Are Chicanos the Same As Mexicans?
The latest census info. on Hispanic population in the US (slow loading)
Demographic Info. on Hispanics from the Pew Charitable Trust
Map of old Mexico before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Terms/Sayings
What is the Meaning of the Word Aztlan?
Origins and History of the Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement
Anglos and Mexicans in the Twenty First Century
The Legal Construction of Race: Mexican-Americans and Whiteness
The Illusive Race Question and Class
Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Herman Baca Papers
Lemon Grove Incident
Chicano Links
Chicano definition
Mexican-American definition
What is a chicano?
Origins and Evolution of Latino History
Formation of La Raza Unida Party
Finding a Name That Fits
Treaty With Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Documents: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Forgotten Promises of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
El Plan de Aztlan
Scholarly Articles about Aztlan
Hispanic vs Latino
Latino Stories - Literature
Chicana Women's Art Exhibit at the Blue Star Arts Gallery in May-June, 2008
Del Corazon: Latino Voices in American Art
So Bad It's Good Hispanic murals in restaurants and grocerty stores
Controversial mural America Tropical painted by the Mexican, David Alfaro Siqueiros in Los Angeles during the 1930’s
Controversial mural America Tropical painted by the Mexican, David Alfaro Siqueiros in Los Angeles during the 1930’s
CSUS Mural, Edward Rivera, 1999
Chicano Collection
Chicano Art Visual Images Collection
Jose Burciaga
CHICANISMO/XICANISM essay about Chicano culture is a detailed explanation of Jose Burciaga's painting Last Supper of Chicano Heroes
Last Supper of Chicano Heroes by Jose Burciaga
Food for Thought
Chicanismo/Xicanism
Amalia Mesa-Bains and Tomas Ibarra-Frausto
Mexican Art National Museum
Al Rendon a well-known local Mexican-American photographer
Lourdes Portillo an award winning Chicana filmmaker
Interview with film maker Lourdes Portillo
Camino Bluff Productions who is making two important documentaries about Mexican-Americans
Salt of the Earth 50th Anniversary
Salt of the Earth - Controversial
La Tragedio de Madario about the talented young San Antonio filmmaker, Pablo Veliz
Pablo Veliz Austin Chronicle article about him
Walkout: HBO Documentary
Walkout
Critique of Walkout from Democracy Now
Walkout Film Review
Walkout
Interview with Sal Castro
Interview with Moctezuma Esparza – producer of Walkout
Top Chicano Films
Top 100 Chicano Films
History of Rise of Chicano Films
Minority Filmmakers
The Aztlán Film Institute's Top 100 List
Excerpt from the book The Bronze Screen, by Rosa Linda Fregoso
“Film as Reflection” by Lourdes Portillo
“You can only make a good film if you look inward” by Lourdes Portillo
Excerpt from The Devil Never Sleeps, about the workk of Lourdes Portillo
Articles about Chicano film – from Current Trends In Latino Cinema
Career Highlights of film maker Jesus Treviño
Robert Rodriguez – God Among Directors
Robert Rodriquez Interview
Who is Samuel P. Huntington? The intelligence failure of a Harvard professor, article in The Texas Observer, by David Montejano
Forgotten Americans: A Voice for Colonia Residents
Forgotten Americans: A Film about Las Colonias
Forgotten Americans Overview of film
Border Low Income Housing Coalition organization that supports improvements in the border colonias
H-Borderlands news and discussion of all borderlands
Penny Foolish about a squabble over farmer worker’s pay with Burger King
Migration, Emergent Ethnicity, and the "Third Space": The Shifting Politics of Nationalism in Greater Mexico
Asymmetry
Old Blood, New Blood
Gender and Migration
How U.S. Corporations Won the Debate Over Immigration
Emma Tenayuca
History of ACLU in Texas about the founding of the ACLU thanks to the pecan shellers’ strike
Chicana Voices
Chicana Leaders in San Antonio
Chicanas in Texas Politics
PAC Graduate Wins Award about Chicana award winning poet Laurie Guerrero, a PAC graduate presently attending Smith College on an Ada Comstock Scholarship
Chicano Literature Links
I Am Joaquin, by R.C. Gonzales
On Being Chicano, by Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.
