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Website of the Week

http://www.pewinternet.org/ 

Part of the Pew Research Center, this site has been doing surveys and tracking Internet related activities since 2000. They started with a 2000 survey on the general role of the Internet and e-mail in people’s lives and they’ve been at it ever since.

The site contains timely reports, surveys, data on the use of technology. Topics range from online dating to banking to video sharing to the digital divide. Topics/reports are highlighted on the main page and one can also browse their topic categories. The information is presented in accessible formats and oftentimes, eye catching graphics are included (they call them infographics), such as this one on online dating.

If you like to manipulate data to create your own reports, they also provide data sets. Additionally, they provide information on the experts who work on this site, providing short biographies and contact information for each individual. Topics often times go beyond Internet or link to other non-Internet activities. For example, check out their report book readership. And just to put a plug for libraries, they have a section especially devoted to library issues!

Review by Laura Galvan-Estrada, SWC Librarian

Check It Out

Becoming Mexipino : multiethnic identities and communities in San Diego

by Guevarra, Rudy.

Rutgers University Press, c2012.

New Book Shelf:

F869.S22 G78 2012

"Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California.

"Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of both groups with Spanish colonialism to illustrate how these historical ties and cultural bonds laid the foundation for what would become close inter-ethnic relationships and communities in twentieth-century San Diego as well as in other locales throughout California and the Pacific West Coast.

"Through racially restrictive covenants and other forms of discrimination, both groups, regardless of their differences, were confined to segregated living spaces along with African Americans, other Asian groups, and a few European immigrant clusters. Within these urban multiracial spaces, Mexicans and Filipinos coalesced to build a world of their own through family and kin networks, shared cultural practices, social organizations, and music and other forms of entertainment. They occupied the same living spaces, attended the same Catholic churches, and worked together creating labor cultures that reinforced their ties, often fostering marriages. Mexipino children, living simultaneously in two cultures, have forged a new identity for themselves. Their lives are the lens through which these two communities are examined, revealing the ways in which Mexicans and Filipinos interacted over generations to produce this distinct and instructive multiethnic experience.

"Using archival sources, oral histories, newspapers, and personal collections and photographs, Guevarra defines the niche that this particular group carved out for itself."

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