Library resources for
Weapons of the Weak and Social Movements

1. Reference resources

Browse the Humanities & Social Sciences (H & SS) Reference area in Library West for overviews of disciplines, topics, countries, cultures, etc. Issues and themes (case studies, surveys of popular culture, maps, etc.) relating to your topic may be collected together in more general materials (i.e. world, Third World or developing areas, indigenous peoples' rights, labor conflicts, housing issues, urbanization). These resources (the list below is simply a set of examples to demonstrate the kinds of resources available) will lead you to more specific academic sources in the book stacks and journal literature (check the suggested readings, references cited and bibliography sections as you review relevant items). The preface and, if available, chronology sections of these resources can also be valuable starting points for your research.

The library's Key Resources in Anthropology page provides a number of links to journal index databases and other online resources that you may find useful in this course and in your other anthropology courses.

Print resources (in library use) with online links where available

Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations. Mjagkij, Nina. New York: Garland, 2001.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) E185.5 .O74 2001 and online via netLibrary

Documentary history of the modern civil rights movement. Levy, Peter B. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) E185.61 .D64 1992

Historical dictionary of the 1970s. Olson, James S. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) E839.H57 1999 and online via netLibrary

Historical dictionary of the 1960s. Olson, James S. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1999.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) E841H58 1999 and online via netLibrary

Environmental racism and the environmental justice movement: a bibliography. Nordquist, Joan. Contemorary social issues; no. 39. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1995.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HC110.E5 N671 1995

St. James encyclopedia of labor history worldwide: major events in labor history and their impact. Schlager, Neil. 2 vols. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale Group/Thomson Learning, c2004.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HD4839.S74 2004. Also available via Gale's Virtual Reference Library; search for this publication by title.

Labor conflict in the United States: an encyclopedia. Filippelli, Ronald L. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HD5324.L32 1990

Child labor: a world history companion. Hobbs, Sandy, Jim McKechnie and Michael Lavalette. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HD6231.H63 1999

Nonviolent action: a research guide. McCarthy, Ronald and Gene Sharp. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HM278.M431 1997

Protest, power, and change: an encyclopedia of nonviolent action from ACT-UP to women's suffrage. Powers, Roger S. and William B. Vogele. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HM278.P76 1997

Encyclopedia of activism and social justice. Anderson, Gary L. & Kathryn G. Herr. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2007.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HM671.E53 2007

Social movement theory and research: an annotated bibliographical guide. Garner, Roberta and John Tenuto. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. 1997.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HN28 .G371 1997

The activist's almanac: the concerned citizen's guide to the leading advocacy organizations in America. Walls, David. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, c1993.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HN55.W35 1993

The 1960s: an annotated bibliography of social and political movements in the United States. Jackson, Rebecca. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HN59 .J281 1992

The activist's handbook: a primer. Shaw, Randy. Updated ed., with a new preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HN65.S48x 2001. [Note: Earlier ed. available online via netLibrary].

Gay and lesbian Americans and political participation: a reference handbook. Smith, Raymond A. and Donald P. Haider-Markel. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2002.
Library West First Row of Reference (3rd Floor) HQ76.3.U5 S59 2002. [Note: shelved with ANT 2301 materials].

Historical dictionary of feminism. Boles, Janet K. and Diane Long Hoeveler. 2d ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HQ1115 .B65 2004 [Note: 2006 ed. also available as The A to Z of feminism.]

American reform and reformers: a biographical dictionary. Miller, Randall M. and Paul A. Cimbala. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HQ1412 .A46 1996

Women in the Third World: an encyclopedia of contemporary issues. Stromquist, Nelly P. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998

Handbook of political theory. Gaus, Gerald F. and Chandran Kukathas. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, 2004.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) JA71 .H313 2004

The Oxford handbook of political theory. Dryzek, John S., Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) JA71.O95 2006

The civil rights movement: references and resources. Murray, Paul T. New York: G.K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
Library West Reference (3rd Floor) Z1361.N39 M93 1993