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  1. Understanding Prejudice ( http://www.understandingprejudice.org/ ) – Along with the demonstrations mentioned above, this excellent site from Scott Plous and others contains a considerable set of resources and links to prejudice-related topics.
  2. Hate on the Internet ( http://www.hbo.com/hate/home.shtml ) - website with resources to accompany HBO's show "Hate.com: Extremists on the Internet"
  3. Human Rights Watch ( http://www.hrw.org/ ) - reports from this organization on abuses worldwide - clickable map ( http://www.hrw.org/research/CuteMap2.html ) allows you to select a country a view recent reports
  4. Racial/Ethnic Prejudice

  5. Racial profiling data collection ( http://www.racialprofilinganalysis.neu.edu/ ) - 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.
  6. "Arrest the Racism: Racial Profiling in America" ( http://www.aclu.org/profiling/ ) - articles and resources on racial profiling from the ACLU
  7. "Race: The Power of an Illusion" ( http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm ) - 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.
  8. Whiteness Studies ( http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/ ) – What does it mean to study “Whiteness?” "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.'"
  9. "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care" ( http://www.nap.edu/books/030908265X/html/ ) - an online, book-length report (2002) from the Institute of Medicine
  10. Race Equality and Diversity in the UK : Two Reports http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/reu/pocc.pdf http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/reu/community_cohesion.pdf
  11. "The British governments Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) reports that a sharp division between whites and ethnic minorities in Britain has formed, with the two groups leading separate lives with no social or cultural contact and no sense of belonging to the same nation. These new reports come from a government-commissioned inquiry in response to the race riots that rocked northern England this summer." (as described in the Scout Report ( http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/2001/scout-011214.html ), 12/14/2001 )

  12. Find Hidden Bias ( http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html ) - 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
  13. Mortgage Lending Discrimination ( http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/newsconf/menu.html ) - from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
  14. "The Least of My Brothers" ( http://poynter.indiana.edu/sas/lb/ ) - 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.'"
  15. Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement ( http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm ) - Travel to 41 different historic sites to learn about the role of each in the movement.
  16. "Separate Lives, Broken Dreams: Saga of Chinese Immigration" ( http://www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/ ) – This site provides some interesting information and resources about Chinese immigration and U.S. response in the second half of the 19th century.
  17. "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience" ( http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/ ) - Read personal stories and eyewitness accounts at this website accompanying the program from a PBS Bill Moyers' special.
  18. India's "Untouchables" ( http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/india/ ) - report (1999) from the Human Rights Watch - "Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's “Untouchables”
  19. "Muslim Life in America" ( http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/homepage.htm ) - As you may know, the U.S. government has made several attempts to distinguish between a "war" on terrorism versus a war against Arabs or Muslims. Additionally, it has tried to discourage discrimination towards Arab Americans and Muslims. Here is another such attempt using education.
  20. "Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution" ( http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html ) – Browse this 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.
  21. "Telling Their Stories: Oral History of the Holocaust" ( http://www.tellingstories.org/ ) - "Read, watch and listen to interviews of Holocaust survivors conducted by high school students."
  22. The Holocaust ( http://remember.org/index.html ) - lots of resources and links related to the Holocaust
  23. Holocaust teaching guide ( http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/ ) - hundreds of images, videos and other resources
  24. Gender/Orientation-based Prejudice

  25. "Healthy Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students Project" ( http://www.apa.org/ed/hlgb/ ) – Read about a project from the American Psychological Association 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."
  26. "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945" ( http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ ) - a just-launched online exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  27. International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( http://www.iglhrc.org/ ) - reports on discrimination and abuse worldwide - many such incidences are described here
  28. "Assault on Gay America" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/ ) - PBS Frontline show on the life and death of Billy Jack Gaither







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