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CIVIL RIGHTS
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: In modern society the concept of individual rights may be defined in terms of entitlements and privileges due an individual group upon which no infringements can be made. (Palmisano, World of Sociology) Freedom of speech, the right to choose where we live, and the freedom from random imprisonment are just some of the basic, undeniable rights individuals in our society have.
SUBJECT HEADINGS:
Books dealing with civil rights are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:
Civil rights—United States
Afro-Americans-Civil rights
United States-Race relations
Civil rights movements-United States
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
HM17.E5 1991 Encyclopedia of Sociology
HM 251.H224 The Handbook of Social Psychology
HM 585.W67 2001 World of Sociology
Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Bell, Jeannine. Policing
Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime.
New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Dillard, Angela D. Guess
Who’s Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural
Conservatism in America. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Ford, Richard T.
Racial Culture: A Critique. Princeton, N.J:
Princeton University
Press, 2005.
Gerstle, Gary. American
Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: University Press, 2001.
Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan. The
Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil
Rights. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Loury, Glenn C. The
Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Canbridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Marvasti, Amir B.
Middle Eastern Lives in America. Lanham, Md. Rowman
&
Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education:
Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Reporting Civil Rights. New York: Library of America, 2003.
Thermstrom, Stephan. America in
Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Young, Andrew.
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the
Transformation of America. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, 1996.
Weisbrot, Robert.
Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights
Movement. New York, NY: Plume, 1990.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of civil rights are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
The Civil Rights Project Harvard University
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/
Academic Info: Civil Rights History
http://www.academicinfo.net/africanamcr.html
The Malcolm X project
at Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/index.html
The
life of Malcolm X through interviews and digital
multimedia.
U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights
http://www.usccr.gov/
This site contains numerous reports and public news
briefs concerning the civil rights of all individuals
regardless of race or ethnicity.
Voices of Civil Rights
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/
A
collaboration between AARP, Leadership conference on
Civil Rights and the Library of Congress. Links to
websites of interest, photographs and short videos.
Updated
10/22/2008
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