Chicana/o Studies Research Guide

Below are links to videos available for free from the web that have been researched as credible by your librarians. 

• Latino Americans: - The first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S. There are 5 edpisodes, #5 may be of particular interest. Brought to us by The Public Broadcasting System (PBS)

Below are a variety of resources that are available for free from the web that have been researched by your librarians and found to be credible. 

• Hispanic American Political Images fromCalisphere- The digital image archives of the Universities of Southern California. 
•  Farm Worker Documentation Project

Primary source accounts by the United Farm Worker volunteers who built the movement brought to us by UCSD (includes essays, photos, art and more)

• Handbook of Latin American Studies

Brought to you by the Library of Congress. 

• Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (at the University of Southern California)

The Policy Institute focuses on the areas of: Latinos and the criminal justice system, civic engagement and capacity building among immigrant-serving organizations, and demographic change in major metropolitan regions of the United States.

• Seattle Civil Rights Labor History Project

Chicano/a Movement in Washington brought to us by the University of Washington. Includes: hIstory, photos, documents and more. 

• FBI Files from 1965

Regarding Cesar Chavez in regard to allegations of communist party affiliations within the United Farm Workers organization

• Mexican Labor and WWII: The Bracero Program

" The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America." -Information brought to you by the Digital Public Library of America. Contains some: images, oral histories and primary documents

• Oral History Interviews

"More than 100 interviews have been recorded with Latino leaders, writers, poets, artists, scholars, and Notre Dame Alumni, with a particular emphasis on the Midwestern United States." brought to us by the Institute of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. 

• StoryCorps Historias

Launched in 2009, StoryCorps Historias is an initiative to record the diverse stories and life experiences of Latina/Latino people in the United States

• Website of the United Farm Workers 

Contains history photos and more regarding Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Organization