Latinos/as
Santa Clara Valley

The Basics

• Background Reading
• Additional Local Publications

History [General, Familial, and Immigration Histories]

• General
  
• Brazilian Americans
  
• Guatemalan Americans
  
• Mexican Americans
  
  • Plight of the Migrant Worker : a personal interview with Dr. Ramon Chacon
    
  • The Grapes of Wrath : one SCU student's impressions of experiential education in the Central Valley
  • Bracero movement
    Peralta/Adobe Fallon House
    
• Nicaraguan Americans
  
• Salvadoran Americans
  

Organizations and Local Resources

• General
  
  • San Jose Minority Artists Guild
    
  • Bibliotecas para la Gente (Northern California)
  • REFORMA
  • Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  • Mexican American Community Service Agency (MACSA)
    
  • Latino Radio, Television, and Newspapers in the Santa Clara Valley
  • Biblioteca Latinoamericana
  • Machu Picchu (Folk art and Gallery)
  • National Hispanic University
    
• Brazilian Americans
  
• Guatemalan Americans
  
• Mexican Americans
  
  • Mexican Heritage Corp.
    
  • MACLA (Mexican American Center for Latino Arts)
    
  • Stanford Center for Chicano Research
    
  • El Centro Chicano (Stanford University)
    
• Nicaraguan Americans
  
• Salvadoran Americans
  

Demographics

• Animated Census Maps by Ethnic Group, 1940-1990
• Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research (select San Jose, CA or San Francisco, CA)
• Multiracial Patterns in the 50 States

Culture [Literature, Food, Dances, Special Events, etc.]

• General
  
  • Local Area Artistas
    
• Brazilian Americans
  
• Guatemalan Americans
  
• Mexican Americans
  
  • Chicano Murals in the Santa Clara Valley
    
  • Cinco de Mayo in the San Jose
    
  • La Voz Exhibit at the Triton Museum (SCU student impressions #1)
    
  • La Voz Exhibit at the Triton Museum (SCU student impressions #2)
    
  • Las Posadas in the Santa Clara Valley
    
  • Aztec Dancing in the Santa Clara Valley
    
  • El Teatro Familia Aztlan
    
  • International Mariachi Festival
    
  • El Mariachi Cardenal de Stanford
    
  • Quetzalcoatl Statue
    
• Nicaraguan Americans
  
• Salvadoran Americans
  

Famous Local People

• Francisco Jimenez by Lucia Varona
  
• Francisco Jimenez by Kathryn Bold
  
• Jose Antonio Villarreal
  
• Julius Menendez
  

Local Restaurants

• General
  
• Brazilian
  
• Caribbean
  
• Cuban
  
• Guatemalan
  
• Mexican
  
• Nicaraguan
  
• Salvadoran
  

Sister Cities

• San Jose Sister City Program
  
• San Jose, Costa Rica (San Jose, Calif. Sister City)
  
• Zihuatenejo, Mexico (Los Gatos Sister City)
  

SCU and the Latino/a Community

• SCU and Diversity
  
• SCU Latino/a Students and Faculty
  • Plight of the Migrant Worker : a personal interview with Dr. Ramon Chacon
    
  • C.H.E. (Chicanos/as--Latinos/as in Health Education)
    
  • MEChA El Frente (Santa Clara University)
    
  • Noche Latina at Santa Clara University
    
  • Cinco de Mayo at Santa Clara University
    
  • Prism : a diversity initiative
  • Emerging Leaders Poem
  • MCC Global Village Celebration
  • SCU Faculty Latin Jazz Ensemble
• SCU Famous Alumni

Education

• Santa Clara Valley School Districts
• Statistics on Education for the County of Santa Clara
• Statistics on Education for the City of Santa Clara

Beyond the Santa Clara Valley

Send suggestions or comments to: aalgier@mailer.scu.edu