Mexican American History Bibliography  
 

Comprehensive Bibliography

REFERENCE WORKS  Bibliographies | Biographical Dictionaries | Chronologies | Dictionaries
Directories | Journal Indices | Journals
   
TOPICS Agriculture | Architecture | Art | Bibliographies | The Border
Braceros | Chicano Movement | Chicano Studies | Children
Comparative Ethnicity | Education | Environment and Ecology
Ethnic Identity | Family and Kinship | Film | Folklore and Folk Culture
Gender | General Works | Government Reports | Health
Historical Studies | Immigration | Labor | Language and Discourse
Literature | Mexican American Police Relations

Mexican American Relations | Music | Oral History | Organizations
Politics | Regions | Religion | Repatriation | Resistance
Sociological and Psychological Perspectives | Theatre
Wartime Experiences | Women | Youth
   

Braceros

Herrera-Sobek, Maria. The Bracero Experience: Elitelore versus Folklore. UCLA Latin American studies; v. 43. A Book on lore. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1979.

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Chicano Movement

Castro, Tony. Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America. [1st ed.]. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1974.

Hammerback, John C. A War of Words: Chicano Protest in the 1960s and 1970s. Contributions in ethnic studies, no. 12. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.

La Causa Chicana the Movement for Justice. New York: Family Service Association of America [1972].

The Politics of Chicano Liberation. 1st ed. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1977.

Rendon, Armando B. Chicano Manifesto. New York: Macmillan [1971].

Rosales, Francisco A. (Francisco Arturo). Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. 2nd rev. ed. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, 1997.

Vigil, Ernesto B. The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

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Chicano Studies

Chicano Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Bilingual education series. New York: Teachers College Press, 1984.

Chicano Studies: Survey and Analysis. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1997.

Duran, Livie Isauro, comp. Introduction to Chicano Studies. 2d ed. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

History, Culture, and Society: Chicano Studies in the 1980s. Ypsilanti, Mich.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1983.

Reflexiones 1997: New Directions in Mexican American Studies. Austin: Center for Mexcian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Distributed by University of Texas Press, 1998.

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Children

Coles, Robert. Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians. Children of Crisis; v. 4. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.

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Comparative Ethnicity

Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1985.

Shannon, Lyle W. Minority Migrants in the Urban Community; Mexican-American and Negro Adjustment to Industrial Society. Beverly Hills [Calif.]: Sage Publications [1973].

Stoddard, Ellwyn R. Mexican Americans. Ethnic Groups in Comparative Perspective. [1st ed.]. New York: Random House [1973].

Three Perspectives on Ethnicity--Blacks, Chicanos, and Native Americans. New York: Putnam, 1976.

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Education

Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr., and Ruben O. Martinez. Chicanos in Higher Education: Issues and Dilemmas for the 21st Century. ASHE-ERIC higher education report, no. 3 (1993). Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, [1993].

Carger, Chris Liska. Of Borders and Dreams: A Mexican-American Experience of Urban Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

Carter, Thomas P. Mexican Americans in School: A Decade of Change. [2d ed.]. New York: College Entrance Examination Board; Princeton, N.J.: may be ordered from College Board Publication Orders, 1979.

Chicano School Failure and Success: Research and Policy Agendas for the 1990s. The Stanford series on education and public policy; [13]. London; New York: Falmer Press, 1991.

Donato, Ruben. The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era. SUNY series, the social context of education. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

The Elusive Quest for Equality: 150 years of Chicano/Chicana Education. [1st ed.]. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review, 1999.

Gandara, Patricia C. Over the Ivy Walls: The Educational Mobility of Low-income Chicanos. SUNY series, social context of education. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Garcia, F. Chris. Political Socialization of Chicano Children; A Comparative Study with Anglos in California Schools. Praeger special studies in U.S. economic, social, and political issues. New York: Praeger [1973].

Gonzalez, Gilbert G. Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation. Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press, 1990.

National Institute on Access to Higher Education for the Mexican American, Albuquerque, N.M., 1975. Chicanos in Higher Education: Proceedings of a National Institute on Access to Higher Education for the Mexican American. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

Navarrette, Ruben. A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

Reich, Alice Higman. The Cultural Construction of Ethnicity: Chicanos in the University. Immigrant communities & ethnic minorities in the United States & Canada; 61. New York: AMS Press, 1989.

San Miguel, Guadalupe. "Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981. Mexican American monograph; 11. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987.

