PNA
Asian-American / Asian-Canadian Studies
Portals
Guide to Asian-American Resources (U of Maryland)
- Bibliography and catalogue of online resources
UBC Library. Resources for Asian Canadian Studies
- Although some websites collected here have restricted access, one finds many free websites related to Asian Canadian topics.
Ono, Kent A. A Companion to Asian American Studies. Blackwell Publishing,2004. Blackwell Reference Online
Area Studies
TAS LIB Reference Section: Area Studies
- CIA World Factbook, Portals to the World, Länderinformationsportal, mit offenen Karten (videostream), Auswärtiges Amt, Department of State, etc.
Film
- Up to date information on Asian American filmmaking. Website includes a helpful Asian American Film Database
History, Society and Culture
ASIAN-AMERICAN
PBS: Ancestors in the Americas
- This companion to the PBS series contains essays on the series' episodes, an Asian American Timeline of specific moments and events that shaped Asian American history and a Resource section. Also includes a Teacher's Guide
Asian-Nation. Asian-American History, Demographics and Issues
- Comprehensive website by C.N. Le (U of Massachusetts). Brief essays by Le and some other contributors (scholars and journalists) on different aspects of Asian-American culture, history and society.
ASIAN-CANADIAN
Asian-Canadian Culture Online Project
- Website "aims to showcase emerging talents from Asian Canadian youth." Contains an anthology of stories written by or about Asian Canadian youth,a short video collection by Asian Canadian video artists and selected short essays about the contemporary history/experience of Asian Canadian communities.
AFRICAN AMERICAN
African American History: the Modern Freedom Struggle
- (17 Lectures) Clayborne Carson (Stanford)
"Free at Last" (BBC Worldservice). The documentary series investigates the unexplored history of black and African resistance to slavery.
- Part one - 'How the slave trade worked'
- Part two - 'The road to emancipation'
- Part three - 'Cultural DNA'
Further resources on Slavery and Slave Trade are listed here.
BLACK CANADA
- annotated guide to the online resources onthe history of Canada's Black community
African Canadian Online (York University, To)
- Information on African Canadian artists and their work. Note: not regularly updated after 1998.
Literature
WRITERS of Polycultural North America
- Collection of web resources on specific Asian-American writers living in Canada or the US.
Asian American Literature: Resources for Research
- annotated bibliography by Dr. Noelle Brada-Williams (San José State U). Frequently updated.
Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Literatures (of the US)
- U of California directory of websites on minority literature and writers in the US.
- Portal with links to all areas of Canadian literature
- Online Archive of the Canadian Boradcast Corporation with Interviews and features on Canadian literature
Reference Books on Polycultural North American Literature: IB and UB Holdings