Political Science 459A: RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN AMERICAN POLITICS

This collection includes sources of census, electoral, bibliographical and biographical data. It is meant to act as a stepping stone for information provided primarily by government sources and located in government documents.

Categories include:
General Government Sources
African-American Studies
Latino Studies
Native American/Alaskan Native Studies
Asian American Studies

General Government Sources

First, we suggest you look at some sites already created within the Government Documents Library site. These include:
• Government Documents Library homepage
• Legislation and Regulation
• Legislative Action 
• Members of Congress and their Districts (note: this page is great for statistical information, specifically, demographic and economic data.
• Tools for Accessing 19th and 20th Century Primary Sources
• US Bureaucracies, Laws and Regulations 
• US Federal Information

  Next are links to several sites available to the public. Many of these sites contain search engines specifically created for finding government documents. Others have extensive indices of government information sources.

  Indexes/Ready Reference
  

• GPO Access
• GPO Monthly Catalog   The primary tool for federal documents.
• Index of US Government Information Sources
• University of Michigan Documents Center   Political Science Resource Periodicals
• US Government Manual   Agency overviews and directories.

  Regulatory Information/Legislative Histories
  

• Code of Federal Regulations   Cumulated version of current regulations. After appearing in the Federal Register, they are compiled in the Code of Federal Regulations
• Congressional Research Service  Legislative process reports.
• LexisNexis Congressional  Comprehensive access to legislative information.
• Federal Register   Includes proposed and new regulations and executive orders.
• Library of Congress THOMAS site   Legislative information on the Internet.
• University of Michigan Documents Center   Guide to online legislative history information

  Statistics sources
  

• Census Bureau
• Federal Statistics
• Federal Reserve Economic Data
• Government Information Sharing Project
• Government information on minorities (via GPO Access)
• International Statistics
• Population and Housing Data
• State Data Centers
• Statistical Resources at UIUC
• LexisNexis Statistical

  Directories of Agency Websites/Agency Websites
  

• Congressional Black Caucus
• Congressional Meta-site   Library of Congress list of websites dealing with Congress and politics.
• Federal Web Locator Directory of government websites.
• Government Information Locator Service (GILS)  Identifies public information resources within the federal government.
• US Commission on Civil Rights
• US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  Search Engine
  

• Government Information XChange Search   A search engine of government sites.

African-American Studies

• African American Culture
• African American History,  Mississippi State University
  
• African American InfoCenter,  Baltimore County Public Library
  
• African-American Mosaic,   Library of Congress
• African American News
• African American Politics,   hosted by Providence College and the American Political Science Association
  
• African American Web Sites
• African Americans,   California Council for the Social Studies
  
• Black History
• Black History Museum
• Center for Afroamerican and African Studies,  University of Michigan
  
• Chicago Council on Black Studies
• Civil Rights
• Diversity in Politics
• Guide to Black History,  Encyclopedia Britannica
• Minority Studies Page   University of California at Santa Barbara
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,   New York Public Library
• The Black World Today
  

Think Tanks/Associations

• Directory of Political Debates and Issues List of Think Tanks, Associations and Issues

• Brookings Institution
• Center for Equal Opportunity
• Center for New Black Leadership
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• NAACP
• National Conference of Black Mayors
• National Council of Negro Women
• National Urban League
• Urban Institute

  
  

Activism

• Contact Congress
• Congressional Staff Roles
• Contacting the Congress(clickable map)
• Project Vote Smart
• The Right to Write
• How to Write a Letter to your Congressperson

Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test
Estimates of Emigration of the Foreign-Born Population: 1980-1990
Findings on Questions on Race and Hispanic Origin
Asian and Pacific Islander Populations
The Black Population in the United States
Comparisons of Selected Social and Economic Characteristics Between Asians, Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians
Who Responds/Who Doesn't?: Analyzing Variation in Mail Response Rates During the 1990 Census
Hispanic Population of the United States
Voting and Registration Data
Poverty, Family Structure, and Child
Are There Differences in Registration and Voting Behavior Between Naturalized and Native-born Americans?
Media Links for African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans

NATIVE AMERICAN LINKS
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States Office of the Special Trustee for the American Indian

http://info.pitt.edu/~lmitten/organizations.html

LATINO LINKS
Latino Issues Forum League of United Latin American Citizens Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute The Latino Online News Network

ASIAN AMERICAN LINKS
U.S. Census 1996 Race and Ethnically Targeted Test Harvard University's Asian American Policy Review Asian American Links
Southeast Asian Culture and Education Foundation
Directory of links to East and Southeast Asian Sources

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