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Latino / Latina / Latinx / Hispanic / Chicano / Chicana
Latinos broadly defined are U.S. Hispanics with origins in Latin America or Spain. There are many subgroups by national origin and race, variously known as Hispanic Americans, Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans. Also check subject-specific Research Guides since Hispanics are present in all walks of life.
44th CineFestival San Antonio - July 12-16, 2023
- CineFestival San Antonio 2023San Antonio’s original Latinx film festival returns on July 12 through 16, 2023 at the historic Guadalupe Theater with a large Texas filmmaker presence.
Key Databases
- Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1 (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFeatures digitized historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. Includes more than 1,100 digitized historical books, as well as Hispanic newspapers, political and religious pamphlets, and essays.
Also called: Latino-Hispanic American Experience Series 1 - Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 2 (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowThe Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers: contains a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, civil rights, religious thought, and growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Contains over 250,000 pages of personal and archival manuscript collections, 3000 issues of rare historical newspapers and periodicals, and hundreds of rare books. Content is drawn from the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project”.
Also called: Latino-Hispanic American Experience Series 2
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latino StudiesRecommendations for scholarship in all formats, whether encyclopedias and textbooks or journal articles and primary sources. Peer-reviewed bibliographic essays and annotated citations on each topic.
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new windowIndexing and significant full-text linkage to articles in scholarly journals, magazines, and books. Includes materials published worldwide in a variety of languages about Central and South America, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and U.S. Hispanics. Focus is Social Sciences and Humanities. 1967-present
- Latino-Hispanic American Experience Series 1 - (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFeatures digitized historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. Includes more than 1,100 digitized historical books, as well as Hispanic newspapers, political and religious pamphlets, and essays. Documents are primarily from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Content is 80% Spanish and 20% English and is searchable in both languages.
Also called: Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 - Latino-Hispanic American Experience Series 2 - (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowThe Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers: The Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection Series 2 Contains a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, civil rights, religious thought, and growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Contains over 250,000 pages of personal and archival manuscript collections, 3000 issues of rare historical newspapers and periodicals, and hundreds of rare books. Content is drawn from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.
Also called: Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection Series 2. - Latino Literature (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowContains over 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States, as well as Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. Nearly 800 of the works are previously unpublished.
- Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 (Readex) This link opens in a new windowA collection of hundreds of searchable full-text / full-image newspapers published in the United States by Hispanics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Papers may be in Spanish, English, or both Spanish and English. Based on Nicolás Kanellos' "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project."
- Referencia Latina (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides information on contemporary social issues including pro/con viewpoint articles, statistical tables, charts and graphs, primary documents, biographies, court case overviews, images, video and audio files, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Periodical content includes Lexile reading levels. Updated continuously.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social MovementsAddresses significant ways in which the Latino and Latina populations have shaped the political, legal, and social institutions of the U.S., with political movements and organizations, important legal cases, minority-rights laws, and immigration legislation.
- Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection contains scanned images of historical newspapers (1887-1997) from counties at or near the Texas border. Includes titles published in Spanish and French as well as English. Freely available from University of North Texas Portal to Texas History.
- Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art - ICAAThe International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has undertaken a multiyear project to recover and publish primary-source materials tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. Browse or search the site for digitized documents.
- Border and Migration Studies Online (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera related to significant border areas and events across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Topics include border identities, border control, border disputes, human trafficking, undocumented migration, and more.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowIndexes the international literature in linguistics and language sciences. Includes abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Significant linkage to full text. 1920 - current.
- Chicano Database (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSelectively indexes materials on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos from 1967 to the present. Incorporates the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, From 1992 on includes the broader Latino experience of Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Central American immigrants.
- Chicano Studies Library Serial CollectionJPL Microfilm Cabinets (4th Floor) E184 .M5 C461
A set of 577 microfilms of Chicano periodicals, journals, newsletters and journals published throughout the United States from 1855 to 1995. This comprehensive group of periodicals was gathered by the Chicano Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Use guide in 3rd Floor JPL Stacks E184 .M5 C461 to locate titles or consult title list (pdf).
- America: History and Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSelectively indexes and abstracts the scholarly literature on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Includes citations to journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. Also includes useful features such as the ability to search by historical time period. For world history, see Historical Abstracts.
- Solunet Twin Plant Guide (CD-Rom)Solunet Twin Plant Guide is a directory of about 1900 Mexico's maquiladora manufacturing plants and their U.S. twin plants, warehouses and logistics companies including plant address, industrial park location, phone and fax numbers, email and website, contact names and titles, and more. 2012 data only.
