Library Guides: ECG 100: Race, Identity, and the Media: Electronic Resources

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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher provides in depth coverage of current events and issues. Original reports are searchable or browsable by topic or date.
Credo This link opens in a new window
Credo is a collection of 700+ reference sources. You can search everything in the Credo library, search only a specific subject, or search within a single reference source.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
This streaming video collection offers curriculum focused content for the Business, Communications, Education, Health, the Humanities, Math, Medicine, Psych, Sociology, and more.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Covers law, business, and current events. Excellent global newspaper collection includes the New York Times.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statisa is a statistics portal that provides current data on over 80,000 topics from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, and consumer goods. Ready made tables are available for downloading.

Communication Databases
HSL electronic resources for the study of film, television, and other mass media.

The Critical Media Project.
From the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism at USC. Though nominally for high school instructors, the wide range of topics here are great overviews, talking points, and starting points for further research
Code Switch: Race and Identity Remixed
The work of a group of NPR journalists who write and blog on race, ethnicity, and culture.
Nielsen
A major source for information on consumer behavior regarding media and products. Much of the information is behind a paywall, but the search engine will return articles that quote useful statistics for your research.
Library of Congress Films and Videos
Public domain video content, including culturally important productions and video documentation of important events or trends in American history.

The Brookings Institution: Race, Place, and Economic Mobility
Brookings' objective of this project is to "develop practical policy solutions to the complex, intertwined factors that perpetuate inequality of opportunity."
Cato Institute -- Civil Rights
The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization -- a think tank -- dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.
The Urban Institute: Civil Rights Laws and Regulations
Recent research reports included in their Race and Ethnicity research specialization.

Here is a review of tables and graphs from Open University in Britain.
Michigan State University has a Library Guide on creating a strategy for finding statistics.
Data.gov is the clearinghouse website for federal statistics. Ask a librarian if you need help.
Statista provides snapshot statistics. Access it through the Holy Spirit Library databases webpage. Click the Source tab to find the background behind the snapshot.
CQ Researcher has footnotes that often lead to statstics. Access it through the Holy Spirit Library databases webpage. Click on the footnotes and links to get to their sources of information.