For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology, moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

See also library guide: Researching Race and Racism

Selected encyclopedias and handbooks

Use encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks to obtain definitions and overviews of a topic and also to identify key authors.

• Black power encyclopedia : from "Black is beautiful" to urban uprisings [print]
• Encyclopedia of race and racism
• Handbook of Racism, Xenophobia, and Populism: All Forms of Discrimination in the United States and Around the Globe
• Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations
• Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender
• Routledge handbook of indigenous wellbeing
• Routledge Handbook on Native American Justice Issues
• Routledge international handbook of colorism
• Routledge international handbook of Islamophobia
• Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender

Find journal articles

How to find journal articles tutorial. 

What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?

The databases below will provide articles on information technology and society.  If the full-text of the article is not available, use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.

• ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. For information of immigrants, racism, society, structural barriers, etc.
• Social Sciences Full Text - Covers social science journals
• Anthropology Plus - Key database for Anthropological journal articles.
• Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America - articles in scholarly journals and magazines
• Women's Studies International -- Main database for GSWS topics.  Generally, start with this database and then search other databases
• Criminal Justice Abstracts - Index to all aspects of criminal justice, including psychological.
• Academic Search Premier -- Multidisciplinary.  Limit your search results to "Academic" or "Scholarly" sources.
• Political Science Complete - scholarly articles related to labour, migration, unions, policies and remittances
• CBCA Complete  - Canadian scholarly journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and and magazines.

Find books in the Library

How to use the Library Catalogue  [guide]

Search by topic, using Basic or Advanced Search.  For known items it is best to use "Browse by title" search.

Try searching by keywords and then limit by "Subject" (left-hand column) and "Resource type" of "books":

Examples:

Try searches such as

• "critical race theory"  AND [your topic words]
• (eurocentric* OR white suprem* OR colonial* OR hetero-patriarchi* OR patriarch* OR capitalis*) AND theor* AND [your topic words]
• (eurocentric* OR white suprem* OR colonial* OR hetero-patriarchi* OR patriarch* OR capitalis*) AND (border* OR surveillance OR policing)
• (aborig* OR indigen* OR native* OR indian*) AND (police OR policing OR criminal* OR justice) AND canad*
• (aborig* OR indigen* OR native* OR indian*) AND (carceral OR incarceraat* OR prison* OR jail* OR imprison*) AND canad*
• (anti-racis* OR "critical race") AND theor*
• (police OR policing OR carceral OR incarcerat* OR prison* OR jail* OR imprison*) AND (black* OR african americ* OR african canad*)
• black lives matter
• racial profiling
• (assemblag* OR biopolitic* OR sociopolitic*) AND theor* AND (race OR raciali*)
• (raci* OR discrim* OR stereotyp*) AND (employ* OR jobs OR labour OR labor) AND canad*
• (islamophob* OR islamaphob* OR racis* OR anti-islam* OR anti-asian* OR anti-muslim* OR anti-black) AND canad*
• (systemic OR institutional OR structural) AND (barrier* OR racism OR racial* OR discriminat* OR inequalit* OR inequit*)

Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Note:  For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

Selected titles

• Aboriginal Women, Law and Critical Race Theory: Storytelling from the Margins
• Anti-racist feminism : critical race and gender studies
• BlackLife : post-BLM and the struggle for freedom [print]
• Black men from behind the veil : ontological interrogations (3 simultaneous users)
• Black women, agency, and the new black feminism
• Border policing : a history of enforcement and evasion in North America 
• Canadian critical race theory : racism and the law [print]
• Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction
• Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele’s Get Out
• Critical wage theory : why wage justice is racial justice
• Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race Theory : And A New Critical Race Theory 
• Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness
• Do black lives matter? : how Christian scriptures speak to Black empowerment 
• Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec
• First Voices: An Aboriginal Women's Reader 
• From Rights to Lives : The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle
• Get Your Knee off Our Necks: From Slavery to Black Lives Matter
• Globalization and borders : death at the global frontier 
• Habeas viscus : racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories of the human [print]
• How we stay free : notes on a black uprising [print]
• Implicating the System: Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women
• Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail
• Inequality : classic readings in race, class, and gender
• Police brutality and white supremacy : the fight against American traditions 
• Policing Black lives : state violence in Canada from slavery to the present [print]
• Policing the crisis : mugging, the state, and law and order [print]
• Presumption : race and injustice in the United States 
• Race, Gender and the Activism of Black Feminist Theory: Working with Audre Lorde
• Racial profiling in Canada : challenging the myth of "a few bad apples" / Carol Tator and Frances Henry 
• Racialized policing : Aboriginal people's encounters with the police [print]
• Right to Exclude: A Critical Race Approach to Sovereignty, Borders, and International Law
• Selected writings on race and difference 
• Skin we're in : a year of black resistance and power  (3 simultaneous users), [print]
• Summer Of 2020 : George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement 
• Theorizing anti-racism : linkages in Marxism and critical race theories [print]
• Third reconstruction : America's struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century 
• Until we are free : reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada
• What white people can do next : from allyship to coalition [print]
• Why black lives matter : African American thriving for the twenty-first century 
• Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Browse by author

Catalogue Search / Browse, then change "Title" to "Author" and enter author's last name, comma, first name.  For large lists, you can sort by "newest first"

• Hall, Stuart - also check the entries with birth and death dates
  • Hall, Stuart,1932-2014

Browse by subject

You can also "browse by subject" to find  books about a topic.

Catalogue Search / Browse, then change "Title" to "Subject" and enter "subject" terms.  For large lists, you can sort by "newest first"

To find books about sociologists or their works, search for their name:

• African American feminists
• African American Women Political Activists
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• Black Canadians -- Social conditions
• Black lives matter movement
• Black people -- Canada
• Blacks -- Canada
• Border security
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Discrimination in law enforcement
• Indigenous Women - Canada
• Native Women - Canada
• Race Discrimination -- Canada
• Racial justice
• Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Canada
• Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States
• Racism -- Canada
• Social movements
• Sociology of the body
• Women - Black - Canada

Library guides

• Annotated bibliographies
• Evaluating sources
• How to find journal articles.
• Library Catalogue search guide.
• What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
• What is plagiarism?  Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them.

Presentation skills

• Resources on developing your participation skills
• Resources to help you improve your presentation skills

Writing help

See the Student Learning Commons for expert and friendly help with academic writing, learning, and study strategies.