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Bibliographies & Encyclopedia

016.467973 T28s (Modern Languages Reference)
Teschner, Richard V.; Garland D. Bills; and Jerry C. Craddock. Spanish and English of United States Hispanos: A Critical Annotated, Linguistic Bibliography. Arlington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1975.
Examines 675 entries of Spanish studies materials focusing on phonology, grammar and vocabularies. This examination also aims to study speech and language among U.S. Latinos in the Southwest. It covers topics on: bilingualism, code switching, sociolinguistics and the contamination of both English and Spanish among Latinos living in the U.S.  In their analysis, Teschner, et. al. used an interdisciplinary scope from fields such as: anthropology, education, mass communications, onomastics, speech pathology, folklore, literature, and psychology . The great majority of items are annotated and include critical commentary. The introduction devotes analysis to the State of the Art Spanish speakers from the Caribbean and Mexico in the southwest  regions of the U.S.

016.973 R56M (Modern Language Stacks)
Robinson, Barbara and Cordell Robinson. The Mexican American: a critical guide to research aids. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1980.
The author idetify a core collection of diverse sources and guides available for Chicano research. This work lists annotated bibliographies, guides, directories, dictionaries, and other sources. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to the education, history, folklore, labor, linguistics, literature and women scholarship about Mexican Americans.

016.9730468 (Modern Language Reference)
Güereña Salvador and Vivian M. Pisano. Latino Periodicals: A Selection Guide. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, 1998.
Selected sources of academic journals, popular magazines, and bilingual newspapers. A varied reference guide to research, and general interest on Latino cultures in the United States. It includes a section of "other periodicals" for newspapers from Latin America, U.S. domestic, fotonovelas, and newsletters.

016.8109 T769l (Modern Languages Stacks)
Trujillo, Roberto G. and Andrés Rodríguez. Literatura Chicana: creative and critical writings through 1984. Okland, California, 1985.
This compilation includes a valuable introduction by one of the founders and "fathers of Chicano Studies," Dr. Luis Leal. The bibliography is divided in thirteen headings representing different literary genre such as (poetry, novel, short fiction, theatre).
This compilation evidences the creative forces and a move forward of Chicano literature of the 1960s and 1970s. It provides author and title indexes.

016.869 Z65u 1992 (Modern Languages Stacks)
Zimmerman, Marc. U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography. Chicago: March/Abrazo Press, 1992.
The author writes a second edition and revises fundamental questions about the overall field of U.S. Latino literature. He relates this field to the way of conceiving the literary corpus by new feminist and Chicano, Puerto-Rican and Cuban texts. Zimmerman divides the chapters of his bibliography in eight sections. The first three sections are under the subjects of identity, migration, with particular focus on these three groups. The fourth section is about the question of postmodern perspective and includes a section for Latinos in the Midwest.

016.97295 C339p (Modern Language Reference)
Cevallos, Elena E., compiler ; edited by Sheila R. Herstein. Puerto Rico. Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1985.
Volume 52 of the World Bibliographical Series is devoted to Puerto Rico. It compiles annotations about the history, geography, economy and politics; considering the cultural component and social organization of this nation.

016.46797 So436 1990 (Modern Languages Reference)
Solé, Carlos.  Bibliografía sobre el español de América (1920-1986). Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1990. 
Compiles studies on Latin American dialects. It covers some contributions on dialectology after 1986. It includes topics on bilingualism and assimilation of Spanish in the US. and Spanish in contact with indigenous languages. To facilitate its use, it provides abbreviations, and acronyms. In the introduction, the author points out to the necessity to develop linguistic atlases for Latin American countries.

813 L3493Va (Main Stacks)
Augenbraum, Harold. Latinos in English: a selected bibliography of Latino fiction writers of the United States. New York: Mercantile Library of New York, 1992.
An excellent source for collections on Latino's writers, although not comprehensive. This selection would serve as a good introduction to Latino fiction authors whose works are available in English and to those interested in tracing the origins and continuous growing of Latino writers in the United States.

973.046872 H433r (Main Stacks)
Herrera, Alicia and Julia Mejía. Recursos: A Directory of Mexican-American Institutions, Organizations and University Programs Based in the United States. México: Benjamin Franklin Library, 1990.
This directory lists 565 public institutions which are of critical importance to the United States. There are academic, commercial, journalistic, social and scientific organizations that demonstrate an enormous interest and cooperation between these two nations.

