This is a Mexican American bibliography. This list consists of books, and journal articles, about Mexican Americans, Chicanos, and their history and culture. The list includes works of literature whose subject matter is significantly about Mexican Americans and the Chicano/a experience. This list does not include works by Mexican American writers which do not address the topic, such as science texts by Mexican American writers.
Reference works Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 209: Chicano Writers, Third Series Borderline: A Bibliography of the United States-Mexico Borderlands (Massive tool for locating social sciences and humanities research materials dealing with the borderlands region. Some entries annotated; includes author index. Barbara G. Valk, et al., eds. Purdy/Kresge Library, LCCN Z 1251 .M44 V35 1988) Chicano Anthology Index: A Comprehensive Author, Title and Subject Index to Chicano Anthologies, 1965-1987 (Massive index to over 5000 essays and literary works about Chicanos. Includes subject, author, title indexes.) Francisco García-Ayvens. 1990. Purdy/Kresge Reference, LCCN Z1361.M4 G37 1990
Biographies Garcia, Mario T. The Making of a Mexican-American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles and the Origins of Latino Political Power University of Arizona Press, 2018.
Histories
Chicano Movement Cervantes, Leo. More than a century of the Chicano movement. 2004 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, c2002. (available online from UC campuses: ) Delgado, Abelardo B. The Chicano movement: some not too objective observations Denver, Colo.: distributed by Totinem Publications, 1971. García, Ignacio M. Chicanismo: the forging of a militant ethos among Mexican Americans Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1997. Gómez-Quiñones, Juan, and Irene Vásquez. Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977 (2014), 460pp Mariscal, George. Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement 1965-1975. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Meier, Matt S., and Margo Gutiérrez. Encyclopedia of the Mexican American civil rights movement (Greenwood 2000) online Muñoz, Carlos. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement. London and New York: Verso, 1989. Oropeza, Lorena. Raza sí!, guerra no!: Chicano protest and patriotism during the Viet Nam war era. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005. Orozco, Cynthia E. No Mexicans, women, or dogs allowed: The rise of the Mexican American civil rights movement (University of Texas Press, 2010) online Quiroz, Anthony (ed.), Leaders of the Mexican American Generation: Biographical Essays. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2015. Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie. Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015. Rosales, F. Arturo. Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. (Arte Público Press, 1997); online San Miguel, Guadalupe. Brown, not white : school integration and the Chicano movement in Houston College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Sánchez, George I. "Ideology, and Whiteness in the Making of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1930–1960" Journal of Southern History (2006) 72#3 pp. 569–604 in JSTOR Treviño, Jesús Salvador. Eyewitness : a filmmaker’s memoir of the Chicano Movement Houston, Tex. : Arte Pʹublico Press, 2001. Trujillo, Armando L. Chicano empowerment and bilingual education : movimiento politics in Crystal City, Texas New York : Garland Pub., c1998. Vigil, Ernesto B. The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War On Dissent Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
General histories Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America. New York: Harpercollins, 1988. Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda and David Maciel. Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. De Anda, Roberto M. Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. Del Castillo, Richard Griswold. La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1984. Foley, Neil. Mexicans in the Making of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014. Iber, Jorge. Hispanics in the American West Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Martínez, Elizabeth "Betita". 500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Años de Historia Chicana. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Meier, Matt S., and Feliciano Ribera. Mexican Americans/American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American:Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. Segura Camacho, Julian. The Chicano treatise Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. Shane, C.J. (editor). The Mexicans. Farmington, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Ruiz Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Other works
Barrow, Lisa and Rouse, Cecilia Elena. "Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?" American Economic Review 2005 95(2): 83–87. Fulltext: in Ingenta and Ebsco Jack Citrin, Amy Lerman, Michael Murakami and Kathryn Pearson, "Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity?" Perspectives on Politics, Volume 5, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 31–48 De La Garza, Rodolfo O., Martha Menchaca, Louis DeSipio. Barrio Ballots: Latino Politics in the 1990 Elections (1994) De la Garza, Rodolfo O. Awash in the Mainstream: Latino Politics in the 1996 Elections (1999) * De la Garza, Rodolfo O., and Louis Desipio. Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992 Elections (1996) De la Garza, Rodolfo O. Et al. Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics (1992) Arnoldo De León, Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History, 2nd ed. (1999) Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, David R. Maciel, editors, The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico 2000, Nancie L. González; The Spanish-Americans of New Mexico: A Heritage of Pride (1969) Hero, Rodney E. Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-Tiered Pluralism. (1992) Garcia, F. Chris. Latinos and the Political System. (1988) Samuel P. Huntington. Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity (2005) Kenski, Kate and Tisinger, Russell. "Hispanic Voters in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential General Elections." Presidential Studies Quarterly 2006 36(2): 189–202. Fulltext: in Swetswise and Ingenta David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (1987) Pachon, Harry and Louis Desipio. New Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants. (1994) Rosales, Francisco A., Chicano!: The history of the Mexican American civil rights movement. (1997). Smith, Robert Courtney. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (2005), links with old village, based on interviews South, Scott J.; Crowder, Kyle; and Chavez, Erick. "Geographic Mobility and Spatial Assimilation among U.S. Latino Immigrants." International Migration Review 2005 39(3): 577–607. Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. And Mariela M. Páez. Latinos: Remaking America. (2002) Villarreal, Roberto E., and Norma G. Hernandez. Latinos and Political Coalitions: Political Empowerment for the 1990s (1991)
William A. Nericcio (2007). "Tex(t)-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the 'Mexican' in America"; utpress book; book galleryblog John R. Chavez (1984). "The Lost Land: A Chicano Image of the American Southwest", New Mexico University Publications.
