LibGuides: Ethnic Studies Resources for Faculty and Students: Latinx American Studies

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Bordered Writers by Isabel Baca (Editor); Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa (Editor); Susan Wolff Murphy
ISBN: 1438475039
Publication Date: 2019-07-01
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Crossroads by Debra D. Andrist
ISBN: 1789760194
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
This collection of essays addresses a multitude of crossroads in numerous Hispanic contexts across the intersections of time & space/tradition & modernity. The contexts are wide-ranging; e.g., the visual, architectural: how Spain's age-old oenological tradition meets modern technology, how the vestiges of long-term dictatorship lurk in the spaces of Spain's democracy; and how space/architecture, and art/poetry cross in Latin America. Painters Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo's productions cross the visual to the written; and magical realism products of the twentieth century Latin American artistic movement defy nature, science, time and space.
Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity by Iván Jaksić (Editor)
ISBN: 0231537727
Publication Date: 2015-07-07
The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity
Decolonize Your Diet by Luz Calvo; Catriona Rueda Esquibel
ISBN: 9781551525921
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through centuries of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases.
Ecological Borderlands by Christina Holmes
ISBN: 9780252040542
Publication Date: 2016-10-13
Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth M. Holmes
ISBN: 0520954793
Publication Date: 2013-06-19
An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system.
Hispanics in the U. S. Criminal Justice System by Martin Guevara Urbina (Editor); Sofia Espinoza Alvarez (Editor)
ISBN: 0398092176
Publication Date: 2018-05-07
A detailed examination of critical issues facing Latino defendants seeks to better understand the law enforcement process. The history of immigration laws as it pertains to Mexicans and Latinos explains how Mexicans have been excluded from the United States through anti-immigrant legislation.
In Search of Belonging by Jillian M. Baez
ISBN: 0252050460
Publication Date: 2018-02-21
In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, make sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media.
Intimate Migrations by Deborah A. Boehm
ISBN: 147988555X
Publication Date: 2013-07-01
Intimate Migrations shows how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.
Keywords for Latina/o Studies by Deborah R. Vargas (Editor); Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (Editor); Nancy Raquel Mirabal (Editor)
ISBN: 1479866040
Publication Date: 2017-12-01
The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies; they delineate the shifting contours of a field best thought of as an intellectual imaginary and experiential project of social and cultural identities within the US academy.
LatinX Voices by Katie Coronado (Editor); Erica Kight (Editor)
ISBN: 1315284111
Publication Date: 2018-07-16
LatinX Voices is the first undergraduate textbook that includes an overview of Hispanic/LatinX Media in the U.S. and gives readers an understanding of how media in the United States has transformed around this audience.
Learning to Be Latino by Daisy Verduzco Reyes
ISBN: 0813596483
Publication Date: 2018-08-01
In Learning to Be Latino, sociologist Daisy Verduzco Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life at a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university, outlining students' interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community.
The New Latino Studies Reader by Ramon A. Gutierrez (Editor); Tomas Almaguer (Editor)
ISBN: 0520284844
Publication Date: 2016-08-23
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it's like to be a Latino in the United States.
Seams of Empire by Carlos Alamo-Pastrana
ISBN: 081306256X
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
Using his ideas of racial imbrication (an approach that discerns overlapping layers of racism, colonialism, and exploitation), Alamo highlights the reasons and ways that many Puerto Ricans were marginalized in what has generally been perceived as a progressive space
¡Manteca! by Melissa Castillo-Garsow
ISBN: 1558858423
Publication Date: 2017-04-30
This anthology contains poems by more than 35 Afro-Latin@ poets writing about race, identity and culture.

