General:

• Country Groups - Latin America and the Caribbean (developing only: 32) - A list of counties, from the World Bank.
• Country Studies - The on-line versions of books published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998.
• International Resources for Latin America - Links to many information resources for Latin American studies.
• LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center - A searchable directory of websites covering Latin American society and culture. Browse by individual country or region. Affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Art & Literature:

Dance, Music & other Art

• Caravan Music: Guide to Latin Music - Introduces to music of Brazil, Argentina, Augury, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Dominican Republic, etc.
• Descarga.com - Latin dance music CDs, DVDs and information including articles, interviews, profiles, and reviews.
• Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection - An online presentation of religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
• Latin American Music and Dance - A brief introduction to latin American music and dance.
• Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) - A museum web site, dedicated to "contemporary Latin American art," provides information about the museum's history, exhibits, events, and more.
• The Roots of Tejano and Conjunto Music - Music excerpts, liner notes, and photos from Universit of Texas at Austin.

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Literature

• Amerces Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature - This award "is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction ... published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States."
• Caribbean Literature - Searchable by Authors, Themes, Economics, History, Nations and more.
• Mexican and Latin American Literature: Selected Sources - Provided by the Library of CSU Stanislaus.
• U.S. LATINO Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography - by Marc Zimmerman.

Poets, Writers

• Albert Memmi - A brief discussion on Albert Memmi, his country during the colony and of The Colonizer and the Colonized.
• Cherrie Moraga - Biography and criticism from Voices from the Gaps Women Artists and Writers of Color.
• Gloria Anzaldua - Biography and criticism from Voices from the Gaps Women Artists and Writers of Color.
• Julia de Burgos - Introduction to a Puerto Rican woman writer.
• Puerto Rican Poetry - Introduction to Puerto Rican poets Judith Ortiz Cofer, Martin Espada, Sandra Maria Esteves and thier poems, from PBS' Marsterpiece Theatre.
• Victor Villaseñor's Homepage - Biography, listings of books and works, book reviews, excerpts and more.
  

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Readings recommended by Dr. Mirtha N. Quintanales

• Before We Were Free - Areaders’ guide to the novel.
• In the Time of the Butterflies
• The Latino Reader : An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present (Paperback)
• When I Was Puerto Rican
• Bye Bye Brazil
• Strawberry & Chocolate - - Subtitled in English (1995)
• Daughter of Invention - Story in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez.

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Culture & Society:

• Articles on Gay Marriages -- from Hispanic Magazine.com - Some Hispanics’ and Latinos’ opinions on gay marriages.
• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! - Offered by Education World.
• Celebrate Latin Heritage - From Scholastic.
• Hispanic Culture - Offered by Hispanic Research Inc., a marketing consulting firm that specializes in the U.S. Hispanic market..
• Latin American Culture - Latin American cinema, literature, music, language and more.
• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center - Country and subject directories to a tremendous amount of info.
• Understanding the Hispanic Culture - from Ohio State University FactSheet/ Family and Consumer Sciences.

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History & Policies:

General

• Latin America in the 19th Century - In Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
• The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
• Pre Colombian Culture -Introduction to civilizations of the Mexicans, the Mayas and the Olmecas.
• Parallel Histories: Spain and the United States - An English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
• Alonzo de Ojeda on the coasts of Columbia and Panama (1499-1502) - From Athena Review Vol. I, no. 3.
• Conquistadors - A program in PBS web site, provides online educational resources of Spanish conquistadors and an Online Learning Adventure.
• Colonial Latin America - From Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
• The Maya Astronomy Page - Explains many aspects of the ancient Maya, such as how their calendar and math worked.
• South America During the Last 150,000 Years - Compiled by Jonathan Adams, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

  Brazil

Brazil - A full country overview and history.

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Cuban

• Cuban History: the Bronze Titan - A collection of articles and documents about Cuban history.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis - Historical releases, documents, photographs, audio clips and other material about the Cuban Missiles Crisis.
• CUBA IN 1898

  Haitian

• Haitian Revolution

  Mexico

• History of Mexico - From Wikipedia.
• Mexican War and Annexation
• The Annexation of Texas
• The Battle of the Alamo As Seen by the Mexicans
• U.S- Mexican War - A historical program in PBS web site.
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Simon Bolivar - Illustrations of the Mexican liberator.

