Welcome! This guide will serve as a starting point for Shippensburg University students wishing to conduct research on various aspects of the national debate over affirmative action and diversity. You will find sources that introduce you to your topic and keep you up-to-date with links to news articles, research websites, journal articles, and research reports concerning affirmative action and diversity.
You will also find selected key publications, books & E-books, research organizations and advocacy groups, data sources and links to general and specialized databases for further research.
Main Term(s): affirmative action, affirmative action programs, diversity in education, diversity in the workplace
Related Terms: anti-racism, discrimination in employment, diversity in organizations, employee selection, equality in the workplace, homosexuality in the workplace, minorities -- employment, multicultural education, personnel policies, social integration programs, tokenism
Broader Terms: cultural pluralism, discrimination in employment, personnel management, multiculturalism
Narrower Terms: affirmative action programs -- law & legislation, affirmative action programs -- government policy, affirmative action programs in education, race preferences (affirmative action), reverse discrimination in employment
Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination by 
Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy: an Overview and Synthesis by 
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It by 
Constructing Affirmative Action: the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity by 
The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century by 
Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics by A number of important national newspapers have topic or issue sections of their website that bring together all the paper's articles on particular topics. The leading example of this is "Times Topics" from the New York Times. Each topic guide/section has a search tool that lets you refine your search.
Unfortunately, these sections are often not easy to browse or locate on the newspaper websites. Use the "High Quality Web Source Finder" search box above to search for your topic. Then choose the Newspaper Topic Guides tab to look for these in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. If you should hit a pay wall when browsing these newspapers, simply search for articles from any of these three papers using the ProQuest Newstand library database.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research division of Congress. It issues detailed research reports on a very wide range of issues. CRS doesn't maintain its own website, but its reports are available through several organizations and libraries.
