Encyclopedias are a good place to start in order to get background info, brainstorm, and find topic ideas related to racism issues. Type your keyword AND encyclopedia to find such works. You are focusing on finding informative sources regarding the larger historical, political, and cultural contexts on these topics: Race, Racism, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Socioeconomic Disparities/Inequity/Inequality, Scholarly journals are good sources for this type of research. There are scholarly books you can find on this topic by searching the RIT Libraries Catalog below.