Go to our Reference Shelves and browse around the call numbers DT 14 to E 185. Below are some other reference sources you may find helpful:

Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies

Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America

Encyclopedia of American Social History

Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust

West's Encyclopedia of American Law

To get started, try a keyword search in OASys. Be sure to notice the subject headings for the best items on your topic. Click on those headings to get more resources. Need more? Click over to LINK+ and continue your searching there. Need even more? WorldCat includes over 54 million entries from more than 45,000 libraries. You may place Interlibrary Loan requests. (Slower than LINK+)

Suggested Keyword Searches for this Course

keyword: "jim crow"
keyword: segregation and america* and south*
keyword: "great migration"
keyword: mississippi and (black* or african-american*)
keyword: nazi and german*

keyword: rac* and europe and "20th century"

keyword: eugenic* and german*

keyword: nuremberg and "world war"

keyword: genocide and jew*

HINT: Remember to be flexible with your terminology and try several different searches.

Suggested Subject Headings for this Course

African Americans -- Civil Rights -- History -- 20th Century

African Americans -- Mississippi

African Americans -- Segregation
African Americans -- South Carolina

Europe -- Ethnic Relations

Germany -- Race Relations

Germany -- Social Conditions

Southern States -- Race Relations

For more assistance with searching for books, please see Finding Books.

Selected Library Research Databases for CSP 51: 

America: History & Life
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada, from pre-history to the present.  Find citations to and occasional full-text links for articles.

Historical Abstracts

Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Find citations to and occasional full-text links for articles.  

Ethnic Newswatch (ProQuest)
Full-text database of articles in the ethnic press. No more than 2 viewers can access this database at one time. Please use the EXIT button when you are done.

JSTOR
Full-text archive of high-impact academic journals in many disciplines. Included journals generally begin with full-text from the first issue up until 3-5 years ago. Full-text is not available through JSTOR for recent issues. You can browse journals by discipline, by title or search articles by keyword.

LexisNexis

Obtain articles from legal newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and law reviews.  This full text database also contains case law for federal and state legal cases, federal and state codes, as well as international legal materials.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search the full text of the New York Times (1851 - 1999) and the Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1928 and growing). View results as page images.

ProQuest Online Information Service
A common interface to databases marketed by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Oxy's set of ProQuest databases includes ProQuest General Reference, ProQuest Religious Periodicals, National Newspapers, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Except for Historical Newspapers, these databases can be searched simultaneously. Together they form a convenient general article database offering ample links to complete online articles.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
Find citations and abstracts for journal articles, serials, monographs, and dissertations in sociology and related disciplines.

Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Find citations, abstracts, and substantial full-text for international, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.

For more assistance with searching our databases, please see Finding Articles.

Tired of Googling? try a different search engine or a subject directory found on our Public Internet Search Tools page.

For example, go to the Librarian's Index to the Internet, and try this search: racism

Some results include:

• The History of Jim Crow
• PBS' The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Nuremberg Trials Project : A Digital Document Collection
• The Shoah Visual History Foundation
• From Swastika to Jim Crow

 For more assistance with searching for web sites, please see Finding Public Web Pages.