Boolean Research

Turns out I already did a bit of a boolean search in my last blog, and may not have gone into enough background research, but we're pushing forward.
So I went to the Auraria Library website (more specifically https://guides.auraria.edu/az.php) and searched Dungeons and Dragons: nothing. Roleplaying games: nothing. D&D: actually got me a hit, but it was thinking I meant D&B. But then I thought about it and was pretty sure I was doing it wrong.
Turns out I was getting ahead of myself and searching for my topic before the database. I'm kinda new to this. So, I jumped in the Nexis Uni database (as recommended by my teacher) and searched dungeons and dragons, and lo-and-behold, I got over 10000 hits. I'll need to narrow it down a bit obviously, but the second article is about a Dungeons and Dragons Dominatrix. That just seems like an interesting read.
In order to narrow it a bit more, I added a search term: racism. Down to 323 articles, but so far we don't seem to be hitting what we want. The first result is a transcript of an interview between Mike Pesca of NPR and C. Robert Cargill of Ain't It Cool News. There is one mention of racism towards the end of the interview:
PESCA: What about political correctness? I mean, there are races in the game, you know, elves, dwarves and so forth. Has that changed at all in the game?Mr. CARGILL: No, in fact, that's still there. There isn't as much made in the later editions about the inherent racism that there was in the earlier editions. But then again, that's a metaphor that's kind of, you know, played out in the decades. You know, in the earlier games, it was a big deal that dwarves and elves didn't particularly get along and that half-elves were really, you know, outcasts of society because they were rejected by both their elvin parents and their, you know, human parents.
The second article is entitled Dungeons, Dragons, and Dope Beats about M.C. Chris and the Nerdcore genre of rap. The third article isn't even about Dungeons and Dragons, but is rather a review about Dragon Age: Inquisition, a popular video game, but not helpful to me here.
Redid my search with quotes around Dungeons & Dragons, with the same extra search term. Found an interesting (and I use that term loosely) article about a guy from Google trying to defend his stance about why the term Grand Wizard was actually pretty cool and he shouldn't have to join the KKK to use the term.
All of that was under news, and while we narrowed it 93 articles, a lot were repeats, and a lot had the terms I was after only once or twice while talking about something else.

Ran the searches through some other filters (Law Reviews and Journals; Briefs, Pleadings and Motions; and Cases) and tried other variances of the secondary search (rac*) but that one only ballooned my search results back to 2143.
I'm going to jump off of research for a while, but I think we're okay.

No panic yet.
None at all...


Is Dungeons & Dragons Too Popular for its Fans?. National Public Radio (NPR), June 12, 2008 Thursday. https://advance-lexis-com.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:4SRJ-CWH0-TWD3-7156-00000-00&context=1516831. Accessed March 12, 2019.


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