News Research
- Associated Press - Race and EthnicityThe Associated Press is a news outlet covering events surrounding race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in and outside of the United States.
- World Politics ReviewThe World Politics Review is a news outlet discussing and analyzing issues in the world at large. Students have been granted access by Cornell University.
- MidEastWireMidEast Wire is a news outlet discussing current events in the Middle East through the use of tv, print, and radio. Cornell University has granted access to all students.
- ArtforumArtforum is a magazine dedicated to outlining developments in art and visual culture globally. Cornell University Library provides online access to current and historic issues.
Deeper Dives (extra guides)
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS): A Research GuideThis Cornell Library guide offers resources outlining key terminology, issues and histories in gender and sexuality studies
- Labor Studies: Labor History and CultureThis Cornell Library guide offers a series of resources related to labor history including labor films, labor artists, data, publications, and other archival repositories.
- Black Lives Matter Research GuideA Cornell Library guide to Information resources related to the BLM movement.
Exhibitions
- Women Making Their Mark, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2021Women Making Their Mark explores the works of women artists across disciplines and mediums from the 19th century to the contemporary
- Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, The Hammer Museum, 2022Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation is an exhibit that considers how race, class, media, technology, and images are theorized in the work of Ulysses Jenkins.
- Morning Dew: The Stigma of Being ‘Brainwashed’, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2023.Morning Dew: The Stigma of Being ‘Brainwashed’ looks to artists engaging material and visual culture to examine the experiences of Zainichi Koreans currently living in Japan and to explore issues of race, ethnicity, deportation, and representation.
Digital Image sources
Explore archival images, contemporary images, and other image sources:
Image Databases
Finding Images Guide
Social Media
- @workingclasshistoryWorking Class History is an Instagram account and archive documenting working class movements against capitalism and social discrimination conducted by people across racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality and class experiences.
- @veteranas_and_rucasVeteranas and Rucas is an Instagram archive that centers photography and examines the experiences of Chicana/x/e and Latina/x/e women in Southern California.
- @caribbeanarchiveCaribbean Archive is an Instagram archive looking at AfroCaribbean women’s history through photography, visual art, performance, and cinematography.
Critical Looking Exercise
Inspired by the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and sustained police brutality against marginalized people in the United States, a series of protests erupted amongst the public. Many of the protests conducted by those who were negatively affected by police brutality and the former President’s policies were described amongst individuals and news outlets as “riots.” Why might Pepsi choose to publish this advertisement in 2017? How does the contemporary language surrounding protest movements inform how we read this advertisement? How is the moving image being utilized here to represent protest? How are race, gender, sexuality, and class functioning or not functioning in these images? How might we relate this advertisement to Guy Debord’s insights on celebrity and spectacle? What can the images within this advertisement tell us about nation, safety, and citizenship in the US?
The New York Times offers insights on the controversy sparked by the advertisement here.