toward EQUALITY : EXPLORING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE : GETTING MORE INFORMATION
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Those who want to learn more about ethnic, racial and religious diversity can choose from among a wide variety of resources--public libraries, museums, universities and ethnic community centers. Here is a starting point.
SOURCE BOOKS
GENERAL
Allport, Gordon W., The Nature of Prejudice. (New York: Doubleday, 1958; reprint ed., Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979)
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, A World of Difference: A Prejudice Reduction Program. Teacher/Student Study Guide. (Greater Southern California Region, Suite 814, 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048-4987. (213) 655-8205)
Briggs, Dorothy, Your Child’s Self-Esteem: The Key to His Life. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970)
David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University. Culturgram. Briefings to aid understanding of, feeling for and communication with other people. (Publication Services, 280 HRCB, Provo, Utah 84602 (801) 378-6528)
California Institute of Public Affairs, Ethnic Groups in California: A Guide to Organizations and Resources, 1988 edition. (P.O. Box 10, Claremont, 91711. (714) 624-5212)
Clark, Kenneth B., Prejudice and Your child. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963)
Holgerson, Karen M., ed. The American Experience. (Belmont, Calif.: Star Publishing, 1988.)
ASIAN-PACIFIC ISLANDERS
Chinn, Thomas W., ed., A History of the Chinese in California. (Chinese Historical Society of America, 1969)
Daniels, Roger, The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. (Atheneum, 1968)
Fujimoto, Isao, et al., Asians in America: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. (Asian American Studies Division, University of California, Davis, rev. ed., 1983)
Girdner, Audrie, and Anne Loftis, The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II. (Macmillan, 1969.)
Henkin, Alan B., and Liem Thanh Nguyen, Between Two Cultures: The Vietnamese in America. (R&E; Research Associates, 1981)
Macadangdang, Fortunato U., A Selective Bibliography of Filipino Experiences in America. (San Jose State University, 1973)
Ronyoung, Kim (Gloria Hahn), Clay Walls. (Permanent Press, 1987) A novel dealing with the Korean immigrant experience in the United States, set in Los Angeles.
Shu, Ramsey Leung-hay, and Adele Salamasina Satele, The Samoan Community in Southern California: Conditions and Needs. (Asian-American Mental Health Research Center, Chicago, 1977)
BLACKS
Anderson, E. Frederick, The Development of Leadership and Organization Building in the Black Community of Los Angeles from 1900 through World War II. Century Twenty-One Publishing (Saratoga), 1980.
Comer, James P., and Alvin F. Poussaint, Black Childcare: How to Bring Up a Healthy Black Child in America: A Guide to Emotional and Psychological Development. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975)
Harrison-Ross, Phyllis and Barbara Wyden, The Black Child: A Parent’s Guide. (New York: Wyden, 1973)
Porter, Judith, Black Child, White Child: The Development of Racial Attitudes. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.)
Williams, Juan, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. (New York: Viking, 1987.)
LATINOS
Del Castillo, Richard, The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History. (University of California Press, 1980)
Garcia, F. Chris, Political Socialization of Chicano Children: A Comparative Study with Anglos in California Schools. (Praeger, 1973)
McWilliams, Carey, The Mexicans in America: A Students’ Guide to Localized History. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1968)
AMERICAN INDIANS
Cook, Sherburne F., The Conflict Between the California Indians and White Civilization. (University of California Press, 1943. 4 vols. One-volume edition issued by UC Press in 1976.)
Heizer, Robert Fleming, The California Indians: A Source Book. (University of California Press, 2nd Ed., 1971)
CENTERS
African Arts Connection
1311 N. Orange Drive, Los Angeles, 90028
(213) 461-2963
Afro-American Culture Center
2560 W. 54th St., Los Angeles 90043
(213) 299-6124
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
P.O. Box 27699, Los Angeles 90027
(213) 466-2838
American Indian Resource Center
Huntington Park Library
6518 Miles Ave., Huntington Park 90255
(213) 583-1461
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
6505 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 814
Los Angeles, CA 90048-4987
(213) 655-8205
Armenian Educational Foundation
600 W. Broadway, Glendale 91206
(818) 242-4154
Asian Pacific Resource Center
Montebello Library
1550 W. Beverly Blvd.
Montebello 90640
(213) 722-6551
Black Resource Center
A. C. Bilbrew County Library
150 E. El Segundo Blvd., Los Angeles 90061
(213) 538-3350
Chicano Resources Center
East Los Angeles Library
4801 East 3rd St., Los Angeles
(213) 264-0155
Chinatown Service Center
600 N. Broadway, Los Angeles 90012
(213) 680-9955
Chinese Cultural Center
970 N. Broadway, Suite 103, Los Angeles 90012
(213) 489-3827
Filipino American Community of Los Angeles Inc.
