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Hispanic Culture and Identity

Your search for information on Hispanic culture and identity can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on Hispanic culture and identity. Suggested subject heading (s) and keyword (kw) searches include:

Chicanos (kw)

Ethnicity (s)

Hispanic American children – ethnic identity (s)

Hispanic American families – ethnic identity (s)

Hispanic Americans – California – Los Angeles – Race identity (s)

Hispanic Americans – cultural assimilation (s)

Hispanic Americans – Ethnic identity (s)

Hispanic Americans – social conditions (s)

Hispanic Americans – social life & customs (s)
Latinos (kw)

Mexican Americans – cultural assimilation (s)

Mexican Americans – ethnic identity (s)

Mexican Americans – social conditions (s)

Mexican Americans – social life & customs (s)

Reference Books that may be useful in your research:

Atlas of Hispanic-American History
 REFERENCE   E184 .S75 O287 2001

Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.
REFERENCE E184 .S75 H557 1997

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States.
REFERENCE E184 .S75 H365 1993

Latino Encyclopedia.
REFERENCE E184 .S75 L357 1996 v. 1-6

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
 REFERENCE  E184 .A1 G14 2000 v.2

Reference Library of Hispanic America.
REFERENCE E184 .S75 R44 1993 v. 1-3

Statistical Record of Hispanic Americans
 REFERENCE  E184 .S75 S74 1993

 

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
 REFERENCE E184 .S75 O97 2005 v. 1-4

 

The Mexican American Experience: an Encyclopedia

REFERENCE E184 .M5 M4535 2003

 

Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture
 REFERENCE E184 .S75 E59 2004 v. 1-2

 

Chronology of Hispanic-American History: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present

REFERENCE E184 .S75 C49 1995

Hispanic Firsts:  500 Years of Extraordinary Achievement
 REFERENCE E184 .S75 K36 1997

Circulating Books that may be useful in your research:

Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in contemporary Los Angeles. F869 .L89M5 1996

Sometimes There Is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality.
E184 .S75 A66 1998

Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.: An Anthology of Readings.
E184 .S75 C467 1997

The Chicanos: As We See Ourselves.
E184 .M5 C47

Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective.
E184.S75 G67 1999

Chicano Ethnicity.
E184 .M5 K43 1987

Mexican Americans, American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos.
E184 .M5 M456 2000

Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States.
E184 .S75 O27 1995

Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California
 F870.M5 C36 1984

Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans

E184.M5 M45

Journal and Newspaper Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books.

EbscoHost

Ethnic NewsWatch

FACTS.com

GenderWatch

NewsBank Infoweb

Project Muse

Rand California

See Databases & E-Resources for a complete description of Cerritos College Library online resources.

For remote access to the library databases, login via MyLibrary.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1975.

Internet Sites

 The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Pew Hispanic Center
 

Are Chicanos the same as Mexicans?

 

CLnet: Building Chicana/o and Latina/o Communities Through Networking

 

Hispanic Vista

 

Latino Culture: U.S.

 

Mexica Movement

 

 

 

 

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