Contemporary African American Studies: WWW Resources

African-American Studies Resources (U. Penn Library)
Yahoo's African American Studies Links
African and African American Resources at the Smithsonian -- Impressive site.
Black Quest Power Resource Links -- Extensive list of African-American links, including contemporary and historical issues.
Afro-American Studies on the Web (U-Wisconsin-Madison) -- Includes information on African American Women, Historical Texts, Electronic Texts, and News
Infoseek's African American Issues sites.
NAACP
WorldBook Presents The African American Journey -- Includes Information on "The Modern Civil Rights Movement" and "A Brief History of Black History Month"
AFRO-American News Links -- Links to African-American newspapers
CNN Black History Month -- Includes articles, links, and more.

Frontline: The Two Nations of Black America -- Points out the increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor among African-Americans.

Testimony on the Education of African American Children in Urban Public Schools (1997) -- Before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education -- Includes some statistical information.
Yahoo's African American Education links -- Includes resources in African American Studies, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and more.
Black Issues in Higher Education -- "The nation's only news magazine dedicated exclusively to minority issues in higher education."

African-American Census Facts -- From the Minorities Job Bank
Statistical Abstract of the United States -- Also available in the Reference Collection [Ref/HA/202/.A4] in the Library, 1st Floor. Annual volume of U.S. statistics. Use the index for best results!
U.S. Census Bureau Statistics -- Divided into categories of Income, Occupation, Disability, Labor Distribution, Population, and more.
U.S. Census Bureau Population Topics

Womanist Theory and Research (Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia)
Biannual, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal
Infoseek's African American Women's Issues sites
Million Woman March: Digital Perspectives -- Created by Rochester Institute of Technology photojournalists, in order to give the reader/viewer "an inside look about the Million Woman March seen through our eyes."
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) -- ICRW "private, nonprofitorganization dedicated to promoting social andeconomic development with women's full participation. ICRW generates quality, empirical information and technical assistance on women's productive and reproductive roles, their status in the family, their leadership in society, and their management of environmental resources." Focuses principally on women in "developing and transition countries."
Women of Color and Allies Summit -- Sponsored by NOW, includes news releases, and reports from the 1998 summit.

soc.culture.african.american -- Newsgroup devoted to African American issues.
alt.culture.african.american -- Another newsgroup devoted to African American themes and topics.
Liszt's African-American Discussion Lists
TILE.NET's Listing of African American Mailing Lists/Discussion Groups -- 83 lists!
H-URBAN (U. of Melbourne, Australia) -- Urban Past, Urban Present. Archives include some discussion of relevant African American issues.

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