Biography Collections: Special Collections: Latin Americans, Hispanics, Latinos Lives, the Biography Resource, linking to thousands of biographyrelated sites including autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, memoirs, biography collections, etc. Special Collections latin americans, Hispanics, latinos. Including people of all the Americas Las Mujeres. notable AfroBorincanos. from El Boricua, a bilingual , cultural publication http://amillionlives.com/Collect_spec5.html
Extractions: THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Special Collections: Latin Americans, Hispanics, Latinos [Including people of all the Americas south of the United States, of the Caribbean, and of the U.S. and Canada of Latin American heritage.] Although many excellent resources are certainly available in Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages of the region, I cannot honestly evaluate them due to my limitations in those languages. Regrettably, all links point only to English language Web pages. The Untold Story of the Alamo's Early History The Amazon Throne: The Orleans-Braganza of Brazil
THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN LATIN AMERICA José María Arguedas once wrote that we latin americans are people rooted in ancient cultures we have unique sector in Peru has been notable, perhaps the most notable of all http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n1-8.html
Extractions: P eruvian writer José María Arguedas once wrote that we Latin Americans are people rooted in ancient cultures: we have unique histories and indelible characteristics. I would say that, among those characteristics, one of the most remarkable is that by which our nations convulse themselves in revolution from time to time. Contemporary Peru has experienced two such revolutions. One that failed, which is the one attempted by the Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that began its insurrection in 1980; and another one that succeeded, which is the revolution of the informal entrepreneurs who work outside the law in every city in the country. Thus, if we had to conceptually summarize the history of Peru in the last 15 years, I would say that it is the history of those two revolutions: the history of the communist revolution carried out by the Shining Path and the history of the informal revolution carried out by the popular entrepreneurs. The history of a revolution that failed militarily and politically, and the history of a revolution that has surely become one of the most impressive successes of our time.
Biography Collections: Special Collections Australians and New Zealanders. latin americans, Hispanics, latinos Black Loyalists Our History, Our people. Black Moments Women in Science. notable Women Ancestors. A very excellent http://amillionlives.com/Collect_spec.html
Extractions: African-American Pamphlet Collection Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress NY Public Library's Schomburg Center presents another outstanding online collection. Complete texts of about 20 biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs from the period are available here. Highly recommended.
Notable People - Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Bay Regional CollectionNotable people Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in English, French, and latin by the Englishman, William the Advent of the americans . Albuquerque University of New http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/notables/vallejo.html
Extractions: Skip Navigation University Library North Bay Regional Collection Notable People Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo - 1808-1890 Photograph courtesy of the California Heritage Collection, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley "If he was not actually the founder of California's diversity, Vallejo was certainly one of it's chief architects." Capsule Biography July 7, 1808 (or July 5, 1807). The eighth of thirteen children, Mariano was born to Maria Antonio Lugo and Ignacio Vallejo in Monterey, the provincial capitol of Alta (Upper) California. His father, a leather jacket soldier, escorted Junipero Serra to San Francisco in 1776 and later worked as an engineer on irrigation projects. 1818. When the pirate, Bouchard, sacked Monterey, Mariano fled inland with his mother and siblings. His father and older brother remained behind to defend the capitol. Governor Sola mentored the young Vallejo, providing him with a role model for solid leadership, liberalism, and sophistication. He was tutored in English, French, and Latin by the Englishman, William Hartnell and worked as Hartnell's clerk and bookkeeper. 1822 - 1826. Vallejo served as personal secretary to Governor Arguello; entered military service as a cadet at Monterey; and became a member of the territorial legislature.
The Miami Herald 04/07/2002 Fleeing Unrest, Latin Americans Aid these countries have deteriorated and people have left their homes in in the number of latin americans coming into the United States Overall numbers are even more notable http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3009067.htm
20th Century Biographical Dictionary Of Notable Americans, Vol 2 Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of notable americans. 10 vols Elisha Williams. His people in Windham were so unwilling published in 1748 in latin, the first book published http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/biodict02.html
Extractions: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans . 10 vols. Rossiter Johnson, ed., Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. [A corrected edition of The Cyclopedia of American Biography (1897-1903) and Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States (1900-1903).] (Republished by Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, 1968) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-19657 p.127 CHANDLER, William Henry, chemist, was born at New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 13, 1841; son of Charles and Sarah ( Whitney ) Chandler, and brother of Charles Frederick Chandler. He was graduated an A.M. at Union college in 1861 and until 1867 was chemist at the New Bedford, Mass., copper works and at the Swan Island guano company. From 1868 to 1871 he was assistant in chemistry at the school of mines, New York, and in the latter year was given the chair of chemistry at Lehigh university, Bethlehem, Pa. From 1878 he was also director of the university library. He was elected a member of various chemical societies in London, Paris, and America, and from 1870 to 1877 was joint editor and proprietor with his brother, Charles F. Chandler, of the American Chemist. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Hamilton college in 1873. He is the author of Products of Mining and Metallurgy (1891); The Construction of Chemical Laboratories (1893), and of various reports of the universal exposition at Paris in 1889.
TDA Book Review - Beisbol: Latin Americans And The Grand Old Game with Beisbol latin americans and the Grand people like Ted Williams and Stan Musial turned Pasquel down, Jorge was able to sign some players. The most notable of http://www.thediamondangle.com/books/beisbol.html
Extractions: You can't judge a book by its cover, but a nice cover can certainly catch your eye in the bookstore. That was the case with Beisbol - Latin Americans and the Grand Old Game by Michael M. Oleksak and Mary Adams Oleksak. It has a very attractive jacket design, photos of Jose Canseco and Roberto Clemente on top of a map of the Caribbean. After picking up the book and flipping through it for a while, I plunked down $14.95 and took it home. The authors approach baseball in Latin America from a historical point of view, following the spread of baseball from Cuba to the rest of the nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. In a bang-bang presentation they tell as how the "National Pastime" became a pastime in many nations. What I found interesting about this section of the book was that a bit of history was covered. In my education provided by the United States, the only times South of the Rio Grande is mentioned are when we invaded Mexico, dug a canal, and lost a battleship in Cuba. Although the treatment wasn't very deep, it still opened windows that had been closed to me. I wish that there had been more, but this is a baseball book, not a history text. After a short bit describing what happened when major league teams barnstormed in Cuba, pre-World War II Latin stars were presented. One of them had light enough skin to pass as white an played in the majors. He was Dolf Luque. A good short biography of Pride of Havana follows. While Luque won almost 200 games in the majors, most of the talent produced never saw the bigs. Most were trapped behind the walls of segregation. Several biographies of notable Caribbean Negro Leaguers are given, along with a short bit on the close relationship between Negro Leagues and the Caribbean Winter Leagues. At one point two players are mentioned as being the only players to play both in the pre-Robinson big leagues and the Negro Leagues. This just isn't true, there were nearly a dozen similar instances. It is my hope that this reflects a lack of knowledge of the Negro Leagues on the part of the authors rather than a similar gap in their study of Latin American baseball.
