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History

Angels' town : chero ways, gang life, and rhetorics of the everyday / Ralph Cintron
977.3110468073 C575

Between two worlds : Mexican immigrants in the United States / David G. Gutierrez, editor.
973.046872 B565

Border people : life and society in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Oscar J. Martinez.
972.1 M38

The buried mirror : reflections on Spain and the New World / Carlos Fuentes
946.02 F95

Californio voices : the oral memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara ; translated and edited by Gregorio Mora-Torres Amador, José Mariá, 1794-1883.
979.403092 AM481

Chicano! : the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement / by F. Arturo Rosales.
973.046872 R788

Chicano politics : reality and promise, 1940-1990 / JuanGómez-Quiñones
973.046872073 G63

Chicanos in a changing society : from Mexican pueblos toAmerican barrios in Santa Barbara and southern California, 1848-1930 / Albert Camarillo.
979.490046872 C17

The Columbia history of Latinos in the United States since 1960 / edited by David G. Gutierrez
973.0468 C726

Conquistadors / Michael Wood
980.013 W877

The Cristal experiment : a Chicano struggle for community control / Armando Navarro
976.4437 N319

The Cuban Americans / Miguel Gonzalez-Pando
973.04687291 G643

Cuban Americans : from trauma to triumph / James S. Olson and Judith E. Olson
973.04687291 OL52

Cubans in America : a vibrant history of a people in exile / Alex Antón and Roger E. Hernández
973.04687291 AN634

Cutting for sign / by William Langewiesche
972.1 L277

Across the wire : life and hard times on the Mexican border / Luis Alberto Urrea
972.2 UR8

Decade of betrayal : Mexican repatriation in the 1930s / Francisco E. Balderrama, Raymond Rodriguez.
973.046872 B176

Desert immigrants : the Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 / Mario T. Garcia.
976.496 G216

Dionicio Morales : a life in two cultures / by Dionicio Morales
973.046872 M828

The Dominican Americans / Silvio Torres-Saillant and Ramona Hernández
973.04687293 T693

Early Latino ballplayers in the United States : major, minor and Negro leagues, 1901-1949 / Nick C. Wilson
796.3570922 W751

Grito! : Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico land grant war of 1967 / by Richard Gardner
978.952 G22

Hard line : life and death on the U.S.-Mexico border / Ken Ellingwood
972.1 EL46

Havana USA : Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 / Maria Cristina García
973.04687291 G216

The Hispanic presence in North America from 1492 to today / Carlos M. Fernandez-Shaw.
973.0468 F36

Itinerary : an intellectual journey / Octavio Paz ; translated by Jason Wilson
972.083 P348

Latinos : a biography of the people / Earl Shorris
973.0468 SH559

La nueva California : Latinos in the Golden State / David E. Hayes-Bautista
979.400468 H417

Life on the hyphen : the Cuban-American way / Gustavo Pérez Firmat
973.04687291 P438

Listen Chicano! : An informal history of the Mexican American / Manuel A. Machado
973.0468 M14

The making of a Chicano militant : lessons from Cristal / José Angel Gutierrez
976.4437092 G984

Mexican Americans, American Mexicans : from Conquistadors to Chicanos / Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Ribera.
973.046872 M5

The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 / Michael J. Gonzales
972.082 G643

Mexicanos : a history of Mexicans in the United States / Manuel G. Gonzales.
973.046872 G643

"Mi raza primero!" (My people first!) : nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 / Ernesto Chávez 
979.494 C512

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon : Zoot suits, race, and riot in wartime L.A by Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
979.494052 P128

North to Aztlan : a history of Mexican Americans in the United States / Richard Griswold del Castillo and Arnoldo de Leon.
973.046872 G871

Occupied America : a history of Chicanos / Rodolfo Acuna.
973.0468 AC18

Puerto Ricans in the United States / María E. Pérez y González
973.04687295 P438

The rebel / Leonor Villegas de Magnón ; edited and introduced by Clara Lomas
973.0468720092 V732

Recovering history, constructing race : the Indian, Black, and white roots of Mexican Americans / by Martha Menchaca.
973.046872 M536

La Revolucion : Mexico's great revolution as memory, myth, and history / Thomas Benjamin
972.0816 B468

Revolution in Texas : how a forgotten rebellion and its bloody suppression turned Mexicans into Americans / Benjamin Heber Johnson
976.44 J66

Testimonio : a documentary history of the Mexican American struggle for civil rights / edited by F. Arturo Rosales
973.046872 R788T

They called me "King Tiger" : my struggle for the land and our rights / Reies López Tijerina ; translated from the Spanish and edited by José Angel Gutierrez ; with a foreword by Henry A.J. Ramos
978.905 T568

