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Black History Month: Search Terms & Tips

Search Terms

Black History in Canada Anti-Racism Black Lives Matter
  • "Black history"
  • Canada
  • History
  • "Black people" OR "African American"
  • "Racial identity" OR "race identity"
  • "Race relations in Canada"
  • "Civil rights"
  • "Race discrimination"
  • "Black leadership"
  • "Black organization*"
  • Racism
  • Anti-racism
  • "Racial profiling"
  • "Race awareness"
  • Equality
  • Racialization
  • "Social movement*"
  • Activism
  • "Racial profiling"
  • "Black lives matter" OR BLM
  • "Police brutality"
  • "Police reform"
  • "Police shootings"
  • "Police accountability"
  • "Police murder*"
  • "Civil rights"

Search Tips

  • Consider using a combination of 2 or more search terms. 
  • Using a * will broaden your search. For example, searching for organization* will return results for organization, organizations, and organizational.
  • To see what the library has available in full-text, select undefined underneath the search bar or to the left of your search results, depending on which database you are searching in.
  • When you surround your search terms with "quotation marks", you are telling the database that the words must appear as an exact phrase. 
  • Consider using Boolean Search Terms AND, OR and NOT to combine search terms in order to broaden or limit search results. For example: