History 142R (Smith)

This guide will provide information to support your research endeavors resulting in a research paper of 15-20 pages.

• Visit the library's website for additional information including access to our full database listing.

Locating Sources

eugenics mexico archive

Gathering Keywords; Identify Potential Documents

• Known Item Searching
• Example: More than Chattel (Gaspar)

Consider the Language

•  Mexican Congress of the Child (1921), translate

Subject Headings

• Text > known item > subject heading
• keywords to subject headings
  • women AND slaves AND Brazil
  • "women slaves" AND brazil

Clues to Locate Archives

• NPR Article
• Slavery Images

Find a Database (Primary / Secondary Sources)

• Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice database
  • Brazil AND slavery AND women
• U.S. Major Dailies
  • "sinaloa cartel" AND (wife OR women OR family OR mother*

Leverage Larger Search Tools - UC Library Search, HathiTrust, Google Books, Internet Archive

• HathiTrust  -- (women OR wives OR mothers) AND bracero
• Internet Archive --The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, Toplin (primary works on pg. 266 of 399)