Research Guides: SOC 2090: Race and Ethnicity: Primary Sources

Primary and Secondary Source

A primary source is first-hand information created during the time that you are researching.

A secondary source is second-hand information, often written by an expert who draws on both primary and contextual information.

Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic)
Provides the full text of many newspapers published nationally and internationally.

Films on Demand
A collection of films in the Humanities and Social Sciences including Communication, Education, English, History, Psychology and Sociology.
PBS Video Collection
A collection of hundreds of documentary series from the Public Broadcasting Service's catalog.

Black Thought and Culture
Covers the non-fiction published works of leading African American as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other material.

Autobiographies

Diaries

Documents

Eyewitness accounts

Film footage

Laws

Letters

Newspaper articles

Concert programs

Novels

Objects from the time

Oral histories

Photographs

Poems, art

Speeches

Musical scores

Recordings