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Portals & General Resources

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Chicana & Latina Profiles
Biographies of artists, labor leaders, activists and a Nobel Peace Prize winner

Chicana Studies - CLNet
Sections include: Profiles ; Mujer-Listserv ; Chicana/Latina Web Sites ; Resources & Topics ; Announcements ; Organizations & Networks.
Maintained by Romelia Salinas

CLNet Library
"...provides information on the leading Latino research collections and archives to Latino specific reference resources as well as serving as a gateway to the on-line catalogs of major collections with Latino resources. In addition it includes information on publishers and bookstores. Finally, it includes on-line access to a growing number of Latino electronic publications."

FirstGov en Español
FirstGov es el portal oficial del gobierno de los Estados Unidos.

Hispanic/Latino Academic Resources
- University of Texas

Inter-University Program for Latino Research
"...a consortium of 13 Latino research centers based at major universities across the United States."

Selected Laws and Policies Affecting Hispanic / Latino Americans
From the Race and Racism in American Law page
University of Dayton School of Law

Smithsonian Institution - U.S. Latino History and Culture
Sections include: Resources and Selected Links ; Exhibitions.

Stanford University Libraries - Beginning Library Research on Chicano/Latino Studies
A guide to resources at at Stanford University but a good bibliographic resource for all students of Chicano/Latino Studies.

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
"In addition to a definitive collection of Chicano-related research guides and directories, the library now includes monographs; serials; pamphlets and clippings; dissertations and theses; journal articles; as well as maps, films, videotapes, tape recordings, slides, and several important archival collections."


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