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RESEARCHING MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES
ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The world we live in is becoming more global every day. In this global society information professionals must be prepared to provide quality service to a variety of different people.This page is designed to give you useful sites for doing research via the Internet to find multicultural resource sites.

When doing any research on the Internet you must evaluate the source that is producing the work. There are several sites on the Internet that gives guidelines/suggestions for examining a particular website. The best one that we have found is called "Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources." This resource is produced by Esther Grassian, from the UCLA College Library. The URL for this is: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/critical.htm

Web sources dealing with multicultural, pluralism, cultural diversity, etc. are plentiful. Many are very useful for research, curriculum planning, and other scholarly activities. Many are purely for entertainment.

As you all know, the Internet is increasingly becoming the research tool of choice for schools, colleges, and businesses. More and more publishers are beginning to market their products through the Web. Databases such as EbscoWeb, ProQuest, SIRS Researcher, and many many more are taking the place of traditional sources such as print journals, CD-ROMS, and print indexes and abstracts. As this medium continues to grow we as information professionals must continue to learn and adapt to this way of life. We must be able to help our users access this information, and to use good judgement in evaluating this material.

Professional librarians have an even more difficult role in this information age. Our clientele varies so much in the academic world. We run the gamut in terms of patrons' knowledge and abilities to use the Internet, so our job in helping these users, becomes even more critical because this technology will only increase the gap between the "haves and the havenots".

I hope that this resource page will help you in your quest to find quality information in all of your research.

The sources listed in this resource guide have been categorized to help narrow down specific subject related sites that may be of interest to you.

SELECTED RESOURCES BY CATEGORY FOR MULTICULTURAL
RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

General Multicultural Sites
Educational Sites
African Americans Sites
Asian Americans Sites
Deaf Americans Sites
Hispanic Americans Sites
Native Americans Sites
Electronic Journals Sites

GENERAL MULTICULTURAL SITES:

Center for Equal Opportunity.
Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology
Diversity Directory Mind Exchange
Diversity Hotwire
Diversity Web
Diversity World
Entertaining Diversity.
Global Diversity@Work
Inspiration Peak.
Minority Links
Multicultural Resources for Children.
Office For Civil Rights.
PRISM InternationaL
Women of Color Page
Workplace Diversity

EDUCATIONAL SITES:

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Black History Month (Incorporating into School Curriculum).
Equity & Access in Mathematics.
Primary Source Resource Center.

SELECTED RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET FOR PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUPS

AFRICAN AMERICANS:

African American Genealogy
African American Health
African American History & Culture
African American Literature Book Club
African American Mosaic
African American Odyssey
African American Web Connection
African American Writers: Online E-texts
African Americans
African Americans in History
African Americans in the Visual Arts
African Voices
Afrocentric Voices.
Association of African American Web Developers
Biography.com Black History
BlackGirl International
Black-Network.com
Black Quest Power Resource Links
Black Voices.com
Blacks in the Military
Breaking Racial Barriers
Center for Black Music Research
DistantCousin.com; African American Genealogy Resources
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
Gateway to African American History
International Black Index Source Directory
Internet African History Sourcebook
Little Africa
Malcolm X Research Site
Museum of African American History
NAACP Online.
National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery
National Association of Black Journalists.
National Civil Rights Museum.
Negro Spirituals.com
New York Public Library Digital Schomburg
Prominent African Americans
Seeing Black.com
Tubman African American Museum
Universal Black Pages.

ASIAN AMERICANS SITES:

Ancestors in the Americas
Asian American Arts Alliance
Asian American Economic Development Enterprises, Inc.
Asian American Hotel Owners Association
Asian American Journalist Association.
Asian American Links
Asian American.net
Asian American Network.
Asian American Village
Asian American Writers Workshop
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Asian American Community Links
Asian Americans for Equality
Asian American Health
Asian American.net
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
Asian Community Online Network.
Asian Nation
Institute for a Global Community
Japanese American Citizens League
National Asian American Telecommunications Association
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
National Association of Asian American Professionals
National Japanese American Historical Society
Notable Asian Pacific Americans
Organization of Chinese Americans
Project Impact
SawNews: News About South Asian Women
Takaha.org
U.S.-Japan Foundation
U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce

DEAF AMERICANS SITES:

Attorneys,Courts, & Government Agencies Responsibilities to Deaf & Hearing Impaired Under the ADA.
Accomodating Ideas.
American Association of the Deaf-Blind
American Deaf Culture
American Deaf Exposition
Deaf Job Service
DeafLife.com
Deaf Native Americans
Deaf Resource Library
DeafResources.com
Finding Information on Deaf Americans.
Handspeak
Intertribal Deaf Council
National Asian Deaf Congress
National Black Deaf Advocates
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Real World Success.
Research Library: Deafness & Hearing Disorders.
Signs in Success: Profiles of Deaf Americans

Hispanic Americans

American Latino
Americas Foundation
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
eMuseo del barrio
Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce
Hispanic Culture Foundation
Hispanic National Bar Association
HispanicOnline.com
Internet Resources for Latin America
Julian Samora Research Institute
LatCrit
Latin American Alliance
Latin American Art Resource Project.
Latino Beat
Latino Issues Forum
Latino Web
League of United Latin American Citizens
Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage
MANA: A National Latina Organization
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
NCLR Policy and Programs
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
National Council of LaRaza
National Latina/o Law Student Association
National Latino Communications
National Puerto Rican Coalition, Inc.
Notable Hispanic Americans
Pew Hispanic Center
Quepasa
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
ZonaLatina

NATIVE AMERICANS:

Administration for Native Americans
American Indian Heritage Foundation
American Indians
Eagle's Flight
Index to Native American Resources on the Internet.
Institute of American Indian Arts
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
National Native American Bar Association
Native American Artists
Native American Business Alliance
Native American Embassy
Native American Genealogy
Native American History and Culture
Native American in U.S. Military
Native American Indian Resources
Native American Journalists Association
Native American Nations
Native American Rights Fund
Native American Public Telecommunications
Native American Sites
Native American Women on the WWW
Native Americans
Native Americans
Native Americans and the Environment
Native Americans in Philanthropy
Native Americans-Internet Resources
Native Culture.com
Native Tech
Native Web
Navajo Nation Natural Heritage Program
Oneida Indian Nation
Seneca Nation of Indians
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
Wampum Chronicles
WisdomKeepers

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS DEALING WITH MULTICULTURAL ISSUES:

In Motion Magazine
International Journal of Multicultural Studies
Interracial Voice.

INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES USEFUL FOR FINDING MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB: Search Engines allow you to do keyword searching to find information via the Internet.

Alta Vista
Infoseek
Lycos
SavvySearch
WebCrawler
Yahoo!

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