Social Issues: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Protests
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- Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles.
- Newspaper Research GuideThis guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized by pages: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International.
- Alt-Press WatchAccess to alternative newspapers and periodicals from local, national, and international perspectives that challenge mainstream media coverage. Dates cover content from 1970-present.
- Alternative Press IndexAlternative Press Index indexes more than 300 alternative, radical, and left publications. Subjects covered include social and cultural theory, socialism, ecology, democracy, anarchism, feminism, organized labor, indigenous peoples, and gays & lesbians (LGBT), among others.
- Lexis NexisAccess to articles from newspapers, magazines, ethnic and regional news sources, trade journals and more. Year of coverage may vary, but many sources begin with the late 1980's.
Organizations
- American Civil Liberties UnionThe ACLU works in the courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- Women's March: Official SiteThe mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.
About Protest
This guide offers resources that discuss protests and their role in politics and society.
Try searching these terms using the resources linked on this page: Protest Movements, Protests AND Democracy, Protests AND Social Movements, Protests AND Organizing, Protests AND Violence, Protests AND Civil Disobedience, Protests AND Social Media. Also try combining Protests with specific issues or causes that you are particularly interested in.
Overview Resources-Background Information
- CQ ResearcherContains weekly in-depth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
- Opposing Viewpoint in ContextOpposing Viewpoints in Context provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
Books
- Protest: A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements by James M. JasperISBN: 9780745655178Publication Date: 2014-10-20
- Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah JaffeISBN: 9781568585369Publication Date: 2016-08-23
- The Arab Spring: The Hope and Reality of Uprisings by David W. Lesch (Editor); Mark L. Haas (Editor)ISBN: 9780813349749Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. LebronISBN: 9780190601348Publication Date: 2017-06-01
- The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve FraserISBN: 9780316185431Publication Date: 2015-02-17
Articles- Scholarly and Popular
- Academic SearchAcademic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are indexed and abstracted.
- JSTORProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
- America: History and LifeAmerica: History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history
- Left IndexThe Left Index provides indexing to "the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas.
- Black FreedomThe ProQuest History Vault offers researchers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children, who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history.
Statistic
- Data Citation IndexThe Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.