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Puerto Rico

• 35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized - A detailed description of the sterilization of Puerto Rican women, from CWLU website.
• Early History and Spanish Rule - Abrief review of Puerto Rican history.
• Operation Bootstrap - About the transformation of Puerto Rico from a rural to an industrial society during the 1950’s and 1960’s
• Puerto Rican Emagration: Why the 1950's? - A chart and analysis of emigration from Puerto Rico.
• STERILIZATION OF PUERTO RICAN WOMEN - A Selected, Partially Annotated Bibliography.

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US - Latin America and the Caribbean Relations

• The Annexation of California
• The Annexation of Florida
• A Chronology - U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean - from the official site od the documents.
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
• The Dominican Dictator: Rafael Trujillo - Brief summary of Trujillo’s regime and the involvement of the United States in Dominican affairs.
• Economic Embargo Timeline
• Expansionism & Manifest Destiny - from Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources".
• Louisiana Purchase
• The Panama Canal - A movie of President McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt's Inaugural Address, Maps of Panama and more.
• The Spanish-American War
• Territory to Statehood
• Time Line of US-Latin American Relations
• WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT : Dollar Diplomacy
• United States and Latin America - by Professor Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon
• U.S. intervention in Latin America

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Economy & Business:

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) - Research, cooperation, statistical information, training, publications, calendar of activities, and more.
• Economic Embargo Timeline - Timeline of the U.S. embargo.
• Impacto, Influencia, Cambio: Science, Technology and Invention in Latin America and the Southwestern United States - This site "highlights the lives and accomplishments of inventors, aviators, astronauts, and the everyday people of Latin America and the southwestern United States who have affected science and technology." From the Smithsonian Office of Education.
• Inter-American Development Bank - A long-standing initiative of the Latin American countries.
• LatinFocus: The Leading Source for Latin American Economies - Contains the "latest available data from government sources, economic forecasts, market analysis..." including various economic indicators (GDP, unemployment, CPI, stock market, exports, imports, etc.). Recent news articles and commentaries, fact, ect. are provided for the individual countries.
• Organization of American States - OAS brings together the countries of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation and advance common interests. It is the region’s premier forum for multilateral dialogue and concerted action.
• U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) - Questions and answers about "the proposed U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)", from the Washington Office on Latin America.

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Immigration & Border Issues:

• the Bracero Program - Very useful information on the Bracero Program of the 1940’s.
• The Borderlands Encyclopedia: A digital educational resource on contemporary Mexico and US border issues - provided by UT at El Paso.
• The City - La Ciudad - An online companion to the PBS documentary, "Presents four vignettes depicting the struggles of Latin American immigrants in New York City." Explores education, workers' rights, women and immigration and cultural stereotypes and myths surrounding immigrants.
• Colonias - Shantytowns along Mexico-U.S. Border, Children of the Colonias .
• Cultural Identities on the Mexico-U.S. Border - An article.
• Free Trade Area of the Americas - From Wikipedia.
• Latin America: Washington's Near-Abroad - An article from The Power and Interest News Report.
• Mexican American history - A quiz of Mexican American history.
• The Mexican rebellion and NAFTA - An article from Peace Magazine.
• Mexico-U.S. Border History - From PBS.
• Rethinking History and the Nation State: Mexico and the United States - Articles, timeline, maps, a special issue of the Journal of American History, and more.
• Spanish America: 1820-1860 - from Digital History.
• United States-Mexico Borderlands/Frontera - Authored by Olivia Cadaval, the curator of the Festival's United States Alexiro Borderlands program.

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Latinos in U.S.

• Cuban-Americans struggle with memories of childhood airlifts -Current Reflections on “Operation “Peter Pan”, the airlift of Cuban children in 1960-1962.
• Facts for features: Hispanic Heritage Month - Statistics on US Latinos from the Census Bureau's demographic and economic subject areas.
  
• Facts on U.S. Latinos - Demographics from the U.S. Census Bureau (2002).
• Guided Readings: Westward Expansion - Historical Background, from Digital History.
• Hispanic Population of the United States -Statistics refer to the Hispanic population of the US and Fact Sheet on differences between the Hispanic Estimates from the American Community Survey and the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.
• The Origins and Evolution of Latino History - An article, by Virginia Sánchez Korrol.
• Women's Rights Ignored by Latin American Courts - An article discussing women’s rights and the courts in Latin America.

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Programs in NJCU

• The Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Program
• Dr. Mirtha N. Quintanales' Webpage
• The online newsletter for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Issues

• Readings recommended by Dr. Mirtha N. Quintanales

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