Professor Carlos Aguirre
Department of
History
University
of Oregon

Internet Resources on Race and Racism

Is Race “Real”? (An SSRC Forum)
Race and Race Theory (Howard Winant) [Click HERE to access it in PDF format]
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) (UC Berkeley)
Concepts of Race in the 18th Century (Robert Bernasconi)
The Geometer of Race (Stephen Jay Gould)
History of Race in Science (MIT)
Chronology on the History of Slavery (Compiled by Eddie Becker)
Mirror of Race

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Online Exhibition)

The African Presence in the Americas
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
Ilona Katzew, “Casta Painting: Identity and Social Stratification in Colonial Mexico”

Bibliography of People of African Ancestry in Latin America (IADB) (PDF format)
Indigenous Peoples of Latin America (LANIC)
The Jewish Diaspora of Latin America (Special Issue, Shofar)
Afro-Cuba Web
Teaching the History of Race in Latin America (Julio Cesar Pino)
The Anthropology of Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean (Kevin Yelvington) [Click HERE for a PDF version]
Recovering History, Constructing Race. The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans (Martha Menchaca)
El Cráneo de Antonio Maceo (Estudio Antropológico, 1900)

The African American Migration Experience NEW

Black History (NY Institute for Special Education)
Immigrant and Ethnic America (sources from Harper’sWeekly)
Race and Ethnicity Online (American Political Science Association)
Race Traitor (Journal of the New Abolitionism)
World Conference against Racism
Africana.com
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Randall Kennedy) [Chapter 1]
How Race is Lived in America (New York Times Series)
PBS Archives on Race Relations
Center for Equal Opportunity
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Review of "The Bell Curve" by Stephen Jay Gould
Race and Ethnicity Book Review Discussion List (Illinois State University)
The Hispanic Population in the United States (US Census Bureau) [pdf]