Oral Histories

• Breaking the Silence-Article published in The Guardian discussing the book Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, edited by Peter Orner.  Underground America Oral History Project.
• Institute for Latino Studies-Midwest Latino Arts Documentary Heritage Project. University of Notre Dame.
  
• Latino Community Initiative.  Humanities Tennessee.  From the website: “The goals of this initiative are to involve Latinos in the humanities, reach Latino communities with humanities programming, and provide the general public with education about Latino history and culture. This initiative explores Tennessee as a particular setting in which Latino communities reflect historical and cultural processes. What do elders transmit to young Latinos in Tennessee to provide cultural continuity? How do changes in material culture reflect the Tennessee environment? What are the economic and cultural contributions of these new American communities, and how are their vitality and growth expressed?”  Of special interest: community-based oral history project.
• Latino Chicago Oral History Project.  Center for Latino Research, De Paul University.
• Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky.
• Making Rights a Reality: Oaxaca Social Movement 2006 to the Present. Digital ethnography of the 2006 social movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Author: Lynn Stephen, Department of Anthropology, U. of Oregon.
  
• Al Norte de San Diego: Oral Histories of Mexicans/Latinos in North San Diego County.
• Reconstructing the Past; Reaching for the Future-The Latino Oral History.  Article describing an oral histories project in Central Pennsylvania that involved high school students as interviewers.

Needs Assessments

• National Needs Assessment of Farmworker-Serving Health Organizations. A Biannual National Report on Outreach Service Delivery at Farmworker-Serving Health Organizations and Head Start Agencies. 2006.  Farmworker Health Services. Inc.

Participatory Action Research

• Beach Center on Disability Families.  The University of Kansas.  Resources on Participatory Action Research.
• Participation Team-Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.  The Participation, Power and Social Change Team (PPSC) explore concepts and methods of ‘participation’ and how they can be used to improve the complex interactions between society and policy.  Focusing on research, innovation and learning in rights-based and participatory approaches, the team works in partnerships with diverse collaborators from around the world to generate ideas and action for social change.
• Participatory Action Research Collective.  City University of New York Graduate Center.
  
• Web Links to Participatory Action Research Sites. Goshen College, Sociology and Anthropology.
  

Research Data

• 4Researchers.org
• Center for Health Services Research & Development. East Carolina University. 
  
• Consortium for Latino Immigration Research. University of South Carolina.
  
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan.
  
• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC).  University of Texas-Austin.
  
• Latino National Survey.  University of Washington’s Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality.  From the website: “The LNS is a major “national” telephone survey of 8600 Latino residents of the United States, seeking a broad understanding of the qualitative nature of Latino political and social life in America. All Latinos, not just citizens or voters were sampled to be interviewed for approximately 40 minutes on a wide range of political questions, conducted in English and Spanish. A major part of the project is the Latino National Contextual Database (LNCD), which includes census, economic and demographic data, as well as political and educational data.”
• Mexican-American Trajectories:  Family, Geography, and Inter-Marriage Across A Century. “This research project examines family and household relationships of Mexican origin Americans between 1880 and 1990. The research contrasts Mexican Americans to a variety of other immigrant origin groups (the Irish, Italians, Poles, Chinese, and Puerto Ricans) and to blacks and native whites. It assesses the effects of ethnicity on family structure, and especially on the household circumstances of children. Current research indicates that Hispanic families today have rising rates of unmarried female-headed families with children, rather than the idealized nuclear family” (Website).
• Mexican Migration Project. Office of Population Research, Princeton University and Departamento de Estudios sobre Movimientos Sociales, Universidad de Guadalajara.
• Minority Data Resource Center. An Initiative of the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR).  The Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) is a new initiative of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Our goal is to provide educators, researchers and students with data resources that can be used in the analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. MDRC provides access and analytic tools intended to enhance the usability of the vast array of data available for comparative research. These data include large on-going national surveys and administrative records that allow researchers to track changes in outcomes for members of minority populations” (Website).
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).  U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences.
  
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Southeastern/Atlantic Region.  Valuable statistical information on eastern North Carolina.
• Research Guide to Migrant Farmworkers.  Belk Library and Information Commons, Appalachian State University.
• North Carolina Statistical and Demographic Data Sources on the Web.  State of North Carolina.  Very good source of data at the county level.
• Southern Rural Development Center.  Mississippi State University.  Population data eastern North Carolina.
• The Health and Migration Survey (MHS).  From the website: “The Health and Migration Survey (HMS) project examines child health outcomes and maternal reproductive behavior using new longitudinal data. Its objective is to resolve some of the contradictory results found in prior studies of migrant health and to assess the effects of migration on health among current U.S. migrants, prior migrants, and non-migrants in Mexico.”