Latino/a Web Sites

I was excited to search and annotate the sites that Cecilia’s students had found during a class period.  She had asked them to locate sites of Latino/a self-representations as well as resource sites.  There were so many sites to visit, and more are being created every day.   If you know of any great web sites send them to us at mharris311@aol.com  -or-  cmilanes@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu  with your reasons for why you like the site.  We’ll include them in our next issue.

 

Visit our new and updated sites!

http://home.uchicago.edu/~weorchar/homepage.htm
We heard on the listserv about The QUARRY, a new website for Latina/o literature and cultural studies. The site is far from complete, and will benefit tremendously from the input and contributions of others. Please take the time to visit it and share your comments and suggestions.

http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/LatStud/mclas.html
Visit this site to find out about the Midwest Conference on Latin American Studies (MCLAS). Conference abstract is due January 12, 2001—you can submit it online.

http://www.seattlewritergrrls.org/creative_elputo22Nov1999.htm
Maria Jesse Estrada writes that she is getting published again in an online journal in October. The poem’s title is "El Puto, El Santo, y El .22" Read the poem at the website!

http://clnet.ucr.edu

This site, Building Chicana/o Latina/o Communities Through Networking has a host of topics to explore.  I mainly surfed the Chicanas page but there were plenty of other topics including a jobs page, a virtual museum, a library, education and more.  The Chicanas page has a list serve to join, Chicana & Latina profiles, other Web sites (a whole page of more great links) along with various organizations and networks.  It was last updated on 3/12/1999 and has a few links that don’t work.

 

http://www.chicanas.com

Making Face, Making Soul: a Chicana feminist homepage is a site by, for, and about Chicanas.  This site contains a variety of resources ranging from short biographies of Chicanas, to Chicana poetry and literature, cultural resources, academic resources, other Chicanas on the 'net, and more.  It was last updated in April 1999.

 

http://www.latinworld.com

The LatinWorld web site offers information and resources about Latin America.  Their objective is “to serve as a communication platform for Latin Americans and people interested in Latin America.”  They have some good photos and a linked Latin Page of the Week, which they summarize in both English and Spanish.

 

http://www.artelatino.com

This opens with a cool design intensive home page.  It’s completely in Spanish and might take a while for some of the pages to load.  It offers a variety of topics to explore: theater, literature, artes plasticas, dance, and an interface area where you can join a chat session.

 

http://www.ondanet.com/

La Onda Network offers a variety of information related to the Tejano music scene.  Among some of what is offered follows: a web page tribute to Selena, history about Tejano music, as well as a journal where you can write or read comments about the Tejano music scene.  The journal is very chatty and student centered. 

 

http://www.americanosproject.com

This site is in conjunction with Edward James Olmos’ multimedia effort to raise awareness and encourage interest in Latina/os.  The site is bilingual and includes a slide show (first screen) with photos from the Smithsonian Exhibition now touring the US.  (It’s in NYC this month).

 

http://www.patmora.com

Besides contact information, a vita, poems and prose for this Chicana writer, Mora’s page has details on Día de Los Niños/Día de Los Libros—an event to focus on literacy among Latino children.  The caucus will be linking efforts with Mora on this project.

 

http://www.cafepilon.com
Here’s a web site for those of us who live in parts of the country that lack the necessary amounts of "Azuca’!" It has delicious coffee products for you to purchase, including Bustelo and Pilon, but it also has some more obscure brands made by the same people: Me, I prefer Caracolillo or Regil, which are made independently in Tampa. But that’s beside the point. More importantly, this site also has a very silly but amusing "cabana boy" who serves as your guide and a Tito Puente soundtrack.

 

http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/hpx/hpx.htm
Zan writes that she is teaching a class called Writing for Social Action and says "I have found the Heart Politics site to be really useful."

 

http://www.ncac.org
This is for the national coalition against censorship website. Lot’s of people of color are censored and this provides resources for preventing it, teaching censored books, etc. Amanda writes "I show it to all my English ed majors."

 

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