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"Understanding Prejudice" - excellent site from Scott Plous and others that has grown rapidly in its short existence - lots of good resources and links to prejudice-related topics [added 7/23/03]
"Measuring the Immeasurable: Or "Could Abraham Lincoln Take the Implicit Association Test?" - Oh, you have to read this one. Unfortunately, it is not freely available online, but it is worth seeking out if you don't have access through your library. Hilarious. If you can't get access to it, here is a blog entry that describes it quite well. Here is the professional page of one of the authors where you can take the dead or alive? IAT and the human or alien IAT. [added 4/16/08]Measuring racial discrimination - This entire book is freely available online. [added 7/06/07]
What does the IAT measure? - This article published in Science News does a nice job of summarizing the current controversy over the IAT (Implicit Association Test) measure. It is brief and accessible for your students. [added 7/5/06]
Analysis of racial profiling in NYPD - [added 12/16/07]Racial profiling report - A recent study from the U.S. Justice Department found "Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested." [added 7/16/07]
Racial profiling - "In a paper called 'Racial Profiling,' published in 'Philosophy and Public Affairs' in 2004, Richard Zeckhauser and I offer some reflections on moral issues pertaining to the use of race in police tactics. This paper has attracted a considerable amount of criticism. The present paper has been prepared for a conference session on racial profiling and responds to two published papers critical of our arguments. The goal of this paper is to defend the central arguments in the earlier Risse and Zeckhauser paper." [added 12/31/06]
Informal racial profiling? - story of how passengers in the UK refused to board a plane until two Asian men possibly speaking Arabic were removed from the plane [added 12/26/06]
Increasing calls for racial profiling? - It seems since the apparent plot to blow up planes flying from the UK to the U.S. there has been an even greater call for racial profiling of those who appear to be Muslims or Arabs. Here are a few examples. I liked an analogy I recently read somewhere. Virtually all of the mass school shooters (e.g., Columbine) we have heard about in the last few years have been white males. So, should we screen all white males as they enter school every day in the U.S.? Should we require that they enter school through a separate door? I assume most people would consider this absurd because the shooters represent such a tiny fraction of all the white males attending school. But aren't the number of Muslims/Arabs who commit terrorist acts on airplanes a similarly tiny fraction of all Muslims/Arabs? Does this analogy work? [added 12/26/06]
"Racially biased policing: A principled response" - a (2005) report from the Police Executive Research Forum [added 1/14/06]
Racial profiling - excellent site from Amnesty International with many recent reports on and examples of racial profiling around the world [added 12/1/04]
Racial profiling data collection - The Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University has created an informative site on racial profiling. Contents include reports on efforts to collect racial profiling data, reports on current events related to racial profiling, reports on initiatives aimed at reducing racial profiling, reports on related legislation and case law and more. [added 7/23/03]
"Arrest the Racism: Racial Profiling in America" - articles and resources on racial profiling from the ACLU [added 11/7/02]
"Utah County GOP delegate links illegal immigration to Satan" [added 7/14/07]
U.S. raids on illegal immigrants - Here's a very interesting story from the Chicago Tribune on a recent raid of a chicken processing plant in which 125 illegal immigrants were rounded up and deported. [added 12/31/06]
Media primes stereotypes of "asylum seekers" - This research "draws conclusions about the effects of the media on current public thoughts and behaviours regarding asylum seekers and immigrants entering the UK." [added 12/31/06]
Immigration issue - Here's a lot of background information, polling data, etc. on the topic of immigration from the Public Agenda. [added 7/6/06]
Immigration debate in the classroom - more resources for teachers on this issue [added 7/6/06]Characteristics of "unauthorized migrant population in the U.S." - a report from the Pew Hispanic Center [added 7/6/06]
"Legal immigrants strongly oppose ... immigration proposals" - a recent poll from the Center for American Progress [added 7/6/06]Immigration Caricatures - images from the exhibit "Immigration and Caricature: Ethnic Images from the Appel Collection" [added 11/7/02]
Racial microaggressions - The article describes what is meant by a microaggression. Here is a blog entry responding to the article. Here is a blog entry responding to the first blog entry. Interesting observations. [4/1/09]
Does inducing empathy towards minority groups reduce prejudice? - As usual, it depends. If the participant anticipates then interacting with a minority group member his dislike actually increases. If he anticipates interacting with an ingroup member then prejudice is reduced. [4/1/09]
Slight hesitations in intergroup conversation may heighten racial tension - description of an interesting study [4/1/09]
"Race bigotry falling in Britain" - [4/1/09]
A person of color on The Bachelor (TV show)? - Interesting blog entry about how no person of color is ever a "person in power" on the TV shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. [4/1/09]
Is Tony Blair more American than Barack Obama? - Interesting research study presented at the 2008 SPSP conference -- here is a New York Times article about it [3/30/09]
"After Obama victory, an outbreak of racial anger" - Here is another story about it. [3/30/09]
"The enduring challenge of concentrated poverty in America" - a report from the Brookings Institution [3/30/09]
Race in America series from Chicago Tribune - [3/30/09]
Colorblindness - Another good blog from Sam Sommers -- I can't tell you how many games of Guess Who? I played with my kids many years ago. [3/29/09]
A giant Confederate flag - The Sons of the Confederate Veterans plan to build and fly a large Confederate flag the length of a semi-trailer truck in Hillsborough County, Florida. [6/20/08]
"The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936" - an exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [6/20/08]Deconstructing Pat Buchanan - interesting blog entry [6/20/08]
"Enough with the unusual names" - a satirical piece of the unique names given to minority children that many thought was serious [6/20/08]
Institutional racism in the U.S. - a report from the American Civil Liberties Union -- "Race and ethnicity in America: Turning a blind eye to injustice" [added 3/23/08]
"Multiculturalism exposes the U.S. to terrorism" - a claim made by Family Security Matters [added 12/16/07]
"Deprivation and social exclusion in Australia" - a report from the Social Policy Research Centre [added 12/16/07]
Racism as subjectification - "This is the problem of subjectification - when people who are conceded to possess subject status are nevertheless treated as if they have no objective worth." [added 12/16/07]"Hate crimes rose 8% in 2006" - Here is an article from Hatewatch which claims the number is seriously undercounted. [added 12/15/07]
"Race, ethnicity, and the criminal justice system" - "A new research brief released recently by the American Sociological Association, in its series on How Race and Ethnicity Matter, highlights data and research on racial and ethnic disparities in crime and the criminal justice system in the United States. Focusing on studies that span several decades, the brief demonstrates how research from the social and behavioral sciences serves as a resource to understand the relationship between race and the criminal justice system." Other reports in the series can be found at this site. [added 12/9/07]
"Metropolitan segregation" - This is an article published 50 years ago in Scientific American about "white flight." [added 11/17/07]
A rise in racism and xenophobia in Russia - a story about how "racist attacks threaten multiculturalism in Russia" [added 11/17/07]
Minority enrollments at U.S. colleges and universities - a 2007 report from the American Council on Education [added 11/17/07]
"The persuasive appeal of stigma" - "Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict greater persuasive impact of members of ingroups, White participants were more convinced by persuasive appeals delivered by a Black interaction partner than by a White interaction partner." [added 9/30/07]
"Healing Katrina's racial wounds" - a recent article from Time magazine [added 9/30/07]
