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Chican@ Studies: Books, Databases, & Newspapers

Books at Raymond Library

Finding Latinx: in search of the voices redefining Latino identity by Paola Ramos
Call Number: 305.868073 RAMOS 2020

Publication Date: 2020

In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, "Latinx." A vital and inspiring work of reportage, Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.
Inventing Latinos: a new story of American racism by Laura E. Gómez
Call Number: 305.868 GOMEZ 2020

Publication Date: 2020

Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? In this "timely and important examination of Latinx identity" (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive racial identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism.
We are Aztlán : Chicanx histories on the northern borderlands by Ernesto Todd Mireles; Dionicio Valdés; Jerry García (Editor); Norma Cárdenas; Oscar Rosales Castañeda; Josué Q. Estrada; Theresa Meléndez; Carlos Maldonado; Rachel Maldonado; Dylan Miner
Call Number: 979.5 GARCIA 2017

Publication Date: 2017

In this collection, established and emerging Chicanx researchers diverge from the discipline's traditional Southwest focus to offer academic and non-academic perspectives specifically on the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. Their multidisciplinary papers address colonialism, gender, history, immigration, labor, literature, sociology, education, and religion, setting El Movimiento (the Chicanx movement) and the Chicanx experience beyond customary scholarship and illuminating how Chicanxs have challenged racialization, marginalization, and isolation in the northern borderlands

Ebooks

Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico. by Alberto García
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2023

Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate.
The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico by Alan Eladio Gómez
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2016

Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and Latin America from 1971 to 1979.
Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era by Ellen McCracken (Editor); Mario T. García
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2021

The Chicano Movement, el movimiento, is known as the largest and most expansive civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans up to that time. It made Chicanos into major American political actors and laid the foundation for today's Latino political power. Rewriting the Chicano Movement is a collection of powerful new essays on the Chicano Movement that expand and revise our understanding of the movement.

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Databases

EBSCO Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
ProQuest Combined Search

A single search of nearly all YVC's ProQuest subscriptions, including full-text articles, abstracts, and eBooks.

The library provides access to numerous newspaper articles. View our complete list of newspaper databases and please reach out to your librarian if you would like help navigating these resources.

Access: The Chronicle of Higher Education and The New York Times
YVC students, faculty, and staff have free online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education and The New York Times - including New York Times inEducation, which connects Times journalism with areas of study for students and faculty. Follow the activation steps for access.
JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Daily is an online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship based on fact and grounded by careful research.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the U.S. It has won numerous journalism awards including 37 Pulitzer prizes, five of which are gold medals for public service. The Times' editorial department is one of the most impressive in the world and the largest new gathering operation in California, which includes 22 foreign, 11 national, and four state bureaus. Coverage: 1985 - current
New York Times
The New York Times is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches, and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history. Coverage: 1980-current

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