Chicano Studies 197B


Compiled by: Norma Corral, October, 2003

Quick Links UCLA Library Catalog Melvyl (UC Libraries catalog) WorldCat Article Databases Reference Collection Online Online Materials Purchase Recommendation Interlibrary Loan Campus Libraries UCLA Library Home UCLA Home YRL Home		The following list is intended to lead you to sources, which provide useful information on a variety of issues relating to the Latino community in the 20th century. It illustrates the types and variety of sources that are available. Unless otherwise noted, these titles are located in Reference & Instructional Services of the Young Research Library. Additional resources may be found in the YRL Stacks and Special Collections. Many other general reference sources on the Internet may be reached from the Reference Collection Online. Subject Headings Directories Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Overviews Indexes & Abstracts Bibliographies News Sources Statistics NAFTA Internet Resources Book Reviews Library Resources and Services subject headings The UCLA Library uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). LCSH does not use the term , latino(s) it uses the term hispanic americans. In addition, mexican americans is used for chicanos. Other subject terms that might be useful in the UCLA Library Catalog are: Mexican Americans - civil rights Mexican Americans - education Mexican Americans - ethnic identity Mexican Americans - social conditions Hispanic Americans - employment Hispanic Americans - ethnic identity Hispanic Americans - services for Hispanic Americans - suffrage Hispanic American civic leaders Hispanic American families Hispanic American leadership Hispanic American neighborhoods Hispanic American politicians Foreign trade and employment - north america Free trade - north america Mexican american border region - economic conditions United states - foreign economic relations - mexico top of page directories Almanac of American Politics. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1972- YRL Reference Desk: JK 1012 .A445 Older editions are in the YRL Reference Reading Room. California Political Almanac. 1989/90- YRL Reference Desk: JK 8701 .A445 Older editions in the YRL stacks. Congressional Staff Directory. Mount Vernon, VA: Congressional Staff Directory, 1959- YRL Reference Desk: JK 1012 .C76 Older editions in the YRL stacks National Directory of Latino Elected Officials. 1996- Washington, D.C. : NALEO Educational Fund. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 184 .S75N38 1997 United States Government Manual. Washington, DC: Office of the Federal Register, 1960- YRL Reference Desk: JK 421 .A3 Older editions are in the YRL stacks. top of page encyclopedias, dictionaries, overviews Reference & Instructional Services has many subject encyclopedias and dictionaries which can be found in the UCLA Library Catalog under the appropriate subject heading, sometimes with the subdivision, dictionaries and encyclopedias American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. NY: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997 2v. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 184 .A1A63448 1997 Borderlands Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Edited by Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. YRL Reference Reading Room: Z 1251 .S8B67 1983 Brune, Lester H. Chronological History of United States Foreign Relations. New York: Garland, 1985-1991. 3 v. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 183.7 .B745 1985 Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984- . YRL Reference Reading Room: F 1410 .C1834 1984 Chronology of Hispanic American History: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. YRL Reference Desk: E 184 .S75C49 1995 Enciclopedia de Mexico. 3 ed. rev. Ciudad de Mexico : Enciclopedia de Mexico, 1996. 15 v. YRL Reference Reading Room: F 1204 .E46 1996 Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy : Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas / Alexander DeConde, editor. New York : Scribner, c1978. YRL Reference Reading Room: JX 1407 .E5615 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. 3 vols. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. YRL Reference Reading Room: F 1406 .E515 2000 Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Scribner's/Simon & Schuster Macmillan. 1996. 5 vols. YRL Reference Reading Room: F 1406 .E53 1996 Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System: Studies of the Principal Structures, Processes, and Policies. NY: Scribner's, 1994. 3v. YRL Reference Reading Room: JF 501 .E53 1994 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. NY: Scribner's, 1996. 5v. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 740.7 .E53 1996 Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. by Mary K. Cayton. New York:Scribner, 1993. 3 v. YRL Reference Reading Room: HN 57 .E58 1993 Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Sociology. Houston, TX.: Arte Publico Press, 1994. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 184 .S75H365 1993 v.4 Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. YRL Reference Desk: E 184 .S75H557 1997 Latino Encyclopedia. Ed. by Richard Chabrán and Rafael Chabrán. New York : Marshall Cavendish, 1996. 6 v. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 184 .S75L357 1996 Meier, Matt S. Dictionary of Mexican American History. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1981. YRL Reference Desk: E 184 .M5M453 Meier, Matt S. & Margo Gutierrez. Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. YRL Reference Desk: E 184 .M5M458 2000 Meier, Matt S. Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1988. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 184 .M5M454 1988 Miller, E. Willard. United States Immigration: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996. YRL Reference Reading Room: JV 6465 .M55 1996 Rosenberg, Jerry M. Encyclopedia of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the New American Community, and Latin American Trade. Westport, Con.: Greenwood Press, 1995. YRL Reference Reading Room: HC 94 .R668 1995 South America, Central America and the Caribbean. London: Europa, 1985- YRL Reference Desk: F 1406.5 .S68 top of page indexes and abstracts America: History and Life. 1964- Indexes articles, books, dissertations about all aspects of US history. Chicano Database. 1967- LexisNexis Congressional Full text of U.S. legislative documents. Expanded Academic ASAP (Formerly Magazine & Journal Articles). 1980- Includes many full-text articles. GPO Access Access to Full Text Government Information from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Handbook of Latin American Studies. 1935- Indexes scholarly works on Latin America from 1935 to the present, covering social sciences and humanities in alternating years. Also available in print YRL Reference Abstracts & Indexes: Z 1601 .H19L HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index. 