While there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of periodicals that have articles relevant to research on Hispanic Americans, the ones listed here are of great importance to the field, and every student should get to know them.
This is a multidisciplinary journal focused on Puerto Rican culture.
This quarterly journal publishes "original articles dealing with Southwestern history and culture from the earliest pre-history to the present." Focus is largely what is today the state of New Mexico and the area of northern Mexico.
This has been THE scholarly research journal on Chicano Studies since 1970.
This is the peer-reviewed journal of the National Association of Bilingual Education focusing on K-12 education of language minorities in the U.S. We have online access back to 1997 and print to 1992.
This is an international peer-reviewed journal that only began in 2003 but has quickly gained prominence in the field. We have online full-text access from 2003 (with an embargo on the most recent 12 months) through the Ethnic Newswatch database.
Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies is a unique resource for both researchers and students. According to the publisher it aims to offer " ... an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline." Called the "anti-Google" by the Chronicle of Higher Education, these bibliographies try to help students and novice researchers find their way to authoritative information. Each article is reviewed for update annually, and at least 50 new articles are added each year.
This database tells where to find journal articles on Latin American topics in the social sciences and humanities from 1967 to the present.
This database provides the full text of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers (many of them bilingual) published between 1808 - 1980. Included are newspapers from California, Texas, New Mexico, New York, and many other states.
A collection of three full-text databases, namely GenderWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and Alt-PressWatch. GenderWatch enhances gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research by providing authoritative perspectives from 1970 to present. GenderWatch provides access to over 300 titles, with more than 250 in full-text, from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses. Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletters of the ethnic, minority and native presses as well as many journals concerned with issues of race and ethnicity, with archival material back to 1985. Alt-PressWatch includes over 1.5M articles from more than 300 small sources including unique, independent voices from respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals covering the arts and all viewpoints across the social and political spectrum from 1970 to present.
This database covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to the present, this database also provides full-text coverage of more than 196 journals and more than 92 books.
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
A collection containing over 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering a broad spectrum of subjects from general reference and language to science and medicine, and from humanities and social sciences to business and professional.
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. It includes approximately 16,000 books and 50,000 journal articles published in the 19th century, searchable by subject.
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The original source is provided so you know where to look for more in-depth data. 2013-present. The Library has the 1878-2012 editions in print.
Below are the research encyclopedias that all students doing research on Hispanic/Latine/x/ should know about. You should always begin your research by consulting them.
ISBN: 0313343403 Publication Date: 2012
This encyclopedia covers the oral traditions, customs, material culture, architecture, and other aspects of cultural production of the Latino population in the US. The 318 entries are presented in alphabetical order in short and longer essays, and are related to folk foods, speech, theater, saints, religion, celebrations, songs, singers and musicians, instruments, dance, architecture, trades, artists, heroes and anti-heroes, characters, beliefs, ailments and medicine, rites, sacred spaces, art, garments, children's songs and games, 21 Latin American countries, and distinguished scholars or people in folklore production. They serve as a sampling of folklore, rather than a comprehensive treatment, and include topics like alabados, baptism, adobe, chiles, hip hop, Los Lobos, mambo, milagros, romance, and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Appendices contain a table of medicinal plants and lists of films and web resources. (Publisher)
ISBN: 1558853472 Publication Date: 2006
The more than 900 entries of this single volume scholarly work by a distinguished professor of history. dictionary fill a distinct gap. Although the focus is on Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans, there is information on other groups, including the population of the Dominican Republic. There are some high-quality black-and-white illustrations, for individuals, specific events, and rare periodicals. Includes a bibliography of both print resources and Internet sites.
ISBN: 0717258157 Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Includes 650 signed articles on a wide range of topics from general (Religion, Stereotypes) to specific (Raza Unida Party, Taos Rebellion, ). There is an entry for each state. Each article has a nice list of further readings and list of related encyclopedia articles. Appendixes include primary documents such as treaties and constitutions. Each volume has a center insert of beautiful color photographs.
ISBN: 9780816060849 Publication Date: 2008
Hispanic-American literature has a venerable history, but it has never been more important and popular than it is now. Containing more than 250 entries, Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature includes those authors and works that are an integral part of the high school and college literary canon, as well as those that are historically significant or gaining a reputation in today's literary circles.
