Jean Baptiste de Bret, Travelling Saleswomen in Rio de Janeiro, 1827, Museus Castro Maya (Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution 
to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
"rio de janeiro" AND (music* OR carnival* OR carnaval*) [Keyword searches]
carnival brazil [Subject] AND rio [Keyword]
rio de janeiro history [Subject]
rio de janeiro [Subject] AND (urban OR "public space*") [Keywords]
brazil history [Subject] AND (slave* OR freed* OR manumi*) [Keyword]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject interest.
