GENERAL LINKS
African American Art on the Internet
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm
Compiled by the staff of Long Island University's B. Davis Schwartz Library, this extensive list provides links to collections of online African American art.
Index of Native American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAetext.html
Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this index includes images, speeches, articles, and other Native American-related resources.
Race Relations in America
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7715/
A political activist’s web site that catalogues and discusses the history of African Americans and Asian Americans.
National Japanese American Historical Society
http://www.nikkeiheritage.org/index.html
This site gathers links to journals, publications, exhibits, other links, and research projects about Japanese Americans.
ABC Flash
http://www.abcflash.com/
This clearinghouse of resources and information for and about Asian Americans includes an Encyclopedia of Notable Asians as well as links to Asians in the News, Entertainment, Business, and Community.
SELECTION LINKS
TIME Magazine, Rebirth of a Nation, Computer-Style
Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life
http://www.eserver.org/bs/19/Alcalay.html
This academic article entitled "Morphing Out of Identity Politics," by Ron Alcalay, discusses the ideological implications of morph technology as seen in Michael Jackson’s "Black or White" music video and Terminator 2.
PAIR
Charles Moore, Jets of Water Blast Civil Rights Demonstrators, Birmingham, 1963
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Jets of Water Blast Civil Rights Demonstrators, Birmingham, 1963
National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
http://www.rainbowpush.org/aboutrpc/index.html
Sponsored by Jesse Jackson, this web site includes speeches, commentary, and programs set up by "a progressive organization fighting for social change."
Civil Rights Forum
http://www.civilrightsforum.org
This online arm of the Civil Rights Forum includes links to ongoing research, educational materials, and information about its student/intern program–all working to bring civil rights organizations into the current debate over the future of American media.
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
http://www.civilrightsphotos.com
Put together by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Kaplan, this site collects the civil rights photgraphs of Charles Moore along with related commentary.
NAACP
http://www.naacp.org
The official web site for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Frontline: The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
http://www2.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/jesse
Frontline gathers a wealth of material on Jesse Jackson, including interviews, transcripts from Jackson’s speeches, and Real Audio excerpts (including Jackson’s speeches from the 1984 and 1988 Democratic National Conventions).
Patricia J. Williams, Ethnic Hash
GourmetSpot: Ethnic Foods
http://www.gourmetspot.com/ethnicfoods.htm
This online food site provides links to other sites dedicated to ethnic cuisines.
Atlantic Unbound: Speaking of Race with Patricia Williams
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980514.htm
This long interview with Williams in The Atlantic includes an excerpt from her book Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (1998).
Benetton, Tongues
United Colors of Benetton
http://www.benetton.com
Benetton’s official web site offers a look at how this company integrates philosophy, politics, and sales–an approach illustrated by the pictures and interviews with death row inmates on its home page.
Larry Fisher, The Acquittal of O.J. Simpson
Kellermann’s Kollections of O.J. Books and Other Things
http://www.kkcomcon.com/KellKoll/index.htm
This organized bibliography of scholarly, trade, and mass market books and resources on the O.J. Simpson trial was put together by Kathy Kellerman, an associate professor in the Department of Communications at the University of California and a self-proclaimed addict to "O.J. TV."
Naomi Shihab Nye, Defining White
Naomi Shihab Nye
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/nsnyefs.htm
This site, put together by the Academy of American Poets, provides a brief biography of Shihab Nye, additional poems, and links to other resources on the web.
Bonnie Kae Grover, Growing Up White in America?
Center for the Study of White American Culture
http://www.euroamerican.org
With the goal of defining the role that white Americans might play in creating a multiracial society, this site contains links to many sites relating to race relations in America.
Consuelo Kanaga, Hands
Consuelo Kanaga
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/harn/exh/kanaga.html
An exhibit of Kanaga’s work archived by the University of Florida’s Harn Museum.
LOOKING CLOSER: Double Consciousness
What Good Is a Myth If You Can’t Explode It?
http://www.quitjob.com/ads2.html
An advertising strategy site that analyzes an ad campaign that manipulates racist imagery and sentiments to explode racist myths.
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com
You can find the text of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903) in the Bartleby Library's Great Books Online.
W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu
This site for the Harvard University-sponsored institute includes research projects as well as a list of useful links.
George Catlin
http://www.indians.org/we/ker/catlin.htm
This site has a biography of Catlin, quotes from him about his painting and experiences with Native Americans, and a gallery of his works that includes historical notes on the figures depicted.
CyberVato
http://www.sirius.com/~jenny/paf/performances.HTML
On CyberVato, Guillermo Gómez Peña and other artists display themselves as exotic "cultural specimens" and performance artists at work.
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