Open Educational Resources (OER) by Subject

• Our Lives: An Ethnic Studies Primer (2022, Capozzi, Cha, & Johnson, CC BY-NC 4.0) Available in
  • PDF version
  • Pressbooks version 
  • LibreTexts version

  • If you or your students wish to purchase a copy of the book it is available on Lulu for the cost of printing.

• African American History (2020, Skyline, CC BY-NC-SA)
• The American Yawp, edited by Joseph Locke and Ben Wright, Stanford University Press (CC BY 4.0)
• Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project (2021, U WA, CC BY-NC-ND)
• Critical Filipinx American Histories and their Artifacts (2020, U WA, CC BY-NC)
• History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877, University of North Georgia Press Books (CC BY 4.0)
• Intercultural Learning: Critical Preparation for International Student Travel (James Cook University/Open Textbook Library)
• Latinxs and Black Lives Matter: Latinx Talk Mini-Reader #1 (2021, U WI-Madison, CC BY-NC-ND)
• Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (2021, U WA, CC BY-NC)
• Race and Ethnicity LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• U.S. History: From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium by The Independence Hall Association USHistory.org (CC BY 4.0)
• Writing Early American Lives: Gender, Race, Nation, Faith, MIT OpenCourseWare (CC BY-NC-SA)

• EDSITEment! (various CC licenses) EDSITEment provides access to NEH-funded media resources including videos, podcasts, lectures, interactives for the classroom, and film projects.
• Race and Ethnicity in the United States (LibreTexts) Brief readings including short exercises and very good maps and charts.
• Primary Source Collections (Digital Public Library of America/OER Commons). Primary source sets on special topics with brief teaching guides.
  • Early Chinese Immigration to the U.S.
  • The Black Power Movement
  • The American Indian Movement, 1968-1978
  • American Indian Boarding Schools
  • Immigration and Americanization, 1880-1930
  • Japanese American Internment during World War II
  • Mexican Labor and World War II: the Bracero Program
  • The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike 
• African American Studies (UCI Open) Lecture notes, syllabus and student study guides from UC Irvine Professor Bridget Cooks.

• Calisphere Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more. Visit Calisphere: Ethnic Studies Library. The collections in Calisphere have been digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and other important libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state.
• Digital Classroom at NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) Featuring primary-sources documents, classroom activities, and information on professional development for educators. To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.
• Digital Public Library of America DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.
• Films for Action Films For Action is a community-powered learning library for people who want to change the world. Films For Action has cataloged over 1,500 of the best films and videos that can be watched free online. These films address social, environmental, and media-related issues.
• HathiTrust HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
• The Human Rights Campaign The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 3 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
• Internet Archive: Digital Library Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Movement Advancement Project Founded in 2006, the Movement Advancement Project is an independent think tank that provides rigorous research, insight and analysis that help speed equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. MAP’s work is focused on three primary areas:
• PBS - The Talk: Race in America This two-hour documentary is about the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.
• Project Gutenberg -Sociology Bookshelf Project Gutenberg's list of Sociology books in the public domain, available freely online. Search topics such as sexual life, communities, and race.
• Race & Ethnicity (Pew Research Center) Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
• Racial Equity Tools “Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.” Note that you will need to create a free account to access materials.
• SPLC - Hate and Extremism The SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.
• Zinn Education Project Free teaching materials on various history lessons from a “people’s history” perspective. Downloads of PDFs are free, but require registration (also no-cost) on the website. Please note these teaching materials are NOT under a Creative Commons license.

• African American History: the Modern Freedom Struggle (Academic Earth) A series of video lectures by Prof. Claybourne Carson, Stanford University.

• TedTalks (CC BY-NC-ND)

• JSTOR Open Access Journals and eBooks. (various CC licenses)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (various CC licenses)
• Ecofeminism and Climate Change Ecofeminism and Climate Change publishes peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research articles on the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on women, the relationship between gender and the environment, and the ways in which women and nature have been similarly oppressed, published by Emerald Publishing.
• The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) presents wide­ ranging and multidisciplinary perspectives on the intersection of equity, social justice, and information. IJIDI is a quarterly, open access, online journal. sponsored by Information & Computer Science Dept. (Library & Information Science Program), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto.
• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies a peer-reviewed social science academic journal that publishes research on all forms of migration and its consequences, including ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism and policies of integration, published by Taylor & Francis.
• Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE) An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), a production of the University of Oklahoma Outreach.  
• Lateral is the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the Cultural Studies Association.
• SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

We are continually working to add resources for subjects taught at Cañada College, so please check back frequently!