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Chicano(a)/Hispanic/Latino:

ASPIRA
The ASPIRA Association, Inc. is the only national nonprofit organization devoted solely to the education and leadership development of Puerto Rican and other Latino youth. ASPIRA takes its name from the Spanish verb aspirar, "aspire." ASPIRA has provided a quarter of a million youth with the personal resources they need to remain in school and contribute to their community.
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Border Crossings
This is one of the best website to explore the common ground between Cyborgs, Gender, LesBiGay, Dispora, La Frontera, Border Incidents and Other Borders. The site provides great resources for educators and students.
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage from Scholastic
This beautiful website informs about the people, places, and events of our Hispanic heritage. It is an excellent website for k-12 teachers and students.
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Center For Latin American Studies (CLAS), University Center for International Studies (UCIS), University of Pittsburgh
CLAS provides opportunities for cultural and educational experiences that realistically reflect Latin America and the Caribbean to K-12 educators, college and university faculty, business and professional communities as well as to the general public as part of its outreach mission.
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Center For Latino, Latin America, and Caribbean Studies
This site is a structured mechanism for focusing collective expertise and collaborative research and development efforts, it provides an international focus for the work of numerous departments and scholars.
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Chicano and Chicana Space
This site is a resource for teachers, their students, and others interested in Chicana and Chicano art and culture. Its purpose is to provide a place in cyberspace for artworks, information, and lesson ideas. It offers an inquiry structure serving to help visitors chart a path toward a fuller understanding of themes within Chicana and Chicano culture.
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Chicano/LatinoNet
Clearinghouse for information on Chicano/Latino research at the University of California Riverside, UCLA and elsewhere. The site tries to build Chicano and Latino communities through networking.
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Cultural Resources for Mexican American Education. ERIC Digest.
This site provides links to articles and publications specifically related to Mexican American Education. Several resources may be downloaded for free and others are also available for purchase.
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Culture and society in Mexico
The site is intended to provide brief highlights of Mexican life, society and culture. In addition to factual information, personal observations, gathered during a weeklong visit are included. These personal observations resulted from presentations made by various speakers from the local business community, visits to local businesses and general interaction with the community.
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CultureQuest
This interactive website provides creative audio and visual adventures for exploring Hispanic culture. Books, games, and other resources are available for purchase and lesson plans and other tips are provided for teachers.
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Health Risks of Latino Children
Latino children and youth are at greater risk for fatal traffic injuries and gun injuries, according to a discussion on Latino health disparities in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Hispanic Booklist
The National Education Association's (NEA) Read Across America literacy campaign has released a bilingual reading list of titles appropriate for K-12 students. In addition, the list, which was compiled by Association staff, also includes books that have both Spanish and English editions.
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Hispanic Heritage in the U.S.A.
This site contains information about famous Hispanics in the world and history, bullfighting, and much more. The site has an Electronic Newsletter in both Spanish and English.
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Hispanic/Latino Sites
Provides access to other websites with information on culture, professional organizations, and issues concerning gender and sexual orientation for Hispanics and Latinos.
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LACC - Latin American and Caribbean Center
LACC's mission is to foster high quality research, education and services on Latin America and the Caribbean, building on the unique assets of the inter-American setting.
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Latin America
This site is a springboard to discussions on ancient and modern Latin American cultures, history and animals, it provides colorful pictures and traditional music.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan
The goal of the web site is to promote interchange among faculty and graduate students through field research, special courses, events, and conferences, and to develop collaborative relationships based on research interests in Latin America.
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Latin American Resource Center
The center provides services such as teacher training workshops and conferences, a free lending library for curricular materials, documentary and feature film series, slide and curriculum publications, faculty and graduate student speakers, and personalized consulting.
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Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
The mission of the Association is to encourage effective training, teaching and research in Latin American studies.
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Latin Network Information Center
This site has been called a "Latin American Yahoo", it is a very well indexed (and updated) gateway to web sites on every major issue in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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Latino USA
Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latin perspective. Educators can check the program's schedule and radio station, and hear news from the web.
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Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles was established in 1990 with the primary goal of fostering and enhancing, through cultural exchange, the understanding and communication between the peoples of Mexican and the United States. The web is focus on Los Angeles, a city with more people of Mexican descencent than any other in the world except Mexico City.
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Mexico Yellow page
This page has very rich information about Mexico. You can find general information in education, culture, art and more about Mexico in this page.
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National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation
The National Hispanic Cultural Center and its Foundation are dedicated to supporting the cross-cultural appreciation and understanding of Hispanic culture by preserving and showcasing historic and contemporary Hispanic arts, humanities, and achievements over the past 400 years.
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Primary & Secondary Education in Latin America - LANIC
This page provides resources for educators, parents, and students dealing with Latin American language, history, and geography.
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Recommended US Latino Websites Diversity & Ethnic Studies
This site offer useful links which include Chicano (Mexican American), Puerto Rican, and Cuban American Web resources, as well as sites that pertain to Salvadorians, Dominicans, Colombians, and Guatemalans residing in the US.
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RETANET: Resources for teaching about the Americas
RETANET is a web site for secondary educators with Latin America content for teaching and an on-line interactive learning community of teacher peers.
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SACNAS
The mission of SACNAS is to encourage Chicano/Latino and Native American students to pursue graduate education and obtain the advanced degrees necessary for research careers and science teaching professions at all levels.
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Soy Unica! Soy Latina!
This is a great bilingual website for hispanic teens. Students can learn more about their body and mind, where their family is from, and how to make great choices for their future. Students can also print out our activity books and order materials.
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Tri-Association
The Association of American Schools of Central America, Colombia, Caribbean and Mexico--the Tri-Association--was established to provide services and information to three regional educational associations: The Association of American Schools of Central America (AASCA), The Association of Colombian-Caribbean American Schools (ACCAS), and The Association of American Schools of Mexico (ASOMEX).
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