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Guide to Internet Resources on Racism,
Race, and American Law
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I suggest these web sites and materials related to racism, race,
and law. If you have suggestions for sites or materials to be added or one of the
links does not work, please e-mail me at wingatek@uchastings.edu.
When indicated, files are available in the pdf format. In order to view and print
files in the pdf format, the Adobe Acrobat Reader has to be installed on your
computer. The Reader can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe site.
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| Tulsa
Riot Reparations Lawsuit: In February 2003, a
group of lawyers, including Professor Charles T. Ogletree, Jr., of Harvard
Law School, filed suit on behalf of some 200 plaintiffs seeking
reparations for the lives lost, the injuries suffered, and the property
damaged and destroyed during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (discussed in the
African-American section of this Guide). Professor Ogletree's
website contains litigation documents filed in the case, newspaper
articles about the lawsuit, slides of the riot and its aftermath, and
links to other relevant sites. |
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| Still
on the Books: Jim Crow and Segregation Laws Fifty Years After Brown v.
Board of Education (2004): This website
contains a report released in February 2004 which found that laws passed
to ensure racial segregation in public schools were still on the books in
at least eight southern states and some still had discriminatory
effects. The report was written by the Jim Crow Study Group at the
University of Arizona and included student and faculty researchers from
the College of Law and the College of Business and Public
Administration. A pdf version of the report is also available from
this link. |
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| Williams
v. California (www.decentschools.com): The
Williams lawsuit contends that many California schoolchildren, especially
poor children and children of color, attend crummy, overcrowded schools
without enough textbooks or trained teachers, and that these conditions
violate both California and federal law. This site, sponsored by the
team who brought the lawsuit, contains court documents filed in the case,
expert reports and deposition testimony by experts on both sides of the
case, newspaper articles about the case, and materials and links to
materials which provide a great deal of information about California
public schools in general and specific California schools and school
districts. |
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| Racial
Profiling by Professor Vikram Amar: This short
essay, written after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade
Center Towers in New York, discusses both the dangers of racial profiling
and the circumstances in which the author believes it may be permissible. |
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| Responses,
Resources, and Information for Post-September 11 Organizing:
The National Network for Immigrant and
Refugee Rights sponsors this list of links. It
includes links to Fact Sheets and Background Materials on Islam, the Arab
World, and the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, a News
Archive with links to articles on immigration-related issues, and
Resources and Hotlines to report incidences of hate crimes. The site
also contains articles from the Network News, the organization's quarterly
magazine, and a list of links to national and international immigration
organizations. The links page also contains links to the websites
of anti-immigrant groups, even though the Network does not support
such groups. |
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| The Arab
American Institute: The Institute serves as a
clearinghouse for Arab American participation in national, state, and
local politics and government, research on Arab Americans, and a forum for
consensus positions on pressing domestic and foreign policy matters.
The website contains extensive
materials on Arab Americans,
the Middle East, and Islam, demographic data, and a select bibliography. The site also has a News section, a
section on Policy Priorities, a section on legislative activity, and a
section for Students with information about scholarships and study abroad
programs. |
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| The Implicit Association
Test: This site contains demo versions of a psychological test which can
reveal unconscious attitudes. One, the Race or Black-White Implicit Association
Test, may indicate that unconsciously you favor Blacks or whites. The site includes
a bibliography of research related to the test. |
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| Race, Racism, and the Law:
This site contains statutes, cases, excerpts of law review articles, annotated
bibliographies and other documents related to race and racism. |
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| Race,
Racism, and American Law: A Research Guide and Bibliography: This
site, created by Gail A. Partin of the Dickinson School of Law of
Pennsylvania State University, is designed to assist students doing
research in the area. It includes lists of treatises, books,
articles, and periodicals found in the law library organized by
categories. It also includes a research guide with suggestions as to
how to find additional materials. |
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| Institute on Race and Poverty:
The Institute, established in 1993 by Professor john a. powell, a leading
critical race theory scholar, is a strategic research center located at the University of
Minnesota Law School. The site contains reports on issues such as racial profiling
and welfare reform and articles on race, poverty, and globalization, racial privilege, and
sprawl and racial justice among others. The site also contains a comprehensive and
well-organized collection of links. |
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| Institute
on Race and Justice: The Institute at
Northeastern University brings together experts from the School of Law,
the College of Criminal Justice, the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, the Department of African American Studies, and the School
of Education to examine questions on race and justice facing urban
communities. Its focus is on criminal justice and education.
