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First Year Seminars:
US & THEM: The Truth about Stereotypes

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on the subject of stereotypes. Please also see the Sociology: Prejudice/Discrimination guide.

Background Information Sources

Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America	REF E 184 .A1 C57 2004
Encyclopedia of Sociology v.1 (Attitudes) and v.3 (Prejudice)	REF HM 425 .E5 2000
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism	REF HQ 784 .S56 V36 2001
Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender (Pt. 3 Social Roles and Systems)	REF HQ 1206 .H2385 2001
The Black Images in the White Mind: Media and Race in America	REF P 94.5 .A372 U55 2001
Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media	REF P 96 .S74 I45 2003
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America	REF PN 1992.8 A34 H86 2005
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies	REF PN 1995.9 .M56 B46 2004

Books

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stereotypes
stereotype

stereotyping
stereotype psychology

racism
sexism

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
CQ Researcher: in-depth reports on current, hot, and controversial topics.
LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
General Reference Center/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Sociology or Communications.