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The U.S. Census Bureau's mission is to be the preeminent
collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about
the people and economy of the United States. This website has the
most current Census data on the Mexican-origin population in the United
States.
- Congressional
Hispanic Caucus Institute
- The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was organized in 1976 by five Hispanic
Congressmen--Herman Badillo (NY), Baltasar Corrada (PR), E. "Kika"
de la Garza (TX), Henry B. Gonzalez (TX), and Edward Roybal (CA)--to
monitor legislative and other government activity that affect Hispanics.
The Caucus was originally formed to serve as a legislative organization
through which legislative action, as well as executive and judicial
actions, could be monitored to ensure that the needs of Hispanics were
being met. The founders' goal was to work in conjunction with other
groups, both inside and outside Congress, to strengthen the Federal
commitment to Hispanic citizens and heighten the community's awareness
of the operation and function of the American political system. The
mission of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) is to
develop the next generation of Latino leaders. CHCI seeks to accomplish
its mission by offering educational and leadership development programs,
services, and activities that promote the growth of participants as
effective professionals and strong leaders. In the spirit of building
coalitions, CHCI seeks to establish partnerships with other Latino and
non-Latino organizations.
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The National
Immigration Forum
- The purpose of the National Immigration Forum is to embrace and uphold
America's tradition as a nation of immigrants. The Forum advocates and
builds public support for public policies that welcome immigrants and
refugees and that are fair and supportive to newcomers in our country.
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- The United Farm
Workers and The
César E. Chávez Foundation
- The United Farm Workers of America homepage is designed to relate
news for employees and informative data about the UFW union, including
current organized boycotts, the history of the UFW, and links to political
representative offices that support unionized labor for migrant farm
workers.
The César E. Chávez Foundation, a non-profit charitable
organization [501(c)(3)] was established in 1993 by family and friends
to provide education people about the life and work of this American
hero and to inspire all, particularly youth, to carry on his values
and timeless vision for a better world.
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- UCLA
César E. Chávez Center
- The Center's website chronicles on the efforts by faculty and students
at UCLA who staged a demonstration and a hunger strike to push UCLA
to establish a Chicano Studies Department on campus. Many of the original
documents of this campaign are available, including plans for the CCC.
The website also offers numerous links to Chicano student organizations,
historical documents from the Chicano Moratorium, and a mural gallery
on the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).
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- Tomás Rivera
Policy Institute
- The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) at Pitzer College
is a freestanding, nonprofit, policy research organization. TRPI conducts
primary and secondary data analysis, and seeks to provide information
for policymakers and political leaders regarding the U.S. Latino population.
The Institute conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research and
its implications to decision makers on key issues affecting Latino communities.
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- Institute
for Latino Studies
- The Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre
Dame was founded in summer 1999 to promote the understanding and appreciation
of the Latino experience in the United States through research, education,
and outreach. The ILS works with the Inter-University Program for Latino
Research (IUPLR), whose national headquarters are in the Institute.
IUPLR, a consortium of 16 Latino research centers based at major universities
across the United States, is the only nationwide university-based research
organization bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines
to conduct policy-relevant research on Latinos. IUPLR also functions
as a Census Information Center, which analyzes census data regarding
Latino population growth.
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- Julian Samora Research
Institute
- The Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University
provides empirical research that will serve the needs of Latino communities
in the Midwest. It has a number of publications and disseminates these
to Latinos.
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- National Council
of La Raza
- The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan,
tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination
and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans. NCLR strengthens
these efforts with public information and media activities and special
and international projects. These include innovative projects, catalytic
efforts, formation of and participation in coalitions, and other special
activities which use the NCLR structure and credibility to create other
entities or projects which are important to the Hispanic community and
can sometimes be "spun off" as independent entities. NCLR
is the largest constituency-based national Hispanic organization, serving
all Hispanic nationality groups in all regions of the country.
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- MALDEF
- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) protects
and promotes the civil rights of Latinos living in the United States.
