Exploring Library Resources
Texas A&M Libraries offers a rich selection of resources to help you explore the general subject of diversity, inclusion, and its related topics.
First, if you want to consider the topic broadly, we have some great reference books that might be of use.
Second, if you are interested in a particular topic related to diversity feel free to explore the tabs on the left. We have some great databases that provide article content as well as specialized books on the topic.
Third, each tab will have a list of resources on the web to help you in your research.
The graphic below provides some suggestions on how to approach the research cycle: starting with broad reference sources and then choosing more specific sources for your topic.
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Encyclopedias
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World Education Encyclopedia by
Call Number: LB15.W87 2002; ebook as wellISBN: 0787655783Publication Date: 2001-11-01This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances. -
Gender and Education by Call Number: LC213.G425 2007; also ebookISBN: 0313333432Publication Date: 2007-09-01In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. -
Encyclopedia of Education by Call Number: LB15.E47 2003; also ebookISBN: 002865594XPublication Date: 2002-11-14This fully-revised second edition offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles and philosophies found in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features include 140 biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities; profiles of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full-text primary source documents including education-related legislation, international treaties and testing methods. -
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education by Call Number: LC1099.3. M58 1999; also ebookISBN: 0313300291Publication Date: 1999-05-30In the study of multicultural education, there are key names, places, concepts, and legal actions which provide a foundation for the field. This reference includes more than 400 entries from a broad range of topics related to multicultural education, which the authors define as education geared toward reducing bias, ensuring equity, and promoting understanding of the self and others. Each entry not only helps to identify and place in an historical perspective a concept, place, person, event, or legal action, but also links that topic to an important aspect of multicultural education.
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Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America by
Call Number: E184.A1 G14 2000ISBN: 0787639869Publication Date: 1999-12-01Recognizing that ethnic differences are transforming American education expectations, political ideals and popular culture, Gale presents this multicultural reference. It contains 152 original essays (about 8000 to 12,000 words each) on specific minority and ethnic groups in the United States, with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. -
Religion and American Cultures by Call Number: BL2525.R448 2003ISBN: 157607238XPublication Date: 2003-08-26A multicultural survey of established and new American religions, this exhaustive three-volume encyclopedia explores the fascinating interaction between religion and ethnicity, regionalism and popular culture. -
Women in Higher Education by Call Number: LC1569.W66 2002ISBN: 1576076148Publication Date: 2002-12-13The only comprehensive encyclopedia on the subject of women in higher education. * A–Z entries are divided into nine major content sections, each preceded by a topical overview designed to provide a broad introduction to the area. Major sections include Historical and Cultural Contexts, Gender Theory and the Academy, Feminism in the Academy, Women in the Curriculum, and Women and Higher Education Policy * Over 50 contributors represent broad and diverse views of the complex and evolving role of women in higher education.
Relevant Books
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Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Diversity by Call Number: LB 2331.F33 2013ebISBN: 9781612051147Publication Date: 2012-12-20This book examines the undergraduate teaching experiences and collegial relationships of university faculty who hold appointments in social science, humanities, or natural science and engineering, and who have received undergraduate teaching or service-to-diversity nominations and awards. Documenting and interpreting faculty members' social identities and pedagogical practices, Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Diversity explores how professors address the diverse racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities of their students. -
The Diversity Challenge by Call Number: LC191.94 D58 2008; ebook version as wellISBN: 9781610447270Publication Date: 2008-11-14College campuses provide ideal natural settings for studying diversity: they allow us to see what happens when students of all different backgrounds sit side by side in classrooms, live together in residence halls, and interact in one social space. By opening a window onto the experiences and evolving identities of individuals in these exceptionally diverse environments, we can gain a better understanding of the possibilities and challenges we face as a multicultural nation. The Diversity Challenge--the largest and most comprehensive study to date on college campus diversity--synthesizes over five years' worth of research by an interdisciplinary team of experts to explore how a highly diverse environment and policies that promote cultural diversity affect social relations, identity formation, and a variety of racial and political attitudes. -
Classroom Communication and Diversity by Call Number: LC1099.3 .P694 2015ISBN: 1138897906Publication Date: 2015-10-02Classroom Communication and Diversity provides a useful framework for helping both new and experienced teachers and instructors navigate the communication challenges in today's diverse classroom. It encourages teachers to reflect on how their personal cultures influence their expectations regarding classroom communication. This textbook is distinctive in its distillation of research from numerous sources to provide the best viewpoint and systems for focusing on the needs of the individual learner.
