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Achieving Diversity in Higher Education
From The College Board. Among other topics, this site includes background on and discussion of the legal aspects, the various strategies, and the recruitment and selection concerns surrounding diversity in higher education.

AmeriStat
"One-stop source for U.S. population data." AmeriStat was developed by the Population Reference Bureau and the Social Science Data Analysis Network in partnership with demographer Bill Frey and a team of his colleagues from the University of Michigan and the State University of New York at Albany. The site gives instant summaries -- in graphics and text -- of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population.

Diversity & Ethnic Studies: Recommended Websites & Research Guides
Created in 1995 by the Racial and Ethnic Studies Bibliographer at Parks Library, Iowa State University, this site provides links to African American, American Indian, Asian American and U.S. Latino resources, among others, and serves as a starting point for exploration of the topic.

Diversity Bibliography
Offered by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders," this bibliography links to online resources, including organizations and reports, and a list of books of interest in the field of diversity and the media.

DiversityWeb
Part of the Diversity Works family of projects, this Web site includes institutional profiles of over 200 universities and colleges with diversity programs. Also links to the University of Maryland at College Park's Diversity Database, a comprehensive index of multicultural and cultural diversity resources.

Diversity Web Sources in Higher Education. (Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
This article from the September 2000 issue of College & Research Libraries News identifies Web sources "for exploring diversity in higher education and looking at the rich cultural heritage of various groups." Links to multicultural and diversity studies as well as racial and ethnic culture, organizations and resources are included.

Ethnic & Multicultural History from "The Learning Page", Library of Congress
Annotated links to approximately 30 resources showcasing the history of ethnic diversity in the United States.

Immigration from American Memory, Library of Congress
This feature presentation links educators to primary sources from the Library of Congress' online collections. It provides an introduction to the study of immigration to the United States, focusing on the immigrant groups that arrived in greatest numbers during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Issue Guide on Immigration from Public Agenda Online
A "nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization" founded in 1975, Public Agenda Online offers this topical "issue guide" with facts, findings, news articles, and various perspectives and public opinion on immigration.

The Living Cities Census Series
With support from Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative, the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy has launched the Living Cities Census Series, a major three-year effort to illustrate how urban and suburban America has changed in the last two decades. As a part of this Census 2000 effort, Brookings is conducting comparative analyses of the major social, economic and demographic trends for the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. Its section on Race and Ethnicity includes publications such as Latino Growth in Metropolitan America and Melting Pot Suburbs: A Census 2000 Study of Suburban Diversity.

Metropolitan Racial and Ethnic Change -- Census 2000
This web site, a public service of the Lewis Mumford Center, the State University of New York at Albany, and the Ford Foundation, offers information and analyses of how the racial and ethnic composition of metropolitan areas has shifted in the last ten years, and how increasing diversity is experienced at the level of local neighborhoods.

New York Times: Archive of Census Maps, Charts and Interactive Features
This section of the New York Times on the web includes in its archive of recent maps, charts and interactives, such examples as "A New Look at Race in America"; "The Changing Color of America"; "Choosing the Mixed-Race Option"; "Los Angeles: Diverse Yet Distinct"; and "How New York City Diversified, 1910-2000." Access to The New York Times on the web is free, but requires registration.

Race and Ethnicity Online
Created by the American Political Science Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, this site focuses on research related to Native-, African-, Latino and Asian Pacific Americans.

Tolerance.org
"Tolerance.org is a Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national non-profit civil rights organization that promotes tolerance and diversity and combats hate and discrimination through education, investigation and litigation." Geared to the needs of citizen activists, parents, caregivers and teachers, the site is structured for easy access to current news, solutions and exercises that promote tolerance and understanding.

United States Historical Census Data Browser
This data browser comes from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) under a grant from the National Science Foundation. The data, arranged by decade, was gleaned from the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census. The available data differs somewhat from decade to decade, according to what was collected in the census and the items chosen for transcription to electronic form. In addition to basic counts of population and housing units, all decades contain information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition.

Washington Post: Census 2000
This page links to an extensive series of articles on the 2000 census that delineate the changes which have occurred in the U.S. population over the last decade. In addition, the site provides links to a census timeline, sample forms and a useful collection of background documents and resources.

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Asian American

Asia Source -- Asian America
Asia Source, sponsored by the Asia Society, includes a resource section on Asian Americans that includes interviews, special reports, links, Asia in NYC, Asian American books and Asian American studies.

AsianAmericanFilm.Com
Strives to build an engaged, involved, active and excited audience for Asian American films. By featuring films of merit, AsianAmericanFilm.com aims to mobilize the appropriate audiences for appropriate films.

Asian American Net
The mission of Asian American Net is to serve the Asian American communities, and to promote and strengthen cultural, educational and commercial ties between Asia and North America. Users can jump to organizations by country-of-origin first, or scroll through all the offerings. Links of particular interest to researchers are Asian Study Centers, Who's Who of Asian Americans, and Organizations of Asian Descents in North America.

Asian Americans: East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Resources
This is a virtual library of links to resources on or about Asian Americans. Major sections of this site include: Multiculturalism; General Information; The Wen Ho Lee Case; Political and Social Issues; Communities; Media; Culture and the Arts; History; Japanese Internment, Immigration and Asylum; and Academic Resources.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Infoplease.com celebrates Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month —- a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States -- with information on the origins and history of the Month, Asian American enclaves, biographies of notable Asian Americans, and other special features. Much like Black History and Women's History celebrations, APA Heritage Month originated in a congressional bill put forward by legislators.

Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America
'Your one-stop information source on the historical, political, demographic, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community. You can almost think of Asian-Nation as an online version of "Asian Americans 101."' It allows viewers the opportunity to take a peak into the Asian American world through the lens of an Asian American. Contents of the site include old and new elements of Asian American culture, a section on Asian American history, and a separate section on Vietnam history. Although much of the information is referenced, the site does contain opinionated editorials written from the author's perspective.

Chronology: Asian Americans
A chronology from the 1600s to 1989. Taken from: Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans, an Interpretive History, ©1991, Twayne Publishers, Boston.

Preliminary Guide to Resources on Asian Pacific American Artists at the Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art exists to preserve and make available primary source documentation on American art, and has, since its founding in 1954, amassed thousands of collections and oral history interviews toward that end. Asian American artists have played an important role in this artistic legacy, and the Archives of American Art offers this Preliminary Guide to assist those wishing to use these varied resources in their research.

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African American

Africana.com
This site is produced by the co-editors of Microsoft® Encarta® Africana, including Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah. Its purpose is to promote understanding of black history and culture and to promote the educational use of Microsoft® Encarta® Africana in homes, schools, universities, and corporations. Coverage includes African American lifestyle, heritage, worldview and art.

The Gateway to African American History
This State Department Web page offers comprehensive annotated links on African American History and Culture, Art and Literature, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Smithsonian: African-American History and Culture
Selected links to sites on African-American history and culture hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations. The site is divided into two sections: African American Resources, and Exhibitions. African American Resources includes links to sites such as "African and African American Resources at the Smithsonian," "The African American Studies Center," and "Anacostia Museum Reading Lists." Exhibitions such as "African Immigrant Naming Ceremony," the "Amistad Case," "Million Man March Documentary Photographs," and "Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream'" are featured.

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Hispanic American

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
Gale has assembled a collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics for Hispanic Heritage Month. Teachers and students can read biographies of significant Hispanic individuals; take a Hispanic culture quiz; follow a timeline of events that helped shape the Hispanic culture; explore Hispanic holidays, musical genres and other topics with information culled from Gale resources and visit other pertinent sites and find suggestions for further readings.

Hispanic America U.S.A.
"Americans of Hispanic Heritage have a sophisticated ancestry which dates back hundreds of years, exploring and settling our Country before the War of Independence. These Web sites are a view of the contributions of Hispanics (los Americanos) to the United States of America."

Hispanic Online.com
The site offers a platform providing extensive coverage of issues relevant to U.S. Hispanics, with sections on lifestyles, education, top colleges, travel scholarships, health and fitness, home decor, family sports and recreation, food and restaurants, business and finance research and resources and news and news features. Hispanic Publishing Group also offers Hispanic Magazine, Vista Magazine and Hispanic Trends.

Latino American History
This Guide to Resources and Research on the Web is from the History Department of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It offers sections on general and archival resources, Hispanic women's history, political movements, popular culture and religion.

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Native American

Index of Native American Sources on the Internet
A very comprehensive and useful index of Native American Resources on the Internet -- a "jump station" comprised of thousands of links to other sites dealing with nearly every imaginable aspect of Native American life and culture. Categories of interest include resources on culture, art, education, museums and government.

Native American Authors
Sponsored by the Internet Public Library, information on approximately 400 Native American authors is provided: most entries are on contemporary people and include a biography, a list of works, listings of books written with accompanying bibliographic information, and the writer's tribal affiliation. Many entries include photographs and links to biographies, reviews, interviews, and books or poems on-line. Browsable by author, book title or tribal affiliation.

Native Americans -- Internet Resources
The Internet School Library Media Center's Native American page. It features resources for teachers, librarians, students and parents -- including bibliographies, directories to pages of individual tribes, history and historical documents, author pages, periodicals and general links.

Native American Repatriation & Reburial: A Bibliography "The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was signed into law in November 1990 by President George Bush. It protects burial sites on federal and tribal lands and creates a process for repatriating cultural items, including artifacts and human remains, to native tribes." A bibliography of print sources, including both popular and scholarly articles, relating to this law and the issues involved.

Native American Sites
Native American Sites, produced by Lisa Mitten, is also the homepage of the American Indian Library Association. The site's goal is to facilitate communication among Native peoples and between Indians and non-Indians by providing access to home pages of Native American Nations and organizations, and to other sites that provide solid information about American Indians. Categories include: Individual Native Nations; Native Organizations and Urban Indian Centers; Tribal Colleges, Native Studies Programs, and Indian Education; Languages; The Mascot Issue; Native Media; Powwows and Festivals; Native Music and Arts Organizations and Individuals; Indians in the Military; Native Businesses; and General Interest sites.

Native Web
Native Web has information about native peoples throughout the world. Emphasis presently is on Native Americans. Choose to find information by subject category, by geographic region, or by nations/peoples list. Note especially the Native Events calendar in the Subject Categories section; it has calendars of events, conferences, and powwows. Also in the Subject Categories section are connections to organizations concerned with native peoples, issues, newsletters, and bibliographies, as well as subject listings for art, music, literature, governance, justice, and more.

On This Date in North American Indian History
A calendar index to events in Native American history, with supporting exhibits on tribal names and cultures.

The People ... Native Americans
A source of more than 30 collections of resource materials -- maps, essays, photographs, chronologies, etc. -- for students and teachers to engage in the study of Native Americans. From the "Learning Page" of the American Memory project of the Library of Congress.

Teaching about American Indians
Teaching resources from the National Museum of the American Indian, including recommended books lists. A "Cool Books for Kids" list is also available here.

Teaching with Historic Places -- American Indian History
A compilation of lesson plans that consider important aspects of American Indian history, based on sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, U.S. National Park Service.