Internet References for: TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity, 9e
Internet References for:
TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity
Ninth Edition
Some websites continually change their structure and content, so the information
listed here may not always be available.
UNIT 1: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND AMERICAN
IDENTITY IN A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS
United States Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau website presents useful demographic information on
ancestry, citizenship, and foreign-born citizens. The links to Hispanic and Asian
minority data are extensive. This site is a very good starting point for the serious
student to gain background information on race and ethnicity.
www.uscensus.gov
Guide to Sociological Resources
SocioWeb is an excellent starting place for information and research
opportunities in the field of sociology including race relations, demography, and
population, all of which relate directly to clashing views on race and ethnicity.
www.socioweb.com
American Ethnic Studies: Yale Library Research Guide
At Yale University, this website provides sources for researching ethnic identity
including research guides in African American, Latino, Native American, Asian
American, and American studies. It is a valuable site for students to begin
research in race and ethnic relations, offering multiple links to college libraries
and scholarly journals. Includes links to guides, encyclopedias, and dictionaries,
along with connections to museums, centers, institutes, and databases.
www.library.yale.edu/rsc/ethnic/internet.html
American Studies: Georgetown University
This website contains the largest bibliography of web-based resources in the
field of American studies. The “Race, Ethnicity and Identity” section offers
reference and research opportunity for students.
http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/endls/asw/
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Pat Buchanan
This is the official website for conservative columnist Pat Buchanan. It offers daily
postings and strong position statements from the conservative viewpoint dealing
with topics ranging from immigration to international affairs. There are links to
several conservative Internet sources.
http://buchanan.org/blog/
Library of Congress (LOC)
This website offers an extensive online collection including areas of interest to
students of race and ethnicity. The section titled “American Memory: U.S. History
and Culture” presents a good deal of information to the student including an
online exhibit of African American history. The LOC also offers an extensive
collection in its Hispanic division.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
UNIT 2: RETHINKING THE COLOR LINE
Brookings
America’s oldest think tank, the Brookings Institute, sponsors this website. It
offers students high-quality research on many relevant topics dealing with race,
ethnicity, and immigration. Over the past 90 years, its research has contributed to
countless public policy decisions in large part because of its centrist approach.
http://brookings.edu
The Heritage Foundation
This is the website for the well-known conservative think tank, The Heritage
Foundation, which states that it is committed to building an America where
freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish. The site offers
information including research on many issues including race, ethnicity, and
immigration.
www.heritage.org
The American Enterprise Institute
The website for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
(AEI) indicates that it is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. It is
associated with neoconservative thought and policy recommendations.
Approximately 35 conservative public intellectuals and activists contribute to the
site.
www.aei.org
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Latin American Network Information Center: University of Texas
The Latin American Network Information Center sponsors this website. It seeks
to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. It
provides information about Latin America for students, teachers, and
researchers, and potential research to hundreds of sites on Hispanics in the
United States. There are excellent academic resources available on the site.
www1.lanic.utexas.edu
Policy and People
This website offers current information on national issues including immigration,
education, and other social issues. It aims to take the spotlight off politics and
politicians and put it back on policy and the people. The site is nonpartisan and
nonprofit, featuring moderates, liberals, and conservatives. It highlights national
policy debates.
www.citizenjoe.org
UNIT 3: RACE STILL MATTERS
Southern Poverty Law Center
This is the website for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was
founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin. Located in Alabama, the Center is
internationally known for many tolerance programs including education
programs, tracking of hate groups, and its legal victories against white
supremacists. It offers educational and community programs for those interested
in dismantling bigotry.
www.splcenter. org
NAACP
This website offers information, news, and trends dealing with African Americans.
The 50th year commemoration of the 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of
Education, is explored in detail on the site. The official NAACP publication, The
Crisis, is available, as are past issues through the site’s archives section.