Elvis a racist? A bigot? - interesting blog about Elvis' "legacy with respect to race" [added 9/30/07]
"Voices of Civil Rights" - This site shares the firsthand accounts of many involved in the fight for civil rights. [added 8/05/07]
Hate groups grow in U.S. - report from the Southern Poverty Law Center [added 7/14/07]
"Understanding race" - "Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people." A project of the American Anthropological Association [added 7/8/07]
Resurgence of the KKK in America - a report from the Anti-Defamation League [added 7/7/07]
School segregation - "Lost learning, forgotten promises" from the Center for American Progress examines the consequences of school segregation, the consequences of integration, and the current status of both. [added 7/06/07]
"And justice for some" - "And justice for some: Differential treatment of youth of color in the justice system" is a recent report from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. [added 7/06/07]
Facts about U.S. ethnic groups - Brief reports from the U.S. Census Bureau provides facts and figures about different ethnic groups. [added 12/31/06]
"African American and Latino families face high rates of hardship" - a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities -- three "hardships" are considered: Overcrowding, hunger or the risk of hunger, and lack of medical care. [added 12/31/06]
The Wonderlic test, stereotype threat and the law - "The Wonderlic is a twelve-minute, fifty-question exam designed to assess aptitude for learning a job and adapting to solve problems." It is given to many college football players prior to the National Football League draft. Sometimes it is viewed as an IQ test of prospective professional football players. This paper looks at whether stereotype threat is in play when players take the test, and it examines some of the legal implications of this process. [added 12/31/06]
"A brief history of race and the Supreme Court" - [added 12/31/06]
Hate crime statistics for 2005 (U.S.) - from the F.B.I. [added 12/28/06]
Hate crime statistics, 2004 - from the U.S. Dept. of Justice
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia - "The primary task of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) is to provide the Community and its Member States with objective, reliable and comparable information and data on racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and anti-Semitism at the European level in order to help the EU and its Member States to establish measures or formulate courses actions against racism and xenophobia." The site contains reports such as "The right to offend and the right not to be offended," a series of views on hate speech and the freedom of speech. [added 12/26/06]
Race and gender in Major League Baseball - Read the report "The 2005 racial and gender report card: Major League Baseball" from the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida. [added 7/6/06]
U.S. metropolitan shifts since 2000 - a report from The Brookings Institution entitled, "Diversity spreads out: Metropolitan shifts in Hispanic, Asian and Black populations since 2000" [added 7/6/06]
White privilege and denial - Essay by Peggy McIntosh entitled, "White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies" -- includes an interesting list of signs of white and male privilege such as "I can go shopping alone most of the time, fairly well assured that I will not be followed or harassed by store detectives" and "I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race" [added 2/22/06]
Cross-race relationships - an article and annotated bibliography that addresses actual relationships across races and not just contact between them, from The Center for the Development of Peace and Well-being [added 1/15/06]
"Keeping extremists out..." - "Keeping extremists out: The history of ideological exclusion, and the need for its revival" is a recent essay from the Heartland Institute. [added 1/13/06]
"Young singers spread racist hate" - a story about 13-year old twins who reportedly "are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate" [added 1/11/06]
Segregation and cancer risk - "Separate and unequal: Residential segregation and estimated cancer risks associated with ambient air toxics in U.S. metropolitan areas" is a recent report from The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. [added 1/11/06]Ku Klux Klan - Recently released "FBI research reports on the Ku Klux Klan" -- Section I covers 1865-1944 and Section II covers 1944-1958. [added 1/9/06]
Indigenous Peoples Literature - extensive resources about indigenous peoples worldwide [added 1/9/06]Ph.D. diversity issues - "A new Woodrow Wilson report shows that, despite decades-long national efforts and some gains in enrollments, African Americans and Hispanics are still significantly underrepresented among recipients of Ph.D.s in the United States." [added 1/2/06]
Ruling on segregation in prison - interesting story about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning California's policy of segregrating prisoners by race (2005) [added 6/17/05]
"Race, place, and housing: Housing conditions in rural minority counties" - a report (2004) from the Housing Assistance Council [added 3/2/05]
The selling of racist views through music - This recent article from Newsweek describes how Panzerfaust Records, a "white power" records label, is successfully pushing its music and lyrics into the hands of teenagers. [added 12/1/04]
Economic segregation among suburbs and major cities - A new report from The Brookings Institution tracking the overall per capita income gap between central cities and suburbs -- the gap remained largely unchanged from 1990 to 2000 with regional variation. [added 12/1/04]Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 - comparison of two infamous days in American history -- hear the voices of people immediately following each event, and more [added 12/1/04]
School segregation and integration
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-04-14-integration_x.htm
This is an article reporting on a study in which "242 members of the Class of 1980 from six racially diverse high schools across the country" were interviewed to see how integration has affected their lives years later. [added 6/9/04]"'Race' and IQ" - an article by Bem Allen [added 4/5/04]
Facts on different U.S. minorities - well organized sets of links to factual info on a few minorities in the U.S. from the U.S. Census Bureau [added 3/30/04]
"Brown@50: Fulfilling the promise" - resources related to the Brown v. Board of Education decision as part of a commemoration of its upcoming 50th anniversary, from Howard University School of Law [added 3/23/04]
"Race: The Power of an Illusion" - This is the companion website to PBS' recent TV series of the same name. It includes background readings on the origins and roles of race, a discussion guide, classroom activities (check out "For Teachers"), and other resources. [added 7/23/03]
Stop "The Real Beverly Hillbillies" - From the Center for Rural Strategies, this is a campaign to stop CBS from broadcasting a show that the Center believes mocks and demeans rural Americans. It includes a short video purportedly contrasting media portrayal and reality. [added 7/21/03]
"A Class Divided" - Frontline (PBS) recently rebroadcast its 1985 episode of the famous story of Jane Elliott, the 3rd grade teacher in rural Iowa, who in the late '60's began an exercise in her class in which she separated her white students into blue-eyed and brown-eyed kids to teach them lessons of discrimination. The entire episode can now be viewed online at this address. It begins with the fascinating original footage in Elliott's 3rd grade classroom and includes follow-up experiences since that time. The episode is broken into five segments online. I love when such material is made available online because I can pick certain clips to show in class or I can send students to view them outside of class. Nothing to put on reserve! [added 7/16/03]
"Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-being by Race and Hispanic Origin" - "This chart book documents current differences in well-being by race and Hispanic origin and describes how such differences have evolved over the past several decades. The book is designed to further one of the goals of the President's Initiative on Race: To educate Americans about the facts surrounding the issue of race in America." [added 7/16/03]
Whiteness Studies - some interesting articles and resources related to Whiteness Studies. "Whiteness Studies attempts to trace the economic and political history behind the invention of "whiteness," to attack the privileges given to so-called "whites," and to analyze the cultural practices (in art, music, literature, and popular media) that create and perpetuate notions of 'whiteness.'" [added 11/7/02]
"Why do white people smell like wet dogs when they come out of the rain?"
