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Black Issues Forum 2002

The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice

Keyword / Subject headings

(Subject headings can be used in SAGE for a Subject search.)

  • Library of Congress subject headings:
    • African Americans - Color
    • African Americans - Color - Social Aspects
    • Black race - Color - Social Aspects - United States
    • Human skin color - social aspects - United States
  • Keywords - can be used separately or combined using Boolean connectors:
    • African American
    • Black
    • color consciousness
    • color struck
    • colorism
    • skin color
    • skin color bias
    • skin tone

Finding books in SAGE (CSU Libraries' Online Catalog)

Use SAGE for word (keyword), subject, or author searches.

Selected books

  • Entman, R.M. & Book, C.L. (2000). Light makes right: skin colour and racial hierarchy in television advertising. In R. Anderson & L. State (Eds.), Critical studies in media commercialism. (pp 214-224). New York: Oxford University Press. [MORGAN - P96.E25 C75 2000]
  • Lindberg-Seyerstad, B. (1994). Black and female: essays on writings by Black women in the diaspora. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. [MORGAN - PS153.N5 L56 1994]
  • Russell, K., Wilson, M., & Hall, R. (1992). The color complex: the politics of skin color among African Americans. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. [MORGAN - E185.65.A78 1992]
  • Scales-Trent, J. (1995). Notes of a white Black woman: race, color, and community. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. [MORGAN - E185.625.S26 1995]
  • U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (1999). Facts about race/ color discrimination. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [DOC - Y 3.EQ 2:2R 11/999]

Finding magazine and journal articles

Use Databases suggested below, or click on Databases link at the top of this page.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • JSTOR
    Select "African American Studies"
  • Periodicals Abstracts
  • Web of Science
  • WilsonSelect

Selected journal articles

  • Adams, Yolanda Y. (August, 1999). Don't want to be Black anymore. Essence 30, 54. [Movable Shelves - E185.86 .E7]
  • Hall, R.E. (1995). The bleaching syndrome: African Americans' response to cultural domination vis-à-vis skin color. Journal of Black Studies 26, 172-184. [Moveable Shelves - E 185.5 .J8]
  • Hunter, M.L. (1998). Colorstruck: skin color stratification in the lives of African American women. Sociological Inquiry 68 (4), 517-535. [Moveable Shelves - HM1. S68]
  • Hunter, M.L. (2002, April) If you're light, you're alright - light skin color as social capital for women of color. Gender & Society 16 (2), 175-193. [Journal Room - HQ 1075 .G46]
  • Kinnon, J.B. (2000, April). Is skin color still an issue in Black America? Ebony 55, 52+ [Journal Room - AP 2 .E165]
  • "Why skin color suddenly is a big issue again." (March 1992). Ebony 47, 120-122. [Microtext AP 2 .E165 ]

Finding newspaper articles

Finding information on the Internet

Learn to evaluate Internet sources

Use the keywords previously identified.

Selected Internet Search engines / Websites

Selected Internet articles

Content: Judy Mitchell, Sari Keilman and Dean Hendrix