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Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups by Call Number: REF E184.A1 H35ISBN: 0674375122Publication Date: 1980-10-10From Acadians to Zoroastrians-Asians, American Indians, East Indians, West Indians, Europeans, Latin Americans, Afro-Americans, and Mexican Americans--the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups provides the first comprehensive and systematic review of the many peoples of this country.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America by Call Number: REF E184.A1 G14 1999ISBN: 0787639907Publication Date: 1999-12-01This stand-alone set offers a wealth of first-hand insights into the experiences of approximately 170 ethnic groups.
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Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History by Call Number: REF E184.S75 R69 2006ISBN: 1558853472Publication Date: 2006-12-01"From the Alianza Hispano-Americana, a mutual aid society founded in Tucson, Arizona in 1894, to the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943, this first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms.
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Call Number: PS508.H57 N65 2011ISBN: 9780393080070Publication Date: 2010-09-13This groundbreaking Norton Anthology includes the work of 201 Latino writers from Chicano, Cuban-, Puerto Rican-, and Dominican-American traditions, as well as writing from other Spanish-speaking countries.
Latino USA by Call Number: E184.S75 S752 2000ISBN: 0465082211Publication Date: 2000-09-05Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language.
500 Years of Chicana Women's History (500 Años de la Mujer Chicana) by Call Number: E184.M5 M375 2008ISBN: 9780813542249Publication Date: 2008-02-06The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture by Call Number: REF F1406 .E53 1996ISBN: 0684192535Publication Date: 1995-12-015,300 entries over four volumes, organized in A-Z dictionary format, treat the entire territory of Spanish and Portuguese conquest and exploration in the New World from the windswept plains of Patagonia to the Alaskan harbour of Valdez to the island nations of the Caribbean. Each country is the subject of a narrative historical survey and a series of entries on its history and geography, its politics, constitutions, political parties, labour unions, and educational institutions.
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Ebooks
Latino History Day by Day by Call Number: EbookISBN: 0313396426Publication Date: 2013-01-01This title takes a calendrical approach to illuminating the history of Latinos and life in the United States and adds more value than a simple "this day in history" through primary source excerpts and resources for further research. * Hundreds of chronologically arranged entries featuring events and information about Latino/a history in the United States
Latino Stats by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781620970195Publication Date: 2015-01-27At a time when politics is seemingly ruled by ideology and emotion and when immigration is one of the most contentious topics, it is more important than ever to cut through the rhetoric and highlight, in numbers, the reality of the broad spectrum of Latino life in the United States.
Term Paper Resource Guide to Latino History by Call Number: EbookISBN: 0313379335Publication Date: 2010-09-01This resource guide to 100 key events in Latino history provides students, librarians, and scholars with hundreds of original and compelling term paper ideas and the key print and electronic sources needed for research. * Presents 100 historical events organized in chronological order, beginning with the founding of the California Missions in 1769 and culminating with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Routledge Concise History of Latino/A Literature by Call Number: EbookISBN: 020307971XPublication Date: 2013-01-17The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literaturepresents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature, examining both the historical and political contexts of the works, as well as their authors and the readership.
Chica Lit by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780822980995Publication Date: 2015-07-01Winner, 2016 ALA-Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters.
Latino Generation by Call Number: EbookISBN: 1469615517Publication Date: 2014-01-01Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" they actually are.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781414438061Publication Date: 2014-02-28Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America contains 175 essays (that's 25 more than the previous edition) on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns.
Media
- Streaming- Latin America In VideoLatin America in Video offers quality original language documentaries from some of the most important producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America. The films were produced in Latin America, by Latin Americans, about Latin American issues, such as cultural identity, political history, human rights, popular culture, agribusiness, education, religion, and much more.
- Streaming- Foreigners in Their Own Land (1565-1880): The Latino AmericansThis film covers conflicts between the British and Spanish colonial systems as Manifest Destiny pushed the U.S into the Mexican territories of the South West, and the Mexican American War. By exploring the Spanish Mission System, California rancheros, the Gold Rush, and Las Gorras Blancas (The White Caps), learn how conquest, shifting borders and dispossession shaped Hispano culture and identity in former Mexican territories of the Southwestern United States. Part of PBS series The Latino Americans. (52 minutes)
- DVD- Latinos beyond reel : challenging a media stereotype byCall Number: DVD PN1995.9.H47 L385 2012Publication Date: 2012Filmmakers Miguel Picker and Chyng Sun examine how U.S. news and entertainment media portray--and do not portray--Latinos. Drawing on the insights of Latino scholars, journalists, community leaders, actors, directors, and producers, they uncover a pattern of gross misrepresentation and gross under-representation--a world in which Latinos tend to appear, if at all, as gangsters and Mexican bandits, harlots and prostitutes, drug dealers and welfare-leeching illegals. The film challenges viewers to think critically about the wide-ranging effects of these media stereotypes, and to envision alternative representations and models of production more capable of capturing the humanity and diversity of real Latinos
- DVD- Harvest of empire : the untold story of Latinos in America byCall Number: DVD E184.S75 H37 2012Publication Date: 2012This powerful documentary exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. From the territorial expansionist policies that decimated the young economies of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire provides an unflinching look at the origins of the growing Latino presence in the United States. Adapted from the landmark book written by journalist Juan Gonzalez, the film tells the story of an epic human saga that is largely unknown to the great majority of citizens in the U.S., but must become part of our national conversation about immigration.
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