- Y? is a very unique site designed to allow people to ask and answer questions regarding cultural and ethnic differences. [added 11/7/02]Segregation in U.S. Cities - Census Scope provides "charts, data, and rankings on segregation in cities and metropolitan areas" from the most recent U.S. census [added 8/30/02]
"Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care" - an online, book-length report (2002) from the Institute of Medicine [added 6/6/02]
Find Hidden Bias - the Southern Poverty Law Center has put together an extensive website (Tolerance.org) that includes this series of Implicit Association Tests revealing possible biases towards Arab Muslims, Asian Americans, body image and more - explore the entire site; a lot of interesting examples and material
The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies - claims to be "the nation's only museum, library, and archive dedicated to collecting and interpreting materials reflecting our nation's multicultural heritage"
"History of Race in Science" - variety of resources related to topic - sponsored by Program in Science, Technology & Society at M.I.T.
Mortgage Lending Discrimination - from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Racial disparities in emergency room length of stay - "Sick or injured African-American patients wait about an hour longer than patients of other races before being transferred to an inpatient hospital bed following emergency room visits, according to a new national study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine." [4/1/09]
"Barack wouldn't be president if he didn't marry a black woman" - And a couple other "things you're not allowed to say about the Obamas" - is it true? [4/1/09]
"The code of the street and African-American adolescent violence" - a report from the U.S. Department of Justice [4/1/09]
A fascinating case of possible juror bias - Sam Sommers, in his always interesting blog, Science of Small Talk, relates a fascinating tale: "In November of 2006, a Cape Cod jury returned a guilty verdict in the murder trial of Christopher McCowen. This was supposed to be the final chapter in a murder drama that had captured attention regionally and nationally. But within days of the verdict, three different jurors came forward with concerns about the jury's verdict as well as the process by which it was reached. These concerns would serve as the impetus for an extraordinarily rare legal hearing in which the jurors from the case were called back to the courthouse more than one year after the verdict. One-by-one, they would take the stand and answer questions about what had transpired in the jury room. Specifically, the hearing examined whether particular jurors had made racially biased statements during deliberations, and, if they had, whether such statements had influenced the trial's outcome."
At the end of the above blog entry click on "To be continued" to .... continue. Currently, there are three installments. A fourth and final one is promised. As you will read, Sam also appeared in court in this case as an expert witness. I love the first question he was asked as he describes it: "First question from Mr. O'Keefe during my cross-examination: "Doctor, do you mind if I ask you how old you are?" My reply: "Sure, as long as I can ask you the same question in return." That relates to my first question for Sam: Did you wear the glasses in court (as opposed to going sans glasses in your blog photo) to appear younger, more authoritative, or both?
Lots of possible uses for this well-told story in your course. [4/1/09]Does living in a more "prejudiced" area correspond to a Black's wages? - Interesting study that attempted to see if a correlation existed between the amount of prejudice in a region and the wage gap between Blacks and Whites [4/1/09]
"Black Americans in Congress" - More historical in nature, but you might find it interesting or useful [4/1/09]The Obama effect - Fascinating research: Blacks performed significantly worse on a test of 20 GRE questions prior to Obama's election. Blacks performed equally well on the test after the inauguration. Elimination of stereotype threat? The first link is to a New York Times article about the study. Here is a podcast about it. [4/1/09]
What does it mean to be "Black" today? - [4/1/09]
"Bradley effect" gone? - Interesting article suggesting that there may no longer be a hidden vote against a black candidate. That is, contrary to when the black candidate, Tom Bradley, lost the 1982 California governor's race despite leading in the polls, it is argued that there is no longer a hidden 2-6% inflation in the poll numbers. Whites mean what they say when they are polled. [3/30/09]
Civil Rights Digital Library - This site from the University of Georgia Libraries provides a lot of articles, images, and videos from the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. [3/29/09]
The Bubba effect - What percent of Americans will vote against Barack Obama just because of his race? 2%? 6%? Here are two interesting takes on that question. The first is a blog that also addresses some other interesting topics. Here is a related column by Clarence Page. Here is the poll referred to in the blog. [3/29/09]
Too black or not black enough? - interesting blog entry about Obama's speech on race and related thoughts [added 4/25/08]
Kenya being redrawn by ethnicity - "Kenya used to be considered one of the most promising countries in Africa. Now it is in the throes of ethnically segregating itself. Ever since a deeply flawed election in December kicked off a wave of ethnic and political violence, hundreds of thousands of people have been violently driven from their homes and many are now resettling in ethnically homogenous zones. Luos have gone back to Luo land, Kikuyus to Kikuyu land, Kambas to Kamba land and Kisiis to Kisii land. Even some of the packed slums in the capital, Nairobi, have split along ethnic lines." [added 4/14/08]
Many U.S. Whites associate Blacks with apes - A series of studies found "Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes." [added 4/14/08]
"Crisis in Little Rock" - Read about the how the situation unfolded over integration in schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Hear from the young black girl who attempted to attend school. [added 3/23/08]
Watson's racist comments - Nobel Laureate James Watson apparently made some comments suggesting that those of African descent are less intellectually endowed. For example, "In the newspaper interview, he said there was no reason to think that races which had grown up in separate geographical locations should have evolved identically. He went on to say that although he hoped everyone was equal, 'people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.'" [added 12/9/07]
Observing discrimination taxing on the mind - Interesting study in which black and white participants observed a company's hiring decisions. When blacks observed subtle racism in the hiring process it later impaired their performance on a Stroop test, and more so than the observance of more blatant racism. Whites on the other hand were more impaired after observing the blatant racism. [added 12/9/07]
Jena 6 - I assume those of you in the U.S. have heard of the case of the Jena 6, the six black students in Jena, Louisiana accused of beating a white student. The first link takes you to a good, detailed overview of the incident and the subsequent controversy. If you want to show a brief news clip about such an event, you can search the video sections of news sites such as ABC or CNN. This link takes you to a number of Jena 6 video clips from such a search at ABC News. This link is to one of the many accompanying stories in which two nooses were found hanging from the back of a pickup truck. [added 11/17/07]
Prices paid for paintings by Whites and Black - Discrimination and inequalities can show up in all kinds of places. [added 7/14/07]
"Reducing the racial achievement gap: A social-psychological intervention" - This is a fascinating study from Cohen et al. in which a racial performance gap was significantly reduced through a 15-minute intervention at the beginning of a course. [added 7/6/07]
"I can instantly tell whether...blackdar" - an amusing article from the satirical online newspaper The Onion [added 12/31/06]