The site contains a News and Noteworthy section with articles from various
media sources regarding relevant issues. The site also contains
studies, reports, and cites to other publications. The Institute
also operates the
Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center. |
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| The O.J. Simpson Trial: Seeing the Elephant:
I wrote this short article as the Foreward to the 1995 Symposium Issue,
Vol. 6 No.2, of the Hastings
Womens Law Journal which focused on the case. It contains some of my
thoughts on the controversy surrounding the Simpson criminal trial and what it said about
race, gender, and class in the United States. |
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| Washington and Lee Race and Ethnic
Ancestry Law Journal: The site includes a number of articles which have
been published in the journal. |
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| Michigan Journal of
Race and Law: The site includes descriptions of the articles in both the
current issue and previous ones. The Journal sponsors a critical race theory reading
group, and a list of the articles read is provided. The Guide for Aspiring Law
Professors is available for downloading. The site also includes links to similar
publications. |
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| Minority
Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools:
Many, if not most of the law teachers of color in the United States, are
members of the Section. The website contains a list of the Section's
officers, copies of its newsletters, a database with information regarding
the courses taught by and publications written by law teachers of
color, information about Section programs and events, and a list of
relevant links. The
Association of American Law Schools is a
non-profit association of 164 law schools and serves as the learned
society of law teachers. Its website contains statistical
information about the numbers of women and minorities in law teaching and
information about its programs and projects. |
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| Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights: This site has information on current civil rights and human
rights legislation and contains a civil rights library which the group hopes to make the
most comprehensive resource for civil rights information online. One of its reports,
Justice
on Trial: Racial Disparity in the American Criminal Justice System (May 2000),
concludes the United States has two separate, unequal standards of justice for whites and
people of color and makes recommendations for change. It is available in pdf format
from this link. The Conference is a coalition of more
than 180 national organizations, and links to the organizations' websites are included. |
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| The Southern Poverty Law Center:
This organization combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education
and litigation. Its Teaching Tolerance Project is designed to help teachers foster
equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond. The Project offers
free or low-cost resources to educators at all levels. The site contains some
articles from Teaching Tolerance Magazine. The Center's Intelligence Project
monitors over 400 hate groups. The site contains articles from the Intelligence
Report, the Project's quarterly publication. The Center also sponsors the Civil
Rights Memorial which celebrates the memory of 40 individuals who died during the Civil
Rights Movement. |
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| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
under Law: The section of the site devoted to the Voting Rights Project
includes some litigation documents and updates on litigation around the country. The
Public Policy section includes updates on pending legislation. This national
lawyers' organization has local committees in several major cities. The site
includes an excellent page of relevant links. |
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| Equal
Justice Society: The Equal Justice Society is
"a national organization of legal academics, practicing attorneys,
policy experts, civil rights advocates, and students dedicated to
implementing a positive vision of equal justice through the development of
progressive legal theory." The site contains a Research
section, an Action Center, and an Events section. |
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| United States Commission on Civil Rights:
The Commission is an independent, bipartisan fact-finding agency of the
Executive Branch. It is directed to investigate complaints that citizens are being
denied the right to vote by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin and to
study and collect information regarding to discrimination in the administration of
justice. The site includes a number of reports on topics such as police practices in
New York City, educational opportunities for Hispanic students in the Oklahoma City public
schools, and the treatment of African-Americans in the Virginia criminal justice system.
It also contains a catalog listing a number of additional reports which can be
ordered from the Commission. The site's publication section also includes the Civil
Rights Directory, which provides a compilation of Federal, State, and local governmental
agencies and private organizations with significant civil rights
responsibilities and a
description of each organization's services. The site also includes some
multimedia
presentations of briefings by the Commission. The Thurgood Marshall
Law Library of the University of Maryland School of Law has created a
website which contains the Historical
Publications of the Commission ,all the pre-1997
Commission documents the Library's collection in a searchable pdf format. |
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| Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights:
The Commission's mission is to monitor civil rights enforcement, to examine important
policy issues affecting equality of opportunity, and to publish reports discussing these
matters. The website includes a number of reports and ordering information on
others. |
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| Commision on Racial &
Ethnic Diversity in the Profession: This American Bar Association
Commission has sponsored a variety of research and serves as a clearinghouse for data
regarding the status of minorities in the legal profession. The site includes
descriptions of the Commission's projects and programs, the current and past editions of
its newsletter, information on its latest publications, and a comprehensive and
well-organized links section with links to both national and local minority bar
associations. The site also contains a Web Board, a web-based bulletin board system.