BiblioNoticias Series

The BiblioNoticias is a bibliographic compilation of sources produced by the members of the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries. The series offers bibliographies on Latin America, but also in specific areas for Latino Studies. The issue No. #93, Jannuary 1998 is about Specialized Bilingual Dictionaries. This compilation is by Craig Schroer and edited by Ann Hartness. It offers bilinguial dictionaries to specific subjects.

BiblioNoticias Series

The Issue No. 101, September 1999 is about the "Curanderismo: Folk Healing in the Mexican-American Community" which is a compilation produced by Margo Gutiérrez and the editor is Ann Hartness. This source covers traditional healing practices sources in print as well as electronic sources. It encompasses several disciplines: anthropology, folklore, sociology, psychology, medicine and history.

Encyclopedia

973.0468003 L349 (Main Reference)
The Latino Encyclopedia. Editors, Richard Chabrán and Rafael Chabrán. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1996.
A six part series volume with articles signed by the contributors. This encyclopedia offers topical subjects referred to Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Dominicans, peoples from Central America: Salvadorians and Guatemalans.




Dictionaries

Bilingual

467.9764G13d 1995 (Modern Languages Stacks)
El diccionario del español chicano = The dictionary of Chicano Spanish.Compiled by Roberto A. Galván, Richard V. Teschner. Lincolnwood, Ill. : National Textbook Company, c1989.
This dictionary reflects the ongoing transformation of Chicano language as it is spoken and written in the United States. New words express various cultural and technological changes. It contains 9,000 entries and 650 proverbs commonly use in everyday speech. This source describes usage by labeling vocabularies: slang, colloquial, vulgar, euphemistic, antiquated, etc. Also, it includes entries that require description of a variant spelling, e.g., (hijo >jijo).

463.21 Un37 2002 (Modern Language Reference)
University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary. Fifth Edition. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Double language dictionary: Spanish-English, Español-Inglés; English-Spanish, Inglés-Español. For each language, includes lists of abbreviations, pronunciation, grammar rules, common suffixes, and regular and irregular verbs.

463.21 C696 2000 (Modern Language Reference)
Collins Spanish Dictionary. Glasgow, Great Britain ; New York, N.Y.:Collins ; Barcelona:Grijalbo, 2000.
Double language dictionary for both Spanish > English and Español > Ingles. Includes introduction, instructions on how to use the dictionary, and sections on pronunciation, grammar, Spanish and English verbs, numbers, weights and measures and time and date.

463.21 C696 1992 (Modern Language Reference)
Webster's New World Spanish Dictionary: concise edition by Mike González. New York:  MacMillan, 1992.
The Webster is a wide-ranging source of usage from colloquial to formal contexts. A great help for foreign language students in terms of its clarity, simplicity and practical use. Ideal for beginners to more advanced levels. This dictionary is very popular among our library users.

463.21 M366m  (Modern Language Reference)
Multicultural Spanish Dictionary: How Everyday Spanish Differs from Country to Country. Edited by Agustín Martínez. Rockville, Md: Schreiber Publishing, 1999.
Treats variations of Spanish words throughout Latin America and Spain. It can serve native speakers of Spanish and translators, or anyone interested in the regional variations of lexical terms.. It is a bilingual dictionary in English and Spanish.

463.21 P751 (Modern Language Reference)
Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Carvajal, Carol Styles and Jane Horwood, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
This major new edition has 90,000 words and phrases (Spanish-English, English-Spanish); 130,000 translations; an A to Z of Spanish-speaking countries; Spanish verb tables; pronunciation guides for English and Spanish; common weights and measurements in English and in Spanish; a calendar of traditions, festivals, and holidays in Spanish-speaking countries; letter-writing examples for English and Spanish speakers; and descriptions of life and culture in Britain and the United States for Spanish speakers.

Language Dictionaries

Diccionario del español usual en México. Directed by Luis  Fernando Lara.
It is an extensive source of nearly one thousand pages in length.

467.9 M82d 1985  (Modern Language Reference)
Morínigo, Marcos. Diccionario de americanismos. Barcelona: Muchnik, 1985.
Created to provide literature, history, sociology, and scientific readers, access to the lexicon of different regions in the Spanish speaking countries of the Americas. It gives examples of the spoken word when the usage is restricted to only one region. Morínigo also, incorporates indigenous words that belong to the corpus of the language. For ex. words such as: "tabaco," "butaca," "batata," "cigarro," "hamaca," "alpaca," "tuna," "huracán," etc. The author also, takes into consideration words that have filtered their connotation from the traditional peninsular Iberian Spanish to a more regional usage. In summary this dictionary is a great accomplishment and has been profusely used in our library.

