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  • American Folklore - Retellings of folktales, myths, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories from each of the 50 states including Paul Bunyan, Jesse James, Pecos Bill, and more. (featured in Mar 2002)
  • AmeriStat - One-stop source for U.S. population data. (featured in Apr 2001)
  • Angry Asian Man - He's not as angry as you think. But he's not going to let racism pass him by -- or miss the opportunity to point out any and all appearances of Asians in mass media and popular culture (the good and the bad). (featured in Apr 2007)
  • Asian Pacific American Toy Chest - Repository includes dolls, action figures, and video games that represent a character or person of Asian descent. (featured in Sep 2004)
  • Borders Virtual Series - Series from PBS explores the borders that exist in all walks of life. (featured in Oct 2002)
  • Cultural Profiles Project - Resource from the host program that recruits Canadian volunteers to work with new immigrants to Canada. Provides an overview of the life and customs of arrivals from diverse countries. (featured in Oct 2001)
  • Droplift Project, The - Experimental music dropped into record store bins. Burn your own Droplift CD, print out a cover, and drop it anywhere that sells CDs. (featured in Dec 2000)
  • Edge of Enchantment, The: Sovereignty and Ceremony in Huatulco, Mexico - Smithsonian exhibit exploring the encantos, or enchanted, spiritual places of Oaxaca, Mexico. (featured in Mar 2003)
  • Hall of Black Achievement - Chronicles significant achievements and contributions of people of color, offering biographies of Hall of Black Achievement inductees. (featured in Feb 2002)
  • Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive - Digitized archives of the Children's Society, providing information on children cared for by the Society from 1882-1918. (featured in July 2004)
  • Hyphen Magazine - News and culture publication exploring the Asian-American experience through investigative reporting, commentary, events, and more. (featured in Oct 2004)
  • I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days - Ray Sprigle posed as a black man in 1948 to experience firsthand what life was like living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. (featured in Dec 2000)
  • Images of Native Americans - Collection from the Bancroft Library showcases the portrayal of Native Americans by European artists. (featured in Aug 2003)
  • Kids With Cameras - Organization that teaches children the art and skills of photography and helps them appreciate the beauty and dignity of their own expression. (featured in Dec 2005)
  • Kumeyaay Nation - Extends from San Diego and Imperial counties in California to just south of the Mexican border. Members of the Yuman language branch of the Hokan group. (featured in Aug 2001)
  • Lakota Winter Counts - Exhibit of the Lakota photographic calendars and interviews on the winter-count-keeping tradition. Includes a database of winter count images, video interviews, and a documentary about the Native American nation. From the Smithsonian. (featured in Apr 2005)
  • Metrosexual Tarot - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy collides with the occult. (featured in Dec 2004)
  • Mortified: Angst Written - Comic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, poems, letters, lyrics, home movies, and schoolwork) shared by their original authors... in front of total strangers. (featured in Dec 2006)
  • Nuevo-Edge - Highlighting contemporary Mexican culture in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, and New York City. From Flavorpill. (featured in May 2007)
  • NYChildren - Danny Goldfield's project to photograph one child from every country on earth. (featured in June 2007)
  • PBS: Sumo East and West - Film examines the cross-cultural collision of the ancient Japanese sport with super-sized American sumo wrestlers. (featured in June 2004)
  • Popnography - Pop culture blog covering who's gay, who's not, and who's "curiously undeclared." From Out.com. (featured in Apr 2007)
  • Race - The Power of an Illusion - Online companion to the documentary exploring the incorrect, yet common, assumption that people can be divided biologically along racial lines and the very real consequence of racism. (featured in July 2003)
  • Rice Bowl Journals - An Asian online journal community. Features an index of blogs sortable by the blogger's country of origin or current location, a top 100 list, and discusson boards. (featured in Dec 2005)
  • Searching for Asian America - Offers intimate profiles of individuals and communities across the U.S. on what it's like to be Asian American. (featured in May 2004)
  • Squint Eyes - Exhibit of work by the Cheyenne artist Squint Eye, who was held as a prisoner at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, between 1875 and 1878. (featured in Nov 2005)
  • Teen Chicago - Three-year project sponsored by the Chicago Historical Society to study how teenagers affect Chicago's history, and how growing up in Chicago affects the way people think, act, and feel. (featured in Oct 2004)
  • The Grey Sweatsuit Revolution - Experiment in personal and social expression via the limitation of one's superficial identity to a grey sweatsuit for a pre-determined and extended period of time. (featured in Nov 2004)
  • True Mom Confessions - Anonymous confessions from (potentially) real moms. Read the confessions and say "me too" if you share the guilt. (featured in May 2007)
  • Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit - American Museum of Natural History explores of the people, culture, religions, customs, and flavor of Vietnam. (featured in Oct 2003)
  • ˇDel Corazón! - Exhibition of Latino voices in American art. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (featured in Dec 2006)


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