Selected Web Sites: Diversity

• American Council on Education (ACE). Office of Minorities in Higher Education (OMHE)
  OMHE provides information on the educational status of minorities, model campus programs and the other efforts to increase minority participation and degree attainment. This page has links to publications such as the annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education and its biennial conference, Educating All of One Nation: Affirming Diversity in the 21st Century: Developing a Proactive Agenda (PDF file), being held in Cincinnati, OH, October 18-20, 2001.
• American Demographics
  This site features publications, such as American Demographics; consumer trends for business leaders; marketing tools; forecast; and a newsletter of demographic trends and business forecasts, as well as research tools and services.
• 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.
• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL): Diversity Web Sources in Higher Education
  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.
• Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA)
  The goal of this nationwide confederation of local multiethnic/interracial groups, is to promote "a positive awareness of interracial and multiethnic identity, for ourselves and for society as a whole." AMEA provides information on issues such as government form classifications, multiethnic/multiracial identity, multiracial parenting, health, education, and transracial adoptions.
• Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
  Devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal and other impacts of immigration on the United States, CIS's mission is "to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national interest."
• Center for Population Research and Census (CPRC)
  Based at Portland State University, the CPRC is primarily responsible for the official population estimates for Oregon. It also provides "a research focus for the investigation of the causes and consequences of demographic change." This site provides access to federal and state data, information about applied research projects, CPRC publications and links.
• Does Diversity Make a Difference? Three Research Studies on Diversity in College Classrooms
  Evidence from three studies of college teachers' and students' attitudes toward and experiences with racial and ethnic diversity demonstrates that "campus diversity represents an educational benefit for all students - - minority and white alike - - that cannot be duplicated in a racially and ethnically homogeneous academic setting." This report, published in May 2000, by the American Council on Education and the American Association of University Professors is available in full text, chapter-by-chapter or as an Executive Summary.
• 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.
• The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding
  Founded in 1989, The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding is a "national non-profit dedicated to strengthening relations between ethnic communities." It is committed to the belief "that direct, face-to-face dialogue between ethnic communities is the most effective path towards the reduction of bigotry and the promotion of reconciliation and understanding." The Foundation's work focuses primarily on Black/Jewish relations, but has recently expanded to include Latino-Jewish relations. The web site includes annual reports, surveys, addresses from conferences, and curriculum guides and teaching materials.
• Immigration: The Perpetual Controversy
  Summaries of articles that have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly on the topic of immigration since 1896 appear here with links to the full text.
• Immigration in American Memory
  Divided into four chronological periods -- Settlement, The Growing Nation, The Great Surge, and Immigration Today -- this page provides detailed information on immigration from a historical perspective. Excerpts from primary sources are included with links to entire documents.
• Lawyers for One America (LFOA)
  LFOA is a collaboration of lawyers and legal organizations that works to ensure that the legal profession reflects society and provides full service to communities of color so that they can enjoy access to equal justice. Among LFOA's goals are the creation of a database of model practices, programs and resources and a network of members via conferences, events, publications, Web sites and other contacts.
• Leading for Diversity: A Study of How Schools Leaders Achieve Racial and Ethnic Harmony
  "Leading For Diversity (L4D) is a federally funded project whose purpose is to improve the preparation of future school leaders so that they have a greater ability to address racial/ethnic tensions in schools and can apply a range of approaches for encouraging positive inter-ethnic relations." The Executive Summary PDF, published in December 1999, summarizes the findings of the L4D Research Project from 1996-1999. The full report can be ordered from ARC Associates.
• 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.
• Population Association of America
  This organization of 3,000 professionals publishes the quarterly journal Demographics, promotes research related to human population problems, and provides a forum for scholarly exchange through its annual meeting. Also includes calendar information and links to publications.
• Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
  The goal of the Population Reference Bureau is to provide timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications. Useful publications include the monthly newsletter, Population Today, the quarterly series, PRB Reports on America, and the Population Handbook. PRB also produces Popnet, which is a comprehensive, annotated directory of population-related web sites, including those produced by government and international organizations, non-governmental organizations, university centers, and associations and listservs.
• Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
  One of the oldest population research centers in the United States, PSC engages an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the field of population studies. Users can conduct internal searches to identify on-line resources and link to the abstracts or full text of numerous publications, including those by William H. Frey, author of "The U.S. City in Transition."
• Population Studies Center, Urban Institute
  The Urban Institute's Population Studies Center carries out demographic analyses, and helps track general economic and social trends, such as the impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy and society the changing composition of families, the well-being of low-income children.
• Project Vote Smart -- Issues: Immigration
  The Vote Smart project, which addresses citizenship education, focuses here on the heated contemporary debate over immigration. Annotated links to both pro- and anti-immigration sites are provided.
• 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.
• Unbroken Circle: List of National Organizations
  Based on a list from the Newsroom Guide to Civil Rights published by the Communications Consortium Media Center, these links are representative of the hundreds of organizations engaged in civil rights work in the United States.
• Valuing Our Differences: Celebrating Diversity Calendar
  The University of Kansas Medical Center presents a calendar of the major ethnic celebrations in the United States.
• 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.