Trujillo, Armando L. Chicano Empowerment and Bilingual Education: Movimiento Politics in Crystal City, Texas. Latino communities. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Valenzuela, Angela. Subtractive Schooling: Issues of Caring in Education of U.S.-Mexican Youth. Albany: State University of New York, 1999.

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Environment and Ecology

Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin. Society, environment, and place. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Pulido, Laura. Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. Society, environment, and place. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

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Ethnic Identity

Anthologies

Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland. Albuquerque, N.M.: Academia/El Norte Publications, 1989.

Chicanos: antologia historica y literaria. Coleccion Tierra firme. 1a ed. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1980.

López y Rivas, Gilberto. The Chicanos: Life and Struggles of the Mexican Minority in the United States. With Readings. New York: Monthly Review Press [1974, 1973].

Nava, Julian, comp. Viva la raza: Readings on Mexican Americans. New York: Van Nostrand, 1973.

Romano-V., Octavio Ignacio, comp. Voices: Readings from El Grito, A Journal of Contemporary Mexican American Thought, 1967-1973. Rev., expanded, 2d ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Quinto Sol Publications, 1973.

General Works

Barrera, Mario. Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective. New York: Praeger, 1988.

Blea, Irene I. (Irene Isabel). Bessemer: A Sociological Perspective of the Chicano Barrio. Immigrant communities & ethnic minorities in the United States & Canada; no. 13. New York: AMS Press, 1991.

The Chicanos: As We See Ourselves. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1979.

Cooper Alarcon, Daniel. The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.

Garcia, Ignacio M. Chicanismo: The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.

Hirsch, Herbert. Learning to Be Militant: Ethnic Identity and the Development of Political Militance in a Chicano Community. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates, 1977.

Keefe, Susan E. (Susan Emley). Chicano Ethnicity. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Limon, José Eduardo. American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland. De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-colored Century. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1998.

Munoz, Carlos. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Generation. Haymarket series on North American politics and culture. London; New York: Verso, 1989.

Murguia, Edward. Assimilation, Colonialism, and the Mexican American People. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1989.

Simmen, Edward, comp. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-portrait. A Mentor book, MY 1069. New York: New American Library [1971].

Skerry, Peter. Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

Vento, Arnoldo C. Mestizo: The History, Culture, and Politics of the Mexican and the Chicano: The Emerging Mestizo-Americans. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998.

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Family and Kinship

Griswold del Castillo, Richard. La familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.

Murguia, Edward. Chicano Intermarriage: A Theoretical and Empirical Study. San Antonio, Tex.: Trinity University Press, 1982.

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Film

Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia. The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film. New York: Vantage Press, 1995.

Chicano Cinema: Research, Reviews, and Resources. Binghamton, N.Y.: Bilingual Review/Press, 1985.

Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Fregoso, Rosa Linda. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

List, Christine. Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film. Garland studies in American popular history and culture. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.

Noriega, Chon A. Chicanos and Film: Essays on Chicano Representation and Resistance. Garland reference library of social science; vol. 710. New York: Garland Pub., 1992.

Pettit, Arthur G. Images of the Mexican American in Fiction and Film. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1980.

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Folklore and Folk Culture

Entre la magia y la historia: tradiciones, mitos y leyendas de la frontera. 1. ed. [S.l.]: Programa Cultural de las Fronteras, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 1992.

Garcia, Nasario. Mas Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Harwell, Thomas Meade. Studies in Texan Folklore--Rio Grande Valley. Lore 1: twelve folklore studies with introductions, commentaries and a bounty of notes. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1997.

Paredes, Americo. The Jammon and the Beans: And Other Stories. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston, 1994.

Rael, Juan Bautista. Cuentos espanoles de Colorado y Nuevo Mexico = Spanish Folk Tales from Colorado and New Mexico: Spanish Language Originals with English Summaries. 2d ed., rev. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1977.

Robe, Stanley Linn. Index of Mexican Folktales, including Narrative Texts from Mexico, Central America, and the Hispanic United States. Folklore studies, 26. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Trotter, Robert T. Curanderismo, Mexican American Folk Healing. 2nd ed., University of Georgia Press pbk. ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Two Guadalupes: Hispanic Legends and Magic Tales from Northern New Mexico. 1st ed. Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1987.

Waugh, Julia Nott. The Silver Cradle: Las Posadas, Los Pastores, and other Mexican American Traditions. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988, 1983.

West, John O. Mexican-American Folklore: Legends, Songs, Festivals, Proverbs, Crafts, Tales of Saints, of Revolutionaries, and More. The American folklore series. 1st ed. Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1988.

