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Making sense of Black Lives Matter and the Black Experience in the United States
History & Critical Perspectives: Selected Books
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
Call Number: E185.615 .L393 2017Downtown UTSA LibraryCritical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic
3rd edition
Available as an e-bookRacism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson
Call Number: HT1507 .F74 2002Available as an e-book and in printRacist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations by Joe R. Feagin; Kimberley Ducey
4th edition
Available as an e-bookAlgorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Available as an e-bookThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: HV9950 .A437 2010Available as an e-book and in print
History & Critical Perspectives: Databases
- America: History and Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSelectively indexes and abstracts the scholarly literature on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Includes citations to journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. Also includes useful features such as the ability to search by historical time period. For world history, see Historical Abstracts.
- Black Studies (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThis collection contains documentaries, interviews and archival video footage covering the black experience. Subjects include history, politics, art, culture, family structure, gender relationships and economic issues. Also included: SNCC Legacy Video Collection, over fifty hours of formal addresses, panel discussions, and programs commemorating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
- Hein Online: Civil Rights and Social Justice This link opens in a new windowContaining publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more, this database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new windowContains major full-text reference resources on African American and African history and culture, including "Encyclopedia of African American History"; and the "African American National Biography", as well as articles from other major reference sources. Only a few people can use this database at one time.
Think Tanks
Search think tanks for the latest research about Black Lives Matter and other issues surrounding race and ethnicity.
- Brookings InstitutionThis left-center think tank has been named the top think tank in the U.S.
- Hoover InstitutionThis right-center think tank at Stanford University stands on the conservative and libertarian principles of individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and limited government. Prominent Black thinkers Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steel are affiliated with the Hoover Institution.
- Pew Research Center: African AmericansA collection of data about African Americans from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.