• ABC FLASH: Your Premier Asian Online Community
  Part of the Click2 Asia Network, the site provides comprehensive resources for Asian and Asian American news and entertainment. Features include profiles of Asian celebrities, cuisines cooking, business and economic news and political and community issues.
• 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.
• Asian American Resources
  Links to Asian American organizations, culture, events, facts and personal homepages.
• Asian American Studies Center
  The departmental web site of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center offers resources, documents and more. The site aims to enrich the experience of the entire university by contributing to an understanding of the history, rich cultural heritage, and present position of Asian Americans in U.S. Society.
• Asian Pacific American Heritage Association (APAHA)
  The Asian American Heritage Association (AAHA) was formed in 1992 to "promote awareness and increase understanding of the Asian American culture and its diversity through education and celebration, focusing on May, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), and continuing throughout the year." In 1998, the official name of the organization changed to the Asian Pacific American Heritage Association (APAHA).
• Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)
  CAPAL was founded in 1989 by Asian Pacific American (APA) professionals as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization. Its mission is to promote APA interests and success in public sector careers, to provide information and education on policy issues affecting the APA community, and to serve the APA community at large.
• LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.)
  A national, nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational, community-based organization founded in 1982 by Asian Pacific American leaders. LEAP's mission is to achieve full participation and equality for Asian Pacific Americans through leadership, empowerment, and policy.
• The Wing Luke Asian Museum
  Located in Seattle, Washington, the museum is a multidisciplinary cultural center that presents arts and heritage exhibitions, public programs, school tours, publications, and films and maintains a permanent collection and research center. It is devoted to the collection, preservation and display of Asian Pacific American culture, history and art.

• Africana Studies: Resources for African and African American Studies
  This site is maintained by the University of Arizona Library. It offers links to electronic journals, political and social issues pages, directories, organizations and news sources.
• 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.
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
  Highlights the research, publications, and outreach programs of the Joint Center, a national, nonprofit institution, which focuses on public policy issues of concern to black Americans and other minorities. Areas of study include politics and elections, social issues, economic policy issues, and international affairs. In collaboration with Philip Morris Companies, Inc., the Joint Center pubishes an on-line National Directory of African American Organizations; the latest edition is 2001-2003.
• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
  Founded in 1909, the NAACP is one of the the oldest, largest and strongest civil rights organizations in the United States. Its principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens. It is committed to non-violence and relies upon the press, the petition, the ballot and the courts.
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  The Schomburg Center, one of the research libraries of the New York Public Library, is an institution devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. The Schomburg Center promotes the study of these histories and cultures of the peoples and interprets its collections through exhibitions, publications, and educational, scholarly and cultural programs. This site includes information on the Center's various divisions: art and artifacts; general research and reference; manuscripts, archives and rare books; moving image and recorded sound; and photographs and prints. It also contains links to other Internet sources of information on Africa and the African diaspora.

• Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Inc.
  A nonprofit and nonpartisan leadership development organization established in 1978. Its broad mission is to develop the next generation of Hispanic leadership.
• Hispanic American History: A Guide to Resources and Research on the Web
  Produced by the History Department of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the site offers links to resources on Hispanic American history and popular culture, including a links to Latin World and Latino Link.
• League of United Latin American Citizens
  The League of United Latin American Citizens is the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States with more than 700 councils throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
• National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
  The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) was founded in 1972 to encourage research to further the political actualization of the Chicana and Chicano community. NACCS calls for committed, critical, and rigorous research. NACCS was envisioned not as an academic embellishment, but as a structure rooted in political life.
• National Council of La Raza
  The National Council of La Raza is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans. NCLR works toward this goal through two primary approaches: capacity-building assistance to support and strengthen Hispanic community-based organizations and applied research, policy analysis and advocacy.
• United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  The USHCC is the preeminent Hispanic organization in the United States whose mission is to represent the interest of over 1.3 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Through its network of 250 local Hispanic chambers, the USHCC is the umbrella organization that actively promotes the economic growth and development of Hispanic entrepreneurs.

• American Indian/Alaska Native Hot Links for Media
  A collection of useful links from the U.S. Census Bureau to population, housing and other statistical data as well as working papers. The "Tribe Profiles" section includes Top 25 American Indian Tribes for the United States: 1980-1990.
• The American Indian Heritage Foundation
  AIHF was established to provide relief services to Indian people nationwide and to build bridges of understanding and friendship between Indian and non-Indian people. Under the umbrella of the National Heritage Foundation, Princess Pale Moon founded the American Indian Heritage Foundation in 1973.
• First Nations Development Institute
  A Native American nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to promote culturally appropriate economic development by and for Native peoples. It coordinates local grass roots projects with national program and policy development to build capacity for self-reliant reservation economies.
• The Heritage Institute
  An Indian-managed non-profit organization that provides technical, policy, educational, and financial assistance to American Indian Tribes to pursue sustainable, environmentally-sound economic development.
• Index of Native American Sources 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. Useful to anyone interested in Native Americans, but because it contains an almost overwhelming number of links, visitors might want to have an idea of what they need before they arrive.
• National Congress of American Indians
  Founded in 1944, NCAI is the oldest, largest and most representative national Indian organization serving the needs of a broad membership of American Indian and Alaska Native governments. It stresses the need for unity and cooperation among tribal governments and people for the security and protection of treaty and sovereign rights.
• Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
  A non-profit organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals across the United States.
• 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, online e-texts, author pages, history, periodicals and general sites.
• 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.