Hispanic Heritage Month: Books And eBooks

• 25 Latino Craft Projects by American Library American Library Association

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2003

  The easy-to-organize projects in this book are organized around important Latino holidays and are inspired by artesenías (Latino folk art) traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation.
• The Border Reader by Gilberto Rosas (Editor); Mireya Loza (Editor)

  Call Number: 325.72 B68

  Publication Date: 2023

  The Border Reader is an anthology which gathers previously published foundational works of humanities and interpretive social science scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico border. Edited by anthropologist Gilberto Rosas and American and Latinx studies scholar Mireya Roza, this Reader brings together essays that mobilize feminist, queer, Indigenous and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border region as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production.
• Botánicas by Joseph M. Murphy

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2015

  Botánicas is an exploration in text and photographs of spiritual shops found in Latino neighborhoods throughout the United States. Readers discover these marvelous spaces and their alternative spiritualities that help patrons cope with the grind and challenges of city life. Botánicas provide access to an array of invisible powers and sell the ingredients to construct symbolic solutions to their patrons' problems.
• The Chicano Generation by Mario T. García

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2015

  In The Chicano Generation, veteran Chicano civil rights scholar Mario T. García provides a rare look inside the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s as they unfolded in Los Angeles. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with three key activists, this book illuminates the lives of Raul Ruiz, Gloria Arellanes, and Rosalio Muñoz--their family histories and widely divergent backgrounds; the events surrounding their growing consciousness as Chicanos; the sexism encountered by Arellanes; and the aftermath of their political histories.
• The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by Miriam Pawel

  Call Number: 92 C512Ba

  Publication Date: 2015

  The author draws on thousands of documents and interviews to examine the myths and achievements marking the life of the iconic Latino labor leader and civil rights activist, portraying him as a flawed but brilliant strategist who was often at odds with himself. Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century.
• Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon by Regina M. Marchi

  Call Number: 394.266 M360

  Publication Date: 2022

  Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Día de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latinx activists and artists in the United States began expanding "Day of the Dead" north of the border with celebrations of performance art, Aztec danza, art exhibits, and other public expressions.
• El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson

  Call Number: 973.046 G530

  Publication Date: 2020

  The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today. El Norte chronicles the dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present?from Ponce de Leon's initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico.
• Flamin' Hot: The Incredible True Story of One Man's Rise from Janitor to Top Executive by Richard Montanez

  Call Number: 338.76 M762

  Publication Date: 2021

  In Flamin' Hot, Richard Montanez distils what he learned over a wildly successful career about finding hidden chances to advance in dead-end jobs, offering practical steps anyone can use to advocate for themselves and get ahead. The secret, he found, is to act like an owner - even if you're an entry-level employee.
• Hispanic Surnames and Family History by Lyman D. Platt

  Call Number: R 929.1089 P719

  Publication Date: 1996

  This is an exhaustive review of the development of Spanish surnames in Latin America and the Hispanic United States where there are obvious links between Latin American and Spanish families.
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

  Call Number: FICT C579

  Publication Date: 1991

  The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong -- not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
• Latin American Artists by Phaidon Editors; Raphael Fonseca (Introduction by)

  Call Number: 709.2 M874

  Publication Date: 2023

  In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made. Focusing on those born, or who have lived, in the 20 Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, and features both historic and living artists.
• Latin Looks: Images Of Latinas And Latinos In The U.S. Media by Clara E. Rodriguez

  Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection

  Publication Date: 1997

  Collection of essays provides a sustained critique of stereotypical images and representations of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in US film, television, and printed media. Authors of individual chapters are experts in media and/or performance studies.
• Latino Image Makers in Hollywood by Frank Javier Garcia

  Call Number: 791.43 B475

  Publication Date: 2014

  Latinos have been part of the Hollywood film industry for more than 100 years, yet beyond the remarkable success of a few, their visibility and clout have generally not reflected their significance in American society. Worse, the Latino image has suffered from widespread stereotyping in film, and performers face unjustified constraints in the kinds of roles available to them.
• Latino Leaders Speak by Mickey Ibarra (Editor); María Pérez-Brown (Editor)

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2017

  This book shares the personal stories of 33 national Latino leaders including former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, journalist Soledad O'Brien and former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, originally presented as keynote addresses delivered at the Latino Leaders Luncheon Series convened in Washington, DC, and other major cities since 2004. Readers will be inspired to dream big, get prepared and get ready to lead.
• Latino Politics by Lisa García Bedolla

