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**The purpose of this site is to explore, resource, and understand the lives of Latino Youth and the generations that have shaped their existence. Our goal is to create an extensive resource that can inform leaders that serve this population.

Web Links
Below is a wealth of information. This section will soon be organized into categories. If you would like to download this list in MS Word, click here. Clicking on a link will bring you to the web page.

Bordering the Future
http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch01/ch01.html
The Mexico/U.S. border will soon become one of the most important binational regions in the hemisphere. Bordering the Future is a special report on the U.S./Texas border issued by the Comptroller of the State of Texas.

California Demographic Futures
California Housing Futures
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/futures/
California Demographic Futures tracks population projections to 2030, by immigrant generations, nativity, and time of arrival in U.S. California Housing Futures is a continuing project to monitor, rethink, and project housing needs. California, with its dramatic population changes and housing shortfalls, is the principal focus. Comparisons are also made to the 50 states, and important insights are drawn for the broader United Stated context.

Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
http://centropr.org/index.html
Housed at Hunter College, City University of New York, the Centro is a research center dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We are committed to making this research available and useful to those in community organizations, public policy, and academia. The Centro is also the world's only repository of archival and library materials dedicated exclusively to the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/
Among the numerous university-based web sties on bilingual education is this one. It is sponsored by the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research at the University of Southern California (USC). The language policy and language rights content is extensive. CMMR has done an exceptional job of collecting resources on the Unz initiative in California.

Demographic and Economic Studies of Hispanics in Central Florida
http://www.orlando.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=Hispanic%20Summit%20Home
Three pieces of original research studies are included in this website sponsored by the Hispanic Summit: The Economic Impact of Hispanics in Central Florida; Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Central Florida and the Regional Leadership Survey, a multi-county analysis highlighting the different voter attitudes and trends in the region, provided valuable information to our government, business and civic leaders to make plans for the future and promote cooperation, coordination and collaboration in the region.

Directory of Two-Way Immersion Programs in the U.S.
http://www.cal.org/twi/directory/
The Directory of Two-Way Immersion Programs in the U.S. is now accessible to everyone for free. Check out this link. The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) has introduced this in hopes it will contribute to the expansion and improvement of Two-Way Immersion Programs worldwide. It consists of a complete listing of the number of programs by language, state and grade level of students. An excellent resource, painstakingly done!

Finding Mañana
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4624257
Mirta Ojito was 16 when she arrived in the U.S. as part of an influx of Cuban refugees in 1980, an exodus known as the Mariel boatlift. She revisits her experience and the factors behind the boatlift in a new book, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus. Important reading for distinguishing between Cuban Latinos and Latinos of other national origins.

Hispanic Facts
http://www.hispanicaction.com/sample5_data/HispanicFacts.html
This link is probably the most concise snapshot on this page of links into key characteristics of the Latino population in the U.S. Topics include social identity, Hispanic stats, changing patterns of growth, country of origin, Hispanics and electoral politics, Hispanic voting patterns, the Hispanic market, Generation Ñ, Hispanic online usage patterns, Hispanic media, Hispanics and language, Hispanic poverty, and U.S. Census facts.

Language Policy Web Page
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/
James Crawford is a journalist/writer on the subject of the Official English movement, bilingual education and the civil rights issues involved. (He is a former Washington Editor of EW newspaper.) As a complement to his published material Crawford maintains a Language Policy Web Page with a collection of his own work and links to other sites. This is a well focused resource on the politics of language in the U.S. Crawford's journalistic style is straightforward, and we recommend the site to readers who prefer less jargon, more content.

Latino Politics in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class in the Mexican American and Puerto Rican Experience. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt (June 2005)
http://www.csulb.edu/%7Evrodrig5/LatinoPolitics2005.html
This collection of essays by Victor Rodríguez begins to analyze the racialization experience of the two "resident minorities" in the United States: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Other Latino groups have followed them in this experience, and we all have something to learn from them. This book is expected to be released June 2005.

