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Puerto Rican & Latino Studies 

This guide offers you useful information on how to find and search for books, journals and other resources for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
Last update: Oct 16th, 2009 URL: http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/PRLatino  Print Guide  RSS Updates Email Alerts

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Professional Organizations

  • Puerto Rican Studies Association  
    The Puerto Rican Studies Association was founded to help promote scholarship in the field and offer a place for scholars to come together. The Association meets every other year (in even-numbered years) in a different location.
  • Latino Studies Section at LASA-Latin American Studies Association  
    This Section is open to LASA members interested in promoting research, teaching, advocacy, and collaborative endeavors about U.S. Latino communities and their transnational connections with the Latin American and Caribbean countries of origin.
  • National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)  
    The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies is the academic organization that serves academic programs, departments and research centers that focus on issues pertaining to Mexican Americans, Chicana/os, and Latina/os.
 

Key Websites for Hispanic/Latinos in the US

  • Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities  
    HACU represents more than 450 colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin Am, Spain and Portugal. HACU is the only national educational association that represents Hispanic-Serving Institutions
  • National Council of La Raza  
    Private, non-profit, and non-partisan organization focused on reducing poverty and discrimination, and improving opportunities, for Hispanic Americans.
  • Latin American Association  
    The Latin American Association helps Latino families achieve their aspirations for their academic, social and economic advancement.
  • LULAC-Leage of United Latin American Citizens  
    LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs.
  • Latino Directory at Dartmouth University  
    This is a comprehensive directory of Latino associations, institutions and organizations with an Internet presence, which focus on academic, cultural, and professional activities in the United States.
  • Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation  
    From the National Women's Law Center, this page contain a report that not only explain the challenges of young Latinas to graduate to High school and beyond but also offer information to School and policymakers on how to help this group to advance in life
  • REFORMA  
      
    Established in 1971 as an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), REFORMA has actively sought to promote the development of library collections to include Spanish-language and Latino oriented materials; the recruitment of more bilingual and bicultural library professionals and support staff; the development of library services and programs that meet the needs of the Latino community; the establishment of a national information and support network among individuals who share our goal
 

Historical Information Sites

  • The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Home Page  
      
    This site created by the Library of Congress's Hispanic Division, provides resources and documents about the Spanish-American War, the period before the war, and some of the fascinating people who participated in the fighting or commented about it. Information about Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States is provided in chronologies, bibliographies, and a variety of pictorial and textual material from bilingual sources and much more.
 
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