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Voting Rights Act Suffrage Voter Identification Laws
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Special Interest Groups Koch Industries Labor Unions--Political Activity
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Millennials Older People African Americans Indians of North America Sioux Whites Blacks Racially Mixed People Race Identity
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Political Parties Political Campaigns Electioneering Democratic Party Republican Party Third Parties Green Party Libertarian Party Whig Party Know-Nothing Party |
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Voting Young Adults--Political Activity Unaffiliated Voters Partisanship
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Right-Wing Extremists Left-Wing Extremists Conservatism Progressivism
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Political Candidates Clinton, Hillary Trump, Donald Sanders, Bernie Stein, Jill Johnson, Gary Jefferson, Thomas Roosevelt, Theodore Smith, Margaret Chase Chisholm, Shirley |
Electoral College Election Results Election Recounts Contested Elections |
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Social Justice Equality Distributive Justice Equality Before the Law Justice
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Social Advocacy Civil Rights Movements Protest Movements Social Movements Peace Movements
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Social Classes Social Class Working Class Poverty Poor Well-Being Luxury Income
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Race Relations Ethnic Relations Cultural Relations Racial minorities Racial Awareness Discrimination Cultural Awareness Racial Profiling Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement |
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Criminal Justice, Administration of Police Criminal Procedure Criminal Law Crime Sentences (Criminal Procedure) Due Process of Law--United States |
Prisoners Inmates of Institutions Detentions of Persons Prisons Prisoners--Legal Status Ex-Convicts--Civil Rights
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Social Classes Social Class Working Class Poverty Poor Well-Being Luxury Income |
Power (Social Sciences) Community Power Corporate Power Communities Political Participation |
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Police Brutality Stop & Frisk (Police Method) |
Police Questioning--United States Interviewing in Law Enforcement Confession (Law)--United States
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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.
Native Americans
Alt-Right
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
Social ClassAND Sentencing
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