Web Resources for Multicultural Studies
General Multicultural
Studies | African American | Asian
American | Latin American/Chicano Studies | Native
or Indigenous People | Jewish American | Gender
Studies (Women's
Studies | Bisexual/Gay/Lesbian Studies)
| Miscellaneous Studies
This page provides selected web resources to begin research
in the interdisciplinary field of Multicultural Studies, which covers many
subjects including history, literature, music, art, political science, and
sociology. You
can access these websites by clicking on the appropriate hyperlink below.
Additionally, library staff are available to assist you at the reference desk, and a Resource Guide for Research in Multicultural Studies is available at http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/minstudies.html.
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Directories and Associations- Associations on the Net : Ethnicity, Culture, and Race Associations Directory is provided by the Internet Public Library
- CLNet Diversity is a resource directory for minority studies including African American, Asian American, Latinos, Native American, Women, and Gay & Lesbian Studies provided by the University of California, Los Angeles
- CWIS Listings Index of Campus Wide Information Servers in American Literature and Related Fields, Georgetown University, provides links for several minority group studies from various University websites
- Glass Ceiling Commission works to identify barriers and expand practices and policies which promote employment opportunities for the advancement of minorities and women into positions of responsibility in the private sector. Site contains studies and reports
- Immunization and Naturalization Service is the US Department of Justice agency that administers the nation's immigration laws
- Lest We Forget presents "the history, culture, preservation efforts, and current events of African Americans, other ethnic, non-ethnic groups and individuals." Website contains original materials and a large number of categorized links to other online resources
- Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) represents more than 500 political science professors, graduate students, authors, and editors. Most of us specialize in the politics of Native, African, Latino, and/or Asian Pacific Americans; some study racial and ethnic politics internationally; some study issues of race/ethnicity in social theory, public policy, education, law, and political history
Bibliographies and Research Guides
- Iowa State University : Multicultural Web Sites: Diversity and Ethnic Studies: Virtual Community lists resources compiled by Susan A. Vega García, covering African American, American Indian, Asian American, and U.S. Latino American studies
- Local History & Genealogy Reading Room Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published Sources compiled by Virginia Steele Wood with portions revised in 2001 by Barbara B. Walsh under the auspices of the Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT) of the Library of Congress as part of the BECites+ Project
- Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business : Diversity site links to resources about diversity and about age, disabilities, genders, sexual orientation, religious differences, social class, African American, Asian American, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern, European and Native Americans
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide is a gateway to minorities and women studies resources by Paul P. Reuben
- University of Maryland Diversity Database includes National Origin, Race, and Ethnicity Specific Resources as well as Gender, Age and Disability resources
- University of Southern California : Ethnic Studies includes bibliographical lists of materials pertinent to ethnic studies in general and African American studies in particular, and a searchable database of materials at USC
- Voice of the Shuttle Minority Studies from Alan Liu and a development team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department includes general resources pertaining to African American, Asian American, Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, immigrant, refugee, Jewish, Native American, Native Alaskan, Pacific, Gaelic/Celtic and European minority cultures
African American Studies
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- Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL): Ebonics Information Page contains resources provided by the Center for Applied Linguistics for those interested in information about Ebonics, or African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as well as links to related Web sites on the topic
- Graduate School Directories - African American Studies is a directory of African American studies graduate and post-graduate school programs, including contact information, program descriptions and links to leading programs world wide
- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies provides a directory of African American organizations
- The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of America’s greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace
- NAACP aims to eliminate the remaining barriers to freedom and equality for all Americans
- National Urban League works to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power, and civil rights
Bibliographies and Resource Guides
- African American History and Culture from the Smithsonian Institute
- African American Mosaic (Library of Congress) is a resource guide to the institution's African American collections covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere. Exhibit presents and explains artifacts from Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA.
- African American Perspectives (Library of Congress) presents "The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection," a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries
- Africana studies resources for African and African American studies, compiled for the Shirkey, Cynthia, Arizona Board of Regents in 1999, provides access to resources in African and African American studies, including the African diaspora, bibliographies, biographies, directories and organizations, electronic journals, fine arts and humanities, history, political science and reference
- Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture Branch Smithsonian Institution Libraries links to information about African American history, resources, society and culture, and black studies
Histories and Digital Collections
- American Slave Narratives is an online anthology of first-hand accounts of former slaves and their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms, complied by the University of Virginia
- Amistad Research Center (Tulane University) is "an independent archives, library, and museum dedicated to preserving African American and ethnic history and culture."
- Indiana University Archives African American Music and Culture presents a searchable database of the holdings of the Archives, including sound recordings, videocassettes, musical scores, a photographic collection, and oral histories, and also includes selected links to other resources related to African American music and culture
- James A. Porter (1905-1970) 12th Annual Colloquium on African American Art by ArtNoir Showcase
- Race and place African American community histories was created and maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and Afro-American Studies at the University of Virginia. The site offers access to various databases and directories, photographs and historical text documents depicting the social and historical organization of Afro-Americans particularly in Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Asian American Studies
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Bibliographies and Resource Guides- AArisings links to over 2,500 different Asian Pacific American related web sites, maintained by Nelson Wong
- Asian and Asian American Criminal Justice and Legal Studies is a research Guide to the Lloyd Sealy Library by Nancy Egan, Reference Librarian
- Asian Pacific American History and Culture from the Smithsonian Institution
- Center for Educational Telecommunications, Inc. provides selected resources to explore Asian American history and culture online, in books, and through other media programs. Many of the resources listed here also have extensive links or listings of other resources
- Learning Research and Technical Services, St. Cloud State University, provides a guide to research in Asian American studies
- We the Americans: Asians profiles Asian Americans and was issued by the Bureau of the Census, Economics and Statistics Administration, US Department of Commerce
Associations and Organizations
- Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies provides information for Asian Americans to participate in public policy and the political processes.
