Where can I find references on semismall maps, in the sense of Goresky and MacPherson? I don't want to restrict to the case where the base is $\mathbb C$ (an arbitrary alg. closed field would be fine), or maps $f:X\to Y$ from a smooth variety $X.$ In particular, I'd like to find the proof (if the statement is correct, which I'm not sure) that $Rf_*$ takes an irreducible (middle) perverse sheaf $F$ supported on $X$ to a perverse sheaf; I can only do this when $X$ is smooth and $F$ is a lisse sheaf, or when all the fibers of $f$ have dimension at most one.
Recall: A proper surjective morphism $f:X\to Y$ is called $semismall$ if $\dim X\times_YX=\dim X.$
Thank you.