Hear about Mesoamerican linguistic diversity and history of Mesoamerican communities in Oregon as part of Bend's Welcoming Week.

Read the HSI Task Force’s final report on how the University of Oregon is becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The Task Force worked for a year exploring what assets UO has and what challenges it may face in accelerating the process of becoming a HSI. 

Grounded in This Place is presented by Lynn Stephen and Mario Sifuentez. The deep history of Latinos in Oregon begins in the early nineteenth century, when the current southern state line was actually the northern border of Mexico, and continues through today, as new immigrants arrive and Latino Oregonians of many generations continue to shape the state.

Watch the documentary on Guatemala's National Police Archive and human rights abuses.

This podcast series explores the stories of Latina/o/x people in the U.S. South from the Jim Crow era on through to the present. The Nuestro South Podcast is produced by Erik Valera, Dr. Julie Weise, and Elaine Townsend Utin with generous sponsorship from the Whiting Foundation, the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, North Carolina Humanities and LatinxEd. 

Corazón de Dixie recounts the untold histories of Mexicanos’ migrations to New Orleans, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina as far back as 1910. It follows Mexicanos into the heart of Dixie, where they navigated the Jim Crow system, cultivated community in the cotton fields, purposefully appealed for help to the Mexican government, shaped the southern conservative imagination in the wake of the civil rights movement, and embraced their own version of suburban living at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Watch the video documentary of Oaxacan immgrant family.

This power point presentation explores language diversity in Latin America. It was created by Gabriela Pérez Báez of the UO Linguistics department.

The McNair Scholars Program is designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. McNair participants are either first-generation college students with financial need or members of a group that is traditionally underrepresented in graduate education and have demonstrated strong academic potential. The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to increase graduate degree awards for students from underrepresented segments of society.

CLLAS puts the study of Latino/a and Latin American communities in conversation with one another and with the state of Oregon. It facilitates collaborative research, scholarship, intellectual community, and community outreach focused on Latin America and U.S. Latino/a populations.