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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. Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/) - reports from this organization on abuses worldwide.
  3. Discrimination against persons with disabilities (http://www.huduser.org/Publications/pdf/DDS_Barriers.pdf) - recent (2005) report from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
  4. Ageism in America (http://www.docuticker.com/?p=5599) - This is a report from the International Longevity Center documenting and analyzing examples of discrimination based upon age.
  5. "Common ground helps reduce stereotyping" (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1859) - recent article from the APS Observer
  6. Racial/Ethnic Prejudice

  7. 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.
  8. "Arrest the Racism: Racial Profiling in America" (http://www.aclu.org/profiling/) - articles and resources on racial profiling from the A.C.L.U.
  9. Racial profiling (http://www.amnestyusa.org/racial_profiling/index.do) - excellent site from Amnesty International with many recent reports on and examples of racial profiling around the world.
  10. "Race: The Power of an Illusion" (http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm) - This is the companion Web site 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.
  11. 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.'"
  12. "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.
  13. Find Hidden Bias (http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html) - the Southern Poverty Law Center has put together an extensive Web site (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.
  14. Mortgage Lending Discrimination (http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/lending/fairlend.cfm) - from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
  15. "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.'"
  16. 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.
  17. "Separate Lives, Broken Dreams: Saga of Chinese Immigration" (http://www.asianamericanmedia.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.
  18. "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience" (http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/) - Read personal stories and eyewitness accounts at this Web site accompanying the program from a PBS Bill Moyers' special.
  19. "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.
  20. "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."
  21. The Holocaust (http://remember.org/index.html) - lots of resources and links related to the Holocaust.
  22. Holocaust teaching guide (http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/) - hundreds of images, videos and other resources
  23. "Young singers spread racist hate" (http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1231684&page=1) - a story about 13-year old twins who reportedly "are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate".
  24. The selling of racist views through music (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6542890/site/newsweek/) - This recent (Nov. 2004) article from Newsweek describes how Panzerfaust Records, a "white power" records label, is successfully pushing its music and lyrics into the hands of teenagers.
  25. Brazil's first black television channel (http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1647205,00.html?=rss) - story (2005) from The Guardian.
  26. "Names, expectations and the Black-White test score gap" (http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/figlio/blacknames1.pdf) - 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).
  27. Gender/Orientation-based Prejudice

  28. "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.
  29. International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (http://www.iglhrc.org/) - reports on discrimination and abuse worldwide - many such incidences are described here.
  30. "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.
  31. Beyond Lisping (http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/codemix.htm) - "The following article, written for a general audience, is about code switching, gay speech styles, and speech characteristics including lisping."
  32. "Female pols suffer from 'face-ism'" (http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Aug05/r082205a) - "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.







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