467.8 H177b (Modern Languages Reference)
Hamel, Bernard, H.  Bilingual Dictionary of Latin American Spanish. Los Angeles, Ca.: Bilingual Book Press, 1996.
The author considers vocabulary that has been introduced throughout the traditional Castilian Spanish for each country. Hamel believes this is fairly complete first-hand source for students who are learning the language, reading materials; also for teachers and translators. The dictionary includes Latin American folklore but excludes scientific and encyclopedic jargons. This guide also omitted "anglicismos" as they were considered "unacceptable."

467.972 H177h 1996 (Modern Languages Reference)
Hamel, Bernard, H. Bilingual Dictionary of Mexican Spanish. Los Angeles, Ca.: Bilingual Book Press, 1996.
Explains the lexical aspect of the language rather than to the grammar which in Mexico remains identical to the grammatical structure used in any other Spanish speaking country.   Hamel presents this source in its second edition and it is the second in a series of three volumes, each one of the volumes is referred to a different subject. Hamel's dictionary is useful for quick consultation of Mexican Spanish. It covers slang, and new words borrowed from English.

Diccionario de cubanismos más usuales. Compiled by José Sánchez Boudy.

Nuevo catauro de cubanismos. Compiled by Fernando Ortiz.

Diccionario cubano del habla popular y vulgar. By Carlos Paz Pérez.

The Official Spanglish Dictionary. Bill Cruz and Bill Teck.
It is an informal and jocular compilation of a lexicon from Cuban-American expressions and words adapted from English.

467.9729503 M291v (Modern Language Reference)
Malaret, Augusto. Vocabulario de Puerto Rico: introducción y edición crítica de Humberto López Morales. Includes Bibliographical references xxvii-xxxv, and (p. 70-71).   Madrid: Arco, 1999.
Offers a the grammatical, geographical and origin of the expression, and provides examples with the intoduction written by the renowned scholar Humberto López Morales. The Vocabulario gathers Prof. Augusto Malaret's studies that began in 1917 on Latin American Spanish, but this volume focuses on the regional lexicon for the island. Includes two research bibliographies. Malaret's dictionary is considered one of the most renowned sources for the consultation of the Puerto Rican's Spanish

Diccionario de la jerga del estudiante universitario puertorriqueño. Describes college student slang.

Díaz Montero, Aníbal. Del español Jíbaro.
The author devotes investigation to the Spanish of the rural Puerto Rican peasant or jíbaro

Ureña, Pedro Henríquez. Diccionario dominicano.
A very handy pocket dictionary that describes Dominican Spanish in an unique form as Dominicans add charm to their colloquial expression.


Bio-biographical Dictionaries

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Francisco Lomelí, and Carl R. Shirley.
In two volumes. The first one is on Chicano Writers: First Series, with a Second Series released in (1992) and a Third Series in (1999). The editors focus on Chicanos, these series give extensive treatment to Mexican American literature.

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States. Edited by Nicolás Kanellos.
The author selects biographies of prominent Puerto Rican and Cuban American, and other Latino writers in the United States not of Mexican descent. It remains the only source that  represents authors since 1989 from smaller Latino communities. Among these writers reviewed are: Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, Abraham Rodriguez, Carolina Hospital, Esmeralda Santiago, Cristina García, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Pablo Medina, Martín Espada, Ana Lydia Vega, Magali García Ramis, Jaime Manrique, Roberto Quesada.

Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide. edited by Julio A. Martínez, and Francisco Lomelí.


Almanacs & Statistical Sourcebooks

Q.305.868073H131 (Modern Language Stacks)
Kanellos, Nicolás. Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States. Detroit: Gale, 1993.
The Hispanic almanac offers a wealth of current facts, general statistics, as well as a historical and a cultural overview of Hispanic civilization and culture in the United States. The material is organized by subject, with an index. It is impossible to list here all of the topics covered, but as examples one may find a section that reviews significant documents of historical importance, or a list of Latino organizations.

(Not found presently in the UIUC collections)
The Almanac of Latino Politics 2000. by Juan Andrade, Andrew Hernández and Jacqueline Campbell. Chicago: United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, 1999.
One of the most comprehensive surveys and analysis of the Latino vote in the U.S. This source illustrates the current strength of the Latino vote since the 1970s. It provides useful data on statistics of Latino population growth, mainly in the states of California, Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois.