The effects of Brown vs. Board of Education - a research report from The Federal Reserve Board that "finds that dismissal of a court-ordered desegregation plan results in a gradual, moderate increase in racial segregation and an increase in black dropout rates and black private school attendance" [added 2/22/06]
Brazil's first black television channel - story (2005) from The Guardian [added 1/14/06]
"Looting" vs. "Finding" - By now, many of you, particularly in the U.S., have probably seen the photos and heard the debate about captions of "looting" applied to images of blacks in the Katrina aftermath and captions of "finding" or other less criminal description applied to whites. The first link above provides two sets of such images that have circulated quite widely. Includes some good possible rationale for the captions, including the rationale provided by the photographers. [added 1/9/06]"An empirical analysis of 'acting white'" - Research report by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Paul Torelli [added 1/2/06]
"Names, expectations and the Black-White test score gap" - Fascinating study comparing teacher expectations towards siblings whose names varied in the degree to which they were associated with low-socioeconomic status which was usually associated with race. For example, low-socioeconomic names by the author's measure included ones that had certain prefixes (e.g., lo, da), certain suffixes (e.g., isha or ious), included apostrophes (e.g., Da'Quan or Chlo'e), and scored at least 20 points in Scrabble (i.e., were long names with a number of unusual letters, e.g., Jazzmyn). [added 9/20/05]
Discrimination in lending practices - Read here the recent report "Race matters: The concentration of payday lenders in African-American neighborhoods in North Carolina" from the Center for Responsible Lending. [added 6/20/05]
"Slavery and the Making of America" - I enjoyed this recent (2005) show on PBS. Resources related to it, including slave narratives, can be found at this site. [added 6/17/05]
Race and Place - This project presents the history of racial segregation laws (Jim Crow laws) in Charlottesville, Virginia. [added 12/1/04]
The Legacy of Blackface - "In a two-part report for The Tavis Smiley Show, producer Roy Hurst explores the roots of blackface minstrelry, and how the legacy of the act still haunts some forms of black popular entertainment today." Includes audio and images -- from NPR. [added 7/1/04]
The civil rights work of Bob Moses - an extensive lesson plan and resources built around this episode from Now with Bill Moyers [added 4/06/04]
Black History Month resources - Here are some resources from the U.S. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. [added 4/5/04]
"'I Will be Heard!': Abolitionism in America" - ahistorical site with lots of material from the Cornell University Library [added 11/11/03]
"The Least of My Brothers" - This freely available online short course on research ethics from the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University-Bloomington describes the famous PHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. "From 1932 to 1972, 399 poor black sharecroppers in Macon County, Alabama were denied treatment for syphilis and deceived by physicians of the United States Public Health Service. As part of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, designed to document the natural history of the disease, these men were told that they were being treated for 'bad blood.' In fact, government officials went to extreme lengths to ensure that they received no therapy from any source. As reported by the New York Times on 26 July 1972, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was revealed as 'the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.'" [added 7/16/03]
"A House Divided" - "A Teaching Guide on the History of Civil Rights in Louisiana" from the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University
"When the Future was Past" - a discussion guide on the Plessey decision by the U. S. Supreme Court that legalized segregation in 1896 (from the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University)
Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement - travel to 41 different historic sites to learn about the role of each in the movement
Attractive girl mimed Olympics ceremony song - You may have heard about this -- the young girl who sang a song as part of the Olympics was not deemed attractive enough to be on display, so a more attractive girl replaced her on stage and mimed the song. [added 10/11/08]
Dispelling myths about Asian-Americans - A research brief from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA -- "In sum, the freshman trends examined in this report help to address several myths about the Asian American college student population. Th e examined trends do not support popular claims that Asian Americans are enjoying unprecedented, collective (or universal) academic success in U.S. higher education." [added 12/9/07]
Attitudes between citizens of neighboring Asian countries - A survey from the Pew Research Center - "There is a good deal of dislike, if not outright hostility, in how the publics of major Asian countries view their neighbors. The deepest divides exist between traditional rivals - roughly seven-in-ten Japanese express an unfavorable view of China and an equal number of Chinese dislike Japan. Similarly, most Indians have an unfavorable view of Pakistan and most Pakistanis hold negative views about India." [added 12/30/06]
Asian Pacific Americans on prime-time TV - "This pioneer study, Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Camera and Little Action, systematically investigates the portrayal of APIAs on prime time television. Because series’ regulars characters are the most desirable roles for television actors and the types of characters that audiences identify and connect with most, this study analyzes the regular characters for each series, drawing on the networks’ own promotional web pages as well as actual recorded episodes. In addition to comparisons of characters by race and gender, this study takes a unique approach by comparing roles portrayed by monoracial versus multiracial APIA actors. This sampling procedure captures a variety of characters (APIA, ethnically ambiguous, and white) and allows for a more open interpretation of racial/ethnic categories in terms of representations of the APIA community on prime time television." [added 9/20/05]
The Fred Korematsu Story (Japanese internment) - "Fred Korematsu was probably never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case in 1944, but never his indignation and resolve. OF CIVIL WRONGS AND RIGHTS is the untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu — one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory." This site accompanies a P.O.V. show that aired in 2001. [added 8/30/05]
"We the people: Asians in the United States" - report from the Census Bureau [added 3/20/05]
National Sorry Day - Australia holds a National Sorry Day to apologize for the forceful removal of Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. [added 1/2/06]
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - a considerable number of good resources here, general and Australian-specific, under topics such as racial discrimination and sex discrimination [added 7/16/03]
"The Chinese in California: 1850-1925" - another good historical site from The Library of Congress' American Memory Project [added 7/21/03]
"Becoming American: The Chinese Experience" - a website accompanying the program from a PBS Bill Moyers' special -- read personal stories and eyewitness accounts [added 7/21/03]
The increasing proportion of Latinos in the U.S. - This is a study which finds that "Latino children now constitute a majority or near majority of first graders in nine of the nation's largest cities." Here is a report which finds "Hispanics become more prevalent on college campuses." [4/1/09]
Immigration issue - Here's a lot of background information, polling data, etc. on the topic of immigration from the Public Agenda. [added 7/6/06]
Characteristics of "unauthorized migrant population in the U.S." - a report from the Pew Hispanic Center [added 7/6/06]
