Subject Searches
The following are pre-populated searches for a few relevant Library of Congress subject headings. Use these as initial searches to browse for material available at FIU. Some of the search results are set to display by 'most recently published' first.
Subject Headings:
Racism -- United States, 1,980 results
Race awareness -- United States, 218 results
Critical legal studies -- United States, 30 results
United States -- Race relations -- Philosophy, 103 results
Black Lives matter movement, 26 results
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States, 237 results
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases, 13 results
Police Brutality, 173 results
Recent Books
By necessity this is not an exhaustive list. Inclusion in this listing does not represent an endorsement, and is intended as a jumping off point for research and reference purposes.
African American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies by Call Number: Electronic ResourceISBN: 9780190280024Provides bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies—culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics
Alchemy of Race and Rights by Call Number: KF4757 .W53ISBN: 9780674014701"Using the tools of critical literary and legal theory, [Williams] sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events ... Taking up the metaphor of alchemy, Williams casts the law as a mythological text in which the powers of commerce and the Constitution, wealth and poverty, sanity and insanity, wage war across complex and overlapping boundaries of discourse. In deliberately transgressing such boundaries, she pursues a path toward racial justice that is, ultimately, transformative."
Antiracism Inc. by Call Number: eBook, 2019ISBN: 9781950192236Open Access. "Antiracism Inc. traces the ways people along the political spectrum appropriate, incorporate, and neutralize antiracist discourses to perpetuate injustice. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations.
The Core International Human Rights Treaties by Call Number: eBook, K3238 .C67 2014ISBN: 9789211542028There are ten core international human rights instruments. Each of these instruments has established a committee of experts to monitor implementation of the treaty provisions by its States parties. Print copy is at GL. eBook restricted to FIU login via HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice Collection.
The Making of Black Lives Matter by Call Number: E185.615 .L393ISBN: 9780190601348Publication Date: 2017-06-01"The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity--and not just equal rights--of black people."
Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights by Call Number: KF4550 .P35 2021, FIU login required to view digital editionISBN: 9789004364301Constitutional scholars analyze ten foundational Supreme Court decisions, many of which address racial and social justice issues.
Race relations abstracts by Call Number: Digital ResourcesThis database includes abstracting for the top academic journals, books, periodicals and newspapers related to the field. includes records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
