RacismReview
RacismReview is intended to provide a credible and reliable source of information for journalists,
students and members of the general public who are seeking solid evidence-based research and analysis of “race,” racism, ethnicity,
and immigration issues, especially as they undergird and shape U.S. society within a global setting.We also provide substantive
research and analysis on local, national, and global resistance to racial and ethnic oppression, including the many types of antiracist activism.
Launched in 2007, RacismReview is produced and maintained by Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University and Jessie Daniels, CUNY- Hunter College.
Sociology Department
Texas A&M
University
For information on faculty in the
department, please see this webpage.
Pop and Politics
Headed
by Farai Chideya, Pop and Politics is an online journal of news and
opinion for a diverse national and international audience, bringing
in-your-face real commentary from a variety of young and hip-hop
influenced writers.
Active Voice
Active Voice works with an outgrowth of promising practices developed
by the Television Race Initiative (TRI). Active Voice creates campaigns
for its clients– producers, stations and foundations -- based on
powerful issue-driven films. AV campaigns encourage individuals
and community groups to probe, discuss and take action on timely and
relevant social justice issues.
Working for Change
Working For Change is a
comprehensive resource website created for people with progressive
values who want to make a difference. Anyone with internet access can
speak out on urgent issues, read informative news and columns, make a
donation or volunteer their time.
National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center
The National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center offers lessons and reflections on
the struggle
for freedom. The center (opening in 2004) uses exhibits,
programs,
research and interactive experiences to promote collaborative learning,
dialogue and action to inspire today's freedom movements.
Without Sanctuary
Without Sanctuary is
a collection of photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at
lynchings
throughout America. The site includes a visual display of 81
postcards,
a movie, and a discussion forum- Please be aware before entering the
site
that much of the material is very disturbing.
Yellow World
Yellowworld.org is a community portal focused on Asian advocacy,
dedicated
to the cultivation of a collective Asian political and social
consciousness
Center for Tax Justice
Citizens for Tax Justice, founded in 1979, is a public interest
research and advocacy organization that fights to give ordinary people
a greater voice in the development of tax laws. Against the armies of
special interest lobbyists for corporations and the wealthy, CTJ fights
for fair taxes for middle and low-income families, requiring the
wealthy to pay their fair share, and closing corporate tax loopholes
among other missions.
Color Lines
The
nation's leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing!
Institute on Race and Poverty
The Minnesota IRP works to identify and address
problems caused when racial and economic discrimination combine to
create barriers to opportunity for low-income communities of color.
National Fair Housing Advocate
The National Fair Housing Advocate Online is a resource
designed to serve both the fair housing advocacy community and the
general public with timely news and information regarding the issues of
housing
discrimination.
Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is
a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and
stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance
to women and
their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare,
employment
and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social aspects
of
health and safety, and women's civic and political participation.
Gustavus Myers Center
The Myers Center is reviews and identifies outstanding books written
each year about discrimination and bigotry, creating ways to develop
equitable future communities and societies.
EnviroLink
EnviroLink is a non-profit organization... a grassroots
online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers
around the world with millions of people in more than 150 countries.
EnviroLink is dedicated to providing comprehensive, up-to-date
environmental information and news.
Applied Research Center
The
Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational and research
institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
Political Research
AssociatesPolitical
Research Associates is an independent, nonprofit research center that
studies antidemocratic, authoritarian, and other oppressive movements,
institutions, and trends. PRA is based on progressive values, and is
committed to advancing an open, democratic, and pluralistic
society. PRA provides accurate, reliable research and analysis to
activists, journalists, educators, policy makers, and the public at
large.
Center for Third World Organizing
The Center for Third
World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced "C-2") is a racial justice
organization dedicated to building a social justice movement led by
people of color. CTWO
is a 20-year-old training and resource center that promotes and
sustains direct action organizing in communities of color in the United
States, establishing model multi-racial community organizations; and
building an active network of organizations and activists of color to
achieve racial justice in its
fullest dimensions.
US Commission on Civil Rights
The United States Commission on Civil Rights
(Commission) is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the
executive branch established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
National Low Income Housing Coalition
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated
solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis. We believe that
this is achievable, that the affordable housing crisis is a problem
that Americans are capable of solving. While we are concerned about the
housing circumstances of all low income people, we focus our advocacy
on those with the most serious housing problems, the lowest income
households.
Institute for Global Communication
This
site is for advancing the work of progressive organizations and
individuals for peace, social justice, and sustainability through the
strategic use of the internet. Here you will find Antiracismnet,
Womensnet, Econet, and Peacenet.
Chicana Feminist Website
An interesting site devoted to MexicanAmerican (Chicana/o) culture
discussed through Chicana feminist issues within the United States.
Feminist.com
Feminist.com is a grassroots, interactive community by, for and about
women. Providing resources for all women and providing a safe
space for diverse dialogues in supporting women's business development,
women-friendly organizations, civic participation and women's
self-sufficiency.
www.VDAY.org
V-Day is a global
movement to stop violence against women and girls incorporating local
volunteers and college students to produce annual benefit performances
of "The Vagina Monologues" to raise awareness and funds for
anti-violence
groups within their own communities and abroad to fight rape, battery,
incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual slavery, and aims to change social
attitudes towards violence against women.
ARA Net
The Positive-Youth Foundation is a non-profit organization that was
created for youth, by youth to promote awareness through our music and
culture
concerning bigotry and related issues in order to educate and foster
dialogue
within the realms of our respective subcultures.
Southern Poverty Law Center
The SPLC is a non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance,
and discrimination through education and litigation. The
Intelligence Program, Teaching Tolerance, Tolerance.org, Klanwatch and
the Militia
Task Force are all included in this informative site.
United Against Hate
United Against Hate is a campaign of individuals and organizations
who recognize that while bigotry cannot be legislated out of existence,
a forceful, moral response to hate violence is required of us all.
HateWatch.org
A site tailored for adults, children, teens, parents and teachers that
includes news, interactive maps of hate and human rights groups, tests
for hidden bias and action guides for communities, workplaces, schools
and
homes, lesson plans for teaching tolerance.
NOW
This
historic activist organization for women's issues addresses concerns
such as violence against women, abortion rights, voter education,
family and medical leave, rape, sexual harassment and sex
discrimination. It also joins forces with other groups to fight right
wing attempts to dismantle affirmative action, and deny basic rights to
lesbians and gay men.
ACLU
The
nation's foremost advocate of individual rights, this organization is
involved in litigation, education, and promoting legislation to protect
individual freedom in the U.S.
Amnesty International
Amnesty
International is a worldwide organization that works to free all
prisoners of conscience, end torture of prisoners, stop political
killings, abolish the death penalty, ensure fair trials for political
prisoners, and oppose human rights abuses.
Language Policy Web Site
This
site compiles information and updates on pending language legislation
and discusses research on bilingual education.
American
Anti-Slavery Group
This
organization is dedicated to monitoring, documenting, and publicizing
continuing slavery around the world.
United Nations Home Page
This
site summarizes the humanitarian work of the UN and its family of
organizations, and informs readers about currently important human
rights issues.
Corporate Watch
This
organization is dedicated to exposing corporate abuses by documenting
the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of major
transnational corporations.
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