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Chicana/o-Latina/o-Latinx community at Stanford University: Get Help

After using this guide, Stanford Libraries users will be able to identify and access primary and secondary sources about the history of the Chicana/o-Latina/o-Latinx community at Stanford University.

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In addition to the Stanford Archives, many other units and groups on campus directly support teaching, learning, and research by and about the Chicana/o-Latina/o Community at Stanford, and may serve as resources for your project.

As a vibrant student center, El Centro Chicano y Latino works to support students academically, personally, socially and culturally. They focus on creating mature, aware and socially responsible individuals who advocate and dialogue for equity and social justice. 

Within the Chicano and Latino community there is great diversity of backgrounds, aspirations and sociopolitical views that adds to the richness of our collective experience. El Centro’s programs provide Stanford students the opportunity to explore Chicano and Latino culture, history and traditions, and to use that understanding to work with other ethnic communities in the United States and around the world.

Since its establishment, El Centro Chicano y Latino has been an integral part of countless students' Stanford experience. Stanford's Chicano/Latino community reflects the diversity of a population that is rapidly becoming the second largest in the United States. As a center of activity for this community, El Centro Chicano y Latino provides a home away from home that fosters student personal success.

Learn more about the history of El Centro Chicano y Latino in Stanford—Our University. El Centro Chicano y Latino—A Pillar of the Community, written by former Director of El Centro Chicano y Latino and Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Frances Morales.

The Stanford Latino Alumni Association (SLAA) was conceived as an alumni organization with global scope focused on connecting Stanford Latino alumni to each other, to students, and to Stanford.

SLAA currently serves:

  1. Regional Stanford Latino alumni networks already established or emerging
  2. A registered membership of 2,300+ Stanford Latino alumni
  3. Stanford University in its mission to reach, serve and engage all alumni.

Their mission is to build community, create opportunity, and offer support to more than 11,000 Stanford Latino alumni around the world.

The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) is Stanford’s interdisciplinary hub for teaching and research on race and ethnicity. CCSRE houses the Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity and the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity.  In partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, CCSRE also benefits from the Faculty Development Initiative (FDI) which recruits scholars in race and ethnicity who work with the Center.

Across its courses, programs, and events, CCSRE supports students and faculty dedicated to studying race and ethnicity. CCSRE students and scholars approach questions of difference, inequality, and inclusion from dynamic interdisciplinary, comparative, and multiracial/multiethnic perspectives from art to medicine, to law, history, technology,  economics,  literature and more.

CLAS' mission is to foster an academic community that serves as a multidisciplinary platform to enable learning from and engaging with the Americas, understood as the diverse ethnic, linguistic, cultural, biological and historical geography shared with the United States and Canada.

CLAS is committed to “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization” (Stanford University founding grant) and to advance scientific knowledge that strengthens social, economic and environmental justice, sustainability, inclusion and democracy in our hemisphere.

Here are some Friday lecture videos available on the CLAS website.

The First-Gen and/or Low Income (FLI) Office aims to provide holistic support for students. This includes providing them with critical resources, networks, and services that ensure their success.

Advocacy is one of FLI's four pillars which honors students' agency and their desire to advocate for themselves and those around them. The FLI Staff are active advocates for FLI students on campus and beyond. Through their own networks and campus allies they strive to create safe, empowering, and creative spaces for their students. 

The goal of the Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA) is to increase diversity in the health professions in order to better care for undeserved communities. Our annual pre-medical conference is one of the oldest on the west coast and draws hundreds of students from throughout the Bay Area.

Under SUMMA, the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) serves to advocate for the unique health needs and interests of the Hispanic and Latin American communities through education, outreach, and service. Learn more about the LMSA here. 

The Ballet Folklórico de Stanford was formed in the early 1970's to present and promote Mexican culture to the Stanford campus. In 1972 the Dance Department of Stanford University began to offer a Mexican Folk Dance Exhibition class, providing a formal setting where the tradition of Mexican dance could be taught. Before that time such dance was kept alive on the Stanford campus through the efforts of individual students who taught themselves and each other. The group's first official performance was on the altar of Memorial Church.

In the 1992-93 school year, the group reembarked on its journey as a student run organization, with the group members taking on all the tasks from advertising and booking performances to organizing its annual show, Concierto de la Primavera. Two decades later, the group is still student run and managed.

Mariachi Cardenal was founded in Casa Zapata during the 1994-1995 school year by students of Stanford University. From humble beginnings of a few members, it has grown since then to become an integral part of the Chicano community at Stanford. The members come from different musical backgrounds but have come together with guidance from professional mariachis from the Bay Area and have evolved into a successful ensemble.

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