The Heart of the Mission by Cary Cordova
Call Number: N6538.H58 C67 2017
ISBN: 9780812249309
Publication Date: 2017-06-22
Using oral histories, visual culture, and archival research, the author analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s, the community mural movement of the 1970s, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s.
Latinos in the United States by Ilan Stavans
Call Number: E184.S75 S763 2018
ISBN: 9780190670184
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
While Latinos comprise a diverse minority group -- with various religious beliefs, political ideologies, and social values -- commentators on both sides of the political divide have lumped Latino Americans into a homogenous group that is often misunderstood. This book provides a wide-ranging, multifaceted exploration of Latino American history and culture, as well as the forces shaping this minority group in the U.S
Making the Mission by Ocean Howell
Call Number: HT177.S3 H69 2015
ISBN: 9780226141398
Publication Date: 2015-11-17
In Making the Mission, Ocean Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a strong, often racialized identity--a pattern that would repeat itself again and again throughout the twentieth century.
North from Mexico by Nancy McWilliams; Alma M. García; G. Paul Meier; Carey McWilliams; Matt S. Meier
Call Number: E184.M5 M394 2016
ISBN: 9781440836824
Publication Date: 2016-04-25
This book provides up-to-date information on the Chicano experience and the emergent social dynamics in the United States as a result of Mexican immigration.
Our America by Felipe Fernandez-armesto
Call Number: E184.S75 F46 2014
ISBN: 9780393239539
Publication Date: 2014-01-20
This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and conquistadores who planted Spain's first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Southwest. Missionaries and rancheros carry Spain's expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling California, mapping the American interior to the Rockies, and charting the Pacific coast.
The New Americans? by Heather Silber Mohamed
Call Number: E184.S75 M616 2017
ISBN: 070062385X
Publication Date: 2017-03-24
A concise discussion of major developments in US immigration policy over the last fifty years, The New Americans? explores the varied historical experiences of the different Latino national origin groups. It also traces the evolving role of Latino social movements as a vehicle for political incorporation over the last century. In its in-depth analysis of the diversity of the Latino population, particularly in response to the politics of immigration, the book illuminates questions at the heart of American political culture: specifically, what does it mean to "become" American?
Defiant Braceros by Mireya Loza
Call Number: HD8081.M6 L67 2016
ISBN: 1469629771
Publication Date: 2016-09-02
In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942-1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary work permits. She captures the myriad ways these defiant workers responded to the intense discrimination and exploitation of an unjust system that still persists today.
This Land Was Mexican Once by Linda Heidenreich
Call Number: F868.N2 H45 2007
ISBN: 0292716346
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
In "This Land was Mexican Once," Linda Heidenreich excavates Napa's subaltern voices and histories to tell a complex, textured local history with important implications for the larger American West, as well. It acknowledges the connections Napa's peoples have to the rest of the region, for the linear history that marginalizes minorities is not unique to Napa. Latinos, for instance, have populated the American West for centuries, and are still shaping its future.

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, et al. “Immigration Enforcement, Parent—Child Separations, and Intent to Remigrate by Central American Deportees.” Demography, vol. 52, no. 6, Springer, 2015, pp. 1825–51, doi:10.1007/s13524-015-0431-0.

Arellanes, Jordan Alan, et al. “Bettering the Educational Attainment for Latino Families: How Families View the Education of Their Children.” Journal of Latinos and Education, vol. 18, no. 4, Routledge, 2019, pp. 349–62, doi:10.1080/15348431.2018.1426465.

Bekteshi, Venera, et al. “Puerto Rican–Born Women in the United States: Contextual Approach to Immigration Challenges.” Health & Social Work, vol. 40, no. 4, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 298–306, doi:10.1093/hsw/hlv070.

Cuevas, Adolfo G., et al. “Race and Skin Color in Latino Health: An Analytic Review.” American Journal of Public Health (1971), vol. 106, no. 12, American Public Health Association, Inc, 2016, pp. 2131–36, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303452.

Diaz, Tanya, and Ngoc H. Bui. “Subjective Well-Being in Mexican and Mexican American Women: The Role of Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, Gender Roles, and Perceived Social Support.” Journal of Happiness Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, Springer Netherlands, 2017, pp. 607–24, doi:10.1007/s10902-016-9741-1.

Frank, Reanne, et al. “Latino Immigrants and the U.S. Racial Order: How and Where Do They Fit In?” American Sociological Review, vol. 75, no. 3, Sage Publications, 2010, pp. 378–401, doi:10.1177/0003122410372216.

Escobar, Jessica, et al. “‘Se Llevaron El Padre de Mis Hijos’: Latina Mothers Coping with the Deportation of Their Partner.” Journal of Family Therapy, vol. 41, no. 2, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc, 2019, pp. 277–301, doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12227.

Findling, Mary G., et al. “Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Latinos.” Health Services Research, vol. 54, no. 6, Health Research and Educational Trust, 2019, pp. 1409–18, doi:10.1111/1475-6773.13216.

Held, Mary L., and Sungkyu Lee. “Discrimination and Mental Health Among Latinos: Variation by Place of Origin.” Journal of Mental Health (Abingdon, England), vol. 26, no. 5, Routledge, 2017, pp. 405–10, doi:10.1080/09638237.2016.1207220.

Hipolito-Delgado, Carlos P. “Internalized Racism, Perceived Racism, and Ethnic Identity: Exploring Their Relationship in Latina/o Undergraduates.” Journal of College Counseling, vol. 19, no. 2, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016, pp. 98–109, doi:10.1002/jocc.12034.

