A very rich resource, with information on many different racial and ethnic groups in the United States and special collections on a wide variety of topics from Native American history to immigration to Islam.
A resource of the National Association of School Psychologists, defining cultural competence and providing tools and motivations for developing cultural competence. Similar materials are available by and for other professions, such as social work, healthcare, and criminal justice.
A site from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) describing different types of discrimination (age, disability, national origin, race, etc.) and the laws that apply to them.
A site from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory offering a definition of multicultural education and a number of links to articles on the subject.
A site from the Education Commission of the States, examining the racial education gap and providing research, readings, and links to further websites.
A 2012 article from The New Yorker on the growing prison population in the United States and the disproportionate number of African Americas caught in that system.
“America’s Angriest White Men: Up Close with Racism, Rage, and Southern Supremacy”
A site on the expansion of white racism since the election of Barack Obama, from The Leadership Conference, billed as “the nation’s premier civil and human rights coalition.”
A resource from Transcultural Nursing, featuring information on many American groups (Hispanics, Middle Easterners, Asians, and African Americans, as well as the deaf) of relevance to healthcare workers; also discusses cultural competence.
A site of the American Indian Heritage Foundation featuring many links to information on specific Native tribes as well as topics like art, education, food, history, and spirituality.
A site by and about Asian Americans, offering “sociological exploration of the historical, demographic, political, and cultural issues that make up today’s diverse Asian American community.”
A site of the Center for American Progress, featuring a written report, an interactive map, and other information on women’s status in the United States.
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being
A website of the White House’s Council on Women and Girls, with data and tables on women and girls on a wide variety of issues, plus a 97-page written report.
A PBS site associated with the series American Experience, with an annotated timeline of events since 1924 and the founding of the Society for Human Rights.
The website for The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, offering “a healthy environment in which transgender and gender non-conforming people can connect with others who are going through similar experiences.”
The website of a Christian anti-gay organization “devoted exclusively to exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda,” typifying the religious opposition to gay identity and rights.
Using data from the Harvard Dialect Survey, by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder, Joshua Katz examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. Includes interactive dialect maps.
A companion site to the PBS program Do You Speak American? With information and links on the Spanish language in America, as well as other linguistic topics.
An introduction to Native American languages, with links to specific language sites and some reference to other indigenous peoples outside the United States.
A short essay by Andrea Smith for Amnesty International on the damage done to Native American peoples by boarding schools and the fight to retain their language and culture.
An essay by Michael Hout and Claude Fischer for the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, on American religion in the late twentieth century.
“Religion in America’s States and Counties, in Six Maps”
A valuable resource from Internet Sacred Text Archive, with links to information on many Native American religions (and an incredible array of other religions).
Religions of the World: Native American Spirituality
The home page of Middleage.org, “dedicated to all of us who are convinced that middle age is neither the beginning nor the end of life, but exactly what it is, the middle of life.”
“Diversity in Old Age: The Elderly in Changing Economic and Family Contexts”
An interactive color-coded map, showing electoral results for the 2012 presidential election by state and county, as well as the size of the lead and the shift from 2008.
A site from the Census Bureau focusing on the geographical study of U.S. population, with information on census tracts for reporting demographic distributions.
A site from a 2008 course by Jon Kilpinen of Valparaiso University, with a wealth of maps on ethnic groups, religion, language, income, and culture regions based on 2000 census data and other sources.
