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Integrated Social Sciences Program: Inequalities & Power Relations
Guide for the online Integrated Social Sciences program
Introduction
Courses in the area of Inequalities and Power Relations (IP) examine the intersecting power relations through which social inequalities are produced and contested in local and national contexts.
Inequalities & Power Theme
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Public Conversations
- Civil Rights SeattleSeattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project is based at the University of Washington
- BlackPastThe BlackPast online reference center makes available six centuries of African American history.
- Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ)A National network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Local Seattle group is the Coalition of AntiRacism Whites (CARW).
- Racism ReviewCollaborative blog that connects current events with scholarship, highlighting sociological research on race and racism, and the ways these interact with class, gender and sexuality.
- Crunk Feminist CollectiveCollective forum blog for and about articulating feminist consciousness for women and men of color. Blends popular culture, Hip Hop culture, and Southern Black culture
- Equal Rights WashingtonPromotes dignity, safety, and equality for all LGBTQ residents of Washington state
- ACLU of WashingtonNation's premier organization dedicated to defending and expanding civil liberties for all people
- TransformHarmResources and readings on transformative justice, community accountability, healing justice, restorative justice and abolition
Related Databases
Some key databases related to this theme are not limited to, but include the following. Those with the 
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- Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new window
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Selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press. - Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly and general interest sources and historical newspapers and other primary sources on the Black experience from ancient past to present day.
- Encyclopedia of IslamMajor research tool for all topics relating to Islam
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Citations and online journal articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. - PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
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Social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.
- Bureau of Justice StatisticsKey statistics about crime, law enforcement, and the U.S. justice system.
- Alexander Street Press: LGBT StudiesLGBT Studies feature award-winning films, documentaries, interviews, and archival footage exploring the social, cultural, and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Includes LGBT Thought and Culture article collection and LGBT Studies in Video.
- Washington Prison History ProjectAn archive containing artifacts, commentaries, interviews, scholarship and multimedia games that explore the histories and activism around mass incarceration and abolition in WA state.
Related Guides
- DemographyDemography is the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations. This guide is organized by subfields of demography.