"Legal immigrants strongly oppose ... immigration proposals" - a recent poll from the Center for American Progress [added 7/6/06]
"Does inequality matter to individual welfare?" - interesting economic analysis of the relationship between inequality and happiness in Latin America [added 6/17/05]
Pew Hispanic Center - The Center provides a large number of reports, surveys and links related to Hispanic life and impact in the U.S. [added 3/2/05]
Hispanic Fact Pack (2004) - excellent supplement to Advertising Age with lots of information and examples of advertising, marketing and media for the Hispanic market [added 12/1/04]
National Hispanic Heritage Month - National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15-Oct. 15. Find some related resources here. [added 11/11/03]
India's first transgender TV host - "Her forthcoming show, called 'Yours, Rose,' will be a venue to debate all kinds of socially taboo topics." [added 3/23/08]
Widows in India flock to city to die - Sad story of how, "ostracized by society, thousands of India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die." [added 9/30/07]
India's lower castes and jobs - article about affirmative action efforts for those often shunned in India's society [added 9/30/07]
The Sikh turban - "The purpose of this essay is to examine how the turban has transformed from a sacred piece of attire for Sikhs to a target for discriminatory conduct and an object of marginalization after 9/11." [added 7/7/07]
India's "Untouchables" - report (1999) from the Human Rights Watch - "Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s 'Untouchables'”
"Muslims in America" - interesting report from Contexts Magazine [3/30/09]
USAWakeup.org - What if we are overrun by Muslims? [3/30/09]"Muslims in Europe: A short introduction" - A report from the Brookings Institution -- "This paper aims to briefly present the basic facts and issues concerning Muslims in Europe, from a political and sociological perspective, and to offer elements of comparison with the US." [3/29/09]
Rachel Ray a terrorist? - "Dunkin' Donuts yanks Rachel Ray ad" in which "the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men." [6/20/08]
Muslim integration - a series of seven papers addressing issues related to Muslim integration in Europe and the U.S., from the Center for Strategic and International Studies [added 12/9/07]
"The headscarf as threat?" - interesting article in which the author compares "how American and German judges conceptualize the harm the headscarf poses to society" [added 9/30/07]
"Knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century?" - Here's an interesting case for consideration: Don Imus' recent comments drew an enormous amount of media attention and cost him his job. But how many of you have even heard of the comments recently made Fox's John Gibson? Why does one get enormous attention and the other get ignored? Talk amongst yourselves. [added 7/14/07]
"Arab attitudes towards U.S. more negative" - from a new Zogby poll [added 12/31/06]
Six Muslim clerics removed from plane - You probably heard about this one. Lots of good social psych elements involved. In fact, do you remember in grade school when the teacher would write "Happy Thanksgiving" or something on the board and then give you 30 minutes to come up with as many words out of those letters as you could? Well, give your students this story later in the semester and ask them to see how many concepts they can apply. [added 12/31/06]
Muslim civil rights in the U.S. in 2005 - A report from the Council on Islamic-American Relations describes "incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2005." [added 12/31/06]
Sydney (Australia) riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_race_riots
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3491299.stm
two examples of prejudice-related violence from Australia [added 7/5/06]Arabs in the United States - a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau entitled "We the people of Arab ancestry in the United States" [added 6/20/05]
A Muslim response to 9/11 - "The following web page is produced through the cooperation of over 50 professors of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies from the US and Canada. These scholars are members of the Study of Islam section at the American Academy of Religion, the largest international organization responsible for the academic study of religion." Lots of articles, statements and images. [added 12/1/04]
Campus Watch - An interesting and provocative website has just been posted by the Middle East Forum. It will be monitoring faculty and academic institutions to see how they handle Middle Eastern and Islamic issues. It plans to do so because there is a problem. The "problem," according to this website is that "American scholars of the Middle East, to varying degrees, reject the views of most Americans and the enduring policies of the U.S. government about the Middle East over a dozen administrations." One cause of this "bias" is that "academics seem generally to dislike their own country and think even less of American allies abroad." "Dossiers" of problematic faculty and institutions are posted on the website to "address the root of the problem: the professorate." [added 11/7/02]
Japanese-American internment - Another exhibit, "Exploring the Japanese American internment through film and the Internet," exploring... well, you can read. [added 7/7/07]
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" - Here you will find a large collection of Ansel Adams' photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar - perhaps you can incorporate some of these images into a lecture or send students to analyze them in some manner [added 6/6/02]
"Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution" - excellent multimedia-rich site that explores the period of Japanese internment with images, music, text and first-person accounts - produced by Smithsonian, it contains over 800 artifacts that can be browsed
Holocaust denial - a pamphlet from the Jewish Virtual Library describing this propaganda movement [4/1/09]
"Resisting Nazi propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945" - an extensive collection of materials from the California State University, Northridge Library [4/1/09]
Fight anti-Semitism with Facebook - That is the suggestion Israeli President Shimon Peres gave at a youth conference. [added 4/14/08]
"The silent stereotype" - interesting blog about a Anti-Defamation League survey of American attitudes towards Jews in America and related topics, and its relationship to the courtroom [added 12/9/07]
"America and the Holocaust" - a website accompanying the film "America and the Holocaust" which contains a lot of resources including a complete transcript and links to many of the primary resources [added 9/30/07]
Violent neo-Nazi group - A report from the Anti-Defamation League: "Volksfront, a virulently racist and anti-Semitic group comprised mostly of neo-Nazi skinheads, is growing in prominence in the United States and internationally, with chapters in Canada, Spain, Australia Germany and Portugal." [added 7/16/07]
A story of Jewish refugees fleeing war-torn Europe - An exhibit, "Flight and rescue," from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that tells the story of 2100 Jewish refugees who escaped with the help of a Dutch businessman and a Japanese diplomat. [added 7/06/07]
Kristallnacht exhibition - From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this online exhibition "Kristallnacht: The November 1938 pogroms" describes the destruction and intimidation from that "night of broken glass." [added 12/29/06]
"Letters from Sala: A young woman's life in Nazi labor camps" - This exhibition of text, letters and images telling the story of a young girl (she was 16 when it began) who survived five years in seven different camps comes from the New York Public Library. [added 12/26/06]
"Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State" - site accompanying the recent (2005) PBS show [added 6/17/05]
Holocaust and genocide - good set of resources/links put together by Linda Woolf [added 6/17/05]
"Report on global anti-Semitism" - from the U.S. Department of State [added 3/20/05]
60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz - lots of good material related to Auschwitz from BBC News [added 3/20/05]