Latino USA
http://www.latinousa.org/
Latino USA is a Latino produced news broadcast by National Public Radio reporting Latino news of all sorts. Visit here and listen to the last broadcast if you missed it or if your station does not carry the program. Excellent English language resource totally Latino content. You must download the RealAudio plug-in for your browser in order to hear the show. You can also download the text only version. Nice resource!

La Vida Robot
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/robot.html
A story in Wired Magazine about how four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship.

La Vitrina
http://www.lavitrina.com/
Before your next trip to New York City stop by this site. The Mexican Cultural Institute of NY reports on Mexican cultural activities in the city through a magazine-format web site called La Vitrina. It's a good way to find out what exhibits, theatre, and music events going on in NYC, an important venue for Mexican arts and culture. (Some 250,000 Mexicans live in the NY area.) A hardcopy newsletter called the Mexican Notebook is also available with much of the same content.

The MLA Language Map
http://www.mla.org/census_main
The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The census data are based on responses to the question, "Does this person speak a language other than English at home?" The Language Map illustrates the concentration of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers and includes census data about seven additional groups of languages less commonly spoken in the United States.

Overview of the Foreign Language Education in the United States
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/resource/foreign.htm
This is part of a huge study, a large scale investigation into the current status of language education in the United States, its context and its dimensions, especially at the secondary level. It is based on the "National Profile: United States Language Education Study". This is the U.S. contribution to Phase One of an international study of educational achievement in language education. It will be interesting to see what the final study has to say about transitional bilingual education. Is it additive or subtractive? Does it contribute to home language development or hinder it?

Pew Hispanic Center
http://pewhispanic.org/
Founded in 2001, the Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. The Center does not advocate for or take positions on policy issues. It is a project of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan "fact tank" in Washington, DC that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.

Pew Study on Latinos and Race
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4208970
NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports on the different ways Latinos identify themselves by race. A new study from the Pew Hispanic Center shows broad regional differences in how American Latinos regard themselves. From NPR. Includes audio.

Point of View Borders
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2002/borders/index_flash.html
P.O.V.'s Borders is a Web-only series on PBS Online. A showcase for interactive storytelling, the series asks about the borders in our lives, both literal and metaphysical. The first episode of P.O.V.'s Borders deals with the theme of migration.

Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050
http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1130/
P25-1130 Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050. This is the U.S. Census Bureau document that tracks the growth of the Latino population. The document is in PDF format and therefore requires the Acrobat plug in to your browser in order to read it or print it. The full report is about 100 pages long. There are periodic updates but this is the last full report done in 1996.

Tomas Rivera Policy Institute
http://www.trpi.org
Another site that is very informative and elegantly designed is the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRC) which conducts rigorous, policy-relevant research, evaluates the effects of governmental and corporate practices on Latinos, and serves as a nonpartisan source of information, analysis and ideas for the policymaking communities. One good thing about this site is that it is updated quite regularly and one can get recent articles on issues of concern to the nation's Latino communities.

Web Page on Contemporary Mexico
http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/
Southwesterners are well advised to do a better job building working relationships with Mexican counterparts and seeking their ideas for the education of Mexican immigrant children in U.S. schools. To do that we must understand better the changes currently underway in Mexican life, especially "la democratizacion" that is slowly creating a multiparty system there. A Mexican professor in Canada, Alex López-Ortiz, has assembled an important set of documents for the study of contemporary Mexico. His collection reflects journalistic and scholarly thought in Mexico today. You may find these resources useful in keeping up with changes in that country. Please give Alex some feedback if you benefit from his work.

What is the status of foreign language instruction in U.S. high schools?
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/expert/faq/17foreign.htm
This page is from AskNCELA, the FAQ for the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs website. The data analyzed are from the National Center for Educational Statistics' (NCES), Digest of Educational Statistics, 2002.

Youthlink Online
http://www.hispaniclink.org/youthlink/
YouthLink Online is a national English- and Spanish-language publication by and about youth. It is hosted by the Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation and youth editorial boards nationwide.
YouthLink Online has three goals:

• to produce a high quality publication of student writing and art that is interesting, informative and appealing to any student age 19 or under.
• to connect students across the country to mentors in their area. We believe that the best way to learn any skill is with a mentor who can provide guidance and assistance.
• to help young people go to college and acquire internships.