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Q.917.640463 H625 (Modern Language Stacks)
Hispanic Texas: A Historical Guide. Helen Simons and Cathryn A. Hoyt, Editors. Austin: University of Texas, Press., 1992.
A guidebook to Hispanic Texas that surveys and identifies "all of those things" that represent a Hispanic presence in the state of Texas. The authors are aware of the misuse of the past in terms of solely searching of heroes and villains, ideologies or anathemas. This book collect essays on Hispanic imprints, the Spanish Missions, churches and shrines, the Ranching heritage, the building environment, and explores the Borderlands of the west Texas. The travel guide includes the regions of San Antonio, Laredo, El Paso, Trans-Pecos, Austin, Houston, Dallas and Lubbock.

973.046872 G889n (Undergraduate Stacks)
Griswold del Castillo, Richard and Arnoldo De León.  North to Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States: New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.
What is called the American Southwest was once part of Mexico and before that it was claimed by Spain. The presence of Mexican people over this territory has been counted for the last 400 years. This book is divided into ten chapters. It traces the development of Chicano, Latino, Mexican-American culture and society from the earliest recorded history to the present. The influence of Mexico and the importance of immigration in shaping the cultural and polical history of Latinos in the U.S. 

973.0468073 K131h (Main Stacks)
Kanellos, Nicolás. Hispanic Firsts: 500 Years of Extraordinary Achievement. Detroit: Gale, 1997. xxvi, 372 p. ill. 24 cm.
This reference guide offers an interesting chronology of US Latinos which in the words of Kanellos, "Hispanics peoples are responsible for laying the foundation for much of American industry and civilization." This almanac focuses on aspects of the history and culture. Also, records about the leaders and activities in business, population growth, religion, scholarship, arts, and media.

973.0468 H625 (Undergraduate Stacks)
Hispanic American Chronology. Edited by Nicholás Kanellos and Bryan Ryan. New York: UXL, 1996.
This guide book focuses on history to explore social, political, economic, cultural and educational topics for Hispanic Americans. It is arranged by year, month and then by month and day. It goes back to prehistory to the present. This volume includes illustrations, maps, cross references, a glossary and an index.

973.046872 H629 (Modern Language Stacks)
History, Culture, and Society: Chicano Studies in the 1980s. Mario T. García [et al.]. Ypsilanti, Mich.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1983. 242 p. 22 cm.
This volume includes the proceedings of the National Association of Chicano Studies (NACS) that were delivered during the years between 1980 through 1982. These essays cover such disciplines as history, political science, sociology, anthropology and a variety of subject matter. Their content discusses the correlation between Chicanos in the United States and the mexicanos across the border. It documents the history and maturation of Chicano studies as an intellectual discipline.

973.0468 J722h (Undergraduate Stacks)
Jones, Oscar. Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Historic Hispanic America. Oscar and Joy Jones. NewYork: Hippocrene Books, 1993.
This book offers guide to such historical events that have colored the history of the Americas as the explorations of the conquistadores in search of gold, new lands, the Fountain of Youth and the Seven Cities of Aztlán. It also provides guide to historic and cultural sites along the U.S. Mexican border and includes maps of the early Spanish trails in the American Southwest. 

973.04687273 T636d  (Undergraduate Stacks)
Torres-Saillant, Silvio and Ramona Hernández. The Dominican Americans. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.
This volume traces the roots of the U.S.-Dominican relations. The authors examine the reasons that influence the exodus of Dominicans to the United States. The topics included range from education, health, drugs and violence, the visual, performing arts, popular music, religion, food, to discuss issues of gender and race. Biographical profiles of such notable personalities as artists, sport-greats, musicians, lawyers, novelits, and activists.

973.046872 D295m (History Stacks)
Davis, Marilyn P. Mexican Voices, American Dreams: An oral historyof Mexican Immigration to the United States. New York: Henry Holt, 1990.
Davis feels that politicians, academics and bureaucrats are far removed from the lives of the people immigrating. The author gathers stories told by the people as she travels around corrals, patios of the pueblos of Mexico. She interviewed fifty-three men and women in search of a new life an opportunity. The narratives speak, shout, sing and give voice to their struggle and heroic journey. These stories witness a link missing from the history on this side of the border to forge it into place so that it becomes part of all of us.

