Resources
- The World of Jim Crow America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia
- Steven A. Reich, ed. Santa Barbara, Calif., Greenwood, 2019. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
- Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications, 2008.
- Over 600 signed entries on racial and ethnic groups and issues relating to race and ethnicity. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States
- Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2005. 3 vols.
- Some 450 scholarly entries dealing with concepts, theories, people, events, legislation, court cases, and specific racial and ethnic groups. Includes an appendix of primary documents: slave codes, legal documents, speeches, and texts. Available?;
- The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States
- Philip H. Herbst. Yarmouth, Me., Intercultural Press, 1997.
- Herbst, an anthropologist, offers definitions, as well as the social and historical origins, of 850 frequently misunderstood, offensive, or politically-charged ethnic and racial terms used in the U.S. Available?
- Cruel and Unusual: Negative Images of Arabs in American Popular Culture
- Laurence Michalak. 3rd edition. Washington, DC: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Research Institute, 1988. ERIC ED 363 532.
- While Michalak touches on the treatment of Arabs in other venues (songs, jokes, television, political cartoons and comics), the main focus is on depiction in films.
- Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects
- Amaney Jamal and Nadine Christine Naber. Syracuse University Press, 2008. Available?
- Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History
- Francisco A. Rosales. Houston, Tex., Arte Publico Press, 2006. Rutgers-restricted Access
Constructing Race
- "Terms of Estrangement"
- James Shreeve. Discover November 1994.
- "race"
- Ann Morning. Contexts 4 (4), Fall 2005, pp.44-46
Overview of definitions, usage, and sociological approach.Rutgers-restricted Access
- Racial Theories
- Michael Banton.2nd edition. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Available?
- "The Conceptual Politics of Race: Lessons From Our Children"
- Lawrence Hirschfeld. Ethos 25(1), March 1997, pp. 63-92. Rutgers-restricted Access
- "Social Construction and the Concept of Race"
- Edouard Machery and Luc Faucher. Philosophy of Science, December 2005, pp. 1208-1219. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement.
- Kimberle Crenshaw et.al. New York, New Press, 1995
Looks at judicial conclusions resulting from the social construction of race. Available?
- "Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Place of Race in U.S. Social Thought, 1892-1948"
- Davarian L. Baldwin. Critical Sociology 30(2), 2004, pp.397-450. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Racial Formation in the United States.
- Michael Omi and Howard Winant. 3rd edition. New York, Routledge, 2015. Available?
Subject Guide
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Subjects: American Studies, Communication, Criminal Justice, History - Global & Eurasian, History - North America, Journalism & Media Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Literatures in English, New Jerseyana, Political Science, Social Work, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Women's & Gender Studies