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Gender (also see Women)

Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

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General Works

Aspects of the Mexican-American Experience. The Chicano Heritage. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

Bridging Two Cultures: Multidisciplinary Readings in Bilingual, Bicultural Education. Austin, Tex.: National Educational Laboratory Publishers, 1980.

Burma, John H. Spanish-speaking Groups in the United States. Detroit: Blaine Ethridge Books, 1974, 1954.

Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads: Social, Economic, and Political Change. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
The Chicano Experience. Westview special studies in contemporary social issues. Boulder: Westview Press, 1979.

The Chicano Struggle: Analyses of Past and Present Efforts. Binghamton, N.Y.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1984.
De la Garza, Rodolfo O. comp. Chicanos and Native Americans: The Territorial Minorities. Spectrum book. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall [1973].

De Leon, Nephtali. Chicanos: Our Background and our Pride. Lubbock, Tex.: Trucha Publications [1972].

Elizondo, Virgilio P. The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet. Oak Park, Ill.: Meyer-Stone Books, 1988.

Forbes, Jack D. comp. Aztecas del norte: The Chicanos of Aztlan. A Fawcett premier book, M605. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1973.

Garcia, Mario T. Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930-1960. Yale Western Americana series; 36. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Gomez, David F. Somos Chicanos; Strangers in Our Own Land. Boston: Beacon Press [1973].

Gomez, Rudolph, comp. The Changing Mexican-American; A Reader. [Boulder: Pruett, 1972].

Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott. Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse. Latinos in American society and culture; 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Healing Multicultural America: Mexican Immigrants Rise to Power in Rural California. Washington, D.C.: Falmer Press, 1993.

Hundley, Norris, comp. The Chicano: Essays. Clio Books/Pacific historical review series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Books, 1975.

Lamb, Ruth Stanton. Mexican Americans: Sons of the Southwest. Claremont, Calif.: Ocelot Press, 1970.

Larralde, Carlos. Mexican American Movements and Leaders. Los Alamitos, Calif.: Hwong Publishing Co., 1976.

Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland. Viva la raza! The Struggle of the Mexican-American People. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday [1974].

McCombs, Vernon Monroe. From over the Border; A Study of the Mexicans in the United States. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1970, 1925.

The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.

Mexican-Americans Tomorrow: Educational and Economic Perspectives. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1975].

Mirande, Alfredo. The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985.

Moore, Joan W. Mexican Americans. Ethnic Groups in American Life Series. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

New Directions in Chicano Scholarship. Chicano studies monograph series. La Jolla: Chicano Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, 1978.

Regions of La Raza: Changing Interpretations of Mexican American Regional History and Culture. Nuestra historia series; monograph no. 2. Encino, Calif.: Floricanto Press, 1993.

Servin, Manuel P. An Awakened Minority: the Mexican-Americans. Second edition. Beverly Hills: Glencoe Press [1974].

______, comp. The Mexican-Americans: An Awakening Minority. The Insight series. Beverly Hills: Glencoe Press [1970].

Simmen, Edward, comp. Pain and Promise: The Chicano Today. A Mentor book, MY1139. New York: New American Library [1972].

Steiner, Stan. La Raza: The Mexican Americans. Harper torchbooks; TB 1949. 1st Harper colophon ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

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Government Reports

United States Commission on Civil Rights. California Advisory Committee. Political Participation of Mexican Americans in California; a report to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. [Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971.

United States Commission on Civil Rights. The Excluded Student: Educational Practices Affecting Mexican Americans in the Southwest. [Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1972.

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Mexican Americans and the Administration of Justice in the Southwest. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., [1970].

United States Congress. House Committee on Resources. Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty Land Claims Act of 1998: report together with dissenting views (to accompany H.R. 2538) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). Report / 105th Congress, 2d session, House of Representatives; 105-594. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1998].

United States Congress. House Committee on Rules. Providing for the consideration of H.R. 2538, the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty Land Claims Act of 1998: report (to accompany H. Res. 522). Report / 105th Congress, 2d session, House of Representatives; 105-699. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1998].

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Health

Clark, Margaret. Health in the Mexican-American Culture: A Community Study. [2d ed.]. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.

Hispanic Culture and Health Care: Fact, Fiction, Folklore. Saint Louis: Mosby, 1978.

Kiev, Ari. Curanderismo: Mexican-American Folk Psychiatry. New York: Free Press [1968].