1975- Many articles are not in English. Also Available in print: YRL Reference Abstracts & Indexes: Z 1605 .H21 Earlier coverage in: Index to Latin American Periodicals, 1961-1971 and Index to Latin American Periodical Literature and Supplements, 1929-1965. YRL Reference Abstracts & Indexes: Z 1601 .I38 YRL Reference Abstracts & Indexes: Z 1601 .I379 Historical Abstracts. 1960- Indexes articles, books, dissertations about all aspects of world history since 1450 except for the United States. JSTOR Full text content of core journals in the social sciences, humanities and mathematics. Journals complete from their beginning to approximately five years ago. PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) Index (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy, political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics, from 1972 to the present. Periodicals Contents Index An electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed and there are links to full-text in JSTOR. Project Muse Full-text recent volumes of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Web of Science Online access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), with collective coverage of over 8,000 scholarly journals from 1975 to the present Women's Studies International Combined access to several women's studies databases from 1972 to the present, including Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, POPLINE, and Women of Color. Covers feminism, history, ethnic studies, health, social sciences, U.S. and worldwide. World agricultural economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts. 1959- YRL Reference Reading Room: HD 1401 893 top of page bibliographies Meier, Matt S. A Bibliography for Chicano History. San Francisco, R and E Research Associates, 1972. YRL Reference Reading Room: Z 1361 .M5M47b Metz, Allan. A NAFTA Bibliography. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. YRL Reference Reading Room: KD Z944 .A12 M48 top of page news sources Newspapers and radio or television broadcasts are primary source materials that provide information on how an event was reported and analyzed as it occurred, in contrast to scholarly journal articles which might offer quite different interpretations. Ethnic NewsWatch Contains the complete text of articles since 1990 from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press, along with archival material dating back to the mid 1980's. Covers news, culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish. Facts on File Full-text available on the Internet from 1980 as Facts.com. World News Digest. Also available in print from 1941- YRL Reference News Indexes & Digests: D 410 .F119 ISLA: Information Services on Latin America. 1972. YRL Reference News Indexes & Digests: F 1401 .I82 Clippings of Latin American political, social, and economic news from various English language newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Miami Herald. The most recent six months of ISLA are in YRL Reference, the earlier volumes are in the YRL Stacks, 4th floor. Keesing's Record of World Events. 1931- YRL Reference News Indexes & Digests: D 410 .K258 LexisNexis Academic Full-text news, business, and legal information. top of page statistics California Latino Demographic Databook. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: California Policy Seminar, 1998. YRL Reference Reading Room: F 870 .S75C35 1998 California Statistical Abstract. 1958- YRL Reference Desk: HA 261 .A23 Older editions in the YRL stacks. Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin. By the Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race. Washington, D.C., 1998. YRL Reference Reading Room: E 184 .A1C43 1998 Condition of Education. 1975+ Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics. YRL Reference Desk: L 112 .N213c Also available ONLINE from 1989+ Digest of Education Statistics. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. YRL Reference Desk: L 112 .U58d Older editions in the YRL Reference Reading Room and YRL stacks. Also available ONLINE from 1990+ Mitchell, B.K. International Historical Statistics; the Americas 1750-1993. 3rd ed. New York : Stockton Press, 1998. YRL Reference Desk: HA 175 .M55 1998 Provides statistics on Latin Americans in the United States. Statistical Abstract of Latin America. 1955. YRL Reference Reading Room: HA 931 .C12 Major social, economic, and vital statistics data are presented in this source. Thematic essays on topics of current interest, such as Mexico's 1982 financial crisis, are included. Beginning in 1970 a supplement series focusing on specific topics was published. YRL Reference Reading Room: HA 931 .C121 Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1876- YRL Reference Desk: HA 202 Older editions in the YRL Reference Reading Room. Snyder, Thomas. State Comparisons of Education Statistics: 1969-70 to 1996-97. Washington, DC : Dept. of Edu., G.P.O., 1998. YRL Reference Reading Room: LA 217.2 .S68 1998 United States-Mexico Border Statistics Since 1900. LA : UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1990. YRL Reference Reading Room: HA 931 .C121 no.11 Also, 1990 Update, 1993. YRL Reference Reading Room: HA 931 .C121 no.13 top of page nafta North American Free Trade Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America, the Government of Canada, and the Government of the United Mexican States. Washington, DC : [Executive Office of the President], 1993- YRL Reference Reading Room: KDZ 944 .A41992A2 1993 top of page internet resources International Monetary Fund LANIC Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Latin American & Caribbean Government Documents Project A project that organizes and describes the many Latin American official documents now appearing on the Internet. National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Office of NAFTA & Inter-American Affairs Covers international trade administration, market access and compliance. World Bank Group News, publications, topics in development, and countries and regions. World Bank & IMF Libraries (JOLIS Catalog) Includes references to books, journal titles, journal articles, working papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos, software, electronic resources, and published IMF and World Bank materials. top of page book reviews Many book reviews published may be identified in Expanded Academic ASAP since 1980. Book Review Digest. New York: Wilson, 1905- YRL Reference Book Review Indexes: Z 1219 .B64 Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale, 1965- YRL Reference Book Review Indexes: Z 1035 .A1B65 Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886 - 1974. Arlington, Va.: Carrollton Press, 1979. YRL Reference Book Review Indexes: Z 1035 .A1C65

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