973.046872 M521r (History Library Stacks)
Menchaca, Martha. Recovering History, Constructing Race: the Indian, Black and White Roots of Mexican Americans. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
The author presents a historical overview of the racial formation of Mexican Americans. She considers Mexican-Americans as an intermingling of races: Indian, White and Black. Her book underscores the legacy of racial discrimation that began with the Spanish conquest. Her research covers documentation of racial legislation, racial policy and practices
across political hegemonic groups that establish ideological, legislative and institutional patterns and trends that lock Latinos into a history of racial inequality.

973.046872 T288 (Undergraduate Stacks)
Rosales, Arturo. Testimonio: a documentary history of the Mexican American struggle for civil rights. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 2000.
Rosales' surveys about the history of Mexican-American struggle for civil rights begins in the 1800s and extends to modern times. For his research the author utilizes petitions, correspondence, government reports, newspapers, first hand accounts, manifestos, congressional testimony, memoirs and treaties. He takes a close look at the effects of the 1910 Mexican Revolution and the impact of massive immigration to the U.S. during the 1920s. This book includes bibliographical sources.

972.007202 C275a (Undergraduate Stacks)
Almaráz, Félix D. Knight without armor: Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, 1896-1958. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
This book researches the Texan borderland historian Carlos Eduardo Castañeda. Chapters   describe Castañeda's biography, and intellectual activities throughout his life. Also Castañeda's honors from the Catholic Church in Rome, the knighthood from the Equestrian Order of the Hoy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and his disctinctions from other organizations in the U.S.

976.300496 D61s (Main Stacks)
Din, Gilbert. Spaniards, planters and slaves: the Spanish regulation of slavery in Louisiana 1763-1803. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
Gilbert examines documents containing policies, laws, Governors' personalities and attitudes regarding slavery to explain how plantation ownership functioned under the Spaniards. The author has used Papeles de Cuba (from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain) and previous research from Juan José Andreu Ocariz' Movimientos rebeldes de los esclavos negros durante el dominio español en Luisina and Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. This book includes bibliographical references and index. A fascinating book for researachers in the field of Spanish Louisiana.

976.4877 W41s (Main Stacks)
Weddle, Robert. The San Sabá Mission, Spanish pivot in Texas. Drawings by Mary Nabers Prewit. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1964].
This author studies the San Sabá Mission to understand the role it played in the extreme frontier of New Spain and the history of Spain in the New World. This book also views many other sides contested in the colonial period such as the natives and their struggle in the Indian depredations in the state of Texas. Although the study of the San Sabá Mission represents a very small part of the Spanish conquest, it leads to interesting discoveries of places and items associated with the administration of the mission and fort. This research is based on reports and written letters. The book includes a bibliography.


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305.868073 St29h 2001 (Modern Languages Stacks)
Stavans, Ilan. The Hispanic Condition. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Stavans discourse draws into questions of space, legitimization of Hispanics within the mainstream culture codes. His reflection is insightful and his work describes, compares and contrasts the major Hispanic groups: Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Central and South Americans. This book is useful for a general background of Latinos in the United States.

Q.305.868073 Ol5a (Modern Language Stacks)
Olmos, Edward James. Americanos: Latino Life in the Untied Sates: la  vida Latina en los Estados Unidos. Edward James Olmos, Lea Ybarra, Manuel Monterrey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.
This book of photographs documents the participation of Latinos in the American life. It shows their roles as doctors, teachers, business owners, cooks, politicians, farm workers, baseball players, astronauts and many others that daily contribute to this society. A team of 32 photographers across the country took part on this project.

305.86872073 Or6c (Modern Languages Stacks)
Orozco, E. C. Chicano Labyrinth of Solitude. Dubuque: Kendall, 1996.
Orozco's experience working among Latino children at primary and secondary school level, his social work experience with brown youth groups and gangs provides him with a profound view on the root and causes of racism and social exclusion. He believes tha social cues reinforce and subordinated minority behavior and thinking. Orozco's Chicano Labyrinth is discusses the social and psychological maladjustment of the brown Americans in society.

306.36209792 J725t (Main Stacks)
Jones, Sondra. The trial of Don Pedro León Luján: the attack against Indian slavery and Mexican traders in Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000.
The capture and selling of Indian women and children was a common practice in the history of Indian labor in Spain's possessions in the Southwestern United States. Jones examines the history of Indian slavery in Hispanic New Mexico and its political and cultural effects. She also examines the cultural and political environment in Mormon-dominated Utah. In addition to this, the author analyzes the court records of the trial of "Pedro León" and talks about evidence through testimonies, affidavits and legal responses in court arguments.

