World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

General

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Worlds Apart: How Deporting Immigrants after 9/11 Tore Families Apart and Shattered Communities, New York, ACLU, December 2004.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) America's Disappeared: Seeking International Justice for Immigrants Detained after September 11, New York, ACLU, January 2004.

Claiborne, L. et al., Race and Law in Britain and the United States, London, MRG, 1983.

Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Violations in the United States: A Report on US Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, HRW/ACLU, New York, 1993.

Zack, N. (ed.), American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.

African Americans

Black Aids Institute, AIDS in Black Face: 25 Years of an Epidemic, New York, 2006, URL: www.blackaids.org

Haas, M., Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawai'i, Westport, CT, Praeger, 1992.

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF), Justice On Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System, Washington, DC, 2000, URL: http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/cj/

National Urban League, The State of Black America 2006, New York, National Urban League, 2006.

Pinkney, A., Black Americans, 4th edn, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1993.

Stepick, A., Haitian Refugees in the USA, London, MRG, 1986.

Arab and other Middle Eastern Americans

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ‘Questions and Answers about the Workplace Rights of Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Sikhs under the Equal Employment Opportunity Laws', URL: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/backlash-employee.html

Zogby, J. (ed.), Taking Root, Bearing Fruit: The Arab American Experience, Washington, DC, ADC Reports, 1984.

Asian-Pacific Americans

Asian American Action Fund report on Asian American political participation, URL: http://www.aaa-fund.org/downloads/2006-05-31_AAA-Fund_Report.pdf

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act: The Case for Reauthorization, New York, AALDEF, May 2006.

Barringer, H.R., Gardner, R.W. and Levin, M.J., Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.

Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center: www.hmongstudies.org

Latinos

De la Garza, R.O. and Desipio, L. (eds), Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992 Elections, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1996.

Gutiérrez, D.G. (ed.), The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960, New York, Columbia University Press, 2004

Meier, M.S. and Ribera, F., Mexican Americans/American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos, New York, Hill and Wang, 1993.

Muñiz, B., In the Eye of the Storm: How the Government and Private Response to Hurricane Katrina Failed Latinos, Washington DC, National Council of La Raza, 2006.

National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Lost Opportunities: the Reality of Latinos in the US Criminal Justice System, Washington, DC, NCLR, 2004.

Olson, J.S. and Olson, J.E., Cuban Americans: From Trauma to Triumph, New York, Twayne, 1995.

Steiner, S., Mexican Americans, London, MRG report, 1979.

Wagenheim, K., Puerto Ricans in the United States, London, MRG, 1989.

Native Americans

Bureau of Justice Statistics report on American Indians and Crime, 1992-2002 (2004), URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/aic02.htm

Green, D.E. and Tonnesen, T.V. (eds), American Indians: Social Justice and Public Policy, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, 1991.

Indian Trust, Cobell v. Norton, www.indiantrust.com

Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights web page on Indigenous Peoples, URL: www.unhchr.ch/indigenous/main.html

UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure Decision 1 (68) on the situation of the Western Shoshone Indigenous Peoples in the United States of America, www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/68decision-USA.pdf

Wilson, J., Original Americans: USA Indians, London, MRG report, 1986.

Native Hawai'ians

Haas, M., Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawai'i, Westport, CT, Praeger, 1992.

Hawai'ian Independence website, www.Hawaii-nation.org/index.html

Native Hawai'ians, www.nativehawaiians.com

Trask, H.K., From a Native Daughter: Nationalism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i, Monroe, ME, Common Courage Press, 1989.

Inuit and Alaska Natives

Alaska Commission on Rural Governance and Empowerment, Final Report to the Governor, Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs, 1999, http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/RGC/RGC_Final_6_99.pdf

Alaska Court System, Report of the Alaska Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Fairness and Access, Anchorage, AK, Alaska Court System, 1997, www.ajc.state.ak.us/reports/fairness.pdf

Alaska Natives Commission, Final Report, vols I-III, Anchorage, AK, Alaska Natives Commission, 1994, www.alaskool.org/resources/anc_reports.htm

Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission, Initial Report and Recommendations of the Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission, 2006, Anchorage, AK, Alaska Native Justice Center, 2006, URL: http://www.law.state.ak.us/pdf/press/040606-ARJLEC-report.pdf

Alaska Sentencing Commission, Annual Report to the Governor and the Alaska Legislature, Anchorage, AK, Alaska Sentencing Commission, 1992, www.ajc.state.ak.us/reports/sent92.pdf

Korsmo, F.L., ‘The Alaska Natives', in Minority Rights Group (ed.), Polar Peoples, London, MRG, 1994, pp. 81-104.

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