New Americans: American Immigration History

University of Texas at Austin Libraries

Includes the holdings of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, one of the major collections of Latin American materials in the world. Special emphasis on Mexico, Brazil, the Río de la Plata countries, and U.S. Latino culture

Databases

Hispanic-American Periodical Index [HAPI]

1970- . The major multidisciplinary periodical index for Latin American Studies. Indexes over 500 scholarly journals published in the U.S. and Latin America. Rutgers-restricted Access

Cubans

A Demographic Profile of Cuban Americans

Thomas D. Boswell. Miami, Fl., Cuban American National Council, 2002.

Cubans in the United States: A Bibliography for Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1960-1983

Lyn MacCorkle. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1984. Available?

Voices from Mariel: Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift

Jose Manuel Garcia. University Press of Florida, 2018. Rutgers-restricted Access

Cubans in New Jersey: Migrants Tell Their Stories

Milagros Castillo-Montoya. Newark, N.J., Newark Public Library, 2012. Available?

The Cubans of Union City

Yolanda Prieto. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2009. Rutgers-restricted Access

Mexicans

The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia

Matt S. Meier. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2003.

More than 800 topical and biographical entries, with short bibliographies, on the history of Mexicans in the U.S. Emphasis on the Southwest. Rutgers-restricted Access

Mexicanos : A History of Mexicans in the United States

Manuel G. Gonzales. 3rd edition. Indiana University Press, 2019. Rutgers-restricted Access

Mexican Americans in Urban Society: A Selected Bibliography

Albert Camarillo. Berkeley, CA, Floricanto Press, 1986. Available?

Bibliography of Mexican American History

Matt S. Meier. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1984. Available?

Mexican Americans: A Research Bibliography

Frank Pino. East Lansing, Michigan, Latin American Studies Center Michigan State University, 1974. 2 vols. Available?

Apuntes Tejanos

Arnoldo De Leon. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1978. 2 vols.

Index to items related to Mexican Americans in Texas extracted from 19th century Texas newspapers. Available?

"The Mexican Immigration Debate: The View From History,"

Michael Katz, Mark Stern, and Jamie J. Fader. Social Science History 31(2), Summer 2007, 157-189. Rutgers-restricted Access

The New Era of Mexican Migration to the United States

Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey, and Emilio A. Parrado. Part of the a special issue (September 1999) of the Journal of American History.

The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

George J. Borjas and Lawrence F. Katz. March 2006.

"Examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the decennial Censuses throughout the entire 20th century."

Mexican Assimilation in the United States

Edward P. Lazear. March 2005.

Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants

Robert C. Smith. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006. Rutgers-restricted Access

Durable Ethnicity : Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core

Edward Eric Telles and Christina A. Sue. Oxford University Press, 2019. Rutgers-restricted Access

Mexican Immigrants in the United States: 2008

Statistical report from the Pew Hispanic Center

A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

Jeffry S. Passel and D'Vera Cohn. Pew Hispanic Center, April 14, 2009.

“Porque Las Raizes No Se Olvidan”: Continuity and Change among Mexican Migrants in New Jersey

Frances A. Rothstein. Bulletin of Latin American Research 34(1), 2015, pp. 85-98. Rutgers-restricted Access

Puerto Ricans

Manos a la Obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap

1983. "A documentary on Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap," an economic development plan undertaken in the 1950s which was to attract U.S. capital and serve as a model for the Americas. Using newsreels, archival photographs, and excerpts from government propaganda films, examines the background and many problematic issues posed by the plan."

Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait

Edna Acosta-Belen and Carlos E. Santiago. 2nd edition. Boulder, Colo., Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018.

Puerto Ricans and Other Minority Groups in the Continental United States: An Annotated Bibliography

Dianne Herrera. Detroit, B.Ethridge Books, 1979. Available?

Puerto Ricans on the United States Mainland: A Bibliography of Reports, Texts, Critical Studies and Related Materials.

Francesco Cordasco. Totowa, New Jersey, Rowman and Littlefield, 1972.

Annotated bibliography. Available?

The Puerto Ricans: Migration and General Bibliography.

New York, Arno Press, 1975.

Reprint of nine bibliographies. Available?

Index to Articles in the New York Times Relating to Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans Between 1899 and 1930

New York, CUNY Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, 1981. Available?

Organizing Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers: The Experience of Puerto Ricans in New Jersey

Gloria Bonilla-Santiago. New York, P. Lang, 1988. Available?

The Puerto Ricans in Newark, N.J.

Hilda A. Hidalgo. Newark, Aspira, 1971. Available?

Evaluating Compnents of International Migration: Migration Between Puerto Rico and the United States

Matthew Christenson. Washington, D.C., U.S. Census Bureau Population Division, 2001.

"Specifically, the review process evaluated and critiqued the previous estimates of net migration from Puerto Rico to the U.S. in the 1980s and created an estimate for the 1990s."

You can find other books on the history of Puerto Ricans in the United States by searching the subject Puerto Ricans United States History in QuickSearch.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Especially good coverage of the larger Latino groups (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican). Includes entries for each state in the U.S. Rutgers-restricted Access

Encyclopedia Latina : History, Culture, and Society in the United States.  Ilan Stavans, editor. Danbury, CT, Grolier Academic Reference, 2005. 4 vols.

Fewer articles than the Oxford Encyclopedia, but includes full entries on smaller Latino groups and appendices include texts of historic (primarily political) documents as well as statistical tables.

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Latinos in the United States: A Historical Bibliography. Albert Camarillo, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, 1986.

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Hispanic Periodicals in the United States Origins to 1960: A Brief History and Comprehensive Bibliography. Nicolas Kanellos. Houston, Tex., Arte Publico Press, 2000.

Includes the history of the Hispanic press in exile, the immigrant press, and the nativist press. Bibliography lists over 1700 titles.

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Use these "formulas" to search the Catalog for material on specific immigrant groups:

[Country Name] Emigration and Immigration Example: Cuba Emigration and Immigration
[Country Name] Americans Example: Ecuadorian Americans
[Group] United States Example: Mexicans United States