Diversity Resources Website for Faculty

On-Campus Resources:
Multicultural Resource Center
 Eleanor Shelton, Director
The Multicultural Resource Center is a centralized location for multicultural and diversity instructional materials and resources to assist faculty, staff, and administrators to infuse multiculturalism and diversity into the curriculum.  It provides video "how-to's" and curriculum models for faculty to implement in the classroom.  It is an environment in which faculty can create innovative and imaginative curricula for infusing, transforming, and developing a multicultural curriculum; and where faculty can explore alternative teaching strategies.

Internet Resources:
Do you have additional sites to recommend?  Send them to LWeldon@ccbc.cc.md.us.

The Living Mosaic

If you have questions on the vocabulary of diversity, the University of Maryland has a Diversity Dictionary and an article entitled "What is Diversity?"

Ethnicity/Race/National Origin
African-American Links
 The African-American Mosaic Exhibition by the Library of Congress is described as a resource guide for the study of Black history and culture.
 The Faces of Science:  African Americans in the Sciences has brief C.V.'s of men and women, some with photographs of the scientist.  They vary from biologists to zoologists and from early to modern.
 NetNoir --"The Black Network:  Black Culture" has interesting articles.  The downside--an overwhelming number of ads, lots of cookies, and repeated urges to sign-up.
 The Universal Black Pages consists of links on art, life, business, and organizations.
 One of the largest portals to websites is African American WWW Resources maintained by UCLA's Center for African American Studies.

Arab-American Links
 Arab-American and Muslim-American events and news reports are listed at arabmedia.com.
 Mideast news and chat are online at Arab.net.

Asian-American Links
 Asian-American Cybernauts is a non-commercial listing of links to internet resources.

European-American Links
 To find numerous links, enter <country name>-American into an internet search engine.  You will find sites such as the National Italian American Association, the Swedish Council of America,  and the Greek-American Folklore Society.

Hispanic-American Links
 Hispanic-American Studies at the University of North Texas has a small list of links to other sites.

Jewish-American Links
 JewishFamily.com has news and articles by columnists on Judaism and family life, information on holidays, reviews of books, and links to discussion areas.

Latino/Latina Links
  The Latino website has many links to other lists of sites, art, bookstores, businesses, country information, education, health, history, news, literature, music, and politics.
  The Bronze pages are listings of homepages of Chicana/Chicano, Latina/Latina people at the University of California.

Native-American Links
Did you make it to the "Honor the Circle" pow wow held August 18-20 at CCBC?
 Native American Sites is well-organized and updated regularly. 
 Here's another index of Native American Nations on the internet.
 Native Web has a long page of nations from Abenaki to Zuni and a global listing by geographical region.

Gender
Men
 The American Men's Studies Association has lists of issues and organizations.  

Women
 The National Women's History Project has resources on history and ideas for teachers.
 UMBC's Women's Studies website has links to resources at UMBC and on the internet.

Feminism
 Resources for Activist Feminists includes information on issues and organizations.

Sexual Orientation
  The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) focuses on issues of tolerance and education.
  The Human Rights Campaign focuses on lesbian and gay equal rights.
  PlanetOut and Gay.Com are websites with news and cultural activities of interest to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communitites.
 An annotated list of links to internet resouces, including descriptions of journals and organizations, is maintained by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
 The American Psychological Association includes sexual orientation in its web-based articles in the public interest.

Geographical
 Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections has mailing lists that you can subscribe to.  St. Olaf's College in Minnesota developed the program in 1992 to promote email exchanges across countries and cultures.  Teachers initiate the classroom exchanges, which include K-12, higher-education, and intergenerational (age 50+) email exchanges.

Africa
  News headlines and articles on Africa Regional coverage are online at the Washington Post.
  Africa Online has news updates about Africa and links to Côte d'Ivoire (in French), Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Australia
 The major daily newspapers, links to universities, and resources for students who want to go to Australia are available online.  

Asia
 An international group has developed an Asian Studies Virtual Library with links to online articles.  The links are organized by country.

Europe
 The University of Toronto maintains a list of links (by country and by topic) on their Centre for Russian and East European Studies webpage.  The University of Michigan's Center for Russian and East European Studies also has a teacher outreach page of resources.  
 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for European Studies has links to general resources and teaching resources relevant to contemporary Europe.
  There are links to the countries of Western Europe at the Virtual Library.

Middle East
 Middle East resources include links to ancient and medieval subjects, food, languages, literatures, music, political violence, religion, water, and women.

Pacific Rim
 Pacific Ocean Studies includes the countries of the Pacific Rim.

North America
  An index of the history of Mexico is available on the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.
  The Virtual Library also has links to articles about the history and geography of Canada and an essay on Multiculturalism in Canada.
  The U.S. Census Bureau has interesting information on the characteristics of the population, but it takes a little bit of searching to find it.

Central America
  The Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas has links for countries in Central America, including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.  Sites that are not in English are included.

South America
 The Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas has links for countries in South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.  Sites that are not in English are included.

Religion
 Religious Tolerance is a website that has essays on a dozen different major religions.
Judaism
  Judaism and Jewish resources provides an comprehensive list of links.

Buddhism
  The WWW Virtual library has links for Buddhism.

Christianity
  The newsgroup soc.religion.christian has a page that lists web resources related to Christianity.
  Catholic Resources on the Net has links to Catholic liturgy and worhip, teaching, and organizations.  This website may be changing addresses soon.

Islam
  Imuslim calls itself "Your source for Islam on the Net."

Spiritualism
  SpiritWeb describes channeling, reincarnation, mysticism, and other topics of spiritual interest.

Age
 Aging information and documents are available.  
 ElderWeb has information on health issues and care of the elderly.
 SeniorNet is the premier site on computer technology for the 50+ crowd.
 Bill Moyers has a 4-part PBS series on Dying, called On Own Own Terms, starting September 10, 2000.
Disability
 Deaf World Web has lots of information in a Deaf online encyclopedia including information on Deaf Culture.  They also have a section for children called Deaf CyberKids.
 The Cornucopia of Disability Information has information on vision impairment, traveling with a disability, coming to terms with a disability, and information on assistive technologies.
Economic Class
 Youngstown State University in Ohio has a Center for Working-Class Studies.
Not Included
. . . and there are also links to sites that are anti-diversity that I have not included on this website.
Curriculum Development
  Here's a description of teaching the value of diversity to children.
  And, some suggestions on how to conduct your class.

Other People's Mosaics

 There are Diversity Links listed at many places on the internet.  Some of the most cited are the University of Maryland's Diversity Database, and Virginia's Multicultural Pavilion, which has suggestions for icebreakers and other Awareness Activities.

Send Suggestions for Additional Links to me.  This is (and probably will always be) a work-in-progress.  Comments are welcome.

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