972 J564m 1994 (Modern Language Stacks)
Jiménez, Carlos. The Mexican-American Heritage. Berkeley: TQS, 1994.
The author presents his view on the kind of continuing struggle for Mexican-Americans from the pre-Columbian high developed civilizations of the Mayans, Aztecs, Toltecs when the native peoples developed agricultural and hunting systems, architectural styles, philosophical concepts, medical system, astronomy, and mathematical concepts. Then, Jiménez draws on the Spanish Colonization, the birth of the Mestizo, Mexico's Independent War, the Mexican Revolution (1910), and the migration of millions of Mexicans into the Southwestern United States. Lastly, the author discusses the Mexican-American inception and contact in the United States, the rise of the farmworker's movement, and their struggle for a better life and proper representation in modern society.

973.0468 H6252 (Main Stacks)
Hispanos en los Estados Unidos. Rodolfo, J. Cortina and Alberto Moncada. Madrid: Ediciones de Cultura Hispánica, 1988.
This book is the product of two conferences celebrated with the occasion of the Five Hundred Years of the Discovery of the Americas. These conferences were held in Spain and Florida.  The texts are arranged in three parts, first, studies on the history of Hispanics in the U.S.A., a second part, on definitions and perspectives which includes identity, language, plurality, race and ethnicity. A third part devoted to education, bilingualism, multiculturalism and the multi-linguistic phenomena.

973.0468 Sh79l (Undergraduate Stacks)
Shorris, Earl. Latinos: A Biography of the People. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.
Shorris writes about the biography of Latino peoples. He is fully aware of the diverse nationalities of Latinos in the U.S. His work focuses on topics about the  family, education, economics, politics, language, racism, art, poverty and effects of history and culture upon the process of immigration. To exemplify his text, he uses works from Rubén Salazar, Tato Laviera, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Martín Espada, and Cecilio García-Camarillo.

973.046872 M313c (Main Stacks)
Manfredi, Juan Luis. Chicanos, la quinta nación hispana: pasado, presente y perspectivas de una minoría étnica. Llerena, Badajoz: Editores Extremeños, 1999.
This book has been written by Spaniard journalist and a historian. It traces the history of Chicanos and their ancestry rooted in Spain. Manfredi's goal is to create a bridge between the two nations: Spain and the United States, and to examine the cultural and historical past  and their future role of Chicanos as an ethnic group in the American society, its economy, media and politics.

973.046872 N42 (Modern Languages Stacks)
New Directions in Chicano Scholarship. Edited by Ricardo Romo and Raymund Paredes. La Jolla: University of CA, San Diego.
A compilation of essays written by twelve scholars who represent a variety of fields, interests and ideologies. One of the main focus of this book is on culture which includes folklore and literature. There are two essays devoted to folklore, the first, by Américo Paredes, the second by Stanley Robe about Américo Paredes' Cancionero. José Limón writes on the phenomenon the "agringado joking," Doris Meyer presents her research on the 1920s literary figure, Felipe Maximiliano Chacón. Tomás Ybarra and Rafael Jesús González talk about contemporary Chicano poetry. Joseph Sommers presents a new historical approach to  Tomás Rivera's work "Y no se lo tragó la tierra." Also Raymund Paredes writes an essay on the 19th century American responses to Mexican character and culture. Mario Barrera considers the early experience of Chicanos from 1900-1930. Ricardo Romo also focuses on this period to consider the movement of Chicanos into American cities. Rosaura Sánchez and Rodolfo Jacobson offers an overview of Chicano bilingualism.

973.046872 D543m (Main Stacks)
Díaz de Cossío Roger. Los  mexicanos en Estados Unidos. México, D. F.: Sistemas Técnicos de Edición, 1997.

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Transhistoric Thresholds

Web site created for the Arizona State University conference in December 1998.   It displays information on the US. Mexican War 1846-1848, the Spanish American War 1898 which links to a separate file: http://www.spanamwar.com

History of Latinos and Chicanos in the World History Archive

This archive disseminates articles about the history of the world. It covers Latinos and Chicanos. The articles are text-full and were produced by organizations such as the Workers World Service. They include topics on the History of Immigrant Labor in the U.S.A, Immigration Polices and the INS, also deportation and issues about undocumented workers.

UCLA César Chávez Center

The University of California, Los Angeles is one of the major academic research institutions on the West Coast. It maintains the archives for César Chávez' papers and reports.

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