Web Resources - Social Problems
Web Resources
Inequality & Poverty
- Campaign for College OpportunityCalifornia-based organization - however, many of their reports provide data on issues related to access to college for Americans of color.
Violence and Crime
Racism & Ethnic and Religious Hatred
Sexism
Incarceration Issues
Families and Marriage
Public Health & Heathcare Access
Aging Issues
Library Materials - Social Problems
Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 1843922924Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Key Concepts in Family Studies by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 141292006XPublication Date: 2010-12-29
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 0028661745Publication Date: 2013-02-15
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 0124172350Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Encyclopedia of Urban America by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 0874368464Publication Date: 1998-10-01
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 052160785XPublication Date: 2007-09-03
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Videos - Social Problems: Library Materials
Sex Trafficking in America
Neumann, Jezza. “Sex Trafficking in America.” FRONTLINE, 2019, www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/sex-trafficking-in-america/. Accessed 25 June 2019.
Addiction
“Addiction.” Films Media Group, 2018, fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102567&xtid=169131. Accessed 29 Apr. 2019.
Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
“Documenting Hate: New American Nazis.” FRONTLINE, 2018, www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/.
Left Behind America - Frontline 2018
Left Behind America. (2018, September 11). Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/left-behind-america/
Trafficked in America
Consent on Campus
Consent on Campus: A Nightline Event. Films Media Group, 2016
My Reality: A Hidden America
My Reality: A Hidden America. Films Media Group, 2017.
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Warning: This Drug May Kill You. Films Media Group, 2017.
Social Problems - Videos from Frontline on PBS [Free on the web]
Chasing Heroin
(2016, February 26). Retrieved June 27, 2017, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/
Fantasy Sports Gamble
(2016, February 9). Retrieved June 27, 2017, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/fantasy-sports-gamble/credits/
Policing the Police
(2016, June 28). Retrieved June 27, 2017, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/policing-the-police/
Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
(2016, January 6). Retrieved June 27, 2017, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/gunned-down/
Rape on the Nightshift
(2015, June 23). Retrieved June 27, 2017, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/
Risky Drinking
Risky Drinking. Films Media Group, 2016.
(((Semitism))) by
ASan Francisco Chronicle Reader Recommendation The Washington Post:"Timely...[A] passionate call to arms." Jewish Book Council:"Could not be more important or timely." Bernard-Henri Lévy: "It would be wonderful if anti-Semitism was a European specialty and stopped at the border with the United States. Alas, this is not the case. Jonathan Weisman's new book(((Semitism))) shows why..." Michael Eric Dyson:"With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach. The floodgates have opened. This is much more than a personal response to the bigotry he experienced because of his Jewishness; Weisman has written a manifesto that outlines the dangers of marginalizing and demonizing all minority groups. This powerful book is for all of us." A short, literary, powerful contemplation on how Jews are viewed in America since the election of Donald J. Trump, and how we can move forward to fight anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism has always been present in American culture, but with the rise of the Alt Right and an uptick of threats to Jewish communities since Trump took office,New York Timeseditor Jonathan Weisman has produced a book that could not be more important or timely. When Weisman was attacked on Twitter by a wave of neo-Nazis and anti-Semites, witnessing tropes such as the Jew as a leftist anarchist; as a rapacious, Wall Street profiteer; and as a money-bags financier orchestrating war for Israel, he stopped to wonder: How has the Jewish experience changed, especially under a leader like Donald Trump? In(((Semitism))), Weisman explores the disconnect between his own sense of Jewish identity and the expectations of his detractors and supporters. He delves into the rise of the Alt Right, their roots in older anti-Semitic organizations, the odd ancientness of their grievances--cloaked as they are in contemporary, techy hipsterism--and their aims--to spread hate in a palatable way through a political structure that has so suddenly become tolerant of their views. He concludes with what we should do next, realizing that vicious as it is, anti-Semitism must be seen through the lens of more pressing threats. He proposes a unification of American Judaism around the defense of self and of others even more vulnerable: the undocumented immigrants, refugees, Muslim Americans, and black activists who have been directly targeted, not just by the tolerated Alt Right, but by the Trump White House itself.
Call Number: 305.8924073 W428 (Downtown)ISBN: 1250169933Publication Date: 2018-03-20
Haters by
Cybersexism is rampant and can exact an astonishingly high cost. In some cases, the final result is suicide. Bullying, stalking, and trolling are just the beginning. Extreme examples such as GamerGate get publicized, but otherwise the online abuse of women is largely underreported. Haters combines a history of online sexism with suggestions for solutions. Using current events and the latest available research into cybersexism, Bailey Poland questions the motivations behind cybersexist activities and explores methods to reduce footprints of Internet misogyny, drawing parallels between online and offline abuse. By exploring the cases of Alyssa Funke, Rehtaeh Parsons, Audrie Pott, Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others, and her personal experiences with sexism, Poland develops a compelling method of combating sexism online.
Call Number: 305.3 P762 (Truax)ISBN: 9781612347660Publication Date: 2016-11-01
Adnan's Story by
*Now a New York Times bestseller* Serial told Only Part of the Story... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan's story. In 2014, Koenig's investigation turned into Serial, a Peabody Award-winning podcast with more than 500 million international listeners But Serial did not tell the whole story. In this compelling narrative, Rabia Chaudry presents new key evidence that she maintains dismantles the State's case: a potential new suspect, forensics indicating Hae was killed and kept somewhere for almost half a day, and documentation withheld by the State that destroys the cell phone evidence -- among many other points -- and she shows how fans of Serial joined a crowd-sourced investigation into a case riddled with errors and strange twists. Adnan's Story also shares Adnan's life in prison, and weaves in his personal reflections, including never-before-seen letters. Chaudry, who is committed to exonerating Adnan, makes it clear that justice is yet to be achieved in this much examined case.
