Voices of Dissent

This research guide provides a place for you to begin finding information on this Global Search for Justice topic. Please stop by or phone the Reference Desk (651-690-6652) if you have questions or need further assistance. The St. Kate's reference librarians are your research partners.

Contents:

Finding Books: Searching CLICnet

Background Resources: Reference Books

Finding Journal Articles and Databases

Internet Resources

Finding Books: Searching CLICnet

Use CLICnet to search for books in the St. Kate's Library and the other CLIC libraries.

You can search by keyword, title, author or subject.

Subject Terms for Searching

You can use any of the following terms to search subject in CLICnet:

Anti-globalization movement

Civil rights movements

Nonviolence

Political activists

Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Social change

Social justice

Social movements

United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980

Background Resources: Reference Books

Reference books are a good place to find background information and overviews on a variety of topics. Reference books are located in the Reference Room at the St. Kate's Library and cannot be checked out.

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America

REF E169.02 .H3515 1997

Documents the social, cultural, and political revolution of the 60s.

American Social Leaders and Activists

REF HV27 .H345 2002

Features over 285 entries of American social reformers from colonial times to the present.

Dictionary of 20th Century World Politics

REF J61 .R39 1992

Covers the history, people, theories, and ideas that have shaped 20th century international politics.

Encyclopedia of American Social History

REF HN57 .E58 1993

See Volume III, Part XII for essays on social problems, social control, and social protest.

Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics

E184.A1 E574 2000

Covers key issues that have shaped the political struggles of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.

Encyclopedia of the America Left

REF HX86 .E58 1998

Comprehensive work on the history of American radicalism from pre-Civil War times to the 1990s.

The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World

JA61 .O95 2001

Comprehensive guide to international relations and national domestic politics

Protest, Power, and Change: an Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage

REF HM278 .P76 1997

Covers nonviolent action in social and political conflicts.

The Sixties in America

REF E841 .S55 1999

Three-volume set that surveys the events and people of the 1960's, with in-depth coverage of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the social revolution.

Journal Articles and Databases

Academic Search Premier (1975-present)
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals across all disciplines. To find only scholarly journals, click on the box before "scholarly (peer reviewed) publications." [More info]

ProQuest Newspapers provides full-text articles from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, as well as about 300 newspapers. Coverage dates vary. [More info]

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism in all areas of society[More info]

Alternative Press Index (via FirstSearch, password required) 1991-present. Quarterly subject index to over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. [More info]

Journals in the CSC Collection

CSC has many periodicals that cover social, political, cultural, and economic issues from a variety of political perspectives. Some of the journal titles we own in print are below, in case you'd like to browse them.  You can find other titles, dates and formats for journals in The Periodical Cat.

In These Times

Mother Jones

Nation

National Review

New American

Progressive

Sojourners Magazine

Utne Reader

XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics

Z Magazine

Internet Resources

American Radicalism Collection, Michigan State University Libraries

http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/

Contains materials on political, social, and economic issues produced by left and right radical groups.

AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/

An Internet information source that provides independent policy critiques, investigative reporting, and analysis. AlterNet is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.

Feminist Research Center

http://www.feminist.org/research/history.asp

Provides links to the National Women's History Project, women's history collections, and the Feminist Chronicles, a history of the U.S. women's movement from 1953 to 1993. The Feminist Majority Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence, sponsors the page.

50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice

http://www.50years.org/

Coalition of over 200 U.S. grassroots, women's, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic justice, youth, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/

The Institute was founded in 1991 by the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi with programs focusing on conflict prevention, anger management, diversity training, and relationship- and community-building.

Holt Labor Library

http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org

Holt is a working library for labor and progressive studies with links to current news, periodicals, labor unions, labor employment and law, labor and radical libraries and archives, and the visual arts.

The King Center

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

The "official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of America's greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace."

Pacific News Service

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/

PNS syndicates daily stories through the Associated Press wire as a conduit for youth, ethnic and other voices seldom heard in mainstream media. It specializes in feature-length commentary, news analysis, and investigative reporting.

U.S. Sixties History

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ushistory/sixties/

McMaster University has compiled links to primary sources, documentary collections, virtual exhibits, interviews, bibliographies, and historiographical essays form all of the major social movements of the 60's.

WWW Virtual Library Labour History

http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/#about

This virtual library, maintained by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, provides links to U.S. and international labor history institutions, and collections. Also contains links to museums, special topics, conferences, and journals.

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