- The Organization for Chinese Americans is dedicated to securing the rights of Chinese American and Asian American citizens and permanent residents through legislative and policy initiatives at all levels of the government
- Sawnet (South Asian Women's NETwork) is a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues. Here, South Asia includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
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An extensive Latin
American Collection (LAC) is housed at Smathers Library at the University
of Florida. This special collection is considered “among the finest in the
world.” Please access the LAC homepage at
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lac/ to receive in-depth information on this
area of study.
Selected Resources
- Handbook of Latin American studies of the Library of Congress
- The Chicano database, selected by the Research Libraries Group, is part of the Research Libraries Group Citation Resources File, produced by the Ethnic Studies Library, University of California at Berkeley Source Titles List, to "[identify] all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos"
- CLNET's Chicana Studies Home Page provides profiles of Chicana resources, listservs, organizations, and networks
- Latin American Studies Association is a professional association engaged in the study of Latin America
- U.S. Latino History and Culture from the Smithsonian Institute
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Selected Resources
- American Indian history and related issues is maintained by Troy Johnson and offers links to information about the history and culture of the Native American experience in North America as well as Indian people of Central America and Mexico
- American Indians Index of Native American Resources on the Internet maintained by Karen M. Strom from The WWW Virtual Library
- Fourth World Documentation Project, the Center for World Indigenous Studies provides texts from around the world to document the social, political, strategic, economic and human rights situations faced by Indigenous Peoples. Documents include essays, position papers, resolutions, organizational information, and treaties
- Native American History and Culture Native : American Resources from the Smithsonian Institute
- NativeNet facilitates communications about the Native peoples of the world and the problems they face
- NATIVE VILLAGE was created for youth, educators, families, and friends who wish to celebrate the rich, diverse cultures of The Americas' First Peoples
- NativeWeb is a guide to sources of information on indigenous peoples, divided into sections for subject categories, geographic regions, nations/peoples, languages, education, literature, publications, organizations, historical materials, and information sites
- Overview: Images of Indians of North America LC-USZC4-4168 Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
- Oyate: Native American Materials is a Native American organization working to ensure Native Americans’ lives and histories are portrayed honestly. Includes evaluation of texts, resource materials, and fiction by and about native peoples
- Recommended American Indian Websites Diversity & Ethnic Studies includes selected American Indian web resources useful for academic research and information purposes maintained by Susan A. Vega García. Also included is a link to a library research guide.
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Selected Resources
- Academic Jewish studies internet directory links to library catalogs, databases and mailing lists, maintained by H-Judaic Editors, H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine
- Dallas Jewish Historical Society Jewish Genealogy Home Page
- Ethnic Studies created by the University of Southern California, includes bibliographical lists of materials pertinent Jewish American Studies
- The Jerusalem Post Internet edition is the online and English version of the Jeruselem magazine
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Bibliographies and Resource Guides | Associations and Organizations | Histories and Digital Collections
Bibliographies and Resource Guides
- Digital Librarian: Women's Resources provides a librarian's choice of the best of the web and contains an index to links for Internet sites covering a wide range of topics in the field of women's studies research.
- Fogler Library Internet Subject Guide: Women developed by Folger Library, The University of Maine.
- The National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, provides bibliographies and histories, and consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library of Congress' larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938.
- Pathway Services Browse Topics: Women lists Federal government sites, compiled by The University of Maine.
- ViVa contains a bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history, provided by the International Institute of Social History.
- The Women's Resource Project is a collection of feminist links and resources on feminism and women's studies, Jewish feminism, African American women and womanist studies, and women's art, literature, and history. Developed at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 1994.
- Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated list of sites covering general, women's studies and feminist theory, compiled by Joan Korenman.
Associations and Organizations
- Feminist Majority Foundation Online provides information on women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence.
- National Organization for Women is dedicated to making legal, political, social and economic change in our society in order to achieve our goal, which is to eliminate sexism and end all oppression.
- National Women's History Project is an educational nonprofit organization to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs.
- Remember the Women Institute supports and conducts research in women's studies and women in history, with a special emphasis on the Holocaust period. Provides information on current projects and a bibliography of English language works.
Histories and Digital Collections
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 is a digital collection maintained by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
- Women Artists of the American West: Past and Present is a searchable site exploring "the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American West" and features illustrated essays arranged by themes of community, identity, spirituality, and locality. Topics include Asian American Artists, Lesbian Photography on the U.S. West Coast, Women on the Pacific Rim, and The Women in Photography International Archive."
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For a more complete list of resources on this particular area of study, access the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Resources pathfinder, a resource guide, at http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/lgbr.htm.Selected Resources
- Gender & Sexuality Associations provided by The Internet Public Library Associations on the Net
- Human Rights Campaign is America's largest gay and lesbian organization, which provides a national voice on gay and lesbian issues
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Selected Resources
- A Select Bibliography of Works: Norwegian-American Immigration and Local History Compiled by Lee V. Douglas, Reference Specialist Research Guide No. 6
- Cornucopia Of Disability Information from The State University of New York, University at Buffalo CODI
