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Pathfinder for Racism and Race Relations

 

Wikipedia Entries: Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination


Some Print Resources at the WCC Library

  • Race Relations by James D. Torr (Research Topics Carrel, Library use only)
  • Race Myth : Why We Pretend Race Exists in America by Joseph Graves, Jr. (E184.A1 G823 2004)
  • Racism: a Short History by George M. Fredrickson (HT1507 .F74 2002)
  • White privilege : essential readings on the other side of racism edited by Paula Rothenberg (E184.A1 W394 2002)

Other books in the Research Topics Carrel will also be relevant.

Try adding "Hawaii" to a keyword search to find books on race in Hawaii, or use a specific race as a keyword for a more focused search

Try searching for specific events or people connected with racism and race relations such as Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil War, the Massie case

Search for more books in the library using Voyager


Digital Books (via eBrary and NetLibrary)

Users must login if they are off campus and for eBrary a plug-in must be installed

Web Sites

  • none yet

Videos

(search for more books in the library using Voyager)

  • Black Robe (DVD)
  • Blazing Saddles (DVD)
  • Blood in the Face (DVD)
  • A Class Divided (DVD, on reserve)
  • Crash (DVD)
  • Do The Right Thing (DVD)
  • Eye of the Storm (DVD, on reserve)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (DVD)
  • Mississippi Burning (DVD)
  • Once Were Warriors (DVD)
  • Othello (DVD) - Shakespeare
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence (DVD)
  • Race: The Power of an Illusion (DVD, on reserve)
  • Raisin in the Sun (DVD)
  • Roots DVD)
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (DVD)

Racism and the United States

  • Black looks : Race and Representation by Bell Hooks (E185.86 .H734 1992)
  • How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev (E184.I6 I36 1995)
  • Working toward whiteness : how America’s immigrants became white : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs by David Roediger (E184.A1 R644 2005)
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James Loewen (E175.85 .L64 1996)
  • Legal lynching : racism, injustice, and the death penalty by Jesse Jackson (HV8699.U5 J33 1996)
  • The Columbia guide to Asian American history by Gary Y. Okihiro (Reference Collection, E184.O6 C64 2001)
  • Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture by Martin Berger (eBrary)

 

See Also

For more resources, including online journal articles, check out the WCC Library main page.

page last updated: June 23, 2008