Poetry Corner
Why Am I So Brown? by Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.
Trevor's Blog: The Revolution
We Are Joaquin: The Legacy of Corky
Tribute to Corky Gonzales
Tribute to Corky Gonzales
Alberto Ríos
Society of Latino & Hispanic Writers based in San Antonio. Gives all the latest happenings regarding the Latino literary scene
Saint Paul Sunday Listen to San Antonio’s Trinidad Sanchez’s poetry set to music interpreted by the great a capella group Chanticleer. This segment was featured on St.Paul Sunday on National Public Radio. Sanchez’s portion is 15 minutes into the program.
Poet Raul Salinas from San Antonio
My Trip to Queretaro, Mexico a blog by Mariela Cox, a former PAC student now studying at OLLU. She won a scholarship to study in Mexico for six weeks for Summer 2008
La Politiquera
Orange County Weekly -- Ask A Mexican!
La Bloga
La Voz de Aztlan
Race and Wealth Disparity The role of law and the legal system
Black, white and brown Latino School Desegregation Efforts in the Pre- and Post- Brown v. Board of Education Era
An American Imperative a statement by Antonia Hernandez, then President and General Counsel of MALDEF about the state of Latino higher education
1931: Lemon Grove Incident
Lemon Grove Incident
Before Brown
Remembering Alberto Alvarez
Lemon Grove to Celebrate 75th Anniversary
Mexican-Americans & Segregated Schooling, 1900-1950
Black, White & Brown Latino Desegregation Efforts in the Pre and Post Brown v Board of Educatiion Era MALDEF document
Cases Before and After Brown
Falling Through the Cracks
Bilingual Education
Folk Hero Gregorio Cortez--part I (scroll way down)
Folk Hero Gregorio Cortez--part II (scroll halfway down)
El Bandito, Vasquez
Texas Tejano Pioneers to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month
Tejanos Who Helped Shape Texas
PBS series on the Mexican War
African American History Vignette: The Plan of San Diego (1915)
Plan de San Diego
Nativist and Racist Movements in the U.S. and their Aftermath
Mexican-American War Sites
Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War
The Chicano Movement
Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial
Zoot Suit Riots
Crystal City School Walkout through the eyes of an actual participant Oral history project by Melida Nervaez, History 1302, May 2003, Peter Myers, Instructor
Heroes of La Raza
Events in the Life of Emma Tenayuca
Interview with Emma Tenayuca
Malinche links
Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
Testimony for extension of the Voting Rights Act – MALDEF
The Making of the Political Pocho
Cesar Chavez Legacy & Educational Foundation
Carlos Guerras's Conjunto 101
Texas Conjunto by Dr. Manuel Peña
Juan Tejeda's group's website - Aztlan
Lark of Border Dies Singer Lydia Mendoza's obituary - a significant figure in Tejano music
Tejano/Conjunto Music
Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana's Musical Journey
Carlos Santana Interview
Mexican-American Singer Lila Downs
Flaco Jimenez Interview
Flaco Jimenez Interview
History of the Saxophone in Tejano Music
Musica Tejana: Nuestra Musica
Lydia Mendoza, Queen of Tejano
Sones de Mexico
Immigrant Songs Offer New Twist on Old Sounds about the group Sones de Mexico
Mexican Folk in the Heart of Chicago "A very interesting group based in Chicago with very unexpected influences upon their folk music"
About the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act from about the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act
Alarm Bell Sounded on Texas Education Woes
Forgotten Latino Vote
Fiesta SA: Ideology, Space, and the Reproduction of Popular Culture
Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers
Maquila Solidarity
Aztlán
Strunk's Elements of Style classic rules of writingSociology
Composition 2 --Terry Flannery's course on writing
American Literature and Online Research --Terry Flannery's course
Great Links for Readers and Writers (Terry Flannery)
Plagiarism, What Is
Writer's Web --help on the process of creating a good paper
Citing Web and Internet Resources
Humanities: Documenting Sources: MLA Style for academic research papers
MLA Documentation a writing guide for research papers
Purdue MLA Help
Writer's Handbook University of Wisconsin
Chicanos As a Racialized Minority
Mariana Ornelas; Colby Glass, MLIS