  Call Number: 305.868 G639

  Publication Date: 2014

  Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this popular text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Latino participation in US politics. Focusing on six Latino groups - Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans - the book explores the migration history of each group and shows how that experience has been affected by US foreign policy and economic interests in each country of origin. The political status of Latinos on arrival in the United States, including their civil rights, employment opportunities, and political incorporation, is then examined.
• Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics by Arlene Dávila

  Call Number: 700.98 D2897

  Publication Date: 2020

  In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look of the global contemporary art market, Dávila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. Dávila shows the importance of race, class, and nationalism in shaping contemporary art markets while providing a path for scrutinizing art and culture institutions and for diversifying the art world.
• Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United State by Natalia Deeb-Sossa (Editor); Jennifer Bickham Mendez (Editor)

  Call Number: 305.8 D311

  Publication Date: 2022

  What does it mean to be Latinx? This pressing question forms the core of Latinx Belonging, which brings together cutting-edge research to discuss the multilayered ways this might be answered.
• Latinx Literature Unbound by Ralph E. Rodriguez

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2018

  Latinx Literature Unbound frees Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Privileging the act of reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, Ralph E. Rodriguez argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature and suggests new ways we might proceed with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.
• Latinx Teens: U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen by Trevor Boffone; Cristina Herrera

  Call Number: 305.86 B673

  Publication Date: 2022

  What can Latinx youth contribute to critical conversations on culture, politics, identity, and representation? Latinx Teens answers this question and more by offering an energetic, in-depth look at how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture.
• Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century by Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor)

  Call Number: 809.29 A357

  Publication Date: 2022-04-19

  Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as it navigates the complex and ever-changing world of Latinx representation and creation in television.
• ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets by Melissa Castillo-Garsow

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2017

  This anthology contains poems by more than 35 Afro-Latin@ poets writing about race, identity and culture.
• ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture by Ilan Stavans; Frederick Luis Aldama

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2013

  In ¡Muy Pop!, Ilan Stavans and Frederick Luis Aldama carry on a sustained, free-flowing, book-length conversation about these questions and more, concentrating on a wide range of pop manifestations and analyzing them at length. In addition to making Hispanic popular culture visible to the first-time reader, ¡Muy Pop! sheds new light on the making and consuming of Hispanic pop culture for academics, specialists, and mainstream critics.
• My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

  Call Number: 92 S785 Large Print

  Publication Date: 2014

  An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.
• Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  Call Number: 973.0468 F3912

  Publication Date: 2014

  With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater. In the Hispanic resurgence that follows, it is the peoples of Latin America who overspread the continent, from the Hispanic heartland in the West to major cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and Boston. The United States clearly has a Hispanic present and future.
• Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar; Héctor Tobar

  Call Number: Libby Overdrive E-Book

  Publication Date: 2024

  “Latino” is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States, and also one of the most rapidly growing. Composed as a direct address to the young people who identify or have been classified as “Latino,” Our Migrant Souls is the first account of the historical and social forces that define Latino identity.
• Queer Latinidad by Juana María Rodríguez; Juana María Rodríguez

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2003

  An examination into queer identity in relation to Latino/a America. According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under examined. Juana María Rodríguez attempts to rectify this dearth of scholarship in Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces, by documenting the ways in which identities are transformed by encounters with language, the law, culture, and public policy.
• Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros: Debunking the Old West by D. H. Figueredo

  Call Number: 978.00468 F467

  Publication Date: 2014

  This riveting exposé reveals how a distorted belief in Anglo superiority necessitated the rewriting of American western history, replacing heroic images of Mexican and Spanish cowboys with negative stereotypes. Early Anglo settlers in the Old West crafted negative images of Latinos in part to help justify the takeover of land occupied by Mexicans and Spaniards at the time. Unfortunately, these depictions were perpetuated throughout the 20th century in art, popular culture, and media ... eventually reshaping the narrative of the American West to the exclusion of the non-Anglo people. This book contrasts dominant lore with historical reality to provide a broad overview of the history and contributions of Latinos in the Old West.
• Sounds of Belonging by Dolores Ines Casillas

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2014

  How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration. Investigating the cultural and political history of U.S. Spanish-language broadcasts throughout the twentieth century, Sounds of Belonging reveals how these changes have helped Spanish-language radio secure its dominance in the major U.S. radio markets
• Starving for Justice: Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval

  Call Number: Ebook Central College Complete

  Publication Date: 2017

  In the 1990s three college campuses in California exploded as Chicano/a and Latino/a students went on hunger strikes. Through courageous self-sacrifice, these students risked their lives to challenge racial neoliberalism, budget cuts, and fee increases. The strikers acted and spoke spectacularly and, despite great odds, produced substantive change.