The board's Diversity News conference has discussion of and links to a large number
of relevant news articles and press releases. |
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| Minorities
Interested in Legal Education (MILE): This Law School Admission Council
(LSAC) project provides candidates of color with reliable information about preparation
for and applying to law school. Candidates can register for this free program at the
site, which includes selected articles from the program's newsletter, answsers to a list
of Frequently Asked Questions by law school applicants of color, and a list of links to
minority legal organizations. LSAC is a nonprofit membership corporation. Its
members include the 183 American Bar Association-accredited law schools in the United
States and 15 Canadian law schools. LSAC administers the LSAT, a half-day
standarized test which all its member schools require for admission. In addition to
information about MILE, the LSAC site contains
extensive information about the LSAT and the law school admission process. It also
contains links to law schools and a Resources section with information about financial aid
and an extensive list of links related to legal education. |
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| The Civil Rights
Project at Harvard University: The Project provides original research on
civil rights and equal opportunities policies. The website contains many of the reports
and studies done by the Project and describes a number of its publications.
Two of the important studies available online are Resegregation
in American Schools (1999)
and A Multiracial Society
with Segregated Schools: Are We Losing the Dream? (2003)(pdf). |
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| United Farm Workers: This
site is the Union's home page. It includes current news, news releases, a history of
the Union, a great deal on information on Cesar Chavez including a selective bibliography,
speeches, audio clips, a number of white papers on various topics, and a good page of
relevant links. |
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| Rainbow/Push Coalition: The
Coalition is a multiracial, multi-issue, international organization working to move the
nation and the world toward social, racial, and economic justice. The site contains
the transcripts of recent speeches by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the group's founder and
president, and others, press releases, and archives of RPC Fax, a weekly analysis of
public policy issues. |
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| Women of Color Resource Center:
The Center is an education, community action, and research organization working on
social justice issues that affect women of color. The site includes the National
Directory of Women of Color Organizations and Projects, indexed by race and issue, and
supplemented by Women of Color on the Web with links. The site also contains current
and past issues of the Center's newsletter and a list of its publications. |
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| Women of Color Web:
This site is dedicated to providing access to writings by and about women of color
in the United States, focusing specifically on issues related to feminisms, sexualities,
and reproductive health and rights. It includes articles by Professors Kimberle
Williams Crenshaw and Dorothy Roberts, among others, a Resources section with an extensive
list of links, including links to relevant syllabi, organizations, and discussion
lists. The site is a part of the site of the Global Reproductive Health Forum of the Harvard
School of Public Health. |
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| Internet
Resources: Women of Color & Women Worldwide: This site is a
comprehensive list of links prepared by the Stanford University Library. |
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| Women of
Color Web Sites: This site consists of links to some noteworthy sites
that focus on women of color in the United States and around the world. |
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| California
Newsreel: California Newsreel is the site for
educational videos on race relations, African-American life and history,
diversity training, labor studies, African cinema, and much more. Race:
The Power of an Illusion is California
Newsreel's excellent three-part documentary about race in society,
science, and history released in 2003. The first episode uses
contemporary science, including genetics, to challenge the common
understanding that human beings can be divided into three or four
biologically distinct groups. The second episode tells the story of
race in North America, the nineteenth century science that sought to
legitimate it, and how it was used to rationalize and even justify
inequalities in American society. The third episode shows how race
is "made" by political, social, and economic institutions.
