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Resources Related to Racism

Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides information relating to racism. Remember, you can do a keyword search or a subject search to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can make use of Boolean searching by combining your search words with the words and, or, not. Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with their call numbers and the floor location.

The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes. E185.615.A678 1983, 4th floor.
Anti-Racism. Ebrary Electronic Resource. To access, do a title search in the Einstein Library Catalog and then click the appropriate links.
Arab Racialism. DS119.7.A646, 4th floor.
The Color of Fear: VH-1185. ETC/Media Resource Center. A-Level, Library.
The Color of Our Future. BF723.R3 C45 1999, 4th floor.
The Color of Gender :Reimaging Democracy. HQ1247 .E58 1994.   4th floor.
Communicating Racism :Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk. HM291 .D496 1989. 4th floor.
The Ethnic Phenomenon. HT1521.V25 , 4th floor.
The First R : How Children Learn Race and Racism. HQ784.S56 V36 2001,  4th floor.
Hatreds : Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century. HT1521 .E44 1996, 4th floor.
Heterogeneities: Race, Gender, Class, Nation, and State. Ebrary Electronic Resource. To access, do a title search in the Einstein Library Catalog and then click the appropriate links.
Hi-Tech Hate [videorecording], VH2237. ETC/Media Resource Center. A-Level, Library.
On Immigration and Refugees. Ebrary Electronic Resource. To access, do a title search in the Einstein Library Catalog and then click the appropriate links.
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States : An Integrated Study. HT1521 .R335 1992, 4th floor.
The Racial State. HT1521 .G548 2002, 4th floor.
Racism. E185.615 .R2144 2004,  4th floor.
Racism After "Race Relations". HT1521 .M4955 1993.  4th floor.
Racism and Society. HT1521 .S548 1996. 4th floor.
Understanding Prejudice, Racism, and Social Conflict. HT1521 .U55 2001. 4th floor.
The Violence of Hate : Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry.HV6773.5 .L48 2002, 4th floor.

Research Databases:

Click on the above link for the complete list of the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed below.

Academic Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
Alternative Press. An index to over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change
Ethnic News Watch: Full-text collection of news, culture and history from ethnic, minority and native press searchable in both English and Spanish.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources.
Sociological Abstracts. Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc.

Internet Resources Relating to Racism

American Civil Liberties Union: Racial Equality. Racial Profiling.

Anti-Immigrant Racism and the Media by Arnoldo Garcia. Media Alliance.

Crosspoint Anti-Racism: Iran: Crosspoint is the Net's biggest collection of links in the field of of Human Rights, Anti-Racism, Refugees, Women's rights, Antifascism, Shoah, etc..

Global Issues: Racism.This web site (by Anup Shah) looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are inter-related. Shah's aim is to raise awareness and provide links to more information. Most of the links on a given page are to external web sites that provide more detail. There are approximately 5,000 external links to news articles, research papers and so on, from charity and non-government organizations like Oxfam, Amnesty International, etc. to multinational bodies like the United Nations.

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues.

Newsbatch: Race and Ethnic Policy Issues NewsBatch is a project developed by Patrick Coony, an attorney who is employed as an Administrative Law Judge in California. The information in NewsBatch has been obtained from a variety of news and research materials on the web, including many government statistical sources. These sources are identified on the charts and maps

Racism in the Name of War. An article from theSocialist Alternative, which is in political solidarity with the Committee for a Workers' International, a worldwide socialist organization in 35 countries on every continent

Sept.11, Middle East Factors in Increased Racism: UN report CBS News.

Watching Justice: Profiling Immigrants, Arabs and Muslims. The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private operating and grantmaking foundation based in New York City that serves as the hub of the Soros foundations network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations in more than 50 countries. OSI and the network implement a range of initiatives that aim to promote open societies by shaping government policy and supporting education, media, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform

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