Additional information revolving around race relations is presented daily,
including a Congressional Report.
www.naacp.org
Museum of Racist Memorabilia
This is the website for the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia located in
Michigan. It contains information and illustrations on popular cultural racist
memorabilia. The site promotes the scholarly examination of historical and
contemporary expressions of racism. The virtual tour reveals several caricatures
and an informative essay on racist images.
www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/
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Black Agenda Report
The Journal of African American Thought and Action is published every
Wednesday on this website. It promotes a critically progressive agenda and
offers links to approximately 75 progressive websites. Twenty-first century policy
issues including labor, immigration, and reparations for African Americans are
discussed. Glen Ford is the executive editor.
www.blackagendareport.com
Civil Rights Movement
This is a website dedicated to the history of the southern civil rights movement,
also referred to as the Southern Freedom Movement (1951–1968). It contains a
history, timeline, and bibliography along with original documents dealing with
the civil rights movement. For students doing research, the site offers links,
categorized by specific topics, to both scholarly and popular information on the
movement.
www.crmvet.org/
UNIT 4: IMMIGRATION: NEW FACES, OLD
QUESTIONS
Pew Hispanic Center
The website, which is part of the Pew Research Center, chronicles Latinos’
experiences in a changing America. It includes demographic data including
country of origin profiles, survey data, and current topics including Arizona’s new
immigration law. The interactive maps offer students a clear understanding of
Latino settlement by geography.
http://pewhispanic.org/
Immigration Policy Center
This is the website of the Immigration Policy Center, a Division of the American
Immigration Law Foundation. It offers data and research on several aspects of
immigration including asylum, refugees, undocumented immigrants, the labor
market, and enforcement of immigrant policy.
www.immigrationpolicy.org
Immigration History Research Center: University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Immigration Research Center, with a focus on
research sources for European immigrants, seeks to promote the history of the
American immigrant experience. It offers an extensive bibliography of
manuscripts and monographs on European immigrant groups.
www.ihrc.umn.edu/
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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
This is the home page of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS). It offers up-to-date information on U.S. immigration law and policy.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm
Ellis Island Foundation
The website of the Ellis Island Foundation enables almost everyone a chance
to research his or her family history. It contains an American family immigration
history center.
www.ellisisland.org/
American Civil Liberties Union
This website covers current information on immigrants’ rights and issues of civil
rights, including voting rights. It reviews Supreme Court decisions and other
legislative action. The archives section offers a wealth of information on race and
ethnic legal cases throughout American history. There is an interesting section
on racial profiling.
www.aclu.org
UNIT 5: THE GEOGRAPHY OF RACE AND
ETHNICITY
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is a web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which
offers educators and students with a wide range of resources used for promoting
multicultural understanding in schools and communities. Also available are an
e-newsletter and an online version of the magazine, Teaching Tolerance, which
is published twice a year.
www.teachingtolerance.org
U.S. Department of State
The U.S. Department of State website enables students to read official texts
and speeches dealing with race and immigration issues such as racial profiling,
affirmative action, black colleges, racism, voting rights, and immigrant labor.
www.state.gov/s/ocr/
The Sociological Imagination: Race and Ethnicity
This is the “race and ethnicity” part of the “Exercising the Sociological
Imagination Tour” from the Trinity University Department of Sociology and
Anthropology website. Helpful to students is the “Sociological Tour Through
Cyberspace,” which offers links to resources in race and ethnicity along with brief
reports on American minority groups.
www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/index.html#in
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Race in the 21st Century
This is the website of a political science professor at Michigan State University.
Among the many offerings dealing with multiculturalism, education, civil rights,
standardized tests, and citizenship is William B. Allen’s “Race in the 21st
Century” (3/22/99), dealing with race as a consideration in college admissions.
Allen represents a conservative perspective.
www.msu.edu/~allenwi/presentations/Race_in_21st_Century_America.htm
The Civil Rights Project: UCLA
The Civil Rights Project helps to renew the civil rights movement by “bridging the
worlds of ideas and action, and by becoming a preeminent source of intellectual
capital and a forum for building consensus within that movement.” It is an
excellent source of information and research findings in the field of race relations.
www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/
Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)
The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) runs this website to
research segregation in local communities across the country. It offers students a
chance to do original quantitative research on segregation by selecting
neighborhoods in cities and then analyzing the data on race. This site is
recommended for a wide range of research possibilities.
www.censusscope.org/segregation.html
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