with race and ethnicity, including ability status, age, class, gender, and sexual orientation. -
Oxford African American Studies Center
Scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Features articles by top scholars in the field, images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, maps,charts and tables, and biographies.
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Oxford Bibliographies: African American StudiesOffers regularly updated bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies -- culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics
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Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms
Publication Date: Routledge, 2020Brings together thirty-four original chapters from international experts that address key features of contemporary racisms. The Handbook has a global orientation and covers contemporary racisms in both the western and non-western geopolitical environments. -
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
Call Number: Olin Library Reference DT14 .A37435 2005 + (also Africana)Publication Date: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects range from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids to Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Social Sciences Reference Sources
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Call Number: Olin Library Reference H41 I58x 2001 (print version)Publication Date: 200126 Vols. Covers theory and methodology in core disciplines and emphasizes the cross-disciplinary interconnectedness among fields within the social sciences. More than 4,000 signed entries including overviews, reviews of future directions, biographies and bibliographies. Online version provides ongoing regular updates and additional new articles. Vol. 26 in print format is a classified list of entries by field and extensive subject index connecting related topics. -
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Call Number: Also in print: Olin Library Reference HM425 .E47 2005 +Publication Date: Sage, 2005Perspectives from sociology, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, women's studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and media theory (among others) are presented in this encyclopedia. -
Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory
Publication Date: Routledge, 2020Covers social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches. There are also chapters on mobilities and migrations, as well as posthumanism. -
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Publication Date: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017An interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the origins, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory. Presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview and analysis of all aspects of social theory