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palabra., Spanish for “word,” is an endeavor launched by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists last year. The site’s aim is to “cover stories and communities that have been disregarded in larger news outlets based on the ideology that Latino news is only a minority issue, and not a human issue.
Latino Rebels is part of the Futuro Media Group, which also includes the long-running NPR show Latino USA. In addition to episodes of the podcast, the site includes news and politics coverage on the U.S. and Latin America, and opinion pieces.
Founded in 2009 at NYU, “Latin America News Dispatch produces original news stories about Latin America, the Caribbean, U.S. foreign policy and Latinos in the United States.
Analysis of U.S. immigration, border defense, and national security policies and their impact on individuals, families, and communities from Mexico and Central America who have migrated or fled to the United States as refugees since the mid-1980s suggests that through immigration programs such as Prevention through Deterrence, the United States has crafted a set of policies that creates “preemptive suspects”—categories of people from Central America and Mexico that may be systematically excluded as dangerous, criminal, undeserving, and less valuable than U.S. citizens.
Race exists not as a genuine biological distinction but as a social construct reinforced by the legal system and other institutions. Racial divisions clearly exist as they have been imposed on peoples and as people have used to define community identity. Contemporary biological studies have shown that there is no physical distinction between races. As social constructs, individuals and communities have the ability to affect and deny race distinctions.
This article provides ethnographic evidence of how Latinx undocumented youth navigate racialization processes. The research occurs in a focal state in the New Latino South, a highly restrictive and hostile context toward immigrants broadly and undocumented ones specifically. The author situates this research in Rogelio Sáenz and Karen Douglas' call for the racialization of immigration studies, considering notions of race and racism in the study of undocumented youth experiences of identity, discrimination, social isolation, and belonging, and how processes of racialization mark the bodies of undocumented youth in negative, punitive ways in school and societal contexts in a restrictive policy context like South Carolina. Drawing on data from a three‐year, multisite ethnography in two Title I public high schools in South Carolina, the study shows how youth are racialized in their schools and communities. Their narratives provide moments when undocumented youth elaborate their experiences in schools, which the author argues is an act of resistance where they broker, dismantle, and overcome their position of marginality. This cultural elaboration by undocumented youth positions them as active agents and re‐centers and humanizes their experience of racism and racialization in order to make visible the systemic oppression they encounter. It is through their cultural elaboration of their undocumentedness that they can powerfully critique immigration policy and schools’ roles in perpetuating deficit discourses about the “problems” the undocumented subjectivity presents.
JOLLAS seeks to be reflective of the shifting demographics, geographic dispersion, and new community formations occurring among Latino populations across borders and throughout the Americas.
Founded in 1985 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy is an academic non-partisan review that publishes works on politics and policy. It is one of the premiere publications in the nation that focuses on the policy issues that impact the U.S. Latino/a community.
Latino Studies explores the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric realities that influence the Latina and Latino presence in the United States.
A full-text collection of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press..
Topics covered include news, arts, business, culture, education, the environment, history, journalism, political science, sociology. Spanish language search options available.
Indexes journal articles, books, newspaper articles, and book chapters dealing on all aspects of Latino life. Strongest for Chicanos/Mexican-Americans, but also includes content on other Latin American populations living in the United States including Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cuban Americans, and Central Americans.
Topics include the arts, economics, education, folklore, gender studies, health, history, labor, law, mental health, poetry, politics, and sociology. Coverage: 1960- (for Chicanos) 1992- (for other Latino populations)
Primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; and audio and video.
Indexes journals about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the U.S. and includes a wide range of topics.
Topics include politics and government, public administration, foreign relations, commerce and trade, banking and finance, business and industry, economic development and policy issues, economic integration, social movements, indigenous affairs, gender studies, environmental issues, drug trade, history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, folklore, religion, art, literature, drama, film. Coverage: 1970-present.
The most complete database of electronic books and journals in the Spanish language. Covers over 40,000 e-book and journal titles from countries such as Spain, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic
The Latin American Migration Project is a multidisciplinary research effort between investigators in various countries of Latin America and the United States.
The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.
Statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables from all Latin American and some Caribbean countries, based on microdata from households surveys.
WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios present “La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience”: a seven-part podcast series that uses narrative storytelling and investigative journalism to reflect and reveal how la brega has defined so many aspects of life in Puerto Rico.
Tres Cuentos is a bilingual literary podcast dedicated to Latin America's narratives. The podcast narrates a piece of literature and later reflects on the author, culture, or history behind the story.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACAS) program offers a BA degree and a 4+1 program. Majors and minors learn methodologies and theoretical perspectives for studying historical processes, cultural dynamics, and social and economic problems across the Americas.
Founded in 1969, the Latin American Student Union has provided a safe space for people of all backgrounds to feel welcome and at home in an environment where they are underrepresented and can often feel isolated.
