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Cultural Diversity

Cultural Diversity -- General African American
Asian American Native American

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

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

Archives of African American Music and Culture --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.

Black Americans in Congress--Contains biographical profiles of former African-American members of Congress, links to information about current black Members, essays on institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of African Americans in Congress, and images of each individual Member, supplemented by other historical photos.

Asian American

Asian American Studies Center (UCLA)

Asian-American Studies Resources

Asian-American History Resources (U of Minnesota)

Asian-American Studies Resource Guide (USC)

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--Provides links to resources on Native American culture, history, education, language, health, arts, law, government, organizations, and more.

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