The excellent
Companion Website contains Background Readings,
an Ask the Experts section with the answers of various experts to
questions posed to them, a Resources section listing books, web sites,
organizations, videos and films, and online articles, a Teachers section
with lesson plans, and a Discussion Guide in pdf format which can be
downloaded. |
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| RaceSci.org:
This website is a resource for scholars and students
interested in the history of race in science, medicine, an technology and
tracts the continuing history of race in contemporary science and its
reporting in the media. It contains extensive bibliographies,
syllabi of courses, relevant articles in the media, and an extensive
collection of relevant links. |
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| Race
Data: This Census Bureau site contains demographic data about the racial
composition of the United States. In March 2001 the Census Bureau issued "Overview
of Race and Hispanic Origin, a Census 2000 Brief," in
pdf format. Another web sIte, CensusScope,
provides an easy-to-use tool for investigating
demographic trends in the United States. It includes, among other
things, Census 2000 data and data going back to 1990 and 1980 on
population by race, the multiracial population, income, and nativity and
citizenship. The site was developed by the
Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN), a
university-based organization that creates demographic media, such as web
sites, user guides, and hands-on classroom computer materials that make
U.S. census data accessible to policymakers, educators, the media, and
informed citizens. SSDAN is directed by demograhper William H. Frey
and utilizes facilities at the Population Studies Center, University of
Michigan. Frey-Demographer.org,
Professor Frey's homepage, also contains and cites some
articles and reports relating to race. One, "Rainbow
Nation": Mixed Race Marriages among the States (pdf),
is a short four page article which discusses information provided by
Census 2000 data on the numbers and composition of mixed race marriages in
the United States. AmeriStat,
a site developed by SSDAN in partnership with the
Population Reference Bureau (PRB), provides
instant summaries- in graphics and text- of the demographic
characteristics of the United States population. The site contains
data, articles, and reports related to Race and Ethnicity.
The United States Historical Census Browser
contains data describing the racial makeup of the country from 1790 to 1960. |
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| Residential
Segregation 2000: This excellent web site
contains data showing the amount of residential segregation by race for
metropolitan areas and cities across the United States based upon 2000
Census data. Additionally, it shows rankings and comparisons of the
metropolitan areas and cities. It is part of the CensusScope
site. |
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| Metropolitan
Racial and Ethnic Change-Census 2000: This
website, a project of the
Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research at the
University of Albany, provides information and analyses of how the racial and ethnic
composition of metropolitan areas shifted from the previous census.
The purpose of the Center is to carry out and promote interdisciplinary
urban research both comparative and historical in scope. The site contains a number of reports analyzing census data. One,
How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans,
published in 2003, concludes that the nearly one million Black Hispanics
in the United States are in many ways more similar to non-Hispanic Blacks
than to other Hispanics and that the fastest growing segment of the
Hispanic community describes itself as neither Black nor white, but simply
Hispanic. It also shows that different Hispanic racial groups are
very distinct in terms of socioeconomic status and residential
patterns. The Report is also available in pdf format from this link.
Another report, Black
Diversity in Metropolitan America, also
published in 2003, finds that the Black population is becoming
increasingly diverse as a result of continued immigration from the
Caribbean and Africa and that despite very different social backgrounds
face similar levels of segregation from whites as do
African-Americans. It is also available in pdf format from this link.
From
Many Shores: Asians in Census 2000, a report
published in 2001, notes that there are now as many as six distinct Asian
national-origin groups with more than a million residents in the United
States and documents the large differences in social background and
location among them. It is also available in pdf format from this link.
The site also contains a Data section with data on on specific
metropolitan areas and an In the News section with links to studies on
residential segregation. |
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| Declaration
on Race and Racial Prejudice adopted by the General Conference of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on
November 27, 1978: This Declaration
defines racism, notes its negative effects on the world community, and
discusses the obligations of nations to combat it. It is also
available in pdf format from this link. |
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| Initial
Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination, September 2000: The United States submitted
this report on racial discrimination in this country as part of its obligations under the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Report is
also available at this
link from the University of Minnesota Human Rigths Library site, and can be
downloaded in pdf format here. |
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| Housing
Discrimination Study 2000: This website
contains the national results from the first three phases of the
study. The study, conducted by the
Urban Institute, represents the most ambitious attempt
to date to measure the extent of housing discrimination in the United
States against people because of their race or color and is the third such
national paired-testing study sponsored by HUD. The Phase 1 results
showed that whites were consistently favored over African-Americans in
21.6 percent of the tests in which the testers sought rental housing and
were consistently favored over Hispanics in 25.7 percent of such
tests. White homebuyers were consistently favored over
African-American homebuyers in 17 percent of the tests and over Hispanic
homebuyers in 19.7 percent of the tests. The Phase 2 results showed
Asian and Pacific Islander homebuyers experienced consistent adverse
treatment 20.4 percent of the time. Phase 3 conducted rental testing
in Minnesota, Montana, and New Mexico to measure discrimination against
American Indians. The Phase 3 results showed discrimination against
American Indian renters ranging from 25.7 percent in New Mexico to 33.3
percent in Minnesota, averaging 28.5 percent across all three
states. The reports are
the HUD USER site,
which is an online resource providing access to current research reports
about housing and community and economic development by and for HUD's
Office of Policy Development and Research. |
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| Commemorating
the 30th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act (1999): This
website contains articles discussing the Justice Department's enforcement
of the Act, its 1988 amendments, the state of residential segregation, a
Latino perspective on the Act, etc. The site contains short
abstracts of the articles and the articles themselves in pdf format.
