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Reference Items

The following are recommended Reference titles available from Steely Library. These are suggestions only and do not reflect the full range of materials that may be useful to you. For additional assistance, Ask Steely Library!

Credo Reference Collection

This electronic reference collection provides access to several encyclopedias in various subjects, including history, law, psychology, and the social sciences.

Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations

REF E185.O74 2001 (print)

E185.O74 2001 eb (ebook)

"With information on over 500 historical and contemporary organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. The wide range of entries sheds light on the ways in which these diverse African American organizations have influenced blacks in America." (Google Books)

Encyclopedia of African American History

REF E185.E544 2010

This resource introduces readers to the significant people, events, sociopolitical movements, and ideas that have shaped African American life from the earliest contact between African peoples and Europeans through the early 21st century.

Race, Ethnicity, and Education

REF LC1099.3.R33 2006

This four-volume set includes entries related to practices of multicultural education, language and literacy in schools, racial identity in education, and racism in education.

Encyclopedia of Social Work

REF HV35.S6

The 20th edition (2008) contains 400 articles in a four-volume set, covering all aspects of social work. Topics include practice and interventions, social environments, social conditions and challenges, and social policy and history.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century

REF E185.61.E54 2003

"This two-volume set explores the struggles, successes, and setbacks from emancipation to the beginning of the 21st century. An impressive range of subjects covers everything from W.E.B. DuBois to early legislative acts, constitutional amendments of the mid-1800s, Black Is Beautiful, the tumultuous events of the 1960s, Al Sharpton, the Million Man March, and Adam Clayton Powell. Primary documents, personal vignettes, court cases, newspaper articles, and speeches provide firsthand accounts and supplement the A-to-Z entries." (Amazon)

Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

REF HV9471.E693 2005

"The two-volume encyclopedia aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework. Issues of race, gender, and class are fully integrated throughout… The encyclopedia contains biographies, articles describing important legal statutes, and detailed and authoritative descriptions of the major prisons in the United States. The appendix contains a comprehensive listing of every federal prison in the U.S., complete with facility details and service information." (Google Books)

Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

REF HV6017 .E524 2002

With 425 entries, this reference sources covers all areas of criminal justice, including concepts and theories, corrections, law, methods and statistics, organizations, and examines the social and cultural context.

Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement

REF HV7921.E53 2005

"This three-volume resource provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages. This work provides readers with informed discussions on the practice and theory of policing in an historical and contemporary framework."(Amazon)

Encyclopedia of Drug Policy

REF HV5825.E494 2011

Spanning two volumes of approximately 450 articles in an A-to-Z format, the encyclopedia explores the controversial "War on Drugs" through the lens of varied disciplines, and a full spectrum of articles explains topics from Colombian cartels and Mexican kingpins to television reportage; from "just say no" advertising to heroin production; from narco-terrorism to over $500 billion in U.S. government expenditures.

Historical Statistics of Black America

REF E185.H543 1995

"This book is a work that should have enormous value as a practical resource for those who seek a chronology of the condition, status, and experiences of African Americans. Tables and text reports in this volume begin with information recorded in the eighteenth century and extend through 1975." (Google Books)

Encyclopedia of Urban America

REF HT123 .E5 1998 (print)

HT123 .E5 1998eb (ebook)

This two-volume set includes entries covering mass transit, social welfare, residential construction, mill towns, and boom towns. Others deal with religious, racial and ethnic topics, including African-American towns, and African Americans in cities. A bibliography follows each article. This work provides a comprehensive view of the colorful past of American cities and discusses current problems faced by modern cities and suburbs.