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- National Commissioner Linguistic Minorities - An organization to monitor implementation of safeguards for linguistic minorities. Includes a list of minor linguistic minority groups in the various states, reports of the commission, and the safeguard provided.
- Hispanic Association for Professional Advancement (HAPA) - The Hispanic employee group at Xerox. Includes vision, mission, objectives, how to become a member, and general information about the group.
- Women's Health Week Focuses on Minority Females - Of the 140 million women in the US, the 39.6 million that are members of racial and ethnic minority groups continue to suffer disproportionately from premature death, disease and disabilities. Site include information of interest.
- CRG, Communications Research Group - Conducts research into mass media, broadcasting and social policy, such as video violence, minority group representation. Includes reports.
- The Gay 90's - Richard Rotondi explains why homosexuals are not a disadvantaged minority group, why granting special class status and advantages is not necessary, and why doing so would, in fact, hurt true disadvantaged minorities.
- Asians Coming Together - Asians Caucus Group of Xerox. Information for Asians in Corporate America.
- Minneapolis Urban League - To provide human services and advocacy that will enable African Americans and other minority group members residing in the Greater Minneapolis Metropolitan Area to cultivate and develop their individual and group potential on a par with all other Minnesotans.
- Football Unites - Racism Divides - An anti-racist project, supported by Sheffield United Football Club, to rid football of racism and to increase the participation of ethnic minority groups in the game.
- National Association of Real Estate Brokers - Trade organization focusing on minority groups in the realty profession. Features mission, searchable member database, events, affiliates.
- Diversity Watch - Diversity Watch provides resources and story ideas for journalists covering minority groups.
Wikipedia Articles
- Minority American Groups - The United States contains the same general groups found in other nations, as listed under minority group. Special characteristics found in American minority groups are listed here.
- American Minority Groups in World War II - The following passage from pages 187-190 of Selective Service and Victory: The 4th Report of the Director of Selective Service (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1948) represents the best statistical information available to the US Army Center of Military History to answer questions about the participation of various minority groups in the armed forces of the United States during the Second World War. Note carefully which of these statistics cover those minorities drafted into the armed forces and which include personnel who voluntarily enlisted.
- Minority rights - The term minority rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities, and second, collective rights accorded to minority groups. The term may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision.
- Ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina - More than 95% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three constitutive ethnic groups: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats . The term constitutive refers to the fact that these three ethnic groups are explicitly mentioned in the constitution, and that none of them can be considered a minority or immigrant.
- Concurrent majority - Concurrent majority refers in general to the concept of preventing majorities from oppressing minorities by allowing various minority groups veto power over laws. The most vocal proponents of the theory have tended to be minority groups, such as farmers in an industrial society, or blacks in a prodominantly white society.