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RACE IN AMERICA
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This page is maintained by Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., at the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Demographics

U.S. Census Newsroom U.S. Census links to the latest data and reports on racial and ethnic populations in the United States

Population Demographics (from infoplease)

Immigration Timeline and Census Data (from infoplease)

American Indian Facts and Census Data (from infoplease)

Maps of U.S. racial segregation | Original racial dot map | More segregation maps (behind a paywall)

Hate Map of the United States Compiled and updated by the Southern Poverty Law Center

Defining Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality

All of Us are Related, Each of Us is Unique Graphic presentation of genetics research, including striking displays of phenotypical variations, conventionally thought to be categorical (Syracuse)

Race - The Power of an Illusion Documentary about race in society, science, and history (PBS)

Matters of Race Documentary films about race and racial identities (PBS)

Nova: Does Race Exist? Loring Brace and George Gill come down on different sides of the question (PBS)

How Race is Lived in America Year-long series of reports on racial encounters by the New York Times

Race Relations (Thoughtco) Excellent index of articles and features organized by topic

Strangers in a Land of Strangers Defining "American" in times of conflict

Critical Whiteness Studies Defining the discipline

Documenting the Inequities

Economic and Social Statistics on Black America Charts, graphs, and analyses regarding topics like crime, poverty, and higher education (Frontline)

The Two Nations of Black America (Frontline Special) Audioclips of many experts on race, including Cornel West, Kathleen Cleaver, and Orlando Patterson.

Racial Differences in Intelligence: What Mainstream Scientists Say Statement signed by 52 scholars and published in the Wall Street Journal in 1994

Drug War Facts Facts about race and crime

Racial disparities in the war on drugs (Human Rights Watch)

Racism and the administration of justice (Human Rights Watch)

Racism in the workplace statistics (Fingerprint for Success)

National Center for Education race and ethnicity data on dropout rates, education attainment, and earnings
Building blocks for youth

Stereotypes

Are Stereotypes Unfairly Stereotyped?

Stereotypical Representations
- Blue Corn Comics Indian Stereotypes Archive of stereotypical representations of American Indians in news and popular culture, 2000-2008
- Immigrant and ethnic caricatures Virtual gallery of cartoons, postcards, and other images from the Civil War to World War I.
- American-Pictures Over 3500 photographs (and many essays) about race and racial oppression in the United States and elsewhere
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia Using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice

Implicit Bias

Implict Association Test (IAT) The following explanation is taken from different portions of the web site and edited for coherence:
It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a new method that demonstrates public-private and conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short. There are several different IATs on this site, including the Race ('Black-White') IAT. This IAT requires the ability to distinguish faces of European and African origin and basic fluency in English. The Black-White IAT may be our most distressing test because it indicates that most Americans have an automatic preference for White over Black.

Implict Racial Bias 101 (Kirwan Institute video modules, 2019)

State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review (Kirwan Institute, 2017)

Teaching resources

Searchable and categorized spreadsheet of BIPOC-authored psychology papers to add diversity to any psychology syllabus.

Sharemylesson Lesson plans (about race and racism) by educators, for educators, organized by age categories, from preschool to high school.

APA's Psychology and Racism User-friendly (but dated!) description of what 1990s psychology can tell us about prejudice, discrimination, and racism.

Court Cases about Racial Discrimination FindLaw links to the actual court decisions.

Ten Important Supreme Court Decisions in Black History From Dred Scott to affirmative action, Info Please compiles summaries of the cases and decisions.

Teaching Tolerance Teaching tolerance is a national education project dedicated to helping teachers foster equality, respect, and understanding.

Anti-Bias Curriculum Guides Curriculum guides for elementary, middle, and high school students (Anti-Defamation League)

Understanding Prejudice Educational resources, including exercises and demonstrations, a media corner, and a list of experts on prejudice and related issues

Facing History and Ourselves Resource website for students and educators (links to workshops and seminars across the U.S.)

PBS Black Culture Page Films, stories, and voices about Black history and culture

Whiteness Blog Articles on whiteness, white identity and privilege, including suggestions for discussion questions, class activities, and out-of-class projects.

Race, Racism, and the Law Course web site focusing on race and racism in relation to education, environment, affirmative action, and law.

Psychology of Race and Ethnicity Undergraduate psychology course on race and ethnicity (taught by author of this resource page).

Stanford Prison Experiment Slide show of Phil Zimbardo's Prison experiment, demonstrating the power of being placed in a role

The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies: A Research Review

Racial Dynamics in Popular Culture

The Barbie experiment Created by the family whose 8-year-old girl did the "Barbie" experiment in which she showed adults and children two Barbies (one white, one black) and asked them which they preferred. The school took down her poster because school official were afraid it would make other children feel uncomfortable, which is when the national and even international media picked up the story.

Racism in popular science fiction The author doesn't have a mainstream definition of racism (e.g., some of the issues that the author takes with Star Trek are not so much about racism but about how Star Trek TNG essentializes race, that is attributes characteristics like courage to race and assumes that they are unchangeable) but many of the points are nevertheless valid.

African American Lives Family history and geneology of 12 well-known African Americans and the science of DNA and geneological research (PBS)

"Harry Potter and the Word That Shall Not Be Named" and other essays on pop culture Essays (many specifically about race and racial issues) by the author of this resource page

Anti-racism

Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism This site argues for the elimination of the white race (the concept, not the people). The site stopped being updated in 2005.

Crosspointe Anti-Racism Links to articles, videos, and podcasts about anti-racism compiled by a faith-based group

What the Attack on Affirmative Action is Really About (Tim Wise)

Racism is not White Privilege (Alan Spector)

Organizations

Human Rights Watch HRW publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries, annually.

Southern Poverty Law Center This organization monitors and tracks the activities of hate groups in every state.

Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Research Institute at Ohio State University.

Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Research Center at Boston College, directed by Psychologist Janet Helms.

Tavistock Institute The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) applies social science to contemporary issues and problems.

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research The Race Project page of this conservative think tank.

Historical Resources

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)

Bobby Seale.com Web site of the co-founder of the Black Panthers, includes a Black Panthers photo tour.

Without Sanctuary Photos, postcards, and video of lynching history in the U.S.

The African American Holocaust Photo tour of lynchings and other klan activity.

America's Black Holocaust Musuem Online museum building public awareness of the harmful legacies of slavery.

We Shall Overcome Historic places of the Civil Rights movement, curated by the National Park Service

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Description and summary of the infamous study (from infoplease.com).

History from an American Indian perspective

Remember.org Holocaust photos and information

Videos

How to tell people they sound racist

The unequal opportunity race

Bibliographies

African American Research Center (bibliographies and digital library at the University of Illinois)

Native American Research Guide | Resources for American Indian Studies (Univ. of Minnesota)

Asian American studies

Latino studies (Oxford) | Resources (from Washington Univ., St Louis)

Critical Whiteness Studies (pdf) | Whiteness Resources

Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies

Annotated bibliography on race, gender, and affirmative action Separate categories of articles for undergraduate teaching, graduate instruction (more technical works), and web resources (updated in 2008)