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Race & Ethnicity

Race and ethnicity across the nation
Notes: Dots are placed randomly within each census tract — small geographic areas that typically contain between 1,200 to 8,000 people — to represent population density and racial makeup. The dots do not represent exact locations of anybody. For the 2020 census, people could identify both as a race, such as “White” or “Black,” and as Hispanic or Latino. In this map, the dots representing a race do not include people who also identified as Hispanic or Latino; they are counted in the “Hispanic” category. “Everyone else” includes people who identified as another race or as two or more races. Dots have been placed in each tract for every 150, 300 or 900 people in each group, depending the map’s zoom level. Groups below the current people-per-dot threshold are not represented.

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The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice by Ramiro Martinez (Editor); Meghan E. Hollis (Editor); Jacob I. Stowell (Editor)
Call Number: HV6197.U5 .H363 2018
ISBN: 9781119113775
Publication Date: 2018-06-08
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States by James J. Donahue (Editor); Jennifer Ann Ho (Editor); Shaun Morgan (Editor)
Call Number: PS374.R32 N37 2017
ISBN: 9780814213544
Publication Date: 2017-09-13
Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory and critical race theory as applied to ethnic American literature, exploring the interpretive possibilities of this critical intersection. Taken as a whole, these chapters demonstrate some of the many ways that the formal study of narrative can help us better understand the racial/ethnic tensions of narrative fictions. Similarly, the essays advance the tools of narrative theory by redeploying or redesigning those tools to better account for and articulate the ways that race and ethnicity are formal components of narrative as well as thematic issues. Recognizing that racial/ethnic issues and tensions are often contextualized geographically, this volume focuses on narratives associated with various racial and ethnic communities in the United States. By engaging with new developments in narrative theory and critical race studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of using the tools of narratology and critical race theory together to understand how race influences narrative and how narratology illuminates a reading of race in ethnic American literature"--
Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice by Matthew B. Robinson (Editor)
Call Number: HV9960.U55 R33 2021
ISBN: 9781531016388
Publication Date: 2021-07-21
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class by Joseph F. Healey; Andi Stepnick; Eileen O′Brien
Call Number: E184.A1 H415 2019
ISBN: 9781506346946
Publication Date: 2018-03-02
An introduction to the study of minority groups in the United States -- Diversity in the United States : questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism : from immigrants to white ethnics -- Prejudice and discrimination -- The evolution of dominant-minority relations in the United States -- The development of dominant-minority group relations in preindustrial America : the origins of slavery -- Industrialization and dominant-minority relations : from slavery to segregation and the coming of postindustrial society -- Understanding dominant-minority relations in the United States today
Race and Ethnicity in America by John Iceland
ISBN: 9780520961975
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
Race and Ethnicity in Americaexamines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades. John Iceland shows how color lines have generally softened over time in the United States but deep-seated inequalities remain-generally, blacks, American Indians, and some Hispanics fare less well than others
Race and Identity in Hispanic America by Patricia Reid-Merritt; Michael S. Rodriguez
Call Number: E184.S75 R45 2020
ISBN: 9781440867842
Publication Date: 2020-04-03
This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the evolution of racial classifications in the United States and in Hispanic/Latino countries in the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean
Race and Society: the Essentials by Kathleen J. Fitzgerald
Call Number: E184.A1 F57547 2021
ISBN: 9781544374147
Publication Date: 2020-12-30
nderstanding race, racism, and the racial hierarchy -- Immigration, assimilation, ethnicity, and race -- Prejudice and stereotyping -- Discrimination and institutional racism -- Interracial intimacies -- Race in a global context
The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity by Stephen M. Caliendo (Editor); Charlton D. McIlwain (Editor)
Call Number: GN495.6$b.R68 2021
ISBN: 9780429608483
Publication Date: 2020-10-27

Recommended Websites

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Black History - National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government.
Institute for Latino Studies
The Julian Samora Library at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame collects, preserves, and provides access to rare books, manuscripts, personal papers, archives, and oral histories related to the Latino experience in the United States with a particular focus on the Midwest.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
Race and Ethnicity in Higher education/ ACE
Race and ethnicity in Higher Education provides pathways and examines data that provide a foundation from which the higher education community and its many stakeholders can draw insights, raise new questions, and make the case for why race and ethnicity still matter in American higher education
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
Urban Institute - Research on Race & Ethnicity
The Urban Institute is the trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States. Our experts analyze racial and ethnic disparities in health care, housing access, economic well-being, retirement security, educational attainment, and public assistance receipt. We evaluate how systemic and structural barriers drive these gaps and how the disparities undermine educational success and economic advancement and perpetuate wage, income, and wealth disparities. We also develop policy solutions to reduce and eliminate these racial inequities.

Open Access Journals

Columbia Journal of Race and Law
The Columbia Journal of Race and Law (CJRL) strives to promote scholarship that examines issues surrounding racial and ethnic justice. We envision this work as a part of a collective effort progressing towards “a more perfect union.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Ethnic and Racial Studies aims to be the leading international journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration and forms of ethno-nationalism. As the leading journal in these areas we seek to provide an interdisciplinary academic forum for the presentation of original research and theoretical analysis, drawing particularly on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, international relations, geography, history, social psychology and cultural studies.
Ethnicities
Ethnicities is fully peer-reviewed with an impressive international reputation and focus. As a genuinely cross-disciplinary journal centred on sociology and politics, Ethnicities provides the very best critical, interdisciplinary dialogue on questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights. Ethnicities has three broad aims, each of which adds a new and distinctive dimension to the academic analysis of ethnicity, nationalism, identity politics and minority rights.
Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity -JCSCORE
The Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), a production of the University of Oklahoma Outreach.
JCSCORE (ISSN 2642-2387) is committed to promoting an exchange of ideas that can transform lives, enhance learning, and improve human relations in higher education.
Lateral- Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
Lateral (ISSN 2469–4053) is the peer-reviewed, open access digital journal and production site of the Cultural Studies Association. Lateral is designed to foster experimentation and collaboration among cultural studies practitioners and researchers. It is committed to critical studies of culture that advance and extend the reach of cultural studies as a field and method of inquiry and as an intellectual/political project.