Solunet Twin Plant Guide may only be accessed on the following campus workstations:- JPL: 2nd floor workstation # 14. CD-ROM is available on Permanent Reserve. Ask for help at the Info Desk. (Access is limited to current UTSA students, faculty and staff)
- Downtown Library: workstation # 18. Ask for help at the Info Desk. (Access is limited to current UTSA students, faculty and staff).
- Small Business Development Center: workstation #146947 in room 3.322. (Access is limited to SBDC staff).
- Immigration: Records of the INS - 1880-1930 (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new windowTurn of the century files cover immigration of various groups to the United States, including Japanese and Chinese immigration, European immigration, and Mexican immigration between 1906-1930. There are also extensive files on the regulation of prostitution and white slavery and on suppression of radical aliens.
- Race Relations Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowRace Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 49,500 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
- Dictionary of Chicano FolkloreOnline. Also in print: JPL 3rd Floor GR111 .M49 2000
Alphabetically arranged entries on Latino folklore in literature, drama, media, art, society, religion, medicine, and history. Good source for derivation of words such as piñata and vato. - Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United StatesOxford Reference Online
Scholarly articles addressing topics of identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. - Handbook of Texas OnlineAn online version of the Handbook of Texas. This encyclopedia gives information on the history, geography, and culture of Texas. Look up individual county names for a history of that county. Includes an article on defunct counties. (The New Handbook of Texas) (6 volumes)
- Latino EncyclopediaJPL 3rd Floor & Downtown Reference E184 .S75 L357 (6 volumes)
Entries on Latino life, culture, and history in the United States. - Latinas in the United States: A Historical EncyclopediaE-Book Gale Virtual Reference Library
Biographies, organizations, court cases. Many photographs. - Encyclopedia of Latino Popular CultureJPL 3rd Floor E184 .S75 E59 Two volumes.
Topics include entertainment, festivities, social movements, sports, food, visual and performing arts, film, fashion, and literature. - Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights MovementE-Book
Organizations, court decisions, events, issues, chronology.
- Gale eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new windowCross-searchable collection of full text encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in a wide-range of disciplines for background information. Formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowFull-text current and historical newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority presses of the U.S. and Canada. Provides the unique viewpoint of Hispanic, Native Peoples, African American, Caribbean, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, and Jewish communities. Dates of coverage: 1959-current.
- Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new windowExtensive coverage of news, legal and business sources. Contains full text U.S. and foreign newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires; company, industry and financial information including Company Dossier, and legal sources for U.S. Federal and State case law, statutes, regulations and law reviews. Create a free profile (optional) to save searches and set up alerts. Updated daily. Coverage: 1975-current.
- Acceda Noticias (Access News) (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowArticles from U.S. and worldwide Spanish-language news sources including newspapers, journals, blogs, newswires and broadcast transcripts. A subset of Access World News.
- Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 (Readex) This link opens in a new windowA collection of hundreds of searchable full-text / full-image newspapers published in the United States by Hispanics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Papers may be in Spanish, English, or both Spanish and English. Based on Nicolás Kanellos' "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project."
- Chicano Studies Library Serial CollectionJPL Microfilm Cabinets (4th Floor) E184 .M5 C461
A set of 577 microfilms of Chicano periodicals, journals, newsletters and journals published throughout the United States from 1855 to 1995. This comprehensive group of periodicals was gathered by the Chicano Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Use guide in 3rd Floor JPL Stacks E184 .M5 C461 to locate titles or consult title list (pdf).
- Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals covering the latter half of the 20th century. Included are periodicals produced by Hispanics, Black Power advocates, Native Americans, LGBT activists, feminists, campus radicals, dissident GIs, anti-war activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines.
Dates of coverage: 1950-2015
- Historic Mexican and Mexican American PressHistoric Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
- Contemporary Hispanic Biography (Gale)Biographical profiles of persons of Hispanic heritage in a wide variety of fields. (4 volumes)
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Gus Garcia Day July 27
- Remembering Gus Garcia, Mexican-American Civil Rights Pioneer (NBC News)Gus Garcia was a dashing figure in Texas legal and social circles. He was a key member of the first team of Mexican-Americans to win a case at the Supreme Court.
- A Class Apart: A Mexican Civil Rights StoryStreaming Video: PBS : American Experience
Details landmark Civil Rights case Hernandez v Texas challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. - Hernandez v. State of TexasA discussion from the Handbook of Texas Online.
- Hernandez v. State of Texas (Justia)Full text of the Supreme Court decision.