A celebration of achievements by African Americans and a recognition of their central role in U.S. history. Learn more about Black History Month and National Black American Inventors Day.
This page helps connect the Rice community with resources about the Black Lives Matter movement and the interplays of race, class, and policing in the United States.
Manuscript collections, newspapers, oral histories, books and more from Asian Americans available via the Woodson Research Center, in partnership with the Chao Center for Asian Studies.
Resources for the phenomenon of imperial feminism--a specific, often underrepresented concept within the broader discipline of Women, Gender & Sexuality studies--including select bibliographies, videos, and key research terms.
A selection of specialized resources in women, gender and sexuality studies designed to help you navigate the information in Fondren's collections--and beyond.
The Houston Jewish History Archive (HJHA) is a collaboration between the Program in Jewish Studies and the Woodson Research Center. Use this guide for help finding and accessing the documents, photographs, and memories that tell the story of Jewish life in Greater Houston and South Texas.
Take a look through this LibGuide to learn more about the contributions of women to history and contemporary society, in economics, politics, and culture. It was created in celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, 2022.
A guide to the LGBTQ+ collections of the Woodson Research Center. Highlights include the Oral Histories of HIV/AIDS in Houston, Harris County, and Southeast Texas and Rice PRIDE records.
Learn about the history of Juneteenth and see some of the pivotal documents and moments associated with the event and its 2021 recognition as a Federal Holiday.
Simmons University Beatley Library has created one of the best anti-oppression LibGuides. Learn about the suffix -misia and how it better describes biases than -phobia, and find information to support anti-oppression.
A refereed interdisciplinary journal of the history, anthropology, literature and the arts of Native American Indians, book reviews and lists of recently published books.
Published by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, this interdisciplinary journal seeks to promote debate and conceptual development on diversity and social difference issues.
An open-access, anonymous, peer-reviewed journal focused on disability studies, with contributions from authors worldwide. It includes sections for research and essays, creative writing, topical forums, media reviews, and disability studies from a global perspective.
Wide-ranging and multidisciplinary perspectives on how equity, social justice, and information intersect, seeking to expand the discourse on how accessing, interacting with, and using information across different populations can impact society and communities.
An interdisciplinary magazine that explores diversity within gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity, especially where they have not been adequately studied by feminist and LGBTQ+ scholarship.
Journal focused on the issues of diversity and inclusion in business, government, higher education, military, and not-for-profits; and strategies within those sectors for increasing workforce diversity, supporting employees, and involving leaders.
A paper about looking at disability through a critical global anthropology as a relational category, and a "call for anthropologists to claim disability anthropology as a space for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge production".
Microaggressions happen all around us, all the time; their cumulative effect is heavier than the term suggests. This article lists three ways to act as an ally when you witness microaggressions.
An article from an Indigenous person about how historical wrongs still affect people and impact their lives today, and how it is important for others to see that.
An article about the importance of not only celebrating Juneteenth within the chemical neuroscience community, but also the importance of continuing to listen to Black and African-American voices to improve the field.
A discussion of the changing preferences for the terms "learning disability" (UK) and "intellectual disability" (US), why there was a change, what it means, and its importance.
Everything Texas school children learned about Karankawas was wrong, and they are not extinct: this is the story of a people reclaiming their heritage and finding each other, starting with one man's 2009 profile in a local newspaper.
April 4, 2010 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education revealing that the process of reading for someone who is deaf and blind is slow even with the help of devices.
Take an Implicit Association Test (IAT) produced by the Project Implicit team comprised of researchers from University of Washington, University of Virginia, Harvard University, and Yale University. Select an IAT from a list of possible topics and optionally report your attitudes or beliefs about these topics and provide some information about yourself. The IAT measures and helps you understand an attitude or stereotype that it measures. Data is used to help support further research into these topics.