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Blacks Black People Africans African Americans Ghana Ashanti--History Ashanti--Social Conditions Ashanti (African people) Ashanti (people of Ghana) Fanti (African People) Ethnology--Ghana
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Racism Race Discrimination Prejudices Sexism Classism
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Race Relations Ethnic Relations Cultural Relations Racial minorities Racial Awareness Racially Mixed People Race Identity
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Postcolonialism Colonization Postcolonial Analysis Postcolonialism in Literature
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Great Britain United Kingdom London United States Africa Ghana Uganda
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Anti-Slavery Movements--United States
Abolitionists
Emancipation of Slaves--United States
Social Advocacy
Civil Rights Movements
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Slavery--United States Slavery--Ghana Ghana--Slave Trade
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Kente Cloth Anansi (Legendary character) Spiders in Folklore
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Gyasi, Yaa
Women Authors--Biography
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Sharecropping Sharecroppers |
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.
Gold Coast
Asante
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
Gold Coast AND Slave Trade
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
Sharecropping AND Forty Acres and a Mule
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
Ashanti NOT Rap