CSIJ 200: Race & Racism in America

For Latina/o undergraduates, ethnic identity is an important construct linked to self-esteem and educational attainment. Internalized and perceived racism have been hypothesized to hinder ethnic identity development in Latina/o undergraduates.

Read articles and blog posts and listen to podcasts from the Journal of Hispanic Policy. This website is provided by the Harvard Kennedy School and the journal is a premier publication focused on public policy issues that impact Latinx and Hispanic communities in the United States and Puerto Rico.

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) publishes original research and review essays on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. LARR covers the social sciences and the humanities, including the fields of anthropology, economics, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology.

View a timeline of Latino Americans in the United States which includes videos as well as dates of events in history.

A timeline spanning over a century detailing the fight for Latino Civil Rights

This article describes the basic processes of racialization. The paper begins by analyzing how Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans were racialized during the first decades of the 20th century.