Troublesome border / Oscar J. Martinez.
979 M38

The U.S.-Mexican border in the twentieth century : a history of economic and social transformation / David E. Lorey.
972.1 L869

Villa and Zapata : a history of the Mexican revolution / Frank McLynn
972.0816 M166

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Sociology

Barrio boy. / Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-
301.45167 G14

Barrio gangs : street life and identity in Southern California / by James Diego Vigil ; foreword by Robert Edgerton.
364.1066 V677

Between two nations : the political predicament of Latinos in New York City / Michael Jones-Correa.
305.868 J79

Border games : policing the U.S.-Mexico divide / Peter Andreas.
363.4509721 AN557

Brown : the last discovery of America / Richard Rodriguez
305.868073 R696

Cannery women, cannery lives : Mexican women, unionization, and the California food processing industry, 1930-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz.
331.88 R93

Cesar Chavez : a triumph of spirit / by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia.
331.8813092 C512G

La Chicana : the Mexican-American woman / Alfredo Mirande,Evangelina Enriquez.
301.412 M672

Chicana traditions : continuity and change / edited by Norma E. Cantu and Olga Najera-Ramirez.
305.48 C532

The Chicanos; a history of Mexican Americans / Matt S.Meier and Feliciano Rivera.
301.45167 M5

Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Ruben Martinez.
306.850896872 M385

Enrique's journey / Sonia Nazario
305.23 N335

The fight in the fields : Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers movement / Susan Ferriss and Ricardo Sandoval ; edited by Diana Hembree
331.8813092 C512F

From out of the shadows : Mexican women in twentieth-century America/ Vicki L. Ruiz.
305.4886 R93

The Hispanic condition : reflections on culture and identity in America / Ilan Stavans
305.868073 St97 1996

Hispanics/Latinos in the United States : ethnicity, race, and rights / edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia & Pablo De Greiff.
305.868 H6735

Hunger of memory : the memory of Richard Rodriguez , an autobiography / Rodriguez, Richard.
371.97092 R696

It's all in the frijoles : 100 famous Latinos share real-life stories, time-tested dichos, favorite folktales, and inspiring words of wisdom / [edited by] Yolanda Nava.
170.89 IT89

The Latino/a condition : a critical reader / edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
305.868 L357

Latino/a popular culture / edited by Michelle Habell-Pall’an and Mary Romero
305.868 L357H

Latinos : remaking America / edited by Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Mariela M. Paez.
305.868073 L357SU

Latinos in ethnic enclaves : immigrant workers and the competition for jobs / Stephanie Bohon.
331.6238073 B667

Magical urbanism : Latinos reinvent the US city / Mike Davis
305.868 D263

Mestizo : the history, culture, and politics of the Mexican and the Chicano : the emerging Mestizo-Americans / Arnoldo Carlos Vento.
305.868 V466

The Mexican American family : tradition and change / NormaWilliams.
306.8 W72

MeXicana encounters : the making of social identities on the borderlands / Rosa Linda Fregoso
305.48 F859

Mexican-origin people in the United States : a topical history / Oscar J. Martinez.
305.868079 M385

Narratives of Mexican American women : emergent identities of the second generation / Alma M. García
305.48 G216

Raza sí!, guerra no! : Chicano protest and patriotism during the Viet Nam war era / Lorena Oropeza
323.1168073 OR74

Strangers among us : How Latino immigration is transforming America / Roberto Suro.
305.868 SU961

There's no Jose' here : following the hidden lives of Mexican immigrants / Gabriel Thompson
305.868 T471

Twilight on the line : underworlds and politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border / Sebastian Rotella.
363.450972 R843

Undocumented in L.A. : an immigrant's story / Dianne Walta Hart
306.85208968 H325

Walls and mirrors : Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the politics of ethnicity / David G. Gutierrez.
323.1168073 G984

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Literature, Folklore, Art and Language

Borderlands = La frontera : the new mestiza / GloriaAnzaldua. Frontera
811.54 AN63

Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa / Rigoberto González
813.54 G6431

Chicano narrative: the dialectics of difference
810.9 SA16

The chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras : essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism / Tey Diana Rebolledo
810.99287 R292C

Cuentos : tales from the Hispanic Southwest : based on stories originally collected by Juan B. Rael / selected by and adapted in Spanish by Jose Griego y Maestas ; retold in English by Rudolfo A. Anaya; ill. by Jaime Valdez.
398.209788 G84

Federico Garcia Lorca : impossible theater : five plays and thirteen poems / by Federico Garcia Lorca ; in new translations by Caridad Svich
868.6209 G216

Herencia : the anthology of Hispanic literature of the United States / editor, Nicolas Kanellos ; co-editors, Kenya Dworkin y Mendez ... [et al.] ; coordinator, Alejandra Balestra.
810.80868 H542

