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You can also search Enterprise for a topic, to find related books.
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Examples of relevant e-books we hold in the Library. Many are available in print as well. If you would like to know more about making effective use of our e-books, see our guide:
White Guys on Campus: racism, white immunity, and the myth of "post-racial" higher education by 301.2 Social geography, ethnography
301.45 Race, ethnicity and multiculturalism
320.1 Political Science -The State
325 International migration and colonization
325.3 Colonialism and postcolonialism
326 Slavery and emancipation
341.37 Human rights
347.133 Racial discrimination
The Library uses the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal classification schemes to catalogue and classify its stock and we are bound by the rules and subject headings outlined in these. However, we acknowledge that some of the terminology used in these schemes may not always accurately reflect current cultural references.
Just as this field of research is evolving, library classification schemes are beginning to as well, though there is more work to be done. If you would like to know more about this topic, you might find the following articles of interest:
The End of the Cognitive Empire: the coming of age of epistemologies of the South by 
Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators by 
Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism by 
An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900-1950 by 
East side voices : essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain by 
Afropean: notes from Black Europe by 