Introduction And Summary: Views Of A Changing World 2003 the notable exception of latin americans are most likely to express the view that commercialism represents a threat to their cultures. Underscoring the conflicted views many people http://www.people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=185
Introduction And Summary: What The World Thinks In 2002 latin americans present a very mixed picture of their lives. Mexicans, Hondurans and Guatemalans express a much higher degree of satisfaction than do people are notable given the http://www.people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=165
MSN Encarta - Native Americans Of Middle And South America Increasingly, indigenous latin americans are people in motion. By the 1990s the largest single body of Jersey, and California have notable colonies of Andean people. Also present in http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509044_11/Native_Americans_of_Middle_and_
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Hispanic/Latin American Guides notable latino americans a Biographical Dictionary Call R 920 for the Mexicanand Hispanic people of the Zona latina The latin American Media Site - Zona http://www.cos.cc.ca.us/library/hispanic-latinamerican.htm
Extractions: Developed by Connie Fly, Librarian This guide will help you in your journey of discovery for information on your topic. In addition to the Reference Books, Internet Sites and Periodicals listed below, the COS Library has a large number of books that you can check out. An HSI/Listo grant purchased books for the library on your topic which you can check out. This list is an example of some of the books recently purchased by Listo and added to the library collection that you can check out. Please look for additional books by using our online catalog Places to Start Biography Health ... Sports Places to Start Reference Books American Immigrant Cultures; Builders of a Nation (2 volumes) - Call # R 305.8 A512 Encyclopedia of American Social History - Call # R 301.0973 En56 The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (3 volumes) R #323.1 En56 Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Call # R 306.03 En56 Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2 volumes) Call # R 305.8 G151 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups - Call # R 973.04 H339
Extractions: While it is widely recognized that the political context within which market reform has been carried out is integral to the process, the nature of the relationship between market reform and political change has been fraught with considerable controversy. The spread of market reform throughout the region demonstrates that elected regimes are capable of carrying out politically risky and socially costly reforms. But the issue of how and why they have been able to do so and what the implications are for democratic stability and practices in the longer term remains an area of ongoing research and discussion. This book aims to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between market reform and politics through examining the issue comparatively, across regime type and over time. In the following section, I sketch the major issues of the current debate and then situate this study within these broader concerns. Latin American Politics in the Market Reform Era Alongside the dramatic reversal of the statism that had come to characterize economic policy in Latin America, the decade of the 1980s also witnessed a concerted move toward political liberalization and democratization as countries shed military rule and moved to establish a variety of formal democratic practices. As we will see, this process has been examined in a variety of ways: democratization has been explored from procedural and substantive perspectives and from the point of view of responsiveness to public input. The market reform/democracy discussion has become extraordinarily intractable, involving not only differing concepts of democracy but also varying assessments of the economic and social impacts of economic reforms along with conflicting viewpoints on the possibilities opened up by such changes.
TDA Book Review - Beisbol: Latin Americans And The Grand Old Game While people like Ted Williams and Stan Musial turned The most notable of the MexicanJumping Beans Caribbean, the authors now examine latin americans in the http://thediamondangle.com/books/beisbol.html
Extractions: You can't judge a book by its cover, but a nice cover can certainly catch your eye in the bookstore. That was the case with Beisbol - Latin Americans and the Grand Old Game by Michael M. Oleksak and Mary Adams Oleksak. It has a very attractive jacket design, photos of Jose Canseco and Roberto Clemente on top of a map of the Caribbean. After picking up the book and flipping through it for a while, I plunked down $14.95 and took it home. The authors approach baseball in Latin America from a historical point of view, following the spread of baseball from Cuba to the rest of the nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. In a bang-bang presentation they tell as how the "National Pastime" became a pastime in many nations. What I found interesting about this section of the book was that a bit of history was covered. In my education provided by the United States, the only times South of the Rio Grande is mentioned are when we invaded Mexico, dug a canal, and lost a battleship in Cuba. Although the treatment wasn't very deep, it still opened windows that had been closed to me. I wish that there had been more, but this is a baseball book, not a history text. After a short bit describing what happened when major league teams barnstormed in Cuba, pre-World War II Latin stars were presented. One of them had light enough skin to pass as white an played in the majors. He was Dolf Luque. A good short biography of Pride of Havana follows. While Luque won almost 200 games in the majors, most of the talent produced never saw the bigs. Most were trapped behind the walls of segregation. Several biographies of notable Caribbean Negro Leaguers are given, along with a short bit on the close relationship between Negro Leagues and the Caribbean Winter Leagues. At one point two players are mentioned as being the only players to play both in the pre-Robinson big leagues and the Negro Leagues. This just isn't true, there were nearly a dozen similar instances. It is my hope that this reflects a lack of knowledge of the Negro Leagues on the part of the authors rather than a similar gap in their study of Latin American baseball.
