LLS/HIST 279 (Ettinger)

• Identifying Primary and Secondary Resources

Sample Topics

Credo Reference for who, what, when, why

Journal & Magazine Databases

• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Academic Search Ultimate (all subject areas)
• PAIS Index (Political Science)
• GenderWatch
• JSTOR
• America: History & Life
• Reader’s Guide Retrospective (all subject areas)
• Chicano Database
• Scholarly Article Databases: Other Subjects

Newspaper Databases

• Newsbank
• New York Times
• NexisUni
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times
• Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

E-Books

• UIUC Library Catalog (search for print and ebooks)
• Abrazando el Espirítu: Bracero Families Confront the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity? 
• The American Housing Question: Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility 
• Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation 
• Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism 
• Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico 
• Bracero Railroaders: The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West
• Bracero 2.0: Mexican Workers in North American Agriculture 
• The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement 
• Chicano Movement for Beginners 
• The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century 
• Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement 
• Consuming Mexican Labor from the Bracero Program to NAFTA
• Curious Unions: Mexican American Works and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961 
• The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War 
• Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom 
• Documents of the Chicano Movement 
• The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century 
• Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras
• Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging, and the Right to Stay Put 
• From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front 
• From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in Twentieth Century 
• George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration 
• The Invisible Workers of the U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program: Obreros Olvidados 
• La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials 
• Latinas and Latinos on TV: Colorblind Comedy in the Post-Racial Network Era
• Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia 
• Latinx Voices: Hispanics in Media in the U.S.
• The Mexican-American War 
• Mexican American Women, Dress, and Gener: Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas 
• Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945-1975 
• Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States
• Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947
• Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939  
• “Mi Raza Primero!”: Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 
• The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 
• The New Americans?: Immigration, Protest, and The Politics of Latino Identity
• Notable Hispanic American Women
• The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands 
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States
• Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War 
• The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II 
• Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism
• Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 
• Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era 
• Risking Immeasurable Harm: Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924-1932 
• Specters of Belonging: The Political Life Cycle of Mexican Migrants 
• They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-era California 
• They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression 
• Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939 
• Urban Renewal, Community, and Participation: Theory, Policy, and Practice 
• Zoot Suit 
• Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style 

Audio/Visual Resources

• Kanopy
• YouTube
• Documentary Heaven
• Flickr

Primary Sources

• Finding Primary Resources
• AP Images
  • Images from the Associated Press.
• Border and Migration Studies Online
  • Provides access to historical documents related to 30 world wide border areas.
• Bracero History Archive
  • This archive provides oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. The archive is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso.
• CALISPHERE
  • Provides access to California libraries, archives, and museums.
• A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War
  • Includes primary sources from the war such as proclamations, letters, diaries, images, maps, music, and poetry. This collection is made available from the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the Library at the University of Texas at Arlington.

• The Documented Border
  • This archive focuses on untold and silenced stories and events about this transnational region, with the goal to advance understanding and awareness about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and its peoples during a period of unprecedented societal change. Includes oral histories of journalists from both sides of the border, human rights activists in Mexico, and U.S. immigration policy documentation. This archive is maintained by the University of Arizona Libraries.
• Hispanic Life in America
  • The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans recorded by the news media.
• Historic Mexican & Mexican American Papers
  • The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. The collection covers important periods in Mexican-American history, from the Mexican Revolution to the Bracero Program to the Chicano Movement. This collection is made available from the University of Arizona Libraries.

• Latino(a) Cultural Heritage Archives
  • A database featuring photographs and documents assembled from twelve collections of the California State University Northridge Urban Archives of the University Library Special Collections and Archives. These materials capture the history of Latino and Chicana/o people and culture in Southern California. These collections feature the arts, labor, and immigration as important parts of the historical fabric of this community.
• Latinx Thought and Culture
  • NPR archive covering events from 1979-1990.
• LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies Digitized Collections
  •  The Benson Collection is a global destination for research and study, with over a million volumes as well as a wealth of original manuscripts, photographs, and various media related to Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean and Latina/Latino presence in the United States. This collection is made available from the University of Texas Libraries.
• National Archives: Hispanic/Latino Heritage
  • The Hispanic/Latino Heritage collection includes topics on arts, entertainment, and culture; diplomacy/foreign affairs; education and civil rights; family history research; government and politics; immigration/Hispanic society in the U.S.; labor; military and veterans; notable Hispanics in the U.S.; and women.
• Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience
  • 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series “The Mexican American Experience” and “A esta hora conversamos,” the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982. Topics covered on these programs include political activities of Mexican Americans, Mexican American folklore and folk medicine, corridos, Tejano music, Mexican American musicians, voting rights, education, health, farm workers’ unions and working conditions, and some Mexican and Central American topics. This collection is available from the University of Texas at Austin.

Citation Resources

• Online Style and Citation Guides
• How to Cite Primary Sources