Hispanic American literature : an anthology / [compiled by] Rodolfo Cortina
810.80868 H673

Hispanic writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors / Bryan Ryan, editor.
810.9092 H67

Home girls : Chicana literary voices / Alvina E. Quintana
810.99287 Q7

An introduction to Spanish-American literature / Jean Franco
860.998 F825

Junior college / Gary Soto
811.54 SO718

The labyrinth of solitude ; The other Mexico ; Return to the labyrinth of solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The philanthropic ogre / by Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp, Yara Milos, and Rachel Phillips Belash
306.0896872 P348

Latin American folktales : stories from Hispanic and Indian traditions / edited and with an introduction by John Bierhorst.
398.208968 B588

Latina self-portraits : interviews with contemporary women writers / Bridget Kevane and Juanita Heredia.
810.99287 L357

Latino images in film : stereotypes, subversion, & resistance / Charles Ramírez Berg
791.43 B452

Memoirs. / Pablo Neruda ; translated from the Spanish byHardie St. Martin
861.62 N45M

Message to Aztlán : selected writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales / compiled, with an introduction, by Antonio Esquibel ; with a preface by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
818.5409 G643

Migrant song : politics and process in contemporary Chicano literature/ Teresa McKenna.
810.9 M155

Paper dance : 55 Latino poets / edited by Victor Hernandez Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana, and Virgil Suarez.
811.54080868 P214

The poetry of Pablo Neruda / edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans
861 N45PO

Puro teatro : a Latina anthology/ edited by Alberto Sandoval -Sanchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach.
812.540809287 P985

Selected odes of Pablo Neruda / translated, with anintroduction by Margaret Sayers Peden
861 N45S

Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral / Translated and edited byDoris Dana. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
861 G58

Selected verse / Federico Garcia Lorca : edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Maurer ; translated by Francisco Aragon
861.62 G216S

Silent dancing : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz
818.5403092 OR77

Soltando Amarras = Casting off / poems by Claribel Alegría ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
861.64 AL366

Splendor and death of Joaquin Murieta. / Translated by BenBelitt Neruda, Pablo
862 N45F

Three tragedies: Blood wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba / byFederico García Lorca ; translated by James Graham-Luján and Richard L.O'Connell
862.62 G21T

Trumpets from the islands of their eviction / Martín Espada
811.54 ES77

Understanding contemporary Chicana literature / Deborah L. Madsen.
810.99287 M183

Women singing in the snow : a cultural analysis of Chicanaliterature / Tey Diana Rebolledo.
810.99287 R292

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Fiction

Caramelo : or pure cuento : a novel / Sandra Cisneros
FIC CISNEROS, S

Cubana : contemporary fiction by Cuban women / edited by Mirta Yanez
FIC Short Stories

Days of obligation : an argument with my Mexican father / Richard Rodriguez.
FIC RODRIGUEZ, R

Face of an angel / Denise Chavez.
FIC CHAVEZ, D

A Ghost in the Music / John Treadwell Nichols
FIC NICHOLS, J

Growing up Latino : memoirs and stories / edited with an introduction by Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans
FIC Short Stories

How the García girls lost their accents / by Julia Alvarez
FIC Alvarez, J

The house on the lagoon / Rosario Ferré
FIC FERRE, R

The house on Mango Street / by Sandra Cisneros
FIC CISNEROS, S

Iguana dreams : new Latino fiction / edited by Delia Poey andVirgil Suarez
FIC Short Stories

The Burning Plain and other stories / Juan Rulfo
FIC Rulfo, J

In the Name of Salome : a novel / Julia Alvarez
FIC Alvarez, J

The infinite plan : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
FIC ALLENDE, I

The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez
FIC Chavez, D

The Latino reader : an American literary tradition from 1542 to the present
FIC Short Stories

Nirvana Blues / John Treadwell Nichols
FIC NICHOLS, J

The perpetual present; the poetry and prose of Octavio Paz. / Edited by Ivar Ivask
868 P34ZI

Puppet : a Chicano novella / Margarita Cota-Cardenas ; English translation by Barbara D. Riess and Trino Sandoval with the author.
FIC COTA-CARDENAS, M

Short stories by Latin American women : the magic and the real / edited by Celia Correas de Zapata
FIC Short Stories

The underdogs : a novel of the Mexican Revolution / Mariano Azuela
FIC AZUELA, M

So far from God : a novel / Ana Castillo.
FIC CASTILLO, A

Woman hollering creek and other stories / Sandra Cisneros
FIC CISNEROS, S

Yo! / Julia Alvarez
FIC Alvarez, J

Zia summer / Rudolfo Anaya.
FIC ANAYA, R

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Last Modified: March 31 2008