Liberation Theology (by Ron Rhodes) Black liberation theologians argue that their people have suffered oppression at Witha few notable exceptions, latin American liberation theology http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/Liberation.html
Extractions: on Liberation Theology Theological controversies are often confined to seminary classrooms or theological journals. But the controversy provoked by Latin American liberation theology has been public and it has been worldwide - involving the Vatican, orthodox and not-so-orthodox priests, lay people, sociologists, socialists, capitalists, economists, government leaders and their military, and much more. Liberation theology has certainly not been the passing fad some analysts thought it would be when it first emerged in the late 1960s. Strictly speaking, liberation theology should be understood as a family of theologies - including the Latin American, Black, and feminist varieties. All three respond to some form of oppression: Latin American liberation theologians say their poverty-stricken people have been oppressed and exploited by rich, capitalist nations. Black liberation theologians argue that their people have suffered oppression at the hands of racist whites. Feminist liberation theologians lay heavy emphasis upon the status and liberation of women in a male-dominated society. This article, the first of a three-part series on liberation theology, will focus on the Latin American variety - examining its historical roots, growth, doctrine, and present status in the world. Primary emphasis will be on how the movement has changed since its emergence in the late 1960s. In Parts Two and Three respectively, I will examine the Black and feminist varieties.
Reviews Of Latin American Electronic Resources and conversation among and between Native people, activists and Other notable resourcesat the New Mexico of Mexico, Border and latin American Information, Las http://home.earthlink.net/~rhondaneu/eresources/eresources1.html
Extractions: Collection Development Division This page contains the reviews of Latin American electronica that were originally published in the SALALM Newsletter from 1997 to the present. They are republished on this site with permission. These reviews provide descriptions of a variety of Latin American electronic information resources (primarily websites, but also databases, CD-ROM indexes) and assess their usefulness for research, study and teaching about Latin America. E-Resources for Latin American Studies Major Websites and Guides By Rhonda L. Neugebauer The sites chosen for review here, with their pages of links and sections of resources, provide complex but easily navigated maps for exploration of the rapidly changing and expanding territory of Latin American Internet country. As noted in the annotations of these sites, many SALALM members and institutions have already developed innovative products, web services, and electronic tools that have enhanced Internet understanding and usage. Their work has provided insight, guidance and value to this information and has supported as well as influenced research and communication in critical new ways. Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Hispanic Reading Rm., Library of Congress
Notable AfroBorincanos Tainos, notable AfroBorincanos Homepage. More than two thousand people participatein the funeral march. known as the most gifted of latin American rococo artist http://www.elboricua.com/AfroBorinquen_people.html
Extractions: Related Links Rafael Cordero was a free black man born in San Juan on October 24, 1790. Most free black men were poor and illiterate but he was different. Very little is known about him. He was the son of Lucas Andino and Rita Molina. No one knows why he used the name Cordero but his sister used it also. At that time Puerto Rico was a colony with more free blacks than slaves. His parents, both free blacks, were educated. They could read and they taught their children at a time and place when most of the white population was illiterate. Cordero's story is extremely unusual. He was a cigar maker and had his own shop in a very poor section in San Juan. He began teaching black children how to read and write and spent time tutoring them in the classics. Back then there were only two school for children in the entire island. Soon Cordero was teaching white children as well. He taught without pay for it was not until his later years that the government recognized him and budgeted $15.00 per month for his school. Cordero's alumni adored and revered him remembering to visit him often. Many went on to become civic leaders. His was an integrated school. His students fought for the abolition of slavery. After his death on July 5th 1868 a former student, the print shop owner, prints a Biography in his honor. "Bless his memory!" pleading to the former students of this great man. The Maestro's funeral was a grand event. It was attended by former students that included heads of state, priest, scientists, business men, doctors, lawyers, politicians, young children, grandfathers and grandmothers. More than two thousand people participate in the funeral march. The Maestro was taken to the cemetery on the shoulders of his former pupils. A band of former students who had become musicians played at the funeral. Heading the procession were his school children, carrying sweet smelling lilacs.
