EXERCISE

Humor of the Oppressed (Depression, antebellum America, holocaust)

Keywords/phrases:

Humor

Oppressed

Depression/Great Depression

antebellum America,

holocaust

Synonyms/ Related Terms:

Underdog

Prejudice#

Bias#

Racial

Ethnic

Minority

Jews

African Americans

Latinos

Chicanos

Blacks

Holocaust

Antebellum (south?)

Black Humor

Wit

Joking

Jokes

Comedy

Truncation?

Oppress*

Jew*

African American*

Ethn*

Jok*

Minorit*

How to find relevant DBs:

--I'm going to give you a list of some dbs I think would be useful to cover the journal lit for your various topics

but

--Helpful sometimes to brainstorm up front about the disciplines that might have an interest in your topic: who's likely to be writing about this topic?

--Lib home page: Indexes and Abstracts: Control F to find keywords

--Home pages for various libraries/library disciplines

USE MAGS

1. KEYWORD: Humor and Oppress*

11 HITS

2. Look at #5

Gordon, Dexter B. Humor in African American discourse: speaking of oppression. Journal of Black Studies v29, n2 (Nov, 1998):254 (23 pages).

[Abstract] [Long Display]

Online Access: [Link to Article Text (without graphics: e.g. charts, graphs, photos)]

Print Access:

Locations and holdings(PE):

(All, All UC, UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD, UCSF, SRLF,

CDL, Non-UC, CRL, CSL, CSU, STAN, Greater Bay Area, Northern California, Greater Los Angeles, San Diego/Inland Empire, Central Valley)

This is an Article in Journal of Black Studies, volume 29, number 2 (NOV 1998)-- a hefty 23 pages.

3. Why did we get this: HUMOR and OPPRESSION at opposite ends of the title.

4. Let's look at the long display:

5. What are the OFFICIAL SUBJECT HEADINGS?

Subjects:

Wit and humor--Social aspects

African Americans--Attitudes

Comedy--Social aspects

In this db, these are hot linked: click on them and you get all the records in the db that use them:

Problem in this case: By themselves They're pretty broad…

Click on Comedy social aspects--18 hits, a lot of which have nothing to do with our topic.

Could go back to SEARCH and enter them as SUBJECT terms: eg:

Wit and humor--Social aspects AND African Americans

MOST online catalogs and indexes offer the option of modifying a search once you've run it: helpful to either limit the search (if you've gotten too many hits) or broader it (if you've gotten too few).

6. MODIFY Our original Search by adding: African American* as a keyword

7. HOW DO WE GET AHOLD OF THIS ARTICLE?

--Online Access: [Link to Article Text (without graphics: e.g. charts, graphs, photos)

--What if there were no full text? How would you find the article?

Look at UCB Holdings

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Or…below

Let's look at finding books on the topic:

USE PATHFINDER

TITLE KEYWORD: Humor oppress*

OR

SUBJECT KEYWORD: Humor oppress*

1 HIT…what's to do!!!! Broaden search

TITLE KEYWORD: African American* humor

OR

SUBJECT KEYWORD: African American* humor

STILL ONLY 6 HITS: Let's look at these

Honey, hush! : an anthology of African American women's humor / edited by Daryl Cumber Dance ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.

SUBJECT HEADINGS?

In long display: African American wit and humor.

Click on these: You get 19 … better

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