Social Justice: Social Justice Home
A guide to help you research and locate Social Justice materials at Fisk and beyond.
Welcome!
Welcome Social Justice majors! This LibGuide is built to help Fisk students and faculty members find information and resources on social justice. Fisk University subscribes to Oxford African American Studies Center, PsycNET, and Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). The Social Justice program is designed to be a component of the Fisk University Social Justice Institute, which will rekindle Fisk University’s long history of enhancing race relations in the nation.
Kimberlé Crenshaw- The Urgency of Intersectionality
A conversation on Race and Privilege with Angela Davis & Jane Elliott
Book Spotlight
Engaging Social Justice by ISBN: 9789004176546Publication Date: 2009-06-17Identifying the causes of and potential for a alternative to neoliberalism, this book offers case studies of new social movements, new forms of autonomy, and new possibilities for a progressive future.
Medicine and Social Justice by ISBN: 9780199744206Publication Date: 2012-08-13The forty-two chapters in this reorganized second edition of Medicine and Social Justice update and expand upon the thirty-four chapters of the 2002 first edition. Eighteen chapters from the original volume are revised to address policy changes and challenging issues that have emerged in the intervening decade. Twenty-two of the chapters in this edition are entirely new.
Other Places to Find Books
- A to Z Database ListFull list of databases the library subscribes to, including trial access.
- Ebooks on EBSCOhostFind electronic books and more with EBSCOhost.
- Franklin Library CatalogSearch Fisk University's Franklin Library catalog to find books, articles and more.
- WorldCatWorldCat searches the catalogs of libraries around the world. It can tell you the location of closest library that holds a book or journal you're trying to find.
Social Justice Guides and Websites
- The ABCs of Social JusticeGlossary of working language for socially conscious conversations. Sponsored by Lewis & Clark College from the Department of Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement.
- Black lives matter: the growth of a new social justice movementa blogpost summarizing the Black Lives Matter movement from 2015 to the present. Written by Herbert G. Ruffin II
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Black Panthers White Lies- Curtis Austin
Can't Find What You're Looking For?
- Interlibrary Loan FormCan't find the book you need at Fisk? You can have the book brought to Fisk via Interlibrary loan. Just filll out the form and send it to us!
You Can't Eat Freedom by ISBN: 9781469629308Publication Date: 2016-10-03Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization.
