IP 150: Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient and Modern World

Group One
Snowden, Before Color Prejudice

Find critical assessments of Before Color Prejudice, both positive and negative. Ask the class the extent to which they share these views, and why?

  • Book Review Index
    Ref Z 1035 A1 B6
    (Select the volume that covers the year of Before Color Prejudice's publication and the year afterwards.)
  • Academic Search Premier
    Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.
  • JSTOR
    Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Group Two
Shakespeare, Othello

Find a variety of views of the function of race in the play. Ask the class which views they find more satisfying, and why.

  • Othello: An Annotated Bibliography
    Ref Z 8812 08 M5.4 1990
    (Look up "race" in the index.)
  • Shakespeare Quarterly
    Ref Z 8811 .S5
    (Select the volumes after 1990 and look up "race" in the index of each volume.)
  • MLA International Bibliography
    Modern Language Association's index to international journal and books on literature, linguisitics, languages, folklore, and film studies, 1926 to present.
  • Earlham Libraries Catalog
    Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

Group Three: Bederman, "Civilization"

Find various accounts of the life of Ida B. Wells. Ask the class how Bederman's account compares with these.

  • Oxford African American Studies Center
    Over 7500 articles from a variety of Oxford University press books (e.g. Africana, African American National Biography), over 200 primary source documents, maps, timelines, links, and more.
  • Biography Resource Center
    Information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes content from dozens of published reference works and hundreds of periodicals.
  • Earlham Libraries Catalog
    Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

Group Four: Ellison, Invisible Man

Find a variety of feminist critiques of Ellison. Ask how valid these seem to the class, and why.

  • MLA International Bibliography
    Modern Language Association's index to international journal and books on literature, linguisitics, languages, folklore, and film studies, 1926 to present.
  • Earlham Libraries Catalog
    Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).
  • JSTOR
    Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.