Pathfinder: Hispanic Americans

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Literature & the Arts|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Web Sites

SCOPE: Spanish immigrants from Spain arrived in the United States as early as the 1850s and 1860s. Greater numbers entered the country during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Five areas of the country have had large populations of Spaniards; New York City, Florida, California, the mountains of the West, and the industrial areas of the Midwest. (Von Dassanowsky, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America) Today, the Spanish influence is felt in literature, art, music, and other cultural aspects of our society. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with Hispanic Americans are listed in the Baddour Librarys on-line catalog under the following subject headings:

Hispanic Americans History
Hispanic Americans Social life and customs
Hispanic Americans Statistics
Spanish literature History and criticism
Central America
South America
Spanish fiction
Authors-Latin American 20th century 

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF E 184.AG14 2000 Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
REF E 184.AlH35 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
REF E184.S75 R44 1993 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups 
REF GN 33.W67 1998 Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life 

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection located on the second floor of the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Allende, Isabel. My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile. New 
York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Gonzales, Berry. The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico. 
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Habell-Pallan, Michelle and Mary Romero. Latino/a Popular Culture. New York: New 
York University Press, 2002.

Nostrand, Richard L. The Hispano Homeland. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 
1992.

Stavans, Ilan. The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in America. New York: HarperPerennial, 1996.

LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

REF PQ 7081.A1 H36 1987 Handbook of Latin American Literature
REF PS 21.D5 v. 113 Modern Latin-American Fiction writers 
REF PQ 7081.3.F57 1992 Spanish American authors: the twentieth century 
REF PS 21.D5 v. 108 Twentieth- Century Spanish Poets 

Allende, Isabel. The Stories of Eva Luna. New York: Atheneum, 1991.

Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. New York: Grove Press, 1962.

Cortazar Julio. Hopscotch. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.

Fuentes, Carlos. Constancia: And Other Stories for Virgins. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990.

Gavin, Robin Farwell. Traditional Arts of Spanish New Mexico. Santa FR, N.M:
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Griego y Maestas, Jose. Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. Santa Fe,
N.M: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1980.

Garcia Lorca, Federico. Selected Letters. New York: New Directions Pub Corp; 1983.

Hadley-Garcia, George. Hispanic Hollywood: The Latins in Motion Pictures. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1990.

Lape, Noreen Groover. West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

Neruda, Pablo. 100 Love Sonnets=Cien Sonetos de Amor. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 

Neruda, Pablo. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. New York: Penguin Books, 1980.

Some representative journals that the library subscribes to that focus on this topic are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS 

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• Ethnic & Race Studies

Open Access Journals in Ethnology

WEB SITES

Congressional Hispanic Caucus
http://www.napolitano.house.gov/chc/

Hispanic Heritage Free Resource Site
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/index.htm

Library of Congress, Hispanic Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/

League of United Latin American Citizens
http://www.lulac.org/

White House, Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
http://www.yic.gov/