LibGuides: Growing Together As Allies (GTAA): Welcome

Specialist Librarian

Laura Giacobbe

First Gen Faculty Member

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Guggenheim Memorial Library, L-218

732-263-5591

Subjects: Communication, Criminal Justice, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion , Government Documents, Social Work

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Welcome

Growing Together As Allies (GTAA) is a group comprised of Monmouth University School of Social Work (MUSSW) faculty, students, administrators and alumni that are committed to antiracism/ racial equity work within the school and the greater Monmouth community. GTAA initially began in 2015 as an informal group who met monthly to reflect, learn, and share strategies of how to address racism, power and privilege in the classroom. The title of the group was selected to emphasize the nature of the work of being an ally across social identities of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, religion and ability.

To read more about the GTAA story click here.

GTAA Anti-Racism Statement

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Featured Databases

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published.
HistoryMakers Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Thousands of African American interviews from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. This resource provides high-quality video content, fully searchable transcripts, and unique content from individuals whose life stories would have been lost were it not for the HistoryMakers.
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
An award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, full text collection of news articles from publications of the minority, ethnic, and native press. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, covering 240 periodical titles in both languages.
African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
More than 350 newspapers provide a one-of-a-kind record of African American history, culture and daily life. Covers life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment and more
African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles.
African American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Covering 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres. These diverse periodicals—which have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, African American culture—will enable new discoveries on lives of African Americans as individuals, as an ethnic group and as Americans.