Making sure there are no obstacles preventing this diverse community
from realizing its dreams, MALDEF works through litigation, advocacy,
community outreach and education to secure the rights of Latinos primarily
in the areas of employment, education, immigration, political access
and public resource equity.
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- Center
for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin
- Founded by Dr. Américo Paredes, the Center for Mexican American
Studies (CMAS) focuses on Mexican American scholarship and educational
programs on the University of Texas campus, and is a national leader
in teaching, research, and publications. Since its creation in 1970,
CMAS has worked to enhance understanding of the Mexican American experience,
as well as the broader Latino experience, and to strengthen the presence
of Mexican Americans and other Latinos in the intellectual terrain,
both within and beyond US borders. CMAS accomplishes its mission by
offering an undergraduate degree program with concentrations in public
policy, pre-law, and cultural studies and a doctoral portfolio program.
In addition, the Center offers an extensive public programming calendar
throughout the academic year. The publications program of the Center
for Mexican American Studies was initiated in 1975 by Américo
Paredes. At the time, Chicano scholars were often unable to publish
their work in mainstream academic presses and Chicano studies in general
was either ignored or marginalized. The Center thus saw an urgent need
to create a forum for authors (Chicano and non Chicano) who were addressing
subjects relevant to the Mexican American experience. For twenty-five
years, CMAS Books (as the publications unit has been known since 1990)
has been steadily publishing important works in Mexican American studies,
focusing primarily on the subjects of immigration, border studies, culture
and folklore, and history.
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- Amércio
Paredes Memorial Website
- The University of Texas, at Austin established this biographical website
to honor Dr. Paredes, world known author of With His Pistol In His
Hand: A Border Ballad And Its Hero, and George Washington Gomez,
after his death on May 23, 1999. Here, visitors may view the Nettie
Lee Benson Collection at UTA that holds the archives of Américo
Paredes that includes many of his works in Mexican American folklore
and novels, research publications, poetry, music and photographs. There
are also links which download Paredes' music, and as well as one to
view his memorial ceremony in its entirety.
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- National Latino
Communications Center
- The National Latino Communications Center (NLCC) was established in
1975 at Los Angeles public television station KCET to serve a community
need. Known then as the Latino Consortium, its primary activity was
syndicating culturally specific Latino programming to television stations
such as KCET throughout the country. It was one of five 'minority' consortia,
operating under the auspices of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In the fall of 1991, after a two-year transition and planning period,
the NLCC became an autonomous nonprofit organization. Throughout its
two decades of operation, the NLCC has survived and prospered in the
marketplace. Over the years it has provided production resource support
to independent Latino film and video artists to enhance their creative
talents and give their work exposure. By supporting these artists, the
NLCC has sustained an outlet for exhibition of their work, both in the
United States and abroad. Specifically, the NLCC affords equity-position
financing and related production support of projects that portray the
depth and breadth of the Latino experience.
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- Mexican
American Studies & Research Center Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence
- The Mexican American Studies & Research Center is committed to
contemporary applied public policy research on Mexican Americans. As
the leading public policy research center addressing issues of concern
to this minority group in Arizona, the MASRC works collaboratively with
key community agencies in promoting leadership and economic empowerment
of Mexican Americans within the state and the nation. The Center achieves
these goals through its applied research agenda, through its publications,
and through the comprehensive curriculum it offers students at the University
of Arizona. As an intellectual center, it disseminates information to
a broad audience, which includes elected officials, educators, students,
policy makers and other researchers. The goal of the MASRC Working Paper
Series is to disseminate research on the Mexican American experience.
Scholars from the social and behavioral sciences, public policy, and
the humanities are encouraged to submit manuscripts. Areas of particular
interest include social policy, the Mexican immigrant experience in
the United States, history, minority economic participation, and public
health. Manuscripts should be addressed to Dr. Adela de la Torre, Director,
Economics Building 208, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721.
