The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity is offering a five-week course on "Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election". The course "will explore how issues of race, class, faith and gender have shaped the candidates, campaigns, and our society.

Course registration is required for undergraduate and graduate students.
The series will also be free and open to the public.

For further reading on presidential politics, try searches like these in Socrates:

• Subject = United States presidential campaigns
• Everything = United States presidential politics and gender
• Subject = United States politics and social class

Reference Sources (use the Subjects in the catalog record to find more books in the stacks that you can check out):

• American Decades
• Contemporary youth culture : an international encyclopedia
• Crime and the justice system in America : an encyclopedia
• Sage Dictionary of criminology (online)
• American hard-boiled crime writers

Use Online Reference Sources!

Here are some sample searches using our online Reference databases:

• Crime and Class (from International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences) - note the related articles on the right hand column of the results screen
• Terrorism (a chapter from Dictionary of Military History via Blackwell Reference Online)
• Mutiny (search results using Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Selected Subject Search Terms using the Searchworks Catalog (click on these links to see catalog listings for these subjects.)

• Capital Punishment Look at the "Topics" box to see interesting sub-topics, like "Criminals"
• Violent Crimes
• Criminal Psychology
• Forensic Psychology
• Imprisonment United States
• Mass media and Crime
• White Collar Crimes
• Political Crimes and Offenses
• War Crimes
• Mafia
• Brigands and Robbers (Robin Hoods and Rob Roys)
• Humanitarian Law

Suggested Journals/Periodicals

• Crime, media, culture [electronic resource]
• Journal of criminal justice and popular culture [electronic resource]
• Journal of research in crime and delinquency (electronic and print)

Search more than one Database for Social Science Articles
Proquest Social Science allows you to select and search several social-science databases at once for both Books and Articles: Psycinfo; Sociological Abstracts; Social Services Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); ERIC (Education); PAIS (Public Policy).


Crime Statistics Resources

• Bureau of Justice Statistics (from US Dept. of Justice)
• Firearms and Crime Statistics (US DoJ)
• Financial Crimes Report to the Public (FBI, May 2005)
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports (includes Hate Crime and Crimes against Law Enforcement Officers)
• Sexual Violence (world statistics and prevention overview from the CDC)
• The Lock-up Society (American RadioWorks Series: Life After Prison; The Prison Industry; Jailing the Mentally Ill)

Use the Internet Public Library (IPL) to find recommended websites.

Reference materials:

• Blackwell companion to social movements. (SSRC)
• "Crowds" in Blackwell reference online - see "Key topics" on the left at the bottom of the page
• Encyclopedia of activism and social justice. 3 vols. (SSRC)
• Government, politics and protest: essential primary sources - online only
• Individual and collective behaviors within gatherings, demonstrations, and riots," (by C. McPhail, and R.T. Wohlstein) in Annual Review of Sociology, Aug. 1983
• The International encyclopedia of revolution and protest: 1500 to the present. 8 vols. (IC)

Subject words for Searchworks and databases:

• Crowds
• Collective Behavior
• Hysteria -(Social Psychology)
• Mass media Audiences
• Protest movements
• Riots

Selected books:

• Le Bon, Gustave. The crowd: a study of the popular mind.
• The future of the mass audience / W. Russell Neuman: focuses on how the changing technology and economics of the mass media in post-industrial society will influence public communication
• Audience evolution : new technologies and the transformation of media audiences / Philip M. Napoli.
• Crowds.
• McPhail, Clark. Myth of the madding crowd.
• Protest and organization in the alternative globalization era: NGOs, social movements, and political parties.
• Series:
  • "Cambridge studies in contentious politics" - use " " for series in Searchworks

Suggested Journals/Ejournals:

• Mobilization: the international quarterly review of social movement research
• Social movement studies
• Z magazine

Suggested Databases:

• Academic Search Premier - "choose databases" to add: America: History and Life, Left Index, and The Nation.
• Proquest Social Sciences:scroll down in the Advanced Search page to select databases you can select one or all - PAIS (public policy), Philosopher's Index, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
• Sociology

For more information from the Infocenter site:

• Outrage Resources
• Protest Resources
• Student Activism Resources

Chris Bourg
PhD, Stanford University
BA, Duke University

mchris@stanford.edu
Twitter: @mchris4duke
Blog: Feral Librarian