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Vincent N. Parrillo: Links
Strangers to these Shores

Links to Research Resources
You may find the following resource links in race and ethnic relations to be helpful. Of course, they by no means exhaust the possibilities. If you would like to suggest any additional links, please contact Vincent N. Parrillo at parrillov@wpunj.edu

Government Institutions

General Reference Sources

Multicultural Reference Sources

 

Racial/Ethnic Group Reference Sources

 

Refugees

Centers and Museums

    National Civil Rights Museum

      This  site contains a Virtual Tour of the museum as well as links to other related sites of  interest.

    The Simon Wiesenthal Center

      The Simon  Wiesenthal  Center is an international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of  human rights and the Jewish people. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Center's mandate is  a  unique combination of social action, public outreach, scholarship, education and media  projects as it imparts the lessons of the Holocaust and develops educational strategies   for teaching tolerance.

    Women's International Center

      A non-profit  education and service foundation.

General Resources

The Australian  National University Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies

    This page  provides information on the work of the Centre and provides links to information  facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in related fields. The Centre  produces an occasional newsletter, POLYPHONY, which is now available on-line.

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections 

    The IECC mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers  and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom  pen-pal and project exchanges.

The Human Languages Page 

    This page is devoted to bringing together information about the languages of the world.  The language resources listed here come from all around the world, and range from  dictionaries to language  tutorials to spoken samples of languages.

Cultures and Civilizations 

    Provided by the BUBL Information service. BUBL originated in the Bulletin Board for  Libraries. BUBL now maintains a gopher and Web server, and is currently engaged in a  project to combine them both into a new WWW service.

The World Fact Book  1995: A General Resource Provided by the CIA

This site contains public information  about the nations of the world. Maps are provided, as well as information on each  country's geography, people, government, economy, transportation and communications  systems and more.