Race  Resources

At NPR 'Brown v. Board:' Letters to Eisenhower. You can listen to and read about a piece of history.

Library Materials

    Sample Books

At the hands of persons unknown : the lynching of Black America
HV6464 .D73 2003

The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative / edited by Christopher Metress
F350.N4 L96 2002

Contempt of court : the turn-of-the-century lynching that launched 100 years of federalism  
KF224.J63 C87 1999

A lynching in the heartland : race and memory in America
F534.M34 M33 2001

Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918
HV6457 .N3 1969b

Ida B. Wells-Barnett : an exploratory study of an American Black woman, 1893-1930
E185.86 .B543 1990

Lynching in the New South : Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
HV6465.G4 B78 1993

Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings"
HV6465.K4 W75 1990

Race, class, gender, and justice in the United States
HV9950 .R33 2002

Jurors' stories of death : how America's death penalty invests in inequality
HV8699.U5 F54 2004

Beyond the Rodney King story : an investigation of police conduct in minority communities
HV8141 .B49 1995

"Law never here" : a social history of African American responses to issues of crime and justice
E185.86 .B25 1999

The color of crime : racial hoaxes, white fear, black protectionism, police harassment, and other macroaggressions
HV9950 .R87 1998

The color of justice : race, ethnicity, and crime in America
HV9950 .W33 1996

    Sample Serials

Suny Series In Afro American Studies

Schomburg Library Of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers

Social problems and social issues

Civil rights, the White House, and the Justice Department, 1945-1968 ; v. 10

Law, meaning, and violence

Contemporary issues in crime and justice series

    Sample Movies

Dark exodous
PN1997 .D219 1985

Forgotten fires
E185.93.S7 F67 1998

Fires in the mirror
PN1997 .F5234 1993

The Rodney King incident: race and justice in America
HV8148.L552 R62 1998 

Twilight, Los Angeles
PN1997 .T972 2001   

How to Find

When you search the Library Catalog for books and movies on "race and crime", here are some sample subject terms:

African Americans Crimes Against

Discrimination in criminal justice administration

Discrimination in capital punishment

Lynching -- History Lynching -- United States African Americans -- History

Hate crimes Southern States

Crime and Race

Race relations

Journal Articles

Sample Articles (csusm connection required)

   Research Articles

Richard M. Perloff (2000) The Press and Lynchings of African Americans Journal of Black Studies, January, 2000, pp. 315-330.

Apel, Dora (2003) On Looking: Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/11  American Quarterly, 55 (3), pp. 457-478.

Christopher Dennis and Marshall H. Medoff Michelle N. Gagnier (1998) The impact of racially disproportionate outcomes on public policy: The U.S. Senate and the death penalty  The Social Science Journal, 35 (2), pp.169-181.

Matthew Petrocelli, Alex R. Piquero and Michael R. Smith (2003) Conflict theory and racial profiling: An empirical analysis of police traffic stop data  Journal of Criminal Justice  31 (1), pp.1-11.

   News Articles

ADRIENNE SCHWISOW (2004) Lynching exhibit prompts reaction; [6 Edition]
 Times Union. Albany, N.Y.: Aug 15,  p. A.4

Sarah Schaffer (2004) Hate-crime inquiry sought in teen's death ; Race a factor in Pasadena incident, NAACP says; [FINAL Edition]The Sun. Baltimore, Md.: Aug 21, 2004. p. 2.B.
 

How to Find

Sample databases

To look for research articles, these databases can help: Sociological Abstract, JSTOR, ScienceDirect and ProjectMuse.

To look for News article, these databases can help: Lexis/Nexus and Proquest.

Sample search terms

Lynching

hate crime* and public opinion*

race  and violence

(race or racial) and criminal justice

(criminal justice or law enforcement) and (racial discrimination or racism)

Web Sites

Sample Web Sites

The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950 (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)

Lynchings in America (Long Island University)

Gender & Race in Media  (University of Iowa)

How to Find

Use Subject Gateway

SociSite
 

Follow Professional sites (academic departments, academic libraries, professors etc.)

Race and Ethnicity
Race in America Sources

Search Engine (when you have more specific search)

i.e. Jim Crow  and Anti-Lynching Bill