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- Making
Face, Making Soul
- Making Face, Making Soul is a site by, for, and about Chicanas, meaning
women of Mexican descent in the United States. This site contains a
variety of resources ranging from short biographies of Chicanas, to
Chicana poetry and literature, cultural resources, academic resources,
otras Chicanas on the 'net, and more. While this site is by, for, and
about Chicanas, it is also for "everybody else", because Chicanas
are a part of so many different communities. This site deals with women's
issues, family issues, racial and ethnic issues, women of color issues,
working class issues, sexuality issues, and youth issues. This is a
place where everybody can learn from Chicana experiences.
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- Tezcatlipoca
- Tezcatlipoca is a new, independent electronic journal based at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison that will feature essays, articles
and research relating to Chicana /o Studies. The journal is dedicated
to the presentation of original work of the highest caliber and to the
advancement of the field of Chicana/o Studies. The journal's primary
focus is on critical analysis, theory, and research relating to Chicana/o
history, culture, literature and art, and to the Chicana/o experience
in general.
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- The
Hispanic Research Center at the University of Texas, San Antonio
- The Hispanic Research Center (HRC) at The University of Texas at San
Antonio (UTSA), founded in l989, was created to foment high quality
research at this University on the nation's fastest growing population.
Through the Hispanic Research Center's educational and social research
efforts, researchers not only examine problems but also attempt to identify
solutions. Social, historical, political and cultural research taking
place at the Center describes and examines diverse aspects of the Mexican
American and Latino population.
Southwestern
Voter Registration Project - The Southwest Voter Registration Education Project was founded in
San Antonio in 1974 by William C. Velásquez and a group of fellow
Mexican-American political activists to ensure the voting rights of
their people in the Southwest and thereby provide them meaningful political
participation, a prerogative that they had largely been denied before
the mid-1960s. SVREP was charted as a politically nonpartisan organization
pledged solely to be an advocate for the functionally disfranchised.
With such a commitment, it allied itself with the civil-rights movement
to overturn segregation in the state. The organization grew out of the
Citizens' Voter Research and Education Project, which Velásquez
organized during his tenure as an assistant field director and fund-raiser
with the National Council of La Raza between 1971-72. In 1974, after
a two-year period of working full-time on the project, Velásquez
set it up as independent entity.
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Center
for U.S./Mexico Studies
- Since its founding in 1979, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies has
earned international recognition as the largest and most prestigious
U.S. institution for advanced research, postgraduate training, and public
education on Mexico and U.S.-Mexican relations. It has received acclaim
for its highly successful Researchers-in-Residence Program, for the
policy relevance of its sponsored research projects, for its innovative
Summer Seminar in U.S. Studies, and for its extensive public education
and community outreach efforts.
Arté Publico
Press Houston, Texas - From its beginnings on the artistic fringe during the Hispanic Civil
Rights Movement to its current status as the oldest and most accomplished
publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by U.S. Hispanic
authors, Arte Público Press and its imprint, Piñata Books,
have become a showcase for Hispanic literary creativity, arts and culture.
As part of the ongoing efforts to bring Hispanic literature to mainstream
audiences, Arte Público Press launched the Recovering the U.S.
Hispanic Literary Heritage project in 1992. The 10-year Recovery project
represents the first nationally coordinated attempt to recover, index
and publish lost Latino writings that date from the American colonial
period through 1960. With seven titles already published, five more
are due out within the next year.
Expresso
Mi Cultura - Espresso Mi Cultura Books & Coffee is a complete coffeehouse and
bookstore, infused with the richness of Chicano and Latino arts, culture
and community. It is food for the body, mind and soul, set in an easily
accessible center of Latino LA - Hollywood, California.
National Association of
Latino Arts and Culture (El Aviso) - The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) is dedicated
to the promotion, preservation and development of the cultural and artistic
expressions of the diverse Latino populations of the United States.
NALAC encourages the recognition and support of the varied standards
of excellence grounded in the aesthetics and traditions of our root
cultures. NALAC is a tax-exempt, non-profit, arts service organization
that provides technical assistance and capacity building services to
community-based Latino arts and cultural organizations, and advocates
and promotes Latino arts and culture in the United States.
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