350 years of Jewish life in America - an exhibition from the Library of Congress [added 12/1/04]
The Holocaust Martyrs'... [added 6/9/04]
"Telling Their Stories: Oral History of the Holocaust" - "Read, watch and listen to interviews of Holocaust survivors conducted by high school students." [added 11/11/03]
Holocaust denial - well-designed site that chronicles and analyzes the libel trial of David Irving, "a British Holocaust denier," against "American professor Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin Books" - interesting look into deniers' motives and thinking [added 7/21/03]
The Holocaust - lots of resources and links related to the Holocaust [added 11/7/02]
"Voices of the Holocaust" - a new project from The British Library that includes audio and written recordings from survivors who live in Great Britain [added 3/6/02]
Holocaust teaching guide - hundreds of images, videos and other resources
Holocaust links - extensive set of links to Holocaust memorials, museums and other resources
Schindler's List Teaching Guide - from the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University
"Deathly Silence: Everyday People in the Holocaust" - instructional materials from the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University
Native Americans' portrayal in the media - The Reading Red Report is a "content analysis of general-audience newspapers in circulation areas with high percentages of Native Americans." [4/1/09]
"Indian country diaries" - a website to accompany PBS films on contemporary life of Native Americans [added 11/17/07]
Famous Native American speech - This speech, delivered by Wampsutta in 1970, apparently sparked the convening of the National Day of Mourning. Read about both here. [added 12/31/06]
Native American mascots - an article and other resources on the use of Native American images in sports [added 12/31/06]Native American Stereotypes in the Media - examples of how Native Americans are sometimes portrayed in the media [added 11/7/02]
Discrimination in coffee shops - an example of a field study -- it finds that women have to wait an average of 20 second longer than men for their orders [added 12/16/07]
"Korea's 'best mom' chosen as face of new currency" - Interesting story -- "South Korea's central bank on Monday chose the face of Korean motherhood as the first woman to be featured on its banknotes, but women's rights groups say the selection only reinforces sexist stereotypes." [added 12/15/07]
Widows in India flock to city to die - Sad story of how, "ostracized by society, thousands of India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die." [added 9/30/07]
Women earn less than men - Here's the report from the American Association of University Women that has recently made the news in the U.S. It finds that "just one year out of college, women working full time already earn less than their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens." [added 7/14/07]
Violence against girls - A report from the 51st U.N. Commission on the Status of Women -- it includes separate reports on violence against schoolgirls, violence against child domestic workers, and violence against girls in conflict with the law. [added 7/7/07]
"Women lose ground in the new Iraq" - [added 12/30/06]
Sterotype threat -- women and math -This press release describes some interesting recent research. Here is the original research article. Here are some materials related to the research. [added 12/31/06]
Honor killings in Iraq - An article describing crimes against women in Iraq in the name of family honor -- also an audio story on the topic from National Public Radio. [added 12/30/06]
Bias keeping women out of science - "Women are being filtered out of high-level science, math, and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a National Academies report released yesterday." [added 12/30/06]"No job for a woman" - an exhibition and resources on "the effects of war on women's lives during the 20th and 21st centuries" -- from the Imperial War Museum [added 12/26/06]
"Visible invisibility: Women of color in law firms" - report from the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession [added 12/26/06]Barriers to women's advancement in the workplace - From Catalyst, here is the executive summary of "Different cultures, similar perceptions: Stereotyping of Western European business leaders," and the full report. [added 7/6/06]
Race and gender in Major League Baseball - Read the report "The 2005 racial and gender report card: Major League Baseball" from the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida. [added 7/6/06]
"Female pols suffer from 'face-ism'" - "Successful female politicians face a number of obstacles that don't burden their male peers. One of these, a new University of Michigan study shows, is "face-ism"—a tendency to emphasize women's bodies rather than their faces." Press release of recent research conducted at the Univ. of Michigan -- scroll down page to find a link to an Excel spreadsheet of the data [added 1/11/06]
"Economic benefits of marriage under federal and Connecticut law" - "This study focuses specifically on the economic costs under federal and Connecticut law borne by same-sex couples who are not able to legally marry, compared to their married opposite-sex counterparts. A focus on economic issues quantitatively illustrates how same-sex couples are discriminated against by not being allowed to access the benefits, protections, and responsibilities only granted through equal access to civil marriage." [added 6/20/05]
Discrimination against women - From the United Nations, "The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination." [added 6/20/05]Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Amnesty International / NOCIRC - The first link from Amnesty International provides a lot of background info on FGM as well as why the organization has taken up this issue. The second link is to NOCIRC, an "educational non-profit organization committed to securing the birthright of male, female, and intersex children and babies to keep their sex organs intact." [added 3/30/04]
Repression of Women in Afghanistan - "'We want to live as humans:' Repression of women and girls in Western Afghanistan" is a recent report from the Human Rights Watch. [added 2/4/03]
"Making 'Welfare to Work' Really Work" - position paper from the Division of the Psychology of Women of APA
Sexual Orientation-based Prejudice
"Raped and killed for being a lesbian" - in South Africa [4/1/09]
Football (soccer) stars "to tackle homophobia with video" - If anyone in the UK ever sees this video I would love to hear about it. Or, if it ever appears online could you pass along the link? Thanks. [4/1/09]
Ban freshmen from sidewalks - amusing take on Proposition 8 (in California) at Princeton [4/1/09]
"U.S. balks at decriminalizing homosexuality" - "Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality. In all, 66 of the U.N.'s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration - which backers called a historic step to push the General Assembly to deal more forthrightly with any-gay discrimination. More than 70 U.N. members outlaw homosexuality, and in several of them homosexual acts can be punished by execution." [4/1/09]
First openly transgender mayor in U.S. - [3/30/09]
The gay Bradley effect? - Follow a link above (under African) to some discussion of whether the (Black) Bradley effect would make an appearance in the 2008 U.S. presidential race. Here is some discussion of whether or not there was a gay Bradley effect in the California Proposition 8 vote. [3/30/09]
Australian govemment limits same-sex discrimination - [3/30/09]
"Highest number of LGBT characters ever for 2008-09 TV season" - a report from GLAAD [3/29/09]APA to take lead on reducing discrimination against "gender-variant" - [added 10/11/08]
Hallmark makes gay marriage cards - First link is to the story. Here is a story about seven Hallmark stores in Idaho who refuse to sell the cards. [added 10/11/08]
"Majority of voters could support openly gay presidential candidate" - [added 10/11/08]In 2008 news there has been some encouraging evidence around the world of some change in attitudes towards the LGBT community:
