Ethnic Studies Library Guide to Online Resources: Digital Archives and Primary Sources

The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states of America.

An online bilingual exhibit of archival photographs, text and poetry documenting the history and culture of Mexican-Americans in Arizona.

From the Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project

Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective is a group of historians, educators, researchers, archivists and technologists dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era. The online digital repository currently contains approximately 4900 available digital records and over 439 interview clips taken from interviews with over 52 women

A gateway to historical collections and primary sources documenting the Chicano civil rights movement in Colorado.

Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement

Online, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and moderated forum for the circulation and discussion of original research, commentary, and creative work in brief and diverse formats such as essays (500-1800 words), multimedia presentations, podcasts, and short video.

The portal celebrates Mexican American art and culture by uniting images and information from several sources, such as libraries, archives, and museums. Our goal is to make it easier to find and study Mexican American art, culture, and history. The portal includes a variety of art and visual culture often omitted from collections of American art. By centering Mexican American art, culture, and history, we support education and create new ways of understanding the cultural heritage of the United States.

Significant to researchers and students who require primary sources of Midwestern Chicana/o and Latina/o politics and life missing from American history, and Chicano and Latino texts that focus on Southwestern United States activities and events.

Since 2001, the CSRC Library has launched major preservation projects related to music, cinema, the visual arts, and the social sciences.

The leading Latino oral history archive in the United States. It began in 1999, with a mission of capturing untold stories of Latinos and Latinas who served in the military.

From being overrepresented in essential jobs, to underrepresented among those with access to healthcare, to the undocumented living in fear, the global coronavirus pandemic has affected Latinas/os disproportionately.

As this crisis unfolds, the Voces Oral History Center is leading a team of collaborators including institutions of higher education across the country, to record, archive and disseminate interviews to help researchers, journalists and the broader public gain a greater appreciation of the experiences in the Latino community during this historic time.

Excellent set of sources on Chicano/Latina and borderlands history, from pre-Colombian era to the present.