305.8680021 h629 1999 (Education & Social Science Stacks)
Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook. Edited by Louise L. Hornor. Palo Alto, CA: information publications, 1999.
This book covers statistics for Hispanic Americans on the following subjects: Demographics, Social Characteristics, Household & Family, Education, Government & Elections, Labor Force, Employment and Unemployment, Earnings, Income, Poverty & Wealth, Crime and Corrections and a section on Special Topics. It provides tables charts, and the information collected comes from government sources such as U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Indexes

Chicano Database
This is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It identifies, in one place, all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature. Incorporates the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, a comprehensive resource covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Dissertation Abstracts
An Index of dissertations accepted at accredited universities in the United States.

HispanicAmerican Periodicals Index (HAPI) 
HAPI Online, the web version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index, provides bibliographic citations to articles and reviews pertaining to Central and South America, Mexico, the Carribean, and Hispanics in the U.S., published in more than 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1970 to the present. Subjects covered include political science, foreign relations, economic development, commerce, trade and industry, the environment, geography, history, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, religion, literature, art, drama, and film.

Humanities Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database which indexes more than 300 key humanities publications, from well-known scholarly journals to lesser-known specialized magazines. It covers the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. It indexes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs. Covers 1984-present, including abstracts for 1994-present.

JSTOR
Includes the full-text of over 100 journals in the areas of African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Most include full texts of complete journals from their inception up to a "moving wall. " The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.

MLA
The MLA International Bibliography indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly journals, theses, proceedings, and books on literature, language and folklore from 1963 to the present. The indexing of scholarly journals is reasonably comprehensive for the major languages of the world. The coverage of books and theses is not as inclusive as it is for journal articles. Ancient and classical languages are excluded. Book reviews are also not included. (search for book reviews in other sources).

Project Muse
Project Muse, created by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, enables access to the full text of over 40 of the Press's scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics. Subjects include psychology, mathematics, history, American studies, history and literature of medicine, black studies, literature, performing arts, human rights, religion, children’s literature, philosophy, politics, and others. Coverage varies among journals, usually from between 1994-1997 to the present.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Non-evaluative abstracts for articles from serials, books, occasional papers, monographs, technical reports, and other materials covering linguistics and related fields. From 1973 to the present.  Get help from the LLBA Quick Tutorial.

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
PAIS International is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. The database covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. More than 1,600 journals and over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
Lexis provides authoritative legal news, records and business information. It is an excellent tool that create solutions and support critical decisions to users. In the academic world is useful to research such topics as: Hispanics, Latinos, Mexican-American combining these terms with subjects such as: labor, employment, migrant labor, migration, border and more.

Newspapers

Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is both in English and Spanish. It has archives and search engines on News, Sports, Entertainment, Advertisement, Classification Ads and Yellow Pages. Users who are looking for specific sections can use the table of contents menu on the left or the bar above to click on a specific section. There is a good article section by Ramiro Burr for reviews on Music found under Entertainment.

Latinos and News Media Database which currently contains bibliographic listings and annotations of 263 items from newspapers, journals, magazines and the Internet about Latinos and the media that can be searched by author, title, source type, and topic. For Latinos and Media project's beautiful homepage, click here.

La Raza
http://www.laraza.com/
La Raza was the first Chicago's newspaper published in Spanish.  It sponsors Hispanic events in the community and includes supplements such as La Paloma covering editorial pages, culture and health topics.

La Opinión
http://www.laopinion.com/
Published daily in Los Angeles since 1926.

El Nuevo Herald
http://www.elherald.com/
Published daily in Miami since 1987.

El Día
http://www.eldiausa.com/
Published daily in Houston

La Oferta 
http://www.laoferta.com/
Published weekly in San José since 1978. Spanish and English text.

La Prensa de San Antonio
http://www.laprensa.com
Published weekly in San Antonio. Spanish and English text.

La Prensa San Diego
http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/
Published weekly in San Diego since 1976. Spanish and English texts.

El Paso Times
http://www.elpasotimes.com/espanol/

El Tiempo Latino - Washington D.C.
http://www.eltiempolatino.com
This newspaper is in Spanish and is one of the media outreach business in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for the Latino community. It includes news on culture, health, sports, and classified advertisement.

La Voz de Aztlán
http://aztlan.net
This bilingual online news service is published in Los Angeles, Alta California. It focuses on news and events that are relevant to La Raza in Aztlán, México and throughout the United States. This publication voices a unique analysis of world events and contemporary issues through editorials, commentary and political cartoons.

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