Roeder, Beatrice A. Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California. University of California publications. Folklore and mythology studies; 34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

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Historical Studies (also see Regions)

Bibliographies

Arroyo, Luis Leobardo. A Bibliography of Recent Chicano History Writings, 1970-1975. Bibliographic and reference series. Chicano Studies Center publications. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Center, Publications, University of California, 1975.

Meier, Matt S. Bibliography of Mexican American History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

General Works

Acuna, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 3rd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Chicano Social and Political History in the Nineteenth Century. Nuestra historia series; monograph no. 3. Encino, Calif.: Floricanto Press, 1992.

Gonzales, Manuel G. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard. North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States. Twayne's immigrant heritage of America series. New York: Twayne Publishers; London: Prentice Hall International, 1996.

López y Rivas, Gilberto. Conquest and Resistance: The Origins of the Chicano National Minority. Palo Alto, Calif.: R & E Research Associates, 1979.

Machado, Manuel A. Listen Chicano!: An Informal History of the Mexican American. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1978.

Meier, Matt S. The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans. American century series. New York: Hill and Wang [1972].

______. Mexican Americans, American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos. American century series. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Menchaca, Martha. The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Prago, Albert. Strangers in Their Own Land: A History of Mexican-Americans. New York: Four Winds Press [1973].

Rosaldo, Renato, comp. Chicano: The Beginnings of Bronze Power. Abridged ed. New York: Morrow, 1974, 1973.

______, comp. Chicano: The Evolution of a People. Minneapolis: Winston, 1973.

Samora, Julian. A History of the Mexican-American People. Rev. by Julian Samora, with the assistance of Cordelia Chavez Candelaria and Alberto L. Pulido. Notre Dame [Ind.]: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.

Vento, Arnoldo C. Mestizo: The History, Culture, and Politics of the Mexican and the Chicano: The Emerging Mestizo-Americans. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998.

Vigil, James Diego. From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican American Culture. 2nd ed. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1998.

Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

______. Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

______. New Spain's Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain and the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

______. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Historical Sources

Beyond 1848: Readings in the Modern Chicano Historical Experience. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1993.

Meier, Matt S. comp. Readings on La Raza, The Twentieth Century. American century series. New York: Hill and Wang [1974].

Moquin, Wayne, comp. A Documentary History of the Mexican Americans. New York: Praeger [1971].

Vargas, Zaragosa. Major Problems in Mexican American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Weber, David J., comp. Foreigners in their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans. [1st ed.]. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press [1973].

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Immigration

Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Jaguar books on Latin America; no. 15. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1996.

Crossings: Mexican immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998.

Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Ehrlich, Paul R. The Golden Door: International Migration, Mexico, and the United States. 1st Wideview ed. [S.l.]: Wideview Books, 1981, 1979.

Heer, David M. Undocumented Mexicans in the United States. The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

McWilliams, Carey. North from Mexico: The Spanish-speaking People of the United States. New ed. / updated by Matt S. Meier. New York: Praeger, 1990.

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Labor

Bibliographies

Sable, Martin Howard. Mexican and Mexican-American Agricultural Labor in the United States: An International Bibliography. New York: Haworth Press, 1987.

General Studies

Briggs, Vernon M. The Chicano Worker. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977.

Gomez-Quinones, Juan. Mexican American Labor. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Hart, John Mason. Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers. Latin American silhouettes. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1998.

MacLachlan, Colin M. Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magon in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Parigi, Sam Frank. A Case Study of Latin American Unionization in Austin, Texas. The Chicano heritage. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

Soltero, José M. Inequality in the Workplace: Underemployment among Mexicans, African Americans, and Whites. Children of poverty. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.

Zamora, Emilio. The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas. The Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University; no. 44. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.

Agricultural Labor

Daniel, Cletus E. Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness: The FEPC in the Southwest,1941-1945. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Gonzalez, Gilbert G. Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Work Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Gonzalez, Juan L., Jr. Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers: The California Agricultural Industry. New York: Prager, 1985.

Household Labor

Briody, Elizabeth Kathleen. Household Labor Patterns Among Mexican Americans in South Texas. New York: AMS Press, [1989], 1986.

Industrial Labor

Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933. Latinos in American society and culture; 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

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Language and Discourse

Briggs, Charles L. Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art. University of Pennsylvania Press conduct and communication series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Form and Function in Chicano English. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, 1984, 1981.

Penfield, Joyce. Chicano English: An Ethnic Contact Dialect. Varieties of English around the world, General series; v. 7. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985.

Sanchez, Rosaura. Chicano Discourse: Sociohistoric Perspectives. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, 1983.

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