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

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below.

  • stereotypes
  • stereotype
  • stereotyping
  • stereotype psychology
  • racism
  • sexism

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

Internet Resources

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