Latin America: Introduction S.Meier, M., Serri, CF, Garcia, RA (1997). notable latino americans A bibliographicaldictionary. latin American Immigration to the United States. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gstudies/latin/curriculum/intro.htm
Extractions: Today, Latin Americans are the largest immigrant group in the United States. During the 1980s eight million immigrants came from Latin America, nearly equal to the total figure of European immigrants who came to the U.S. during the first decade of the 20th century. ( ) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are an estimated 31 million Latinos in the United States, comprising about 11.2 percent of the total population. Immigration from Latin America has become the most significant immigration spread during the second half of the twentieth century with immigrants coming from all over the continent: "Of the top ten "sender" countries in the last decade, four are Latin American and Caribbean: Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica; in the next ten are Haiti, El Salvador, Colombia and Peru". ( The goal of this website is to provide information about Latin American and Caribbean immigration to teachers and students in the U.S. studying the different immigrant groups. Further it would help them understand better the causes of Mexican immigration which is the largest immigrant group to the U.S. Three major sources document the demographic trends of immigrants to the United States: the Annual Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) the Annual Statistical Abstract of the United States
Extractions: Northwood University About Northwood Campuses Academic Programs Admissions The Campuses Description Services Things to Consider Before Leaving Finances Travel Tips Arriving in the U.S. Important Documents The Basics Communication The University System Daily Life in the U.S. Post Offices Telephones Public Holidays Language Hints ... Entertainment Getting Along Adjusting to a new culture U.S. Govt. in brief American Characteristics Other Guidelines Contacts Contacts Notable American Characteristics Friendliness The early European settlers in America lived on the frontier, often very distant from their nearest neighbors. A tradition of friendliness and openness developed that visitors from abroad noticed even 200 years ago. This is one of the first things that international visitors recognize in America. It can be confusing to people from other countries, as friendliness cannot be confused with true friendship. In the United States, as anywhere else, true friendships take time to develop, and you will probably have as many close friends here as you did at home. Most Americans have many acquaintances but relatively few close friends. Once an American becomes your friend, it is a strong friendship. However, don't mistake superficial friendliness for real friendship so you will not be disappointed. Americans are informal about making friends. Do not wait for formal introductions.
NYPL, The Spanish-American War Research Guide in journals regularly containing information on latin America. The SpanishAmericanWar an annotated 93-6609 Illustrated list of notable people from colonial http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/spanamerwar/general.html
Extractions: @import "/styles/markup-nonNS4.css"; Skip to Left Navigation Skip to Main Content get a library card? find a book? renew a book? reserve a book? research a topic? find a job at NYPL? volunteer for NYPL? support NYPL? rent space? learn to read? learn English? find events? find exhibitions? find classes? connect with wireless? The Spanish-American War Indexes and Bibliographies Biography America, History and Life . Santa Barbara: American Bibliographical Center: Clio Press, 1954-. [*R-IAA+. Electronic version also available in the South Hall of the RMRR.] Indexes and abstracts books, dissertations and journal articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. The electronic version covers from 1964 to the present. Covington, Paula, ed. Latin America and the Caribbean: a critical guide to research sources. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. [*RS-HC 92-10849] Interdisciplinary guide to reference and bibliographic sources on Latin America. Discusses research trends in each discipline, and describes resources held in various libraries.
History & Geography Sites information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, points Know moreabout the people of Israel latin American Network Divided by 14 subject areas http://www.ci.eastpointe.mi.us/library/WSHistory.html
