Streaming Video
- Interracial marriage byPublication Date: 2007This program examines how and why couples of different colors, religions, and ethnic roots are drawn to one another, how their differences affect their marriages, how they deal with their friends, and how their parents make peace with the children-in-law they wish were of their own race or background.
- Created Equal: Constitution USA with Peter Sagal byPublication Date: 2014Segment 5 of this program discusses the Loving vs. Virginia Supreme Court case
- Mildred Loving and Interracial Marriage byPublication Date: 2008PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks to Bernard Cohen, a longtime friend of the Lovings and one of the lawyers who argued their case before the Supreme Court.
- Between black & white byPublication Date: 1994Between Black & White explores the impact society and history have on the perception of color in the United States, and questions whether race can be determined on face value. Are the categories of "black" and "white" still relevant in our evolving society?
- Stepping Out? byPublication Date: 2011Approximately 45 percent of black women are single and will never marry. In a culture where it is more common to see African American men dating outside of their race, what keeps black women from doing the same? Stepping Out? explores the complexities surrounding single, college-educated, African American women who consider looking for love outside of their race.
- Banana Split byPublication Date: 1991Kip Fulbeck explores identity and biracial ethnicity issues, focusing on his parents' relationship with each other and their respective acclimations and rejections of each other's cultures. Through interwoven narratives and media clips, this video also addresses ethnic dating patterns and stereotypes of Asian American men.
Databases
- American History in Video (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowAmerican History in Video provides a collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection provides access to commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and documentaries.
- Black Studies in Video (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThis collection features documentaries, newsreels, interviews, and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Includes California Newsreel's African American Classics collection that includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations. This current release includes 145 videos totaling 141 hours.
- Black Life in America, Series 3 (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowThe experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media. Contents drawn from Access World News. Coverage: 1976-present.
- America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive access to literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers 1,600 academic journals, 270 magazines, dissertations and more, published from 1863 to the present.
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 (Readex) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Coverage: 1827-1998.
Journal Subscriptions
- Ethnic & Racial Studies JournalsBrowse current ethnic and racial studies journals available through Murphy Library.