African Diaspora Information Resources: Additional Resources

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Associations & organizations
Directories of Websites
Government information (Canada, U.S., International)

Associations and organizations

• Black Historical & Cultural Society of British Columbia
• Organizing Black America : an encyclopedia of African American associations. 2001 E 185.5 O74 2001
• Ontario Black History Society
• Other general:
  • Eldis Gateway to Development Information -full text documents, from over 4,500 different publishers. 30 subject-focused guides by topics including their "gender guide";
    • Global Gender Gap Report 2006; Global Gender Gap Report 2007
  • Mediawatch MediaWatch is a national, not for profit feminist organization working to eliminate sexism in the media.
  • National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) - Canada

Directories of websites

• Africa Resource Knowledge Project - s an academic resource that offers journals and databases
• African Canadian Online - York University
• African American Studies Research Bibliography. Yale University Library
• Diversity Watch - Black. Ryerson University School of Journalism
• Hip-Hop Archives. W.E.B.DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. Harvard University.
• National Library of Canada. Black Canadians. - an online guide maintained by NLC, below are links as of Dec 19/03.
• • African Americans - Canadians (AfricanAmericans.com)
    Africville - Expropriating Nova Scotia's Blacks (CBC Archives)
    Black Canadian and Afro-American Web Sites (Dalhousie University Libraries)
  • Black Loyalists
    Black Loyalists - Our History, Our People
  • CanadaNoir - the Most Comprehensive Source of Afro-Canadian Content on the Net
    Canadian Black Heritage in the Third Millennium
    OBHS Online - Ontario Black History Society Archives
    Ontario Black Anti-Racist Research Institute
    Ontario's Underground Railroad
  • Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia
    Sense of Belonging - Somali Settlement Experiences in Canada
  • Underground Railroad - Niagara's Freedom Trail
    Underground Railroad Years - Canada in an International Arena
    Ward Chipman Slavery Brief 1800
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. New York Public Library.

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Government information

Canada

• Canadian Research Index - Includes federal, provincial and municipal government publications. Keep track of the Microlog Report number and find the report on fiche on 6th floor. Alternatively, search the department site, online.
• Library Archives Canada, Archives Search engine e.g. search for "nurses" for archives/fonds related to them
  • Celebrating women's achievements, The Call to Duty - from the fonds of six Canadian nursing sisters.
• Library of Parliament - Parliamentary Information and Research Service Publications - Briefs on issues, Bills, etc. E.g.

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United States

• GPO Access - A well-organized list of U.S. government sites by topic.
  • US Census Bureau - Get current industrial and demographic reports, economic census data, foreign trade analysis, and much more. Statistical Abstracts of the United States
  • US Department of Labor — Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Government - International

• Asian Development Bank -
• United Nations
  • Search: U.N. Economic and Social Development Website -
  • International Instruments and Treaty Bodies - legal instruments, conventions and other relevant international standards of particular importance to women's human rights and gender equality
• United Nations Entities Specializing in Gender Issues:
• • UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women
  • Women Watch (U.N. Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) -
• United Nations - World Health Organization, Country Profiles

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