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- ↑ Charles R. Hale Worldcat Identities
- ↑ "New Dean Takes Reins" accessed 4 June 2019
- ↑ UCSB Global Studies website https://global.ucsb.edu/people/charles-hale accessed 4 June 2019
- ↑ Latin American Studies Association Past Presidents accessed 4 June 2019
- ↑ “…más que un indio (more than an Indian)”: Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press 2006. ISBN 978-1930618602 (Published in Spanish, Guatemala, 2008).
- ↑ Charles R. Hale, Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press 1994. (Published in Spanish, Guatemala, 2008).
