Latinos in the U.S. Bibliography
Allegro, Linda and Andrew Grant Wood, eds. Latin American Migrations to the U.S.
Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America. Urbana, Chicago, and
Springfield: University Illinois Press, 2013.
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This collection of essays discusses Latin American migrations to what Allegro and Wood call
“the U.S. Heartland,” the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas.
These areas have not received the high number of immigrants that the coastal areas or major
metropolitan areas of the Midwest, but in terms of population percentages, these predominantly
rural areas have experienced dramatic demographic change. The second chapter examines the
contributions of Mexican and Mexican American migrant workers to the area that hosted the first
sugar factory in the region in Scottsbluff Nebraska. Tisa Anders supplements her primary source
documents with oral histories, which demonstrate that Mexican Americans quickly became the
majority group recruited for work in the fields. In Chapter three, Errol Jones shows how a
conservative community in Idaho was transformed by progressive church members working with
and for the needs of increasing numbers of Catholic Mexican immigrants. In chapter four, Sandy
Smith-Nonini describes how North Carolina delegated the right to recruit international labor to
private brokers representing planters under a guest worker program ostensibly set up to mitigate
abuse but that resulted in workers being extorted for high fees and suffering other abuses. Linda
Allegro argues in chapter five that racism underlies the anti-immigrant bill HB 1804 in
Oklahoma. By imposing harsh penalties on immigrants while implementing lax oversight on
employers, the bill has given employers further ability to exploit workers through threatening to
report them to ICE. Other chapters examine the effects of similar anti-immigrant legislation in
Kansas and Pennsylvania. The final two chapters examine how demographic change has led to
cultural and economic change in the U.S. Heartland.
Alvarez, Rodolfo and Frank D. Bean, eds. The Mexican Origin Experience in the United
States. Social Science Quarterly 65: 2 (1984).
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Alamillo, José M. Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure
in a California Town, 1880-1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
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Almaguer, Tomás. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in
California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
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Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
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Alvarez, Robert. R. Familia Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California 18001975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
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Balderrama, Francisco E. and Raymond Rodríguez. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican
Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
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Beltrán-Vocal, María Antonia, Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez, and Silvia Fuentes,
eds. Mapping Strategies: Naccs and the Challenge of Multiple (Re)Oppressions.
Phoenix: Orbis, 1999.
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Behnken, Brian D. Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and
the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2011.
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—. The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations
during the Civil Rights Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
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Blea, Irene I. La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender. New York:
Praeger, 1992.
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Bonilla, Frank et al., eds. Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the
Paradox of Interdependence. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library E184.M5B56
Brooks, James F. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest
Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
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Carlson, Alvar W. The Spanish-American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico's Río
Arriba. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F802.R4 C37
Castillo, Pedro G. and Antonio José Ríos-Bustamante. México en Los Ángeles: Una Historia
Social y Cultural, 1781-1985. México: Alianza Editorial Mexicana, 1989.
CLLAS Library F870.M5 C37
Center for Puerto Rican Studies and History Task Force. Sources for the Study of Puerto
Rican Migration, 1879-1930. New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies History Task
Force, 1982.
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Chávez, Ernesto. "¡Mi Raza Primero!" (My people first!): Nationalism, Identity, and
Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2002.
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Davidson, Chandler. Race and Class in Texas Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1990.
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De la Garza, Rodolfo O. et al. Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban
Perspectives on American Politics. Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 1992.
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Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic
Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press,
1987.
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Evans, George W. B. Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty-Niner. Edited by Glenn S.
Dumke. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 2006.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F593.E85
Fogelson, Robert M. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930. Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
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García, Juan R. and Thomas Gelsinon. Emerging Themes in Mexican American Research.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.
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García, Mario T. Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
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Garcilaso, Jeffrey Marcos. Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870
to 1930. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2012.
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Gómez-Quiñones, Juan. Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940-1990. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
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—. Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
CLLAS Library F790.M5 G65
Gonzales, Manuel G. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999.
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This book has two audiences in mind: undergraduate students in survey courses on Mexican
American or Latino history and a general audience looking for a less activist or more “objective”
approach to the history of Mexicans in the United States. The book is a tertiary text; it uses
secondary literature to provide a narrative of Mexican experience in the U.S. and analysis of this
experience. The book is organized chronologically and politically: there are chapters on Native
American and Spanish encounter to 1521; the Spanish Frontier, 1521-1821; the Mexican Far
North, 1821-1848; the American Southwest, 1848-1900; the Great Migration, 1900-1930; The
Depression, 1930-1940; The Second World War and its Aftermath, 1940-1965; The Chicano
Movement, 1965-1975; and Pain and Promise, 1975-1998. The book makes cursory reference to
areas outside the American Southwest, but this area is the author’s focus. The author frequently
draws comparisons between the work of early Chicano scholar-activists and the scholarship of a
new generation of revisionist academics who he believes have better separated their activism
from their research program. This is a good general reference for information on the most
important themes in the history of Mexicans in the American Southwest, including the Mexican-
American War, the exclusion of Mexicans from the California gold rush, the bracero program,
the Chicano movement, and U.S. immigration policy.
