Collins Memorial Library: SSI1-115:Imaging Blackness: Tertiary Sources

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Use these tertiary sources for finding general articles about the film's context.

What's a Tertiary Source?

Tertiary sources are excellent starting points! They consist of information synthesized from primary and secondary sources. Examples include:

Almanacs
Chronologies
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Directories
Fact books
Guidebooks
Indexes, abstracts, bibliographies used to locate primary and secondary sources
Manuals
Textbooks

These resources give you succinct overviews of your topic, explain scholarly arguments, point out interesting questions, and refer you to especially key sources.

Background Sources

African American Studies Center (Oxford)
A collection of full text materials focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African and African American history and culture. Includes biographies, images, primary source documents with commentaries, maps, tables and charts, and thematic timelines.

Access limited to 3 simultaneous users.

Gale eBooks
Provides full text online access to Gale electronic books, including encyclopedias and other reference resources.
SAGE Knowledge
The social sciences platform for SAGE and CQ Press books, reference materials and other content.
Oxford Reference
Contains the complete texts of many Oxford companions, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference titles in a fully indexed, cross-searchable database. Included in addition to articles are images, maps, timelines, bibliographies, photographs and much more.

Film Summary

Begin your search with one of the movie websites for quick facts and credits. Some sites also include selected reviews.

IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
Movie Review Query Engine
Rotten Tomatoes