Research Guides: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Databases

Mercer Libraries Databases for Diversity Research

AM African American Communities
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents the challenges of racism, discrimination and integration for the African American community through primary source documents.
AM Race Relations in America
Speeches, reports, surveys and analyses documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights (1943-1970).
AM Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice
Primary and secondary sources on slavery, abolition and social justice.
Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections
Consists of guides to archival and manuscript collections held by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, a special library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. The library's primary source materials document the experiences of African-Americans in Atlanta, the Southeastern region, and throughout the nation.
Black Studies (ProQuest)
Resources on the history and lives of Black Americans.
CQ Researcher
Coverage of political and social issues, with reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
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
Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)
Ethnic Diversity Source (EBSCO)
Covers culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.
Films On Demand
Films On Demand is a streaming video collection of almost 30,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Producers include Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, A&E, History, ABCNews, BBC, NBC News, Shopware, Biography, National Geographic and others.
Race Relations Abstracts (EBSCO)
Abstracts on content relating to the relationship between races. Specific areas covered include ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
SocINDEX 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
Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)