Ethnic Studies 001 CIN! (Fischer): Search Terms

• U.S. -Mexico War & the Treaty of Guadalupe

• Gloria Anzaldua

• History of Texas Rangers and dislocation of Mexicans on the border

• Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity

• US Imperialism in the Philippines

• Hawaiian Sovereignty movement

• U.S. intervention in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua)

• School of Americas

• The fight against DAPL
• Flint, Michigan water crisis
• Healthy foods/urban gardening in low-income neighborhoods of color
• Environmental racism practices
• Food deserts
• Pollution and toxic waste sites near poorer communities of color (could be tied to poverty)

• Rise of white supremacy in US

• Anti-Asian violence in past and during COVID (ie Vincent Chin)
• Islamophobic violence
• Vigilante violence targeting Black communities

• Ethnic Studies strike at SFSU or UCB (third world Liberation Front)
• #BlackLivesMatter
• #SayHerName
• Black Panther Party
• Brown Berets
• Chicano/Xicano Movement
• Prison abolition movement
• Women’s movement
• No DAPL
• Organizing groups in the East Bay or SF
• Organizing against Islamophobia
• #MeToo
• American Indian Movement
• Alcatraz Occupation
• Asian American Movements
• Undocumented Movement
• LBGTQ Movement
• Women in these various social movements (ex: women in Black Panthers)

Searching Library Databases

REMEMBER:

• • Sometimes less is more you will often have more success when you search if you look for just a few key concepts or key ideas
  • AVOID a complete sentence as your key concepts
  • Use quotes “” to keep all the words in a phrase together (i.e., “climate change”)

Q. What keywords & concepts phrases would you “glue” together to build your search statement?

Examples:

• Racial inequality in criminal justice system
• Deportation/detention and prison system
• Lifers
• Impact of criminal justice system on Black and Latino communities
• Rising number of women in prison
• Rising number of Pacific Islanders in Prison
• Rising number of Southeast Asians (Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese) in Prison and being deported/detained by ICE
• Solitary Confinement
• The prison abolition movement
• Queer people in prison
• Islamophobic surveillance practice by federal and local agencies
• Increased militarization of police
• Surveillance of communities of color
• Racial profiling
• Police Violence/State sanctioned violence
• Black Lives Matter movement
• Defund the Police movement
• Spring/Summer BLM uprising
• #SayHerName - focus on Black women who’re target of police violence/shootings by vigilantes
• Stop Urban Shield movement in East Bay
• Death and lawsuits at Santa Rita Jail & Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
• Dujuan Armstrong - killed inside Santa Rita Jail

• Indian boarding schools
• Segregation
• Inequality in today’s schools
• Model minority myth and its impact on Asian American students
• School-to-prison pipeline
• Hidden Curriculum – hegemonic curriculum
• Fight to include Pacific Islander Studies and Arab American Studies in CA ES Model Curriculum

• Older examples of racist representations in Hollywood or TV shows
• Today’s examples of racist or limited representations
• Role of social media in battling stereotypes
• Media examples that battle stereotypes
• Representations of intersectionality in media (ie race/gender, race/class, race/gender/sexuality, etc.)

• Disparity in access to health care
• History of involuntary experimentation on African Americans
• Forced sterilization among women of color/indigenous women, women in ICE detention centers, incarcerated women
• Mental health in communities of color
• Black, Latino, Native communities affected by higher rates of COVID

• Disproportion in wealth along race
• Housing discrimination
• Gentrification in the Bay Area
• Issues related to poverty and race or gender
• Housing rights
• Segregation and redlining

• DACA
• Undocumented students organizing
• History of nativism in US compared to today
• Racially targeted laws and policies around immigration such as the “wall”
• Islamophobic policies such as the Muslim-ban
• Anti-immigrant rhetoric

• by race and gender
• discriminatory hiring practices