SOCIOLOGY 304: Spring 2006

MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS
Dr. Brenda Forster

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Writing and Citation Assistance

Using and Evaluating Information Sources

Citing Information

Where to Go for Help

Popular Press/Minorities News Content Analysis

Internet Versions of Some Popular News Magazines

Current issues of the magazines listed are also available for browsing at the library. All library journals and magazines are arranged alphabetically by title.

Internet Versions of Newspapers

Please keep in mind that online versions of magazines and newspapers may not contain all of the articles in a particular issues, or allow you full access to the entirety of an article.

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what?

Don't fret. Look for these buttons: , or , or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX) next to the article citation on the search screen. Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal, if we have it.

Several of the library databases also contain popular press articles. Try Academic Search Premier and Periodical Abstracts (which are also listed below for the Final Minority Analysis).

 

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Suggested Popular Press Articles

If you find that you are unable to find an appropriate article, you may use one of the articles below. Hopefully, these articles can also provide you with examples of appropriate resources and types of articles to use.

  • If you cannot link to the articles using the links above:
  • Accessing newspapers

 

Group Article
Native American Hayden, Thomas, et al. "A Modern Life." U.S. News and World Report 137:11 (October 4, 2004), pg. 44-51.
Muslim

Curiel, Jonathan. "Muslims Find Bay Area Leans Toward Tolerance." San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2004, pg. A1.
Italians Laurino, Maria. "From the Fonz to 'The Sopranos,' Not Much Evolution." The New York Times, Dec. 24, 2000, pg. 2.31.
Italians

" 'Shark Tale' Offensive to Italian Americans?" The Associated Press, April 6, 2004. Accessed through MSNBC [7 February, 2005].

Breznican, Anthony. "Cartoon fish tale draws stereotyping complains [sic] from Italian-American group." The Associated Press [via Lexis-Nexis Academic], March 29, 2004. [Do a "Guided News Search," select "News Wires" for your category, then select "All available wire reports" as your news source]

GLBT

(Homosexuals)

 Quittner, Jeremy. "Keeping the Faith." The Advocate no. 919 (July 20, 2004), p. 34-42.
African Americans

"The Name Game: Can Your Name Hold You Back in a Job Search?" 20/20, ABC News Transcripts [via Lexis-Nexis Academic], August 20, 2004. [Do a "Guided News Search," select "News Transcripts" for your category, then select "ABC News" as your news source]

Dickerson, Debra. "An Army-style prep school for minorities" U.S. News & World Report; 12/29/97, Vol. 123 Issue 25, p73

Glater, Jonathan. "Memo Emerges As a Key Part Of Bias Lawsuit" New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Feb 23, 2005. pg. C.1

Smith, Vern. "Debating the Wages of Slavery". Newsweek August 27, 2001, Vol. 138 Issue 9, p20

"Blacks Hurt by Race Gap in Home Values" Chicago Sun Times, Sunday November 13, 2005 [via Lexis-Nexis Academic] [Do a "Guided News Search", select "General News" for your category, "Major Papers" for your source, and search for the article title].
African American Women

"Angry Black Women Take Aim at Rappers: Spelman Students Don't Like Misogynistic Images in Videos." Associated Press, April 23, 2004. Accessed through MSNBC.com [7 February, 2005].

Staples, Gracie Bonds, and Vickie Conwell. "Spelman women dis sex-laden rap videos; Protesters hit at raunchy degradation." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 21, 2004, pg. 1A. [same topic, different source]
Women

Morris, Betsy, Bonamici, Kate, Kaufman, Susan M., Neering, Patricia. "How Corporate America is Betraying Women" Fortune, 0015-8259, January 10, 2005, Vol. 151, Issue 1

Metzl, Jonathan M. "Selling Sanity Through Gender". Ms. Fall 2003, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p40-45. Available in print only. Call Number: PER MS19

Latino

Mihalopoulos, Dan. "Culture Clash Fuels Housing Fight: Hispanics, Elgin Argue Meaning of Overcrowded" Chicago Tribune, August 3rd 2003

Higgens, Michael. "Lawsuits Bring Profiling Into Open" Chicago Tribune January 23, 2003.

Headen, Susan. "The Hispanic dropout mystery." U.S. News & World Report. October 20, 1997.vol 123 issue 15 p64.

 

 

Final Minority Analysis

Background Information

  • Reference books such as encyclopedias can provide you with good solid information on a topic as well as lengthy bibliographies

    • xreferplus - Allows you to access over 150 different reference works full-text online.

    • Gale Virtual Reference Library - over 30 reference works, including the Encyclopedia of Sociology, are available.

Finding Journal Articles

    • Academic Search Premier - A general database that contains both scholarly and popular journal sources, many in full text. Be sure to evaluate the sources in these databases before using them.
    • JSTOR - An online library which does not include current issues of journals, but is an electronic archives of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence.

    • Periodical Abstracts - A general database that contains both scholarly and popular journal sources, many in full text. Be sure to evaluate the sources in these databases before using them.
    • Project MUSE - An online library of journals from university presses, with the full text of articles from 1996 to the present.
    • ProQuest Psychology Journals - Nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields, all in full text. 
    • Sociological Abstracts (1962-present) - A print reference source containing citations from sociology journals. It is shelved alphabetically in the Bound Periodicals section of the library, on the lower level.

Books (The online I-Share Catalog)

  • Check the list of General Resources on the Multicultural Resources page for reference books that may be helpful
  • Please check the I-Share Online Catalog for books on specific groups, or on multiculturalism in general.
  • Use subject headings to focus your search; select "Browse Subject" and type in a subject
    • Multiculturalism
    • Asian Americans (or another ethnic/racial/religious group)
    • Minorities
    • Ethnicity
    • Ethnic relations
    • Race relations
    • Man-woman relationships--United States
    • Racism
    • Homosexuality
    • Islam
  • Use the I-Share Online Catalog to request books from one of the other 64 libraries throughout the state if a book is not available at Elmhurst.
  • Or, use the online interlibrary loan request form to get books not owned by any I-Share institutions.

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