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Topic: Latino American


  
  UC Santa Cruz - Latin American & Latino Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Latin American politics, Brazil and the Southern Cone, democratization, contemporary democratic theory, politics of gender, feminist theories, culture and politics, social movements, NGOs and civil society, and racial politics.
Twentieth and 21st-century Latin(o) American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; history, cultures, and representations of California, particularly the Central Coast.
Latin American literary and cultural studies (specialization: Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature from a cross-border perspective, popular culture and the novel, poetics and politics, fiction and history, nation and narration, cultural and feminist theories.
www.lals.ucsc.edu /partFac.html   (965 words)

  
 Latin American and Latino History: Basic Resources
Includes the holdings of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, one of the major collections of Latin American materials in the world.
Includes the holdings of the Tulane Latin American Library, one of the world's foremost collections of materials in Latin American archaeology, anthropology, history, linguistics, art, architecture, film, women's studies, and economics.
From Latin American Solidarity (LAS) at the University of Kansas.
newark.rutgers.edu /~natalieb/la.htm   (1156 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Smithsonian: U.S. Latino History and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists, Archives of American Art
Americanos: Portrait of the Latino Community in the United States
An interactive exhibition that examines the diversity of Latino cultures
www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/latino.htm   (161 words)

  
 SAPL: LATINO ATHLETES - past & present: Historical Facts about Mexican-American/Mexicano/Latino Major Leaguers
The first Mexican American major league baseball and second Latino player of all-time is Vincent Nava (California).
The first Latino major leaguer is Esteban Bellan (Cuba), who played infield for the Troy Haymakers and the New York Mutuals, 1871-1873.
The Latino pitcher with the most season wins is "The Pride of Havana", Cubano Adolfo Luque, who posted 27 wins, 8 losses, 6 shutouts and an incredible 1.93 Earned Run Average (ERA) in 1923.
www.sat.lib.tx.us /Displays/Exhibits/LatinoSports/facts.htm   (605 words)

  
 Latin American and Latino Studies
It is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all the resources available, but rather, to provide a starting point for research about Latin America.
Since Latin American and Latino Studies is interdisciplinary, other guides from a range of disciplines may also be useful.
Includes access to the leading Latino research library collections, online catalogs, electronic journals, research organizations, statistics and to a museum of Latin American art and artifacts.
www.library.fordham.edu /res_guid/Latino/Latino.html   (883 words)

  
 Multicultural Resources: Latino-American/Latin American Studies
Peck, David R. American ethnic literatures: native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American writers and their backgrounds: an annotated bibliography.
The Latin American Network Information Center is affiliated with the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin.
Political Database of the Americas, and Handbook of Latin American Studies; Online News and Academic Information; National and International Organizations; General Interest Resources; Newsgroups and Discussion Lists.
www.union.edu /PUBLIC/LIBRARY/guide/mclat.html   (942 words)

  
 Latin American and Latino/a Studies
He has carried out research in both the United States and Latin America, including extensive fieldwork in Brazil and the Amazon Basin.
In addition to his work as a geographer, he participates in Vassar's multidisciplinary programs in Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, and Urban Studies.
2003: "Barrio under Siege: Latino Sense of Place in San Francisco." Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places, edited by Daniel Arreola, Austin: University of Texas Press (at press).
latinamericanstudies.vassar.edu /bio_godfrey.html   (261 words)

  
 CFP: Intersections: African-American and Latino Studies (11/1/04; journal issue) from Enrique Morales-Diaz on ...
CFP: Intersections: African-American and Latino Studies (11/1/04; journal issue) from Enrique Morales-Diaz on 2004-09-23 (Calls For Papers: African-American)
CFP: Intersections: African-American and Latino Studies (11/1/04; journal issue)
: J David Macey: "UPDATE: An Encyclopedia of African American Literature (11/15/04; collection)"
cfp.english.upenn.edu /archive/African-American/0071.html   (214 words)

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