Surveys and historiography Acuña, Rodolfo F. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2010) Bean, Frank D., and Marta Tienda. The Hispanic Population of the United States (1987), statistical analysis of demography and social structure Chabran, Richard, and Rafael Chabran. The Latino Encyclopedia (6 vol. 1996) De Leon, Arnoldo, and Carlos E. Cuéllar. "Chicanos in the City: A Review of the Monographic Literature," The History Teacher (1996) 29#3 pp. 363–378 in JSTOR De Leon, Arnoldo, and Richard Griswold Del Castillo. North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (2006) Garcia, Richard A. "Changing Chicano Historiography," Reviews in American History 34.4 (2006) 521–528 in Project MUSE Gomez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (2008) Gomez-Quiñones, Juan. Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990. (1994). Gonzales, Manuel G. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (2nd ed 2009) excerpt and text search Gutiérrez, David G. ed. The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960 (2004) 512pp excerpt and text search Meier, Matt S. Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary (1997) 431pp; 127 longer biographies excerpt and text search Meier, Matt S. Mexican American The biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987 (1988) 237pp; 270 shortwer biographies Rochín, Refugio I., and Denis N. Valdés, eds. Voices of a New Chicana/o History. (2000). 307 pp. 14 articles by scholars Ruiz, Vicki L. "Nuestra América: Latino History as United States History," Journal of American History, 93 (Dec. 2006), 655–72. Ruiz, Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (1998) Vargas, Zaragosa. Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era (2010)
Pre 1965 Bogardus, Emory S. The Mexican in the United States (1934), sociological Escobedo, Elizabeth. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front (2013) Gamio, Manuel. The Life Story of the Mexican Immigrant (1931) Gamio, Manuel. Mexican Immigration to the United States (1939) García, Mario T. Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930–1960 (1989) Gomez-Quinones, Juan. Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940 (1994) Grebler, Leo, Joan Moore, and Ralph Guzmán. The Mexican American People: The Nation's Second Largest Minority (1970), emphasis on census data and statistics Hernández, José Angel. Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) excerpt and text search* Rivas-Rodríguez, Maggie ed. Mexican Americans and World War II (2005) Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1995) excerpt and text search
Culture and politics, post 1965 Aranda, José, Jr. When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America. U. of Arizona Press, 2003. 256 pp. Arreola, Daniel D., ed. Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. 2004. 334 pp. Badillo, David A. Latinos and the New Immigrant Church. 2006. 275 pp. excerpt and text search Berg, Charles Ramírez. Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance. 2002. 314 pp. Branton, Regina. "Latino Attitudes toward Various Areas of Public Policy: The Importance of Acculturation," Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 293-303 (2007) Abstract Burt, Kenneth C. The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics, Regina Books, 2007. Excerpts and online search from Amazon.com DeGenova, Nicholas and Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y. Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. 2003. 257 pp. Dolan, Jay P., and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds. Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965 (Volume 1, "Notre Dame History of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S." series), (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
Francis-Fallon, Benjamin. The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (2019) Fregoso, Rosa Linda. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture. (1993) excerpt and text search