Ethnic Geography

Although more than a million individual web text pages may be referenced through such key words as "ethnic," "race," and "native," the number of substantive organizational home pages on those and related topics are relatively few and, usually, highly specialized by group and interest.

In the Anglo American context, good starting points for examination of immigration volumes and ethnic makeup are the respective federal immigration services of the United States and Canada. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is found at www.ins.usdoj.gov/. The site's "statistics" and "reports and studies" entries are of greatest value. The Canadian counterpart Citizenship and Immigration Canada home page provides access to its own research, publications, and statistics and links to outside immigration-related sites: http://cicnet.ci.gc.ca/. The U.S. Census Bureau provides "Minority Links" to data on Black, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander Americans and American Indians at www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html.

Nongovernmental, institutional, and private sites of potential interest in the study of ethnic relations, patterns, and interests and good starting points for further links include the following:

The Ethnicity, Racism and the Media (ERaM) program at England's Bradford University provides e-mail and internet contacts for discussion and research "on issues of racism, ethnicity, and the media" and an extensive set of links to index, media, and organizational web sites related to ethnicity:www.brad.ac.uk/research/eram/wwwsites.html.

CIEMEN's Ethnic World Survey at www.partal.com/ciemen/ethnic.html is useful to students interested in indigenous ethnic studies. Ciemen, a Catalan organization, claims a purely cultural and humanitarian interest in "marginated" peoples; its links to Africa, the Americas, Asia/CIS, Europe, and Oceania are of mixed value, but contain references not easily found elsewhere.

Both the WWW Virtual Library of Indigenous Studies at www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html and the Center for World Indigenous Studies' Fourth World Documentation Project at www.cwis.org are concerned with "fourth world" peoples. Created by the same agency, the websites are slightly different in their approach. NativeWeb provides access to subordinate pages on geographic regions, different nations and peoples, languages, and historical material together with links to newsletters, organizations, information sites, and the like: www.nativeweb.org.

Several U.S. universities or their members maintain websites concerned with various aspects of ethnic studies.

Michigan State University's page on Diversity and Pluralism introduces a database of articles searchable by keyword or letter, cross-referenced by subject and author: www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/moddp/masterdp.html.

The University of California-Santa Barbara serves as host to Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page with links to general resource sites and ethnic-specific home pages (African American; Asian American; Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, etc.): http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/minority.html

Georgetown University's American Studies Web at www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/ directs attention to various minority studies programs under its Race and Ethnicity heading. The National Association for Ethnic Studies hosted by Kansas State at www.ksu.edu/ameth/naes/ethnic.htm provides linked references to other university ethnic studies programs and to a number of ethnic web sites and other ethnic-related resources. Less inclusive are Ethnic Studies at USC at www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies, and the University of Maryland's Diversity Database on National Origin, Race, and Ethnicity at www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/Specific/Race/. Your own web surfing will reveal still others.

The Internet site links provided through organization and university pages may be supplemented by the extensive web connections found through the WWW Virtual Library of Migration and Ethnic Relations at www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/

In the North American context, About.com has a series of ethnic "Guide Sites," including Afro-American, Asian-American, French-Canadian, Arctic/Northern, and Latino cultures. Find them through http://home.about.com/culture/cultureamer/. Several organizations and websites are concerned primarily with Native Americans. Those similarly interested might check Native American Resources at www.cowboy.net/native/, Native American Indian Resources at http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/mainmenu.html.