They were published in the Vol.4, Number 3 issue of Cityscape:
A Journal of Policy Development and Research, which
publishes HUD-funded and other research on housing and urban policy
issues. The magazine is one of the periodicals available on
the HUD USER site,
which is an online resource providing access to current research reports
about housing and community and economic development by and for HUD's
Office of Policy Development and Research. |
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| Race,
Law, and Justice: The Rehnquist Court and the American Dilemna, September
1995: On September 21,
1995, the Law and Government Program of the Washington College of Law, the
Asian-Pacific Law Students Association, and the American University Law
Review hosted a conference addressing recent Supreme Court jurisprudence
on race. An issue of the Law Review, Volume 45, number 3, published
in February 1996, is available from this site and includes three of the
panel discussions from the conference, "Color-Blindness Versus Racial Justice: The Supreme Court's 1994-95 Term
and the Struggle to Define Equal Protection," "Beyond Black and White: Race-Conscious Policies and the 'Other Minorities,'"
and "'Creditor and Debtor Races': Is It Time to Get Beyond Race?".
Additionally, a number of the panelists, including Robert S. Chang,
Adrienne D. Davis, and Frank Wu, wrote essays after the Conference
that expanded upon issues raised during the panel discussions and are
available from the
issue's main page. |
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| Language
Policy: This site explores what the government does officially- through
legislation, court decisions, executive action or other means- to determine how languages
are used in public contexts. It contains a section on Language Legislation which
includes the various forms of Official English legislation adopted in 20 states and the
proposals under consideration in a number of other states. The site also includes
information on Bilingual Education, the California Anti-Bilingual Initiative, demographic
changes in the country, and Language Rights. |
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| University of California Linguistic
Minority Research Institute: The Institute is a multi-campus research
unit established in 1984 to pursue knowledge applicable to educational policy and practice
in the area of language minority students' academic achievement and knowledge. The
site contains a number of publications available for download, including some on the
effects of Proposition 227, and comprehensive and well-organized links pages in the
Additional Resources section. |
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| Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource
Center: This Northeastern University
website is designed to be a central clearinghouse for police agencies,
legislators, community leaders, social scientists, legal researchers,
and journalists to access information about current data collection
efforts, legislation and model policies, police community initiatives, and
methodical tools that can be used to collect and analyze data. In
addition to reports on racial profiling from around the country, the site
contains a What's New section with news relating to racial profiling from
around the country. The site also contains information on the
background of data collection, jurisdictions currently collecting
data, community groups, legislation that is pending and enacted, and has a
resource kit on planning and implementing data collection procedures,
training officers to implement these systems, and analyzing and reporting
the data. |
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| Racial
Profiling: This page contains news,
information, and reports on racial profiling around the United
States. It is part of the website of Common
Sense for Drug Policy, an organization which
provides technical assistance and advice to organizations and individuals
working to reform current drug policies. The site contains detailed
information about the War on Drugs and extensive links to resources and
other drug reform groups. |
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| National Immigration Law Center:
The Center's mission is to promote and protect the rights of low-income immigrants
and their family members. Its staff specializes in immigration law and the
employment and public benefit rights of immigrants. The site includes articles from
the newsletter, community education materials, a list of publications which can be
ordered, and an extensive listing of relevant links. |
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| Feminist
Theory, Law & Race: The site contains the course syllabus,
bibliographies, and guidelines for papers. |
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| Women of Color Course
Syllabi on the Web: This site contains links to syllabi for courses
dealing with Women of Color. Courses that make substantial use of the Internet are
so designated. |
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| Race, Gender & Justice: This
site accompanied an Occidental College course which explored the legal, cultural, and
theoretical issues and contexts that affect how people and communities conceptualize
justice in the United States. The site includes a Readings section which lists the
readings for the course with links to information about the authors or works and summaries
of the cases. |
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| National Community Reinvestment
Coalition: The Coalition seeks to increase the flow of private capital
into traditionally underserved communities by preserving the Community Reinvestment Act
(CRA) and educating communities about how to use it. The CRA outlawed the practice
of "redlining" and defined the responsibilities of financial institutions to
provide equal treatment to all communities. The site includes policy statements, a
list of recent publications, and a comprehensive list of relevant links. |
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| Poverty and Race Research Action Council:
The Council's mission is to generate, gather, and disseminate information regarding
the relationship between race and poverty. The site contains some articles and cites
numerous others. Both the current issue and past issues of the Council's extensive
newsletter can be downloaded. |
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| The Urban Institute:
This
is the home page of a major economic and social policy research organization. The
site contains some important reports and studies. One of them, "A National Report Card on
Discrimination in America", focuses on the role of testing in
demonstrating racial discrimination and discusses much of the research which has been
done. The National Report Card can be downloaded in pdf format from this link. |
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| The Applied Research Center: The
Center is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues
of race and social change. A number of its reports are available for free downloads.
