Social Justice
General Information
Research Strategies
Use precise key words and search terms when searching the databases! Don't type your inquiry out as a question - this will reduce your chance of finding what you're looking for. If you are searching for a multi-word term like human trafficking or food justice, you must put the term inside of quotation marks. If you want to search for a specific aspect of that term, add a plus sign, like this: "human trafficking"+statistics. If you can't find what you're looking for, try searching for alternate terms or words that mean the same thing.
Wikipedia
Although you can't use Wikipedia as an official resource for your presentation, Wikipedia is a great way to get started with your research and familiarize yourself personally with a topic. You can use the cited sources at the bottom of any Wikipedia article to jumpstart your research, and you can also pay attention to the words that Wikipedia hyperlinks as a way to identify key terms you might want to search for in a database.
Databases
When using the databases, be sure to refer to the "General Research" guidelines at the top of the page. You can filter your results in these databases in a number of different ways, most importantly by date and by type of resource (for example, news article, editorial, peer reviewed journal, etc). These databases also provide automatically generated citations that are correct. All of these databases are relevant for all topics in this research project.
InfoBase Issues & Controversies - Username: hnhs Password: monarchs
ProQuest - username: Username: 1HolyNames! Password: 1MarieRose!InfoBase Geography & Culture: Username: hnhs Password: monarchs
Current Events
When researching current social justice topics, newspapers are in invaluable resource. See recommended newspapers here. Remember that The New York Times is only available while you're on school wi-fi - if you want to read a New York Times article at home, make sure to download the pdf before you leave campus.
Google Searches
If you do an open web search, please refer to the Google research guide and see Ms. Kneeland if you have any questions about whether the source is accurate.
General Activism Resources
These sites can help you brainstorm how you might engage in activism, and give you some background information on how to build a movement/organizational aspects to creating change.
Advocacy Toolkit - from Youth Advocates
Advocacy Toolkit - from Amnesty International
Advocacy Guides on Human Rights - Toolkits and guides on a number of Human Rights topics from Amnesty International
Poverty
- Pew Research Center - Fact sheets and reports on both domestic and international poverty. You can use the menu on the right hand side of the screen to filter by type of report, or by research area. See Ms. Kneeland if you need help using these filter tools.
- U.S. Poverty Data - From the U.S. Census
- United Nations Report on Poverty in America - A recent report from the U.N. announcing that, among other things, the United States has the highest rates of youth poverty, income equality and incarceration in the developed world.
- International Poverty - Overviews and research on international poverty from the World Bank
- Gender Pay Gap - Overview of pay discrimination, race and gender.
- Gender & Labor - If you scroll down to the "Gender an Labor" section of this page, there are several good news article about the intersection of gender, labor and poverty.
Racism
- Pew Research Center - Fact sheets and reports on discrimination and prejudice. You can use the menu on the right hand side of the screen to filter by type of report, or by research area. See Ms. Kneeland if you need help using these filter tools.
- Southern Poverty Law Center - The Southern Poverty Law center does a lot of work around monitoring hate groups and extremism, and has a wealth of resources on this topic.
- Amnesty International Toolkit Against Bigotry
- Black Lives Matter - Official Site
- DoSomething.org - Facts on racism and criminal justice, and suggestions to take action for change.
- Racism & Criminal Justice - from The Vera Institute of Justice
- Racism & Health - A collection of research on the connections between racism and healthcare in the United States.
Human Trafficking
- AntiSlavery.org - Facts about human trafficking, with detailed information about the different forms that human trafficking can take.
- Polaris Project - Facts about international sex trafficking and labor trafficking
- Child Labor Report - From the U.S. Dept. of Labor
- International Forced Labor and Human Trafficking Report - International Labor Organization
- Bias in Human Trafficking Narratives - This article gives a great overview of the bias in how sex trafficking is chracterized in the media vs. what the realities are.
- Sex Trafficking in the United States - Report from CNN
- Report on Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers in the United States - from The Institute for Policy Studies
Sweat Shops/Fair Trade
- DoSomething.org - Facts on sweatshops, and suggestions to take action for change.
- Facts about Sweatshops and Suggestions for Change - from GreenAmericaSadie & Maud by Gwendolyn Books
- Specific, detailed policies of Fair Trade America
- UNICEF - Report on how fair trade can end forced labor & human trafficking
- List of goods produced by forced and child labor - U.S. Dept. of Labor
Food Justice
- List of Bay Area Food Justice Organizations
- List of U.S. & International Food Justice Organizations
- Food First - Includes primers on a number of different food justice issues.
- A list of major corporations contributing to food injustice - from OxFam
- An Overview of "Food Desserts" - from Food Is Power
- Map of "Food Desserts" in the United States - American Nutrition Association
Environmental Stewardship
- GREENFile - A free academic database covering environmental issues
- List of key environmental justice organizations - from NAACP
- GreenPeace - a wealth of research on environmental issues
- Reports & Research on Environmental Justice - from the US EPA
- Sierra Club - Information on a variety of environmental justice topics
- Pew Research Energy & Environment Reports
- Resources on Climate Change - from US Global Change Research Program
- Biodiversity - Comprehensive overview of threats to biodiversity, conservation issues, and possible actions