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What Lies Beneath: The Rhetoric of the Underworld

PWR 1GTA - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Tackett, J.
Last Updated: 25-Apr-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1GTA: What Lies Beneath: The Rhetoric of the Underworld. Topics include: paradigms of good and evil, justice and punishment; narratives of inclusion and exclusion, social separation and hierarchy.

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Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument. Note the Library Location of these materials. Many are in the Information Center collection on the 1st floor of Green East.

Encyclopedia of organized crime in the United States : from Capone's Chicago to the new urban underworld / Robert J. Kelly.
Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, c2000.
Green Library » Information Center » HV6446 .K43 2000
Mythology / Philip Wilkinson & Neil Philip.
1st American ed. London ; New York : DK Pub., 2007.
Green Library » Information Center » BL312 .W55 2007
Encyclopedia of religion / Lindsay Jones, editor in chief.
2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
Green Library » Information Center » BL31 .E57 2005 V.1
Also a searchable e-reference book.
Death and the afterlife : a cultural encyclopedia / Richard P. Taylor.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Green Library » Information Center » GT3150 .T25 2000
Death gods : an encyclopedia of the rulers, evil spirits, and geographies of the dead / Ernest L. Abel.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.
Green Library » Information Center » BL545 .A24 2009
Also available as a searchable e-resource
The dictionary of imaginary places / Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi ; illustrated by Graham Greenfield ; with additional illustrations by Eric Beddows ; maps and charts by James Cook.
New York : Harcourt Brace, c2000.
Green Library » Information Center » GR650 .M36 2000
Illicit trafficking : a reference handbook / Robert J. Kelly, Eugene F. Smith.
Oxford : ABC-Clio, 2005.
Green Library » Information Center » HV6252 .K45 2005

Selected Searchworks Subject Terms

These are examples of searchworks catalog searches

Criminal Psychology
This list is sorted by newest to oldest, and limited to English Language. You can change the limits and the sort order
Organized Crime
"Good and Evil"
Underworld - Films
Underground Literature

Some Interesting Titles - take a look!

Here are some books that touch on the topics you are considering.

The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney.
1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2011.
Business Library » Stacks » HV6627 .C37 2011
We have 3 copies of this book - in Medical, Law and Business Library
Accidentally, on purpose : the making of a personal injury underworld in America / Ken Dornstein.
1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1996.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HV6769 .D67 1996
The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream / Patrick Radden Keefe.
1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Green Library » Stacks » HQ281 .K44 2009
Seriously weird : papers on the grotesque / edited by Alice Mills.
New York : P. Lang, c1999.
Green Library » Stacks » PN56 .G7 S47 1999

Suggested Databases

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles about the Underworld, Criminality, and "otherness".

EBSCOhost [electronic resource].
Ipswich, Mass. : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
EVERYONE SHOULD START HERE. Select Academic Search Premier. And add others (Business Source Complete, Econlit, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Film and Television literature Index, Anthropology Plus, ATLA Religion, Communication and Mass Media, Womens Studies International, and others, to focus on your areas of particular interest.
Sociology [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Scopus [electronic resource].
[New York] : Elsevier, 2004-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
PsycINFO [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
ATLA religion database with ATLASerials [electronic resource].
[Evanston, Ill.] : American Theological Association, [Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Information Services
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
MLA international bibliography [electronic resource].
[New York] : H.W. Wilson, 1987-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Alt-PressWatch [electronic resource].
[Stamford, Conn.] : Softline Information, [2001]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Urban studies abstracts [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Congressional publications [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Congressional Information Service ; [Miamisburg, Ohio] : Proquest
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Look at this database for US congressional hearings, reports, laws relating to "Trafficking" (sex trafficking and organ trafficking), "Mafia", "Organized Crime", "Atomic Bomb", "Nuclear Weapons" , "Prisons", "rap music", "censorship", and more

Selected Searchable E-Journals

When you search a particular journal, you don't need to use as many keywords in your search. You already know the focused perspective of the journal by its description.

Cities.
Guildford, Surrey : Butterworth Scientific ltd., 1983-
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » HT170 .C54 V.11 1994
Electronic resource: Search keyword: underground for over 100 articles on cities' underground planning, space, development, challenges, and more
International journal on minority and group rights [electronic resource].
[Dordrecht] : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource

Websites of Interest

Here are some links you might not find googling.

The Lock-Up Society (American Public Media)
America's Drug War (American Public Media)
Gangster Confidential (American Public Media)
L.A.P.D. Blues
This 2001 site explores the Los Angeles Police Department Rampart [CRASH unit] scandal and investigation, "a tangled web linking officers with street gangs, drug dealing, and the gangsta rap underworld." Includes a chronology; interviews; rap lyrics about the police; and information on the legacy of the Rodney King beating, Suge Knight, and Death Row Records. From the PBS series Frontline (includes transcript).