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Blacks Black People Africans Black British African Americans* Lesbians LGBT Gender Identity Identity (Psychology) Transgenderism Gender-nonconforming People
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Racism Race Discrimination Prejudices Sexism Classism Ageism Heterosexism
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Race Relations Ethnic Relations Cultural Relations Racial minorities Racial Awareness Racially Mixed People Race Identity Sexual Minorities
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Postcolonialism Colonization Postcolonial Analysis Postcolonialism in Literature Decolonization Postcolonialism and the Arts |
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Great Britain United Kingdom London United States Africa Caribbean
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Social Advocacy
Civil Rights Movements
Protest Movements
Social Movements
Peace Movements
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Immigration Immigrants Immigration and Emigration
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Literary Criticism
New Criticism Formalism (Literary Analysis) Literary Criticism--Theory
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Evaristo, Bernardine
Biography
Biographies of Authors
Women Authors--Biography
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Historical Criticism (Literature) Literature & History |
Psychological Criticism |
Mythology Allusions Archetypes
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Social Theory Sociology Marxist Criticism Critical Race Theory
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Feminist Literary Criticism Feminism Black Feminism Gender Differences in Literature LGBT Literature LGBTQ+ Literature LGBTQ+ Literature--History and Criticism Gay Literature Queer Theory Lesbian Feminist Theory |
Poststructuralism Deconstruction Structuralism
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Intersectionality Categorization (Psychology) Identity (Philosophical Concept)
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While not official subject headings, these keywords can be very fruitful for your research. Try to also think of other terms such as these. Keyword searches look at all the information in the book or article record including title, author, abstract, table of contents, etc. It always helps to think of synonyms, as the way one person would describe something is not the same way another would.
African Diaspora
Nonbinary Persons
Using the correct words to search will help you find relevant information. Different authors and search tools use different words to describe the same concepts, so it is useful to have a list of similar and related terms in your arsenal when you set out to search for relevant information. The process of creating these alternative terms is called brainstorming terms or concept mapping.
EXAMPLE
Literary Criticism AND Biographical
Using the correct words to search will help you find relevant information. Different authors and search tools use different words to describe the same concepts, so it is useful to have a list of similar and related terms in your arsenal when you set out to search for relevant information. The process of creating these alternative terms is called brainstorming terms or concept mapping.
EXAMPLE
Sex Differences AND Communication
If for some reason, you are getting results you do NOT want (say for example you want to find only articles on communication in opposite sex marriages) try a NOT search. Librarians caution that NOT searches often also weed out articles that may have been relevant for you. So only perform such searches if you have LOTS of results (say over ten that are in full text format):
EXAMPLE
Marriage NOT Same Sex