Trace a concept

Name a term, concept, methodology, or author and Anara returns every passage in your library where it appears, organized by document. Use it before you write about how your field uses a term, so you know what your library actually has on it.

Prompt

A PhD student in sociology traces a term across a library of 90 papers before writing her theoretical framework.

Search my entire library for every passage where "gendered racism" appears. I want to see all of them, not just the top few. Organize the results by document, with the document name and every relevant passage from that document listed together.

For each passage, include the page reference if available. After listing all the passages, tell me: which three papers treat gendered racism most centrally based on how many times it appears and how it is framed?

What to add to your library

• Required: your library, or a specific folder if you want to scope the search to a subset of papers.
• Optional: variant terms or synonyms to include in the same search, such as "racialized gender" or "intersectional discrimination."
• Optional: a note on whether you want semantic matches or exact-term matches only.

What you get

• A document-by-document list of every passage where the term appears, with page references and clickable citations back to the source.
• The papers that treat the term most centrally, with an explanation of how they frame it.
• A usage map that separates your primary sources from tangential mentions.

Follow-ups

Compare how papers define the term.

Three of the papers you found define gendered racism differently. Pull the specific definitions from each and show them side by side. Note whether any paper explicitly distinguishes its definition from another paper's or acknowledges the variation in how the term is used across the literature.

Find papers that discuss the concept under a different label.

Now search my library for papers that discuss the intersection of race and gender in educational contexts without using the term "gendered racism." I want to find papers that are conceptually relevant but use different vocabulary. Return the papers and the passages that show the conceptual overlap.

Tips

• Ask for "every mention of the term," not "papers that support my argument." The second returns only confirming passages.
• For a precise technical term, request keyword mode explicitly. It catches exact strings that semantic search may miss.
• If a paper you know discusses the concept is missing, add a synonym or ask Anara to search that paper directly.
• Once you know who uses the term, run an argumentative-support search to find which of those papers back your specific claim.