Research Guides: HIST 491C / LAS 450/ AMS 490 / Africana 406: Race and Racism in the Americas (Fall 2022): Finding Articles (Secondary Source)

Finding Articles

The Libraries have a LOT of e-journal subscriptions and hundreds of databases designed to help you find them. You can use PRIMO, the main catalog, to find interesting secondary sources (like articles!). For specialized US history topics, you may want to try America: History and Life. Both work in a similar manner.

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Provides full text coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes nearly 200 journals and 100 books, selective indexing for over 1,700 journals, and abstracts in English of foreign language articles.

PRIMO (Library catalog)
Very good multi-disciplinary database.
Pro: it searches almost everything we own, so you always get results.
Con: it searches almost everything we own, so you get a lot of unrelated results.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of world history (excluding the US and Canada) since 1450. Includes journal articles, books, reviews, conference proceedings, dissertations, etc. published after 1954. About 250 History journals in this database are not findable in EBSCO's Academic Search database, making this the go-to database for finding world history articles.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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Communications, journalism, and mass media studies. Journal articles, also searchable cited references. Coverage: 1915-present.
Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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All levels of education and all educational specialties. Also covers curriculum instruction, testing, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Journal articles, books, and conference papers. Coverage: Mid 1990s-present, some content back to 1930s.
Black Studies Center (1893-current) This link opens in a new window
Black Studies Center consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies, historic indexes, and the full-text of The Chicago Defender newspaper from 1910-1975.

NOTE: this is just a small listing of our databases. Full list of subject specific databases:

Full list of subject specific databases
For some of your topics, you'll need to try multiple databases, as each contains different content

Searching

As noted earlier, databases each use the same keyword and subject system, so searching in the catalog will work in databases too. We can use the same searches as before to find articles. Below are examples.

NOTE: you'll probably need to try these searches in multiple databases.

Examples

(Race OR racism) AND sororit*
- Try searching in America: History & Life, ERIC, Education Research Complete
(enslaved OR slaves) AND smallpox AND "Southern Cone"
- Try Historical Abstracts, America: History & Life, PRIMO
- Try Balmis-Salvany or Smallpox Expedition instead of southern cone
("socioeconomic inequality" OR "racial inequality") AND "higher education"
- Try America: History & Life, ERIC, Education Research Complete, and Chronicle of higher education (search database list)
"Haitian Massacre" AND Dominican AND memory
- Try America: History & Life, PRIMO
FBI AND surveillance AND "Martin Luther King"
- Try America: History & Life, PRIMO, and ProQuest (search database list)
Diversity AND education AND "student mentoring"
- Try ERIC, Education research complete, America: History & Life, and PRIMO
(Black OR "black bodies") AND ("grave robbing" OR "grave robbers") AND medical
- Try America: History & Life, PRIMO
  - You might need to omit "medical" at first.
"Black Wall Street" AND Tulsa
- Try America: History & Life, PRIMO
("news coverage" OR "media coverage") AND Kaepernick AND (race OR racism)
- Try America: History & Life, PRIMO, and ProQuest