It publishes Colorlines
Magazine, a national multi-racial magazine devoted to covering the politics,
organizing, culture, and creations of communities of color. |
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| Center for Community Change:
The Center provides assistance to grassroots community groups in everything from
organizing and outreach to fundraising and financial management. The site permits
the downloading of a number of reports in the PDF format on topics relating to housing,
community economic development, and job creation. Additionally, the site describes a
large number of other publications which can be ordered. |
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| Civil Rights Forum on
Communications Policy: The forum works to bring civil rights
organizations and community groups into the debate over our media environment. The
site contains studies, articles, and speeches on topics such the digital divide, the
impact of discriminatory advertising practices on minority-owned and minority-formatted
broadcast stations, and identifying barriers to minority media ownership. |
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| Center for Law and Social Policy:
The Center seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families
with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.
The site includes reports and updates on welfare reform developments. |
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| Background
Reports on Race Relations: This site is sponsored by The NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer on PBS. It includes special reports on a number of topics covered on the
show such as Slave Reparations, affirmative action, and illegal immigration. |
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| Norm Matloff's
Minority Affairs Forum: Matloff is a Computer Science professor at the
University of California-Davis. The site contains a number of articles written by
Professor Matloff and others on a number of topics. |
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| The Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies: is a specialized library and museum devoted to the history of
immigration and ethnic life in America. Its Online Resources section includes an
excellent bibliography of Civil Rights Materials and internet publications on Ethnic
Images in Advertising, Toys and Games, and Comics. |
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| National Center on Poverty Law: The
Center identifies, develops, and supports creative and collaborative approaches to help
achieve social and economic justice for low income people. The site includes
Practice area pages for Food Programs, Health, Housing, Immigration, and Welfare which
have relevant recent news and resources. The site also includes the Clearinghouse
Review, a bi-montly publication on developments in poverty law, but the articles are only
available to those who have paid subscriptions to the publication or the website. |
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| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
The Center is a research and policy institute that conducts research and
analysis on a range of government programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and
moderate-income people. The site includes a large number of reports on a wide-range
of topics including low-income housing and poverty programs. |
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| Hate Crimes:
This National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) site contains summaries of
and links to many pieces of legislation passed by Congress in the past ten years which
address hate crimes, Facts and Figures on Hate Crimes, a number of relevant publications,
and a page of relevant links. The NCJRS is a federally sponsored information
clearinghouse involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and
juvenile justice and drug control. |
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| Public Policy Institute of California:
The Institute is a private organization dedicated to independent, objective, and
nonpartisan research on economic, social, and political issues that affect the lives of
Californians. Its current work focuses on three program areas: population, economy,
and governance and public finance. The site includes a number of articles, reports,
research briefs, statewide surveys, and papers which are available in full and information
on ordering others which are described. One report, Racial
and Ethnic Wage Gaps in the California Labor Market (pdf) ,
published in May 2003 examines the large and persistent wage gaps across
racial and ethnic groups, their causes, and wages to reduce them. A
two page Research Brief (pdf)
on the same subject was also published at the same time.
