Weblinks:

* Diversity Web: An Interactive Resource Hub for Higher Education: http://diversityweb.org/

Of specific interest: The Diversity Digest (Diversity Digest is a periodical published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities to provide campus practitioners with readily available information about successful diversity initiatives around the country.): http://diversityweb.org/Digest/

* " The Authentic Voice" a companion Web site for a new journalism textbook.

* NewsU a Poynter site with interactive lesson plans, including a free course on handling race and ethnicity

* Mass Communicating: Louisiana State University Forum on Media Diversity http://www.masscommunicating.lsu.edu/main
The Forum is dedicated to national service as a principal source of information and scholarship about diversity in both higher education and professional journalism and mass communication.
Of Specific Interest: The Forum site has a detailed annotated bibliography of published diversity resources.
* Ad Age: http://www.adage.com/section.cms?sectionId=195
Advertising Reports, Search American Demographic Information Database

* Senses of Cinema (An online journal devoted to a discussion of cinema with a huge film review archive.): http://www.sensesofcinema.com/

* Jump Cut (Newsletters that look at media in its social and political context and analyzes media in relation to class, race, and gender): http://ejumpcut.org/

* Center for Social Media (The Center showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University.): http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/

* Freedom Forum, Newsroom Diversity Institute: (Aimed at training journalists of color.) http://www.freedomforum.org/diversity/

* National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC educates, advocates and empowers for multi-ethnic diversity in the telecommunications industry through its 17 nationwide chapters.): http://www.namic.com/default.aspx

* Multicultural Marketing Resources (a company specializing in marketing to multicultural consumers): http://www.multicultural.com/

Reading List:

Symbolic Reality Bites: Women and Ethnic/Racial Minorities in Modern Film
Sociological Spectrum, vol. 22, issue 3
Jenny Long
Jul 2002
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)

The Racial and Ethnic Typification of Crime and the Criminal Typification of Race and Ethnicity in Local Television News
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, vol. 39, issue 3
Ted Chiricos; Sarah Eschholz
Nov 2002
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)

Gender, Race and Class in Media, A Text Reader
Dines; Gail and Humez; Jean M.
Sage: 2002
(Norlin: P96.S452 U64 1995)

Media Images of the Poor
Journal of Social Issues, vol. 57, issue 2
Summer 2001
Heather E. Bullock; Karen Fraser Wyche; Wendy R. Williams
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)

Media messages: What film, television and popular music teach us about race, class, gender and sexual orientation
M.E. Sharpe: 2000
Linda Holtzman
(Norlin:  P94.5.M552 U646 2000)

Journalism across cultures
Iowa State Press: 2004
ritz Cropp; Cynthia M. Frisby and Dean Mills
(Norlin: PN4888.M56 J68 2003)