1740 W. Temple St., Los Angeles 90026
(213) 483-1597
Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute
16215 S. Gramercy Place, Gardena 90247
(213) 770-2878
Hispanic Urban Center
1201 East 1st St., Los Angeles 90040
(213) 264-4494
Indochinese Information and Referral Outreach
916 S. Alvarado St., Los Angeles 90006
Islamic Center of Southern California
434 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles 90020
(213) 384-5783
Los Angeles County Office of Education, Multicultural Education Curriculum and Instructional Programs,9300 E. Imperial Highway, Downey 90242-2890. (213) 922-6323.
Japanese-American Cultural & Comm. Center,
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles
(213) 628-2725
Jewish Federation Council
6505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90048
(213) 852-1234
Korean Resources Center
2530 S. Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 90016
(213) 735-5448
Los Angeles Urban League, Western Office
3450 Mt. Vernon Drive, Los Angeles 90008
(213) 299-9660
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
634 S. Spring St., Los Angeles 90014
(213) 629-2512
NAACP, 2907 W. Vernon Ave.,
Los Angeles 90008
(213) 296-2630
Office of Samoan Affairs
950 Dovlen Place, Suite C, Carson 90746
(213) 538-0555
Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
9760 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 90035
(213) 553-9036
Southern Christian Leadership Conference-West
4182 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles 90062
(213) 295-8582
Thai Community Service Center
863 1/2 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles 90029
United Neighborhoods Organization
3763 East 4th St., Los Angeles 90063
(213) 266-0577
Vietnamese Assn.
1400 West 9th St.
Los Angeles 90015
Voice of India (umbrella organization of 14 Indian groups.)
4914 S. Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 90043
MUSEUMS
California Afro-American Museum, Ed. Dept.
600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles 90037
(213) 744-7432
Museum of African American Art
4005 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 90008
(213) 294-7071
Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena 91101
(818) 449-2742
Southwest Museum
234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles 90042
(213) 221-2163
ORANGE COUNTY
Amigos of Chicano Literature Guild
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
UC Irvine
Irvine 92717
(714) 856-5702
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
2700 N. Main St., Suite 500
Santa Ana 92701
(714) 973-4733
Assn. of Mexican-American Educators
P.O. Box 744
Anaheim 92805
Black Business Alliance of Orange County
P.O. Box 2121
Orange 92669
(714) 550-1272
Bowers Museum Cultural Council Programs
2002 N. Main St.
Santa Ana 92706
(714) 972-1900
Cambodian American Community Inc.
300 S. Standard Ave., Santa Ana 92701
(714) 835-3471
Chicano Resource Center
University Library, CSU Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton 92634
(714) 773-2537
Hermandad Mexicano Nacional
119 W. 5th St.
Santa Ana 92701
(714) 541-0250
Hispanic Committee of the Arts
115 E. Santa Ana Blvd.
Santa Ana 92701
Historical & Cultural Foundation of Orange County
18400 Von Karmen, Suite 280
Irvine 92715
(714) 250-1957
Jewish Federation of Orange County
1385 Warner Ave., Suite A,
Tustin 92680
(714) 259-0655
Korean-American Assn. of Orange County
9884 Garden Grove Blvd.,
Garden Grove 92643
(714) 530-8413
Lao Family Community Inc.
1140 S. Bristol St.
Santa Ana 92704
(714) 556-9520
League of United Latin American Citizens
P.O. Box 1126
Santa Ana 90680
(714) 751-9636 or 630-3835
Los Amigos of Orange County
522 E. Central Park Avenue
Anaheim 92802
(714) 776-4622
NAACP
2515 W. McFadden
Santa Ana 92704
(714) 543-3637
Orange County Indian Center, Inc.
12755 Brookhurst St.
Garden Grove 92641
(714) 530-0221
SAN DIEGO COUNTY
American Friends Service Committee
2130 Broadway, San Diego 92102
(619) 233-4114
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
7850 Mission Center Ct., Suite 207
San Diego 92108
(619) 293-3770
Chicano Federation
610 22nd St., San Diego 92102
(619) 236-1228
Heartland Human Relations Assn.
7435 University Avenue, Suite 202,
La Mesa 9204
(619) 460-2744
House of Pacific Relations and Hall of Nations
Balboa Park, San Diego 92101
(619) 234-0739
Indochinese Mutual Assistance Assn.
5511 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego 92115
(619) 583-9811
Jewish Community Relations Council
of the United Jewish Federation
4797 Mercury St., San Diego 92111
(619) 571-3444
Union of Pan-Asian Communities
1031 25th St., San Diego 92102
(619) 232-6454
Urban League of San Diego
4261 Market St., San Diego 92102
(619) 263-3115
Vietnamese Alliance
6970 Linda Vista Road, San Diego 92111
(619) 571-3703