"A Potrait of Race and Ethnicity in California: An Assessment of Social and
Economic Well-Being" (pdf). |
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| Ethnicity and Race
Links: This site contains a HUGE list of links to sites containing all
types of information about Native Americans, Asian-Americans, African-Americans, Latinos,
and European-Americans. |
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| The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity:
This site discusses some of the sociological aspects of race and ethnicity
and how they relate to social stratification and also contains links to a large
number of both general race and ethnic and race-specific sites. |
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| Literature
on Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism: This
site includes links to selected internet resources on race, ethnicity, and
human rights and contains links to a large number of articles about race
and racism. This site is part of Ethics
Updates, a site developed by Professor Lawrence
M. Hinman of the University of San Diego primarily to provide ethics
instructors and their students updates on current literature, both popular
and professional, that relates to ethics. |
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| The
Race and Ethnicity Collection: This site
contains articles from a variety of publications, scholarly essays, online
texts, fiction, and links to internet resources. It is one of over
forty literary collections on the Eserver. |
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| Understanding
Prejudice: The purpose of this web site is to
offer educational resources and information on prejudice, discrimination,
multiculturalism, and diversity. The Reading Room section contains
hundreds of bibliographic links to books, journals, magazines, reports,
articles, and essays. The site also contains several exercises and
demonstrations, a Teacher's Corner with tips, syllabi, activities, and
assignments, a searchable database with hundreds of national and
international social justice organizations, and a page of links to a
variety of prejudice-related resources. Although the site is
organized to supplement Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination, a
university-level anthology edited by Professor Scott Plous of the
Psychology Department at the Wesleyan University, all pages and features
are freely available to the general public. |
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| Mosiac Web: This site explores
many aspects of a number of diverse cultures, including history, literature,
entertainment, sports, and technology. |
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| Race and Ethnicity
Resources on the American Studies Web: This site contains a list of links
to internet resources on African-American, Asian-American, Native American, and Latino
Studies. |
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| Voice of the Shuttle: Minority
Studies Page: This site is designed to provide resources for humanities
research and contains a long list of links to both general and race and ethnic specific
sites. |
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| The University of Maryland
Diversity Database: This site is a comprehensive index of multicultural
and diversity resources. The National Origin,
Race, and Ethncity Specific Resources section has links to archives, museums,
bibliographies, guides, and media reviews. |
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| Diversity Web: This site is
part of a large communications initiative entitled Diversity Works. Diversity Works
is a family of projects providing resources to colleges and universities that view
diversity as a compelling educational priority and institutional commitment. The
site includes a compendium of Recommended Resources, including syllabi, models for faculty
development, and other material, designed to help campus practioners create an environment
where diversity is considered part of an on-going commitment to excellence. The site
also contains Diversity Digest, a quarterly publication of articles, interviews, and
reviews, discussion forums on diversity issues, and 200 Institutional Profiles describing
the work of individual colleges and universities that have worked extensively on diversity
as an educational commitment. |
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| Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History: This
website contains extensive materials on a number of topics including
Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, Slavery, and Legal History, and both
primary and secondary sources. |
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| Resources for Research on
Ethnic Studies: This site is maintained by the Doheny Reference Center at
the University of Southern California to provide access to research resources available
through the Internet based on a global perspective of ethnicity and migration issues. |
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| Crosspoints Anti-Racism Sites
around the World: This site contains links to over 2000 anti-racism sites
in 112 countries. The sites are organized by country and to a limited extent by
subject-matter. |
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| NEWSCENTER-Breaking News and Views
for Progressives: This site has up to date headlines, articles, and
numerous links to online news sources and writers from Jesse Jackson to Noam Chomsky. |
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| NewsWatch: This project's
mission is to promote a healthy dialogue among journalists regarding coverage of people of
color, lesbians and gays, and other communities which have been the victim of biased
reporting or ignored by the news media. The site includes articles from its Journal,
a Style Guide, a diversity calendar, a Buzz section on recent events, columns, and
discussion of some academic articles. NewsWatch is a project of the Center for
Integration and Improvement of the San Francisco State University Journalism Department
and is a collaberation between the Native American
Journalists Association, the National Association of
Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Black
Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association,
and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. |
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| AntiRacismNet:
This site contains news, articles, links to other antiracist sites, and
online discussions. |
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| Bridging
the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use:
This study was written by two associate professors of management at the Owen
Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. |
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| Shielded from Justice:
Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States: This report
examines the common obstacles to accountability for police abuse for fourteen large
cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. The research was conducted from
late 1995 through early 1998. Some brutality cases are examined in detail. |
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| Multiculturalism
and the Law: This site contains 15 curriculum units for students in
grades 1 through 12 on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws to law and culture to the
criminal justice system to affirmative action prepared as part of the Yale- New Have Teachers Institute. The
Institute is an educational partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public
Schools designed to strenthen teaching and learning in local public schools and, by
example, schools across the country. |
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