Reference books provide background information on a topic, such as definitions of terms, key figures and events, and well written overviews. They can be a useful starting point for any research project, because they fill in missing knowledge about the topic or provide you with the language of the discipline.
Selected books from our Reference and online collection:
Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements
Protest! A history of social and political protest graphics
The Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues
Art and Social Justice: The Media Connection
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
Social Media and New Protest Movements by 
Chapter 24: Making Human Rights Visible Through Photography and Film
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Formerly known as the Blackwell Reference Online, here you will be provided with authoritative, scholarly reference sources (dictionaries, handbooks and companions) in the social sciences and humanities.
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