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 Chicano & Latino Studies Reference Sources

BIOGRAPHIES
ACTIVISTS, REBELS, AND REFORMERS     REF HN E 534 2001 V. 1-3

DICTIONARY OF HISPANIC BIOGRAPHY    CT 1343 D53 1996

HISPANIC 100   REF E 169.1 N77 1993

THE HISPANIC ALMANAC, FROM COLUMBUS TO CORPORATE AMERICA      REF E 184 S75 H5572 1994

LATIN AMERICAN CLASSICAL COMPOSERS:  A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY   ML 105 F53 2002

MAKING IT IN AMERICA:  A SOURCEBOOK ON EMINENT ETHNIC AMERICANS  E 184 A1 M263 2001

MEXICAN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES: A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY, 1836-1987   E 184 M5 M454 1988

NOTABLE HISPANIC AMERICAN WOMEN  E 184 S75 N68 1993

NOTABLE HISPANIC AMERICAN WOMEN:  BOOK II  E 184 S75 N68 1998

NOTABLE LATINO AMERICANS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY    E 184 S75 M435 1997

VOAHA: VIRTUAL ORAL/AURAL HISTORY ARCHIVE
VOAHA makes available approximately 275 hours of original oral history recordings in ethnic history/studies  enabling the user, to hear the voice, pitch, rhythm and emotion of African Americans, American Indian, Asian American and Mexican/Chicano/a narrators.

Life histories of fifteen Mexican/Chicano/Chicana narrators, totaling 73 hours, are located in the labor history and women’s history collections, where Chicano furniture workers document their organizing efforts and the first Spanish-speaking paid woman organizer in the ILGWU in Los Angeles recounts efforts to form a Spanish speaking branch of the union. In various women’s history series, femenistas talk about organizing women, while women in the Rosie the Riveter and Women’s Lives series talk about their lives and work. Shorter, focused interviews with another twenty narrators (20 hours) are included in series on the Chicano student movement, the Mexican Revolution (mainly in Spanish), and life and work on Rancho Los Alamitos.


DICTIONARIES
AZTECA WEB PAGE
This site contain all the information you will need to pass Chicano Studies 101. It features excellent definitions of terms all Raza should know about , i.e. Chicano, Aztlan, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Also, links to MEChA organizations are provided.

BARRIO LANGUAGE DICTIONARY   PC 4827 F8

DICTIONARY OF AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION    F 1408.3 N86

DICTIONARY OF MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY     E 184 M5 M453

GODS AND SYMBOLS OF ANCIENT MEXICO AND THE MAYA    REF F 1435.3 R3 M55 1993
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DIRECTORIES
CHICANO/LATINO ELECTRONIC NETWORK (CLNET)
CLNET is an excellent resource for information on Latino issues and resources.

LATINOWEB
This sources  provides broad coverage of Latino life and culture in the United States.

LATINO EDUCATION DIRECTORY
Sponsored by ERIC this site provides valuable information on Latinos serving institutions of higher education in the United States.  In addition, it also lists government, non-profit and private agencies that promote Latino educational services.
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