Call Number: 364.1523092 C496 (Watertown)ISBN: 1250087104Publication Date: 2016-08-09
The Value of Homelessness by
It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will'or ultimately won't'be done about it. Through a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present, Craig Willse traces the emergence and consolidation of a homeless services industry. How to most efficiently allocate resources to control ongoing insecurity has become the goal, he shows, rather than how to eradicate the social, economic, and political bases of housing needs. Drawing on his own years of work in homeless advocacy and activist settings, as well as interviews conducted with program managers, counselors, and staff at homeless services organizations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, Willse provides the first analysis of how housing insecurity becomes organized as a governable social problem. An unprecedented and powerful historical account of the development of contemporary ideas about homelessness and how to manage homelessness, The Value of Homelessness offers new ways for students and scholars of social work, urban inequality, racial capitalism, and political theory to comprehend the central role of homelessness in governance and economy today.
Call Number: 362.5920973 W741 (Downtown)ISBN: 9780816693481Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Ending Homelessness by
The number of people experiencing homelessness has not changed significantly in the past 35 years¿despite billions of dollars spent at the federal, state, and local levels. Why aren¿t we closer to the goal of ending homelessness?
In Ending Homelessness: Why We Haven¿t, How We Can, leading scholars and practitioners explore the complicated, and often mismatched, relationship between efforts to address homelessness and the dynamics of this persistent, yet subtly shifting social problem. The authors examine the politics and policies of the past three decades¿wrestling with practical, cultural, and economic questions alike¿to shed light on barriers to and opportunities for addressing a chronic challenge.
Call Number: 362.5926 E566 (Downtown)ISBN: 9781626375079Publication Date: 2016-05-01
This Is Your Country on Drugs by
Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.S.-from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising truths. Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago? Did our Founding Fathers-or, better yet, their wives-get high just as much as we do? Traces the evolution of United States's long and twisted relationship with drugs Gives surprising answers to questions such as: how did heroin become popular, when did the meth epidemic peak, and has LSD gone the way of Quaaludes Based on solid reporting and wide-ranging research-including surveys, reports, historical accounts, and more Not since Eric Schlosser ventured underground to marijuana's black market in Reefer Madness has a reporter trained such a keen eye on drugs and culture. A powerful and often shocking history of one of our knottiest social and cultural problems, This is Your Country on Drugs leads you on a profound exploration of what it means to be an American.
Call Number: 306.1 G861 (Truax)ISBN: 0470167394Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Killing Trayvons by
Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence tracks the case and explores why Trayvon's name and George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict symbolized all the grieving, the injustice, the profiling and free passes based on white privilege and police power: the long list of Trayvons known and unknown. With contributions from Robin D.G. Kelley, Rita Dove, Cornel West and Amy Goodman, Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Alexander Cockburn, Etan Thomas, Tara Skurtu, bell hooks and Quassan Castro, June Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Tim Wise, Patricia Williams, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Vijay Prashad, Jesmyn Ward and more, Killing Trayvons is an essential addition to the literature on race, violence and resistance.
Call Number: 363.2308909 K48 (Watertown)ISBN: 9780692213995Publication Date: 2014-09-06
Dreamland by
Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015--Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015--Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015--St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015--The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All Year--Audible's Best Books of 2015--Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015--Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America--addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small town and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents--Quinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.
Call Number: 362.2930973 Q77 (Truax)ISBN: 9781620402504Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Arrested Justice by
Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment,stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or institutions, Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women.
Call Number: 362.8292089 R531 (Truax)ISBN: 9780814776223Publication Date: 2012-05-22
America's Bitter Pill by
America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry.
Call Number: 368.38 B857 (FORT)ISBN: 9780812996951Publication Date: 2015-01-05
Athletes Who Indulge Their Dark Side by
From sex and drugs to violence, gambling, and wholesale conspiracies, scandals are everywhere in sports. Each of these problems is its own issue, and every case is separate, but taken as a whole this criminal pathology is indicative of a widespread problem with athletes and responsibility.
Call Number: 796.01 T265ISBN: 9780313377563Publication Date: 2009-12-01
363.23089 T146 DVD (Fort Atkinson)
The Talk: Race in America. (2017) A two-hour film about "the talk" that parents have with their children of color (primarily boys) to teach them how to act around the police in order to remain safe.
362.2930973 H559 DVD
Heroin, Cape Cod, USA takes an unsparing look at the lives of several young people in their early 20s gripped by heroin addiction, living a seemingly endless existence of getting high while cycling through stages of rehab, recovery and relapse. The film also chronicles the impact of the crisis on the community of Cape Cod.
364.15 N899 DVD
Not in Our Town follows a community in crisis after the fatal attack of a local immigrant resident in 2008.
614.47 V11N DVD
Vaccines : calling the shots examines diseases that were largely eradicated in the U.S. a generation ago - including whooping cough, measles, mumps - are returning, in part because nervous parents are skipping their children's shots.
330.973 I42 DVD
Inequality for All examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality in the United States.
306.848 O94 DVD
Out in Silence tells the story of Joe Wilson as he returns to his hometown of Oil City, Pa., after his wedding announcement appears in his small hometown newspaper causes controversy, and he receives a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen who is being tormented in school. Challenges viewers to rethink their values and close the gaps that divide communities on this controversial issue.
Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor. Call number: 320.56 W442 DVD (Truax)