Gonzalez, Arturo. Mexican Americans & the U.S. Economy. Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 2002.
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Gutiérrez, José Angel. The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
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Gutiérrez, Ramón A. and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Contested Eden: California before the Gold
Rush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
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Hamilton, Nora and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla. Seeking Community in a Global Community:
Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2001.
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Harlow, Neal. California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
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Hart, Dianne Walta. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story. Wilmington, Delaware:
Scholarly Resources, 1997.
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Heer, David M. Undocumented Mexicans in the United States. Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Hero, Rodney E. Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-Tiered Pluralism. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1992.
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Hernández, José Angel. Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A
History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2012.
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Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. The Mexican American Family Album. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Jackson, Robert H., ed. New Views of Borderlands History. Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 1998.
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Kanellos, Nicolás. Reference Library of Hispanic America. Vols. 1-3. Farmington Hills,
Michigan: The Gale Group, 2000.
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Keefe, Susan E. and Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity. Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 1987.
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Kropp, Phoebe S. California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F862.K76
Lamar, Howard R. The New Encyclopedia of the American West. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1998.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F591.N46
Lorey, David E. The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century: A History of Economic
and Social Transformation. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1999.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F787.L67
Lydersen, Kari. Out of the Sea and into the Fire: Latin American-U.S. Immigration in the
Global Age. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2005.
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Martinez, Oscar J. Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1994.
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Martínez, Oscar J. Troublesome Border. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.
CLLAS Library F786.M42
Martínez, Oscar J., ed. U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1996.
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Martínez, Rubén. The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond. New
York: Vintage Books, 1993.
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Matovino, Timothy M. Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821-1860. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1995.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F394.S2 M39
Mazón, Mauricio. The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1984.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F869.L89 M56
Menchaca, Martha. The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and
Discrimination in California. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F869.S53 M46
—. Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican
Americans. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library E184.M5 M46
Montejano, David, ed. Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1999.
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Moore, Joan W. and Harry Pachon. Mexican Americans. Englewook Cliffs, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, 1976.
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Mora, Anthony. Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 18481912. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011.
CLLAS Library F805.M5 M67
Navarro, Armando. Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano
Movement in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F395.M5 N39
Nieto-Phillips, John M. The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity
in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F805.S75
Oboler, Suzanne and Deena J. González, eds. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and
Latinas in the United States. Vols. 1-4. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Olmos, Edward James, Lea Ybarra, and Manuel Monterrey. Americanos: Latino Life in the
United States = La vida Latina en los Estados Unidos. Boston: Little, Brown, and
Company, 1999.
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Overmeyer-Velázquez, Mark. Beyond La Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
CLLAS Library E184.M5 B497
Pérez-Torres, Rafael. Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
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Quinones, Sam. Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library E184.M5 Q56
Ready, Alma. Open Range and Hidden Silver: A Saga of Cattlemen and Miners and Other
Men Who Made Arizona's Santa Cruz County. Nogales, Arizona: Alto Press, 1973.
CLLAS Library F817.S3 R42
Reséndez, Andrés. Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico,
1800-1850. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F386.R46
Rodríguez, Clara E. and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds. Historical Perspectives on Puerto
Rican Survival in the United States. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996.
CLLAS Library E184.P85 H56
Rosenbaum, Robert J. Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest: "The Sacred Right of SelfPreservation." Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F790.M5 R67
Ruíz, Vicki and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds. Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and
Community. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Ruiz, Vicki L and Tiano, Susan, eds. Women on the U.S. Mexico Border. Boulder: Westview
Press, 1987.
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Salazar, Ruben. Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1995.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F787.S18
Saldívar, José David. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1997.
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Samora, Julian and Richard A. Lamanna. Mexican-American Study Project Advance Report
8: Mexican Americans in a Midwest Metropolis: A Study of East Chicago. Los
Angeles: Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of California,
Los Angeles, 1967.
CLLAS Library E184.M5 C3
Simons, Helen, and Cathryn A. Hoyt. Hispanic Texas: A Historical Guide. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1992.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library F387.H56
Sosa-Riddell, Adaljiza, ed. Expanding Raza World Views: Sexuality and Regionalism.
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 1999.
CLLAS Library E184.M5 E96
Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., ed. Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary
Perspectives. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.
NIU FML & CLLAS Library E184.M5 C76
Vargas, Zaragosa. Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from Colonial
Times to the Present Era. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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—. Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-century
America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005.
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Velez-Ibanez, Carlos G. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
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Vernez, Georges. Mexican Labor in California's Economy: From Rapid Growth to Likely
Stability. Santa Monica, California: RAND, 1993.
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Zamora, Emilio. “Mexican Labor Activity in South Texas, 1900-1920.” Ph.D. Diss.,
University of Texas, Austin, 1983.
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