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Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.
Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.
Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search
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Content: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.
Purpose: Provides access to multidisciplinary ebooks for download or to be read online.
Special Features: Browse by subject option; highlight and take notes in text.
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Content: Reference sources, primarily books but also videos and business cases.
Purpose: Use for finding reference sources like encyclopedias and handbooks that provide contextual or explanatory material.
Special Features: Includes Sage Navigator

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Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture by Guido Bolaffi (Editor); Peter Braham (Editor); Sandro Gindro (Editor); Tullio Tentori (Editor); Raffaele Bracalenti (Editor)
ISBN: 9780761969006
Publication Date: 2002
Race, ethnicity and culture are concepts of extreme relevance in society today, and yet continue to be interpreted in various and often contradictory ways. The Dictionary provides the historical background and etymology of a wide range of words related to these concepts, looking at discourses of race, ethnicity and culture from a broadly multicultural perspective.
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society by Richard T. Schaefer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412926942
Publication Date: 2008
Presents a comprehensive look at the role race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Offers informative coverage of intergroup relations in the United States and the comparative examination of race and ethnicity worldwide.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism by Angela Doolin (Editor)
ISBN: 0028661745
Publication Date: 2013
Provides critical information and context on the underlying social, economic, geographical, and political conditions that gave rise to, and continue to foster, racism. Explores religion, political economy, social activism, health, concepts, and constructs.
Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology by Guillermo Bernal (Editor); Joseph E. Trimble (Editor); A. Kathleen Hoard Burlew (Editor); Frederick T. L. Leong (Editor)
ISBN: 0761919651
Publication Date: 2002
Presents a thorough, scholarly overview of the psychology of racial, ethnic and minority issues in the United States and should prove to be an indispensable resource to both minority and non-minority communities.
Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity by Nasar Meer
ISBN: 9780857028686
Publication Date: 2014-08-27
Offers an accessible discussion of both foundational and novel concepts in the study of race and ethnicity