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History

Notable Scholars

• Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Chicana Studies scholar and activist. Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa ( September 26, 1942 - May 15, 2004) was a Mexican American Lesbian Feminist writer
• Frances Aparicio, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Juan Bruce-Novoa, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Irvine.
• Arlene Davila, Professor of Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
• Juan Flores, Professor of Africana and Puerto Rican–Latino Studies at CUNY (City University of New York) Hunter College and of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Former director of CUNY’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
• Suzanne Oboler, Professor of Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies at John Jay College. Founding Editor of the journal, Latino Studies.
• Américo Paredes, 1915-1999. Formerly Dickson, Allen, and Anderson Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Gustavo Perez Firmat, David Feinson Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Gustavo Pérez Firmat is a Cuban author and poet Early life Pérez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida
• Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez, Associate Professor of the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
• José David Saldívar, Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
• Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican- American intellectual Essayist, Lexicographer

Major Programs/Departments

• Chicano Studies Institute at UC Santa Barbara, founded in 1969.
• Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA, created in 1969.
• Latino Studies Program at Cornell University, established in 1987.
• Center for Latino Policy Research at UC Berkeley, founded 1988.
• Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University, established in 1989.
• Chicano/Latino Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, created in 1990.
• Centro De Estudios Puertoriqueños at CUNY Hunter College, established in 1991.
• Cuban Research Institute at Florida International university, founded in 1991.
• Dominican Studies Institute at CUNY City College, established in 1994.
• Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, created in 1999.
• Center for Latino Initiatives at the Smithsonian Institute, founded in 1998.
• The Pew Hispanic Center established in 2001.

Latino Studies Program - Northwestern University

See also

• Ethnic studies
• Chicano studies

Books on Latino Studies

• Aparicio, Frances. Ethnic studies is an academic discipline dedicated to the study of Ethnicity. Chicano studies is an Academic discipline. Like most branches of Ethnic studies, it incorporates aspects of various other disciplines including history sociology Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures CT: Wesleyan, 1998.
• Dalleo, Raphael, and Elena Machado Sáez. The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. http://www.post-sixties.com
• Caminero-Santangelo, Marta. On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity. FL: University Press of Florida, 2007.
• Davila, Arlene. Latinos, Inc. : The Marketing and Making of a People. CA: University of California Press, 2001.
• Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-Hop. NY: Columbia University Press, 2000.
• Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America. NY: Penguin, 2000.
• Lima, Lazaro. The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory. NY: New York University Press, 2007.
• Negron-Muntaner, Frances. Boricua Pop. New York: NYU Press, 2004.
• Oboler, Suzanne. Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States. MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
• Perez-Firmat, Gustavo. Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way. TX: University of Texas Press, 1994.
• Rochin, Refugio I. and Denis Nodin Valdes. Voices of a New Chicana/o History. MI: Michigan State University Press, 2000.
• Sanchez Gonzalez, Lisa. Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. NY: NYU Press, 2001.
• Stavans, Ilan. The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People. NY: Harper Perennial, 1995.
• Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo, and Mariela Páez. Latinos: Remaking America. CA: University of California Press, 2002.

External links

• Yale University Guide to Latino Studies
• Latino Studies Journal Published by Palgrave Macmillan
• National Associaton for Chicana and Chicano Studies
• Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association
• Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States