LibGuides: Antiracist Educators Workshop: Credible Sources on Antiracism

Streamed Media

Alexander Street Press Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Subject(s): All topics. Includes: Documentaries, films, and musicals. Faculty How To
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A curated selection of primary sources for teaching and learning about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans. Developed with input from Black history scholars and advisors, this resource is freely available on the web and to libraries for anyone studying U.S. Black history.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Select film titles for streaming, including feature films and documentaries. Faculty How To
Films on Demand (Films Media Group) This link opens in a new window
Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Presentations needing visual aids or assignments that allow films as sources (create an optional personal account to save videos and create custom clips). Includes: Streaming educational videos.

View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database.
AVON This link opens in a new window
Over 70,000 videos and films covering topics in anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Faculty How To
Swank Digital Campus (Motion Pictures) This link opens in a new window
Includes: Some feature length films and documentaries, such as the Matrix and Food, Inc. Faculty How To

Databases

Use library databases to locate credible authoritative sources- including newspapers, magazines, academic journals and peer-reviewed academic journals. You'll find articles, statistics, images, media - all at your fingertips in the library!

Recommended Databases -- for current issues topics Requires Library Login

Issues and Controversies Easy to read background information, pro/con articles, primary sources, visual aids, and statistics on controversial topics.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) Find pro/con issues on a variety of and current topics- including health-related issues.
Global Issues (Gale In Context) Includes credible sources on controversial global issues. Good content to support arguments or informative essays or speeches. Includes: pro/con articles, magazines, scholarly journals, and statistics.
DemographicsNow (Gale Business) Find data relating to topics of sociology, and polstatistical, including demographic data, such as race, income, spending, education, etc.
GenderWatch (ProQuest) Explore topics relating to sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, and LGBTQ+ studies. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, news, and dissertations.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) A general broad-based academic database where you can explore and discover scholarly journals, news, and magazines.
Academic OneFile Select (Gale) (formerly Expanded Academic ASAP) Find scholarly journals, news, magazines, and videos on current issues topics.
Encyclopedia Britannica Short, easy to read reference entries and related images to get background information on health topics.

eBooks

Use eBooks to find content online from credible sources to support your thesis or provide an opposing viewpoint and easily email a page or chapter from the eBook along with the citation to organize your sources. eBooks are great sources for assignments that may require an ebook as a source and you can use a section, a few pages, or a chapter that may be useful to support your writing.

Recommended eBook Collections - Requires Library Login

eBook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Assignments that require ebooks or book chapters. Includes: All ebooks from the publisher ProQuest.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Assignments that require ebooks or book chapters. Includes: All ebooks from the publisher EBSCO.
eBooks (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Subject(s): Literature, humanities, medicine, and history. Best for: In-depth overviews of a topic and starting your research. Includes: Book chapters, reference essays, and literary criticisms on short stories, poems, plays, and novels.
Infobase eBooks This link opens in a new window
Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research, Dual Enrollment students. Includes: Acclaimed eBook titles on core subjects.

Audio Books

Overdrive
Access exclusive Recorded Books audiobook titles, as well as other popular eBooks and audiobook titles that your library offers - brings exclusive Recorded Books eAudioin one collection that features the best literature in a wide variety of genres along with an outstanding collection of award-winning Childrens and Young Adult titles.

TEDx talks

Verna Myers asks us to Walk Boldly Towards our Biases

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie asks us to begin by understanding the dangers of the single story

Megan Ming Frances explains the root of racial injustice

Impact on youth of color - Alice Goffman shares “How We’re Priming Some Kids for College and others for prison.”

Impact on the health of people of color - David R. William shares “How Racism Makes Us Sick.”