ISBN: 1440800987 Publication Date: 2014
This encyclopedia offers an introduction to the broad roots of Latino culture, including living traditions, rites of passage, folk culture, popular culture, and other forms of shared expression, encompassing high culture, such as art, film, literature, as well as street gangs, lowriders, Santeria, and hip hop culture. Entries are divided into three sections on history and origins, regional practice and traditions, and contemporary forms; most entries are about 2,000 words. The encyclopedia also includes spotlight features on historical and contemporary figures, as well as specific forms of cultural expression. It is illustrated with b&w photos, maps, and historical illustrations. Volume 1 begins with a historical overview of US Latinos, then provides entries on art, family, community, holidays, festivals and celebrations. This volume includes a detailed chronology. Volume 2 contains entries in sections on food, literature, and media, film, TV, and sports, including social media and Spanish language newspapers, radio, and television. Volume 3 offers entries in sections on music and dance, religion and spirituality, and theater and performance. (Publisher)
ISBN: 0313322155 Publication Date: 2004
This 2-volume encyclopedia has received mixed reviews. It covers Latino popular culture, Mexican-American, Cuban-American, and Puerto-Rican, in history, literature, and sports; media, film, and art; and music, ethnomusicology, and folklore. The best articles are the longer entries on music topics (e.g., salsa and cumbia) and most entries on Mexican Americans. Still, there is useful information.
ISBN: 0313304254 Publication Date: 2000
Mexican Americans, like many other Americans, have a long history of struggle for equality and civil rights. Yet only in recent decades has that history begun to be included as part of mainstream American history. Bringing together a wealth of information on the Mexican American struggle for civil rights, this authoritative encyclopedia provides factual up-to-date information on the concepts, issues, plans, legislation, court decisions, events, organizations, and people involved in that long fight. It includes such leading figures as Corky Gonzales, Hector Perez Garcia, Jovita Idar, and Alonso Perales, as well as many secondary leaders, and is rounded out with objective discussions of such topics as leadership, the movimiento, lynching, political exclusion, voting, and stereotyping. Appendices include a chronology and several basic documents critical to an understanding of the Mexican American Civil Rights struggle. (Publisher)
ISBN: 0313339708 Publication Date: 2008
This encyclopedia of Latino literature is a result of a project initiated by the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage organization, and covers a wide range of works from the colonial era to around 1960, with cultural repercussions and observations reaching well into the 21st century. Editor Kanellos (U. of Houston) has brought together entries that include more than just biographical information on hundreds of noteworthy Latino authors. Important themes and topics in Hispanic art and culture are also explored in depth, such as Latino perspectives of life during wartime, aesthetic concepts in Latino literature and even how references to the Virgin of Guadalupe seem to permeate so many different Latin cultures. Contributors from throughout Latin America and the United States also comment upon the influences of different countries such as Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico, and how these cultural foundations affect life in America. (Publisher)
ISBN: 1558850740 Publication Date: 1994
This set is a bit dated now, but it was roundly applauded when published as "... a good model for coverage of other ethnic groups in the US multicultural society." Still, it would be an excellent place to begin reading on anything cultural or historical!
ISBN: 0253346800 Publication Date: 2006
This is a 3-volume landmark work on the contributions of latinas to the U.S. The scope and depth and scholarship are all noteworthy. In addition to biographies of both the famous and the almost unknown, there are articles on all sorts of ideas (spiritism), events (Watsonville Strike), groups (United Farm Workers), and issues (maquiladoras) examined from the perspective of the Latina experience. All articles are signed and have additional sources.
ISBN: 9780313341168 Publication Date: 2008
This 2-volume encyclopedia has an article for each US state plus the District of Columbia, ranging in length from about 10 pages to nearly 50. You get a historical overview. a list of the state's notable Latinos and information on specific cultural contributions Latinos have made in the state. Includes bibliographies and an appendix with census data for 1870-2000.
ISBN: 0313380368 Publication Date: 2012
Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study. This book examines key mainstream commercial films while also spotlighting often-underappreciated documentaries, avant-garde and experimental projects, independent productions, features and shorts, and more. (Publisher)
ISBN: 1107638739 Publication Date: 2011
Latinos in the New Millennium is the most current and comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions, and political orientations. The authors draw on information in the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion around many dimensions of Latino political life in the U.S. (Publisher)
ISBN: 0313316430 Publication Date: 2003
This significant work is a collaboration of Matt S. Meier, one of the founders of the Chicano studies movement and a former SCU professor of history, and Margo Gutiérrez. This is a work of serious scholarship, providing both basic and comprehensive coverage of the history of Mexican Americans.
ISBN: 0313291055 Publication Date: 1997
Profiles 127 U.S. Latinos who have made important historical or recent contributions to American society. Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and others of Spanish, South American, Central American and Caribbean heritage more than one-third of them women represent all 50 states and 35 fields of endeavor, including business, government, the performing arts, fine arts, literature, education, social service, and sports. (Publisher)
ISBN: 0195156005 Publication Date: 2005
A multivolume encyclopedia on the history and experience of Latinos and Latinas in U.S. society since the early Colonial period. It includes more than 700 signed articles organized around 7 areas, each with a separate editor. Articles are of of 3 types: thematic essays on broad topics, issue essays on more specific topics and 200 biographies.