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Welcome to the NU Library course guide for SOC 400 - Race and Ethnicity in the USA. This guide is designed to help students find resources to complete the Biography of an Immigrant Project
While you are welcome to use course materials, you must consult a minimum of three scholarly sources (external peer-reviewed journal articles, government documents, or chapters from other scholarly books*) published in the past 10 years to help you provide more in-depth analysis. Older references are fine as additional references, as some texts are classics, but you must have three newer ones. Failure to use at least three scholarly peer-reviewed sources published in 2012 or after will result in a substantial docking of your grade. (*University press books; serious ‘trade’ books written for a scholarly audience such as Sage, Basic Books, etc. Check with me if you need help with this.)
While this guide will provide you with support to complete the research aspects of your assignment, please address all questions regarding content, formatting, and grading to your instructor.
For more information and library resources, see the Sociology Guide.
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If you need to narrow a topic from a broad subject to a specific research question or thesis statement, one of the easiest ways is by asking yourself the 5Ws – who, what, where, when, and why.
You don't have to answer all the questions, but should answer enough so that your topic is manageable to research and will fit within your assignment length requirement.
Landscapes of Care by 
Issues and Challenges of Immigration in Early Childhood in the USA by 
Working Americans 1880-2017: Immigrants by 
Encyclopedia of North American Immigration by 
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more
Content: Sociology research database with open access and peer-review, non-open access journal articles dating back to 1895.
Purpose: Great for comprehensive research in sociology.
Special Features: SocINDEX with Full Text includes 3,115 active indexed and abstracted journals. 2,994 of them are peer-reviewed.
