Welcome to the online portal of the ArtCenter Library.
Here you can search our database of more than 84,000 volumes of books; subscriptions for 377 magazines; 11,000 films; and more as we add to the collection. We also have online resources for digital libraries and archives, and research guides for book collections and resources related to your subject(s) of interest. If you need help getting started, check out these search tips, review library policies, contact a librarian, or visit the library, where librarians are available for research assistance. Pickup service available at the Hillside and South Campuses. Contact the library at library@artcenter.edu
Here you can search our database of more than 84,000 volumes of books; subscriptions for 377 magazines; 11,000 films; and more as we add to the collection. We also have online resources for digital libraries and archives, and research guides for book collections and resources related to your subject(s) of interest. If you need help getting started, check out these search tips, review library policies, contact a librarian, or visit the library, where librarians are available for research assistance. Pickup service available at the Hillside and South Campuses. Contact the library at library@artcenter.edu
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Archives and Special Collections collects, preserves, and makes accessible ArtCenter’s history as well as rare and unique books, artwork and manuscript collections. As part of the ArtCenter Library, providing access to the materials we collect is an important part of our mission. In the Jules Bates Artrouble Center, students, faculty, alumni, staff, and researchers can explore the collections. In addition, our Virtual Archives contains finding aids to collections, as well as digital photographs, publications, and other materials.
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950 S. Raymond
Pasadena, CA 91105
Image: Students gather on the front lawn of ArtCenter's 3rd Street campus, c. 1950.
“Wallace, Goldwater, and Nixon recognized and sought to take advantage of existing bigotry in the voting public, bigotry they did not create but which they stoked, legitimized, and encouraged.”
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López, 2014
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“Stopping our racist patterns must be more important than working to convince others that we don't have them. We do have them, and people of color already know we have them; our efforts to prove otherwise are not convincing. An honest accounting of these patterns is no small task given the power of white fragility and white solidarity, but it is necessary.”
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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, 2020
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Archives & Special Collections
950 S. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
Pasadena, CA 91105
Mon – Fri: 9am – 4pm
Sat – Sun: Closed
South Campus hold pickup shelf available at 1111 Lobby
Sat – Sun: Closed
South Campus hold pickup shelf available at 1111 Lobby