General Tips:
Use Academic Search Premier and JSTOR to find articles; Use the Library Catalog to find books.
General keywords for searching:
- cultural identity
- society AND [cultural or group term, time period, geographic location] (eg. Society AND black women or Society AND nineteen fifties; Society AND Japanese americans
- use OR to put synonyms together. eg. girls OR women; white OR Caucasian etc.
Academic Search Premier:
For events, try and use an official name (You’ll see these in the descriptions of articles). Examples:
- World War II I would use: World War, 1939-1945.
- Civil rights, try: civil rights demonstrations or "African Americans AND civil rights".
- For decades try spelling it out: nineteen sixties or nineteen fifties
JSTOR:
- Always use “ “ around phrases.
- Always use Advanced Search to check the Journals you want and use multiple words to search with.
Library Catalog:
Stay general with your keywords: “Huey Newton” only pulls up 1 book, but “black panther” pulls up 10 relevant books.
