In honor of the 3rd annual Moment-Us and the upcoming Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing online, full-text resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity.
Today, we’re highlighting general resources that are great for getting an overview and background on controversial, complex topics:
Opposing Viewpoints
Brings together full-text articles, primary source documents, statistics, and more to provide context for current social issues.
Oxford African American Studies Center
A comprehensive collection of full-text materials focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African and African American history and culture. Contains biographies, images, primary source documents with commentaries, maps, tables and charts, thematic timelines and much more.
Sage Reference Online
This fully-searchable collection of the electronic versions of Sage’s print encyclopedias covers a wide variety of diversity related issues in-depth. The collection includes:
Encyclopedia of African American Society
Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Encyclopedia of Black Studies
Encyclopedia of Disability
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
Encyclopedia of Homelessness
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
Encyclopedia of World Poverty
Interested in finding out more? You can always Ask-a-Librarian!
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Collins Celebrates Diversity with Alternative News!
Collins Celebrates Diversity in Multimedia!