Richey, Sean, and Ryan E. Carlin. “Skin Tone and Assimilation.” Social Science Quarterly, vol. 99, no. 3, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc, 2018, pp. 1233–47, doi:10.1111/ssqu.12505.

Vaquera, Elizabeth, and Grace Kao. “The Implications of Choosing ‘No Race’ On the Salience of Hispanic Identity: How Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds Intersect Among Hispanic Adolescents.” Sociological Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2006, pp. 375–96, doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2006.00050.x.

Young, Maria-Elena De Trinidad, and Anne R. Pebley. “Legal Status, Time in the USA, and the Well-Being of Latinos in Los Angeles.” Journal of Urban Health, vol. 94, no. 6, Springer US, 2017, pp. 764–75, doi:10.1007/s11524-017-0197-3.

Blackout in Puerto Rico (Frontline)
In Blackout in Puerto Rico, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. The film examines how the federal response, Wall Street, and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.
Boss files. How Salesforce president's Mexican-American heritage inspired her to lead
Cindy Robbins, Salesforce President and Chief People Officer, credits her Mexican-American heritage for instilling the work ethic and values that helped guide her to leadership.
Brown is the new green : George Lopez and the American dream
Documentary examining how efforts to profit from Hispanic American culture have contributed to the shaping of its contemporary identity. The documentary's focal point is comedian George Lopez, an icon and advocate for Hispanic Americans' move into the mainstream. Features conversations with members of the Hispanic American youth market. Also includes interviews with Lopez and other Hispanic Americans.
Deconstructing the meaning of home
“Home — So Different, So Appealing” explores the universal concept of home through the works of Latino artists.
Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation (Series)
Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the United States. This companion to the landmark PBS miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of our country.
Life is sacred
Violence is a fact of everyday life in Colombia, where the drug cartels have kept the country in an armed conflict for decades, and where almost all families have lost a loved one. The unorthodox presidential candidate Antanas Mockus does all he can to reverse the vicious circle with an imaginative and positive election campaign. His idealism is both his strength and his weakness in a corrupt political system, where the people have lost faith in being able to make a difference. An inspiring man, and an inspiring story, whose points are relevant far beyond Colombia's borders.
Lowcura : the creation of family in Chicano lowrider car clubs
Through the lens of a car club member's younger sister, the passenger and filmmaker, we see the Padrinos' lowriders as mobile murals for the concrete streets to see. But once the ignitions are off and the lowriders are parked, we are introduced to a 30 year-old legacy of a brotherhood—or a second family—created in the streets of San Francisco. As lowriding has spread globally to places such as Japan and Brazil, the film provides a window into the ways in which the lowriding movement is always rooted in friendships, hometown pride, and, of course, the love of cruising.
Muxes
In Juchitán, Mexico, muxes—children identified as male at birth, but who choose at a young age to be raised as female—are embraced as part of the community. Being muxe is often confused with being transgender, but it is an identity specific to the Oaxaca region and the indigenous Zapoteca culture. Having a muxe person in the family has come to be seen as good luck and even a blessing. But life outside Juchitán is not always easy.
My family = Mi familia
Presents the three-generation saga of the Sanchez family as told by the eldest son. From the beginnings of his father's journey from Mexico to California in the 1920s, to his brother Chucho's tragic rebellion of the 1950s, to the stark realities of modern day, the struggle to live the American dream is sometimes darkened but never diminished for Paco Sanchez and his family.
Precious Knowledge
"While 48 percent of Mexican-American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson (Ariz.) High [School's] Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of educational success, with 93 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school. However, Arizona lawmakers [state school superintendents Tom Horne and John Huppenthal and Gov. Jan Brewer have] shut the program down because they believe the students are being indoctrinated with dangerous ideology and embracing destructive ethnic chauvinism"
Symbols of resistance : a tribute to the martyrs of the Chican@ movement
Illuminating the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement, with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico, the film engages student activism, police repression, and issues of identity, land, and community which still resonate in Chican@ struggles today. Through interviews with those who shaped the movement and rare historical footage, the film offers a window into a dynamic moment in history.
Zapatista
January 1, 1994: the North American Free Trade Agreement—NAFTA—comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in southeastern Mexico, several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or EZLN. Zapatista is the definitive look at this uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a rebellion by Mayan peasants armed with sticks—and of their word against a First-World military. It is the story of a global movement that fought 175,000 federal troops to a standstill and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever.
¿Cómo SER mujer? = How to be a woman?
¿Cómo SER mujer? explores the way femininity is constructed and altered in the lives of trans Latina immigrant women and the barriers they have overcome in pursuit of it. Johanna, Leslie and Morena have taken different paths to fulfill their female identity while being brought up male. "How to be a woman?" is the question that is explored through their eyes. This question seems simple enough but it is one that even biologically born females cannot define. ¿Cómo SER mujer? shows how these women’s experiences with travesti (drag queen) performances, beauty and cosmetic choices (clothing, make-up, role models), and medical interventions (hormones) in Mexico and the United States have given many options of what it means to be a woman. Through the narratives of these women who so eloquently share their stories, women everywhere will get a glimpse into a side of their femininity they might not know they have.

Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853 (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Disciplinary Conquest (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Hispanic America: One Hundred Years of Literature and Film (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Institutions of Urban Life & the Latinx Experience, 1848-2018 (CUNY) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Introduction to Latin American Studies (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Introduction to Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies (CUNY) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

LACLI (LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN, U.S. LATINX, AND IBERIAN ONLINE FREE E-RESOURCES) LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content. This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. LACLI master list of online free e-resources. Resources are organized in alphabetical order, and may be searched using the Google Sheets Find, Filter, or Explore functions.

Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Modern Mexico: Representations of Mexico City's Urban Life (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Political Science: Mexican-Americans & Politics (UC Irvine) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

The Roots of Latino Urban Agency (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Special Topics in Women & Gender Studies Seminar: Latina Women's Voices (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Bracero History Archive

A joint project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University and the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Bracero Oral History Project

A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso.

California Cultures: Hispanic Americans (Calisphere)

The items in these exhibitions trace the history of Hispanic Americans in California from the Mission system and Californios into the 20th century: Mexican immigration into California, the farmworkers' labor struggles, and the Chicano Civil Rights movement and La Raza, which also resulted in an explosion of cultural art. Includes Spanish Colonization and Californios, 1769-1800s, Migrant Workers and Braceros, 1930s-1964, Racial Tensions During World War II, Cultural Traditions and the People, 1930s-1960s, Barrios, 1930s-1960s, Hispanic American Everyday Life, and Politics and Community, 1970s-present.

California Newspaper Project (UC Riverside)

A database of nearly 9,000 California newspapers held in California libraries, including many related to Chicano and Latino studies.

The Documented Border (University of Arizona Libraries)

The Documented Border: An Open Access Digital Archive is an interdisciplinary effort whose goal is to advance understanding and awareness about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and its peoples during a period of unprecedented societal change. The innovative archive focuses on untold and silenced stories and events about this transnational region. The Documented Border Archive draws from the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections Borderlands Collections, but also acquires and makes accessible oral histories and materials that broadens our understanding of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)

The Hispanic Reading Room is the primary access point for research related to the Caribbean, Latin America, Spain and Portugal; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage, including Latinos in the U.S. and peoples of Portuguese or Spanish heritage in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

La Opinion Digital

Fulltext version of this historic Los Angeles Spanish language newspaper.

LANIC: Hispanic/Latino Resources

A major portal with links to a wide range of information on US Hispanics and Chicano and Latino Studies.

Latina(o) Cultural Heritage Archives

A database featuring photographs and documents assembled from twelve collections of the Urban Archives of the CSUN University Library Special Collections and Archives. Funded as part of the Hispanics-Serving Institutions Grant of the State of California, these materials capture the history of Latino and Chicana/o people and culture in Southern California. These collections feature the arts, labor and immigration as important parts of the historical fabric of this community.

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation’s leading non-profit Latino legal organization. It promotes equality and justice through litigation, advocacy, public policy, and community education in the areas of employment, immigrants’ rights, voting rights, education, and language rights.

Mexican Labor and World War II: the Bracero Program (Digital Public Library of American)

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Bracero Program. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.

National Council of La Raza (NCLR) (UnidosUS)

The largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans in the United States.

Onda Latina

The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.

Smithsonian Latino Center

The Center celebrates Latino culture and achievement in America through exhibits, research, collections, and educational programs.

Special Report: Hispanic Heritage Month (Newsbank)

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15, this wealth of articles in both Spanish and English illuminates Hispanic culture and important issues, events, leaders and personalities

Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (USC)

A policy institute at USC. The site contains research reports and other publications of interest to Latinos and other ethnic groups.

VOCES Oral History Project (UT)

The Voces Oral History Project documents and creates a better awareness of the contributions of U.S. Latinos and Latinas of the WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War generations.

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