Cultural Diversity
Also be sure to check links
under American
Studies Research Resources - General which will point
you to additional materials on Cultural Diversity.
Cultural
Diversity -- General
CLNet
Diversity Page--Links to Internet resources on African American, Asian
American, Latinos, Native American, Women, Gay & Lesbian Studies. A joint
project of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA and the Linguistic Minority
Research Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Global
Communities: Chicago's Immigrants and Refugees--Chicago
Historical Society documentation project. During 2000
it will focus on documenting the experiences of Mexican,
Southeast Asian, and Polish immigrants and refugees who
have arrived in Chicago since 1945. Also contains useful
links to related web sites for each group.
Center
for Working-Class Studies--Includes information about
working-class studies as a field of study; information
on courses,
research, and programs, a bibliography
on working-class studies; plus links to other related web sites.
African
American
Best of the Web - African
American--A helpful resource for researching African-American studies on the Internet.
African
American Music--Select links to Internet resources on African American
Music compiled by the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana
University.
Excerpts
from Slave Narratives--Direct testimony in the words
of ex-slaves collected from the late 18th century to
the 1930s. Edited by Steven Mintz, Univ. of Houston.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection--Part
of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.
Pamphlets (1824-1909) by African-American authors and
others who wrote about slavery, African colonization,
Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. Includes
personal accounts, public orations, organizational reports,
and legislative speeches. Page images of each pamphlet
as well as fully searchable transcribed texts and browse
lists organized by author, title, and subject.
Freedmen
and Southern Society Project--Selected primary source
documents from the multi-volume published collection
documenting African American life during the Civil War
and early Reconstruction, the emancipation years, 1861-1867.
Pamphlets
from the A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907--Part
of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.
Full text of pamphlets. Richest for years between 1875
and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick
Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
Harper's
Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874--Contains
illustrations, cartoons, editorials, news stories,
advertisements, poems,and a short story from the pages
of the nation's leading 19th-century newspaper. Topics
presented include slavery, emancipation, black military
service, black political participation, black women,
and anti-black violence.
Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro--A hypermedia edition of the
March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number. This
was the key manifesto announcing the purposes and accomplishments
of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes the artwork from
the original publication.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Papers Project--Includes full-text
of King's most important speeches. Useful article by
King Project director Clayborne Carson on King and the
Social Gospel tradition. Lists documents included in
the published volumes produced by the Project. Includes
search engine to find materials in the 2700-item bibliography
of works dealing with King and the civil rights movement.
Asian
American
Asian
American Studies Center (UCLA)
Native
American
Index
of Native American Resources--Provides an easy-access tool to selected
web sites concerned with Native America. Approximately 5,000 links in 31 categories.
Especially strong on Native American art and on contemporary political and
commercial issues. For more generalized research, the site also offers links
to bibliographies, electronic texts, and virtual libraries.
Native
Americans - Internet Resources--Internet School Library
Media Center's Native American page. Provides resources
for teachers, librarians, students and parents on this
page. Links to online bibliographies, directories, documents
and e-texts, curriculum materials, periodicals, and more.
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