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Handbook of Research on Literacy and Diversity by Call Number: LB1576.H2337 2009ISBN: 9781606232460Publication Date: 2009-04-14Timely and authoritative, this research handbook addresses all dimensions of diversity that have an impact on literacy achievement. -
Diversity's Promise for Higher Education by Call Number: LC3727.S65 2015ISBN: 9781421417356Publication Date: 2015-05-21Daryl G. Smith has devoted her career to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. She has witnessed and encouraged the evolution of diversity from an issue addressed sporadically on college campuses to a reality of the modern university experience. In Diversity's Promise for Higher Education, Smith brings together scholarly and field research relevant to the next generation of diversity work. The book argues that achieving excellence in a diverse society requires increasing the institutional capacity for diversity while simultaneously working to understand how diversity is tied to better leadership, positive change, research in virtually every field, student success, accountability, and more equitable hiring practices. -
Doing Diversity in Higher Education by
Call Number: LB2332.6 .D65 2008ISBN: 9780813545974Publication Date: 2008-11-14Using case studies from universities throughout the nation, Doing Diversity in Higher Education examines the role faculty play in improving diversity on their campuses. Winnifred Brown-Glaude and her contributors uncover major themes and offer faculty and administrators a blueprint for conquering issues facing campuses across the country.
Databases
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ERIC (EBSCO)The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles from 1966 to the present. In addition to journal articles from leading education journals, ERIC also contains conference proceedings, technical reports and research analyses, dissertations, teaching guides, instructional materials, books, and government documents.
Alternate titles: Education Resources Information Center; Educational Resources Information Center
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Academic Search UltimateA full-text, scholarly database of more than 12,000 journals (10,900 peer-reviewed) in almost every academic discipline. Also includes over 60,000 videos from the Associated Press.
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Gender Studies DatabaseGender Studies Database combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
Alternate titles: GSD
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Black Studies CenterBlack Studies Center brings together scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.
Alternate titles: BSC
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SocINDEX with Full TextSocINDEX is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.
SocINDEX offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
SocINDEX with Full Text provides the same comprehensive indexing and abstracts as SocINDEX, as well as full text for "core" journals dating as far back as 1895, and full text coverage of "priority" journals.
This database also includes full text for books and monographs, and full text for conference papers.
Alternate titles: Sociological index with full text
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Points of View Reference CenterContaining resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
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Education: A SAGE Full-Text CollectionEducation: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 36 journals published by Sage and participating societies, encompassing over 45,000 articles. Subject areas include, but are not limited to, Assessment, Curriculum, Educational Administration, International Education, Multicultural Education, Teaching Methods, and Early Childhood through Higher Education.
Published by: SAGE Publications
Web Resources
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Diversity in Higher EducationWebsite offering employment opportunities.
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Journal of Diversity in Higher EducationMultidisciplinary in perspective, this quarterly journal offers research findings, theory, and promising practices to help guide the efforts of institutions of higher education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence.
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Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)Provides links to organizations tailored to minority groups and offers job postings.
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College and University Professional Association for Human ResourcesCUPA-HR’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee has spent the past year assembling, reviewing, evaluating and categorizing a wealth of diversity resources. The result is a living list of links, from sources both within and outside of higher education, that will grow and change as more resources are identified. Use the links at left to browse what has already been compiled. In the meantime, if you have thoughts or suggestions, please e-mail them to diversity@cupahr.org.
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Does Diversity Make a Difference?Research report presented by the American Association of University Professors.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence PublicationsPublications produced by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
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Context Diversity: Reframing Higher Education in the 21st CenturyArticle by Professor Roberto Ibarra that analyzes the different meanings and groups associated with the notion of diversity in higher education.
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U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice Guidance Statement on Use of Race to Achieve Diversity in Higher EducationKey document from 2013 responding to recent Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action.
Organizations promoting diversity in higher education:
- National Association of Diversity Officers In Higher Education
- National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
- National Coalition Building Institute
- National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE)
- Preparing Future Faculty