"Bahrain recognizes sex change" - "It took Zainab Rabie three years to become a man as the law would have it. After a long legal battle, the Arab island country of Bahrain finally recognized Rabie, 34, as a man. Rabie was born an intersexual, with anatomy that is characteristically both male and female." [added 8/18/08]
Thailand: School introduces toilets for transvestites - [added 8/18/08]
Norway grants marriage equality to same-sex couples - [added 8/18/08]
"Same-sex marriages performed in Greece" - "Defying governmental wrath, the mayor of a remote Greek island performed the country's first same-sex marriages on Tuesday, wedding two men and two women." [added 8/18/08]
California allows same-sex marriage - an interesting blog entry responding to the California decision [added 8/18/08]
The U.S. Supreme Court and same-sex sex - a good review of court cases related to the legality of private sexual behavior [added 8/18/08]
On the other hand, change is gradual:
U.K.: Heinz withdraws commercial with two men kissing - The first link is to an article about the story; here is the ad. [added 8/18/08]
U.K.: "One in five gay people suffer hate attacks" - a survey in the U.K. [added 8/18/08]
U.S.: The Lawrence King murder - [added 8/18/08]
Northern Ireland: Health chief calls homosexuality an illness - [added 8/18/08]
Paraguay: "Couple cleared of same-sex wedding charges" - "A couple jailed on suspicion of having a same-sex wedding were freed Monday after a doctor determined that the groom is a hermaphrodite." [added 8/18/08]
More research on the gay brain - [added 8/18/08]"Memphis principal accused of 'outing' gay students" - [6/20/08]
"Mexico transgender couple ties the knot, pushes law" - [6/20/08]"That's so gay" in the UK - an interesting story about how the word "gay" is used by the young to insult others [added 4/25/08]
Gay and hetero couples equally committed - [added 4/14/08]
"Sexual orientation, disclosure, and earnings" - Why do "Gay/bisexual workers tend to earn less than other men?" [added 4/7/08]
India's first transgender TV host - "Her forthcoming show, called 'Yours, Rose,' will be a venue to debate all kinds of socially taboo topics." [added 3/23/08]
Banning transgender discrimination - Michigan governor "adds gender identity to a list of other prohibited grounds for discrimination that includes religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, height, weight, marital status, politics, disability or genetic information." [added 12/16/07]
"Film with same-sex parents splits school district" [added 11/17/07]
"Gay or straight? Watch his walk" - describes some interesting research I saw presented at SPSP 2007 [added 11/17/07]Firing based on sexual orientation - "Nearly two-thirds of all American adults (64%) believe it is unfair that federal law currently allows for an employer to fire someone because they are gay or lesbian." [added 11/17/07]
"Three are gay, three are straight" - article about the opportunity to study a family in which three brothers are gay and three are straight [added 9/30/07]
"The science of gaydar" - Here's a very interesting article in The New Yorker describing some recent research identifying physical characteristics, such as the counterclockwise hair whorl and denser fingerprint ridges, that are more common in gay men than straight men. Here is a research article on the hair whorl. Here is an article looking at the genetic bases of homosexuality. [added 8/05/07]
More tolerance towards homosexuals - A recent Gallup poll found that "public evenly divided over whether homosexuality is morally acceptable or wrong," much higher than in previous years. Here is a study entitled "Are we ready for the same-sex kiss (MTV Canada's kiss ad test)" which addresses the same question. [added 8/05/07]
"4/10 Americans have close friends or relatives who are gay" - survey from Pew Research Center -- "survey finds familiarity is closely linked to greater tolerance" [added 7/16/07]
"Living in the margins" - "Living in the margins: A national survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans" is a report from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. [added 7/16/07]
"Gays subject to 'sexual cleansing' in Iraq" [added 7/14/07]
Adoption/foster care by homosexual parents in U.S. - a report from the Urban Institute [added 7/14/07]
Anti-gay e-mails from military recruiter - Wow! I don't know if even General Pace would condone this. [added 7/8/07]
N.J. third state to offer civil unions [added 7/7/07]
Soy makes you gay! - Did you know?...Read all about it. [added 12/31/06]
"Military personnel are comfortable serving with gay colleagues" - A new poll suggests members of the U.S. armed forces are becoming more comfortable with even openly gay and lesbian colleagues. [added 12/31/06]
Banning of civil unions in Virginia - [added 12/31/06]"Area homosexual saves four from fire" - An amusing article from the satirical online newspaper The Onion [added 12/31/06]
"Homophobia at 'Hell House'" - "Homophobia at 'Hell House': Literally demonizing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth" from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute is a report that "estimates that this Halloween season, 1.6 million people, many of them children as young as 10 years old, will go to 'Hell Houses,' religious alternatives to traditional haunted houses that are designed to scare youth into a "sin-free life." Instead of spooking youth with ghosts and monsters, Hell House tour guides direct them through rooms where violent scenes of damnation for a variety of 'sins' are performed, including scenes where a teenage lesbian is brought to hell after committing suicide and a gay man dying of AIDS is taunted by a demon who screams that the man will be separated from God forever in hell." [added 12/31/06]
7/10 heterosexuals in U.S. know someone that is gay - a survey with some interesting results [added 12/31/06]
Male homosexuality tied to older brothers? - "A new study finds that homosexuality grows more likely with the greater number of biological older brothers-those sharing both father and mother-that a male has." [added 12/26/06]
"Washington court upholds ban on gay marriage" - interesting arguments on both sides in this case [added 12/26/06]
Beyond Lisping - "The following article, written for a general audience, is about code switching, gay speech styles, and speech characteristics including lisping." [added 1/15/06]
Bullying - "From teasing to torment: New national report on school bullying" is a recent report from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. [added 1/13/06]
Police abuse/misconduct against homosexuals - "Stonewalled: Police abuse and misconduct against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the U.S." is a report from Amnesty International. [added 1/9/06]
Workplace for LGBT - The Human Rights Campaign presents this report entitled "The state of the workplace for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender Americans." [added 1/2/06]
Same-sex marriage book - Very interesting story involving social psychologist David Myers' new book "What God has joined together? A Christian case for gay marriage," his college, Hope College, and a controversy at the school. Knowing Dave a little bit, I believe he brings the perfect character and temperament to step into such a minefield. I think his estimate of 10 years mentioned in the article is quite optimistic, but as one of the front people for making this argument he will definitely move the discussion forward in a productive manner. It will be interesting to follow the response to his book. [added 9/20/05]
Attitudes about homosexuality - "This study is a compilation of public opinion polls on acceptance of homosexuality, gay marriage, civil unions, partner benefits, party identification and voting of gays, employment, and adoption. The study includes all of the latest polling data as well as important historical trends for comparative purposes." From the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [added 3/20/05]
"Gay men and lesbians in the U.S. military" - From the Urban Institute, this new report uses the 2000 census to attempt to estimate the number of homosexuals in the U.S. military and to identify other related information. [added 12/1/04]
