Minority Groups in America
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, let me know at
Parrillo@frontier.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.