Research Guide: Latino Studies Web Resources
General Resources
- American Family Immigration History Center
- This site contains a database of 22 million people who passed through Ellis Island and entered the Port of New York between 1892 and 1925.
- Eldis
- Resources include over 18,000 documents, as well as country profiles and resource guides on third world countries, including Africa and Latin America countries. Searchable. Excellent content.
- Human Rights Library
- Over 85,000 documents relating to human rights including treaties, UN documents, other government documents, and much more. From the University of Minnesota.
- LAOAP: Providing Access to Latin American Grey Literature
- "The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials. Typically, this content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers."
- Minority Studies
- Coverage corresponds to that of other Voice of the Shuttle literature pages, with a focus on Afro-American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish, and Native American literatures as well as on the literatures of other less well represented groups.
- OCEANIndex
- Essentially a history search engine that indexes web sites, images, and timelines and articles from HistoryWorld.
- Pew Hispanic Center
- A nonpartisan research organization whose mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. Research reports cover Demography, Economics, Education, Identity, Immigration, Labor, Politics, and Remittances.
- Database of the Americas
- "Offers information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region. More than 1,500 pages of information."
- Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
- Provides information, in the form of text, tables, and charts, about the various types of foreign nationals who are inspected, naturalized, apprehended, or removed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Latino Studies
- Archivos Virtuales
- "Information about the Archives of American Art's (Smithsonian) extensive holdings of papers of and about Latino and Latin American artists." Includes images.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
- Annual publication of the Library of Congress. "A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars." 1936-2009 editions available. Spanish, English, and Portuguese versions.
- LANIC: Latin American Information Center
- "LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet." Search LANIC, Latin America & the World - search across several databases including Latin America and the Caribbean Economic & Social Data (USAID) and the Castro Speech Database. Some of the content is in Spanish.
- Latin American Research Resources Project
- LARRP is a cooperative project of libraries to provide access to reserach sources on Latin America. It includes several databases: Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC), Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP), and Presidential Messages.
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
- "The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United States."
- Development Statistics for Latin American and the Caribbean
- High "quality socio-economic data on countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region."
- OxLAD (Oxford Latin American Economic History Database )
- "Statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000. "
- Political Database of the Americas
- "The PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region."
- WorldBank: Latin America and Caribbean
- Includes press releases, data and statistics, publications and reports, programs and initiatives related to Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Statistics
- CenStats Databases
- EarthTrends: Population, Health and Human Well-being
- Searchable database covering statistics on population, health, education, literacy, transportation, and water and sanitation for countries around the world.
- FAOSTAT
- "Provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs."
- International Economic Statistics Database (FRB/St. Louis)
- Links to over 700 official publications of foreign national governments with economic data. The database is title, country, subject and keyword searchable.
- Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity
- Special reports from the 2000 census regarding African Americans and Latinos.
- Population Index on the Web
- UN Statistical Databases
Latino-American Studies
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
- "American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and cultural developments of the United States."
- Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists
- "Archivos Virtuales focuses on access to information about the Archives of American Art's extensive holdings of papers of and about Latino and Latin American artists."
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- Primary sources mostly post American Revolution.
- Catalog of United States Government Publications (CGP)
- A key index to over 500,000 federal publications, some going back as far as 1976. Includes descriptions of historical and current publications and provides links to those available online. Plans are underway to include documents going back to the early 1800s. Search by agency, title, subject, and general key word.
- Pew Hispanic Center
- The "mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation."
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