The Commercial Closet - "The Commercial Closet Association works to improve public opinion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by improving GLBT portrayals in mainstream advertising." This site promotes that goal by providing hundreds of examples of portrayals in the media, particularly advertising. You can watch the TV ads at this site and read commentary provided to analyze the portrayal of gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgender themes in the ads. [added 7/1/04]
Lesbian and gay history in America - This website accompanies the PBS program, "Out of the past: 400 years of lesbian and gay history in America" first aired in 2000. Includes a timeline and other resources. [added 7/1/04]
Gay rights - special report with a number of related stories from the UK [added 6/9/04]
Same sex marriages: Site 1 / Site 2 [added 4/5/04]
"Answers to questions about sexual orientation and homosexuality" - The APA provides answers to a variety of questions. [added 3/30/04]
Sexual orientation - The Human Rights Campaign, "working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equal rights," presents publications and current news related to its mission. [added 7/23/03]
"Healthy Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students Project" - Project from APA with the mission to "strengthen the capacity of the nation's schools to prevent the behavioral health risks of lesbian, gay, and bisexual students through knowledge development, dissemination, and application, working with and through national organizations of school stakeholders." [added 7/23/03]
"Gay Bears: The Hidden History of the Berkeley Campus" - a collection of information and images about the history of sexual minorities at the University of California, Berkeley [added 2/4/03]
"Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945" - a just-launched online exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [added 12/06/02]
Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military - a variety of teaching and research resources [added 11/7/02]
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - reports on discrimination and abuse worldwide - many such incidences are described here [added 8/28/02]
"Assault on Gay America" - PBS Frontline show on the life and death of Billy Jack Gaither
Disability/Disadvantaged-based Prejudice
Disability etiquette - "Tips on interacting with people with disabilities" from the United Spinal Association [3/30/09]
The stigma of mental illness - Article about a survey in Canada -- ""This year's report card shines a harsh, and frankly unflattering, light on the attitudes we Canadians have concerning mental health," said the group's president, Dr. Brian Day, in a release." [added 10/11/08]
Weight discrimination - "Weight discrimination, especially against women, is increasing in U.S. society and is almost as common as racial discrimination, two studies suggest." [6/20/08]
"Weight bias is as prevalent as racial discrimination" - [added 4/25/08]
Banning the feeding of the homeless - You heard me right. "The report details how local governments across the country are using a wide variety of ordinances, policies, and tactics to restrict groups that share food with poor and homeless people." [added 12/16/07]
Hiring obese applicants? - "Evidence of unequal treatment in hiring of obese applicants: A field experiment" is an interesting study conducted in Sweden. [added 7/16/07]
"Ghetto tax" - Study finds that those who live in low-income neighborhoods often pay considerably more for car insurance, groceries and more. [added 7/8/07]
Hate crimes against the homeless on the rise - a report from the National Coalition for the Homeless [added 7/7/07]
"Ugly girl killed: Nation unshaken by not-so-tragic death" - An amusing article from the satirical online newspaper The Onion [added 12/30/06]
"Rich, poor, see poverty very differently" - a survey conducted by the Marguerite Casey Foundation of "attitudes of Americans, particularly low-income families' attitudes, before and after Hurricane Katrina." [added 1/11/06]
Discrimination against persons with disabilities - recent (2005) report from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development [added 1/8/06]
Hate crimes against the homeless - A report from the National Coalition for the Homeless -- other material on the homeless can also be found here. [added 1/8/06]"The disability rights and the independent living movement" - This library collection from the University of California Berkeley contains "primary sources exploring the social and political history of the disability movement from the 1960s to the present," including a large oral history component. [added 12/1/04]
Singlism - prejudice and discrimination against singles [6/20/08]
Ageism in America - This is a report from the International Longevity Center documenting and analyzing examples of discrimination based upon age. [added 7/6/06]
Stereotype threat resource - This is an excellent site that thoroughly investigates questions such as "What is stereotype threat?", "What are the consequences of stereotype threat?", "What are the mechanisms behind stereotype threat?", and "What can be done to reduce stereotype threat?" A very comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography is included. [added 4/19/09]
"Are we born racist?" - The Greater Good Magazine has a good series of articles under this theme. [added 10/11/08]
The living library - This is a very interesting concept: Instead of checking out a book from the library, you check out a person from some particular subgroup. That person has volunteered to be "checked out" so you can have a conversation with him or her and learn more about people in that group. Read more here. [added 8/18/08]
Mix it up at lunch day - For the past few years the Southern Poverty Law Center has been fostering this program in which teens intentionally interact with students from "other" groups during lunch. Other programs have evolved from this as well. [added 8/18/08]
"Buried prejudice: The bigot in your brain" - good essay from Scientific American about the unconscious/automatic processes behind prejudice [6/20/08]
Humor can perpetuate stereotypes and discrimination - [added 12/16/07]
Reducing prejudice in children - "Psychologists Rebecca Bigler and Julie Milligan Hughes found white children who received history lessons about discrimination against famous African Americans had significantly more positive attitudes toward African Americans than those who received lessons with no mention of racism." [added 12/16/07]
Differences not deficits - a good report from the 2007 APS convention on how biases often lead us to label differences as deficits [added 9/30/07]
Prejudice in the sports pages? - "Is the coverage of athletes and sports in the media fair and accurate when women and people of color are the subjects of the reporting? Are women and people of color fairly represented on today's newspaper sports department staffs? How would a more diverse staff of sports editors, columnists, and reporters affect what is commonly written about in our newspapers?...The first of its kind 2006 Racial and Gender Report Card of the Associated Press Sports Editors, covering more than 300 Associated Press newspapers, was released today at the APSE Annual Conference in Las Vegas and establishes a set of baseline data for the industry." [added 12/31/06]
The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse - "The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collects documents and information from civil rights cases in specific case categories across the United States." [added 12/31/06]
"Common ground helps reduce stereotyping" - recent article from the APS Observer on recent research [added 1/11/06]
Mixed communities - Report from The Brookings Institution describing efforts in the U.K. and the U.S. at creating housing which accommodates "a mix of incomes, ages, household types, and rental/ownership animates housing and planning policy." The report claims that in the U.S. " mixed-income strategies have transformed some of the nation's most troubled neighborhoods into healthy, functioning communities." [added 9/20/05]
Human Rights Watch - reports from this organization on abuses worldwide - clickable map allows you to select a country a view recent reports
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