ACS 250 & ETHN 101

Web Sites & QuickQuest

How Race Is Lived in America
A series of articles from the New York Times. The series focused on racial issues and identity.
http://nytimes.com/library/national/race/web-guide.html

Black Studies: Historical Text Archive: African American History
Sites pertaining to the history of African Americans.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/index.php

Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
The Center utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to the comparative study of people of African descent living in Africa and the Americas.
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/

Ohio State University Libraries Black Studies Library Web site
A reference resource to the cultures of Africa and African-Americans.
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/bslweb/

Ohio State University Libraries African American Resources
 A Gateway to information resources on Africa and African American cultures.
http://library.osu.edu/sites/thegateway/display.php

Multicultural Pavilion: Cultural Diversity: Multicultural Resources
General resources for minority groups and diverse language populations.
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/index.html

Iowa State University's Diversity & Ethnic Studies: Virtual Community
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/divweb2.htm

U.S. Census Bureau; Minority Links
Quick and easy links to the latest data on racial and ethnic populations in the United States.
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html

The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
The nation's only museum, library, and archive deicated to collecting and interpreting materials reflecting our nation's multicultural heritage.
http://www.hsp.org/

American Pictures: racism, oppression
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/

Yahoo (Society and Culture): Ethnic Groups
Links, resources and sites on cultures and society of various ethnic groups.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
This site contains individual country pages including U.S. State Department Travel Advisories, Embassies, CIA World Factbook entries and resources many aspects of life in each country.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

Andrew Tannenbaum's Judaism and Jewish Resources
This is a comprehensive listing of Jewish resources and links the result of a project of the Hebrew College.
http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

South Asian Women's NETwork
A forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues.
http://www.sawnet.org/

University of California Asian American Studies Center
A link to the study of Asian Americans at UCLA and other resources of the Asian American community.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/index.html

Asian-nation: the landscape of Asian America
A link to a "concise but comprehensive information resource" on the Asian American community.
http://www.asian-nation.org/index.html

Dates and Decades: Dmarie time Capsule
Searches for events by specific month, date, and year. Trivia for each year includes: top news and sport headlines, top songs, consumer prices, academy award winners, and celebrity birthdays. Covers 1900-1997.
http://dmarie.com/timecap/

On This Day in History - The New York Times Learning Network
All days of the year are searchable. Covers birthdays and highlights in history from the archives and resources of the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

Scope Systems - Historic Events and Birth-Dates
May search for events by specific date or by month and year. Entries include birth and death dates, history facts, holidays, and religious observances.
http://www.scopesys.com/today/

Hispanic American Studies: Hispanic Reading Room/Library of Congress
Gives access to research relating to the geographic areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and Iberia.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/

Chicano/LatinoNet
This site provides information on research, job opportunities, the popular Bronze Pages and is a virtual community of Hispanic/Latino/Chicano Internet resources.
http://clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu/

Native American Resources: Native Web Home Page
A sampling of several sites and web pages that provide links to information about Native American tribes.
http://www.nativeweb.org/

Yahoo: Society and Culture: Native American
Directory of links to specific tribes, issues, organizations, historical documents and other directories of Native American resources.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Society_and_Culture/
Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/American__United_States_/Native_American/

Women's Studies: Artemis: Search for Women's Studies Programs
List of women's studies programs, and links to other resources.
http://www.artemisguide.com/

Yahoo's Women's Studies Category
Links to many web sites on education, literature, women's issues, and other related topics.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Women_s_Studies/ and http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Gender/

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
http://www.ngltf.org/

Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Gender/

Iowa State University's LGBT/Queer Studies Web Sites
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/les_biga.htm

Woman's Resources on the NET
Information about women's issues around the world.
http://www.wic.org/misc/resource.htm

University of Michigan's Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life
http://www.ethno.isr.umich.edu/

Ellis Island: American Family Immigration History Center
A great source of information is found in the "The Immigrant Experience."
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/

Understanding Prejudice: This web site offers more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources.
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/

American Association for Affirmative Action
http://www.affirmativeaction.org/

Race: The Power of an Illusion is a companion site to the California Newsreel documentary about "race in society, science, and history."
http://www.pbs.org/race/

Race Relations About.Com: This is web site contains many articles and information on Diversity and race relations in the United States of America.
http://racerelations.about.com/mbody.htm