Latinx Studies
This guide serves as a general starting point for research in Latina/o Studies.
Using QuickSearch to Find Books and Media
Use a combination of official subject headings along with keywords to find materials in QuickSearch. Some subject headings relating to Latinx Studies are listed below.
- Hispanic Americans
- Hispanic Americans and mass media
- Hispanic Americans -- [State name]
- Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions
- Hispanic Americans -- Education
- Hispanic Americans -- Government policy
- Immigrants -- United States [or state name] -- History
- Immigrants -- United States [or state name] -- Intellectual Life
- Immigrants -- United States [or state name] -- Social Conditions
- Immigrants -- United States [or state name] -- Statistics
- Mexican Americans -- [State name] -- Social conditions
- Puerto Ricans -- Cultural assimilation -- United States
A Sampling of Books from QuickSearch
Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio by ISBN: 9781477321980Publication Date: 2021
Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by ISBN: 9781477322123Publication Date: 2021
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change by ISBN: 9780691199467Publication Date: 2021
Latina Agency through Narration in Education: Speaking Up on Erasure, Identity, and Schooling by ISBN: 9780367151089Publication Date: 2021
Latina Lives Latina Narratives: Influential Essays by Vicki L. Ruiz by ISBN: 9780367699260Publication Date: 2021
Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools: Educational Equity and Gender by ISBN: 9781138313712Publication Date: 2019
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography by ISBN: 9780198871484Publication Date: 2021
Latino educational leadership : serving Latino communities and preparing Latina/o leaders across the P-20 pipeline by ISBN: 9781641133562Publication Date: 2018
Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance by ISBN: 9781138387829Publication Date: 2018
Losing the Mother Tongue in the USA: Implications for Adult Latinxs in the 21st Century by ISBN: 9781536168334Publication Date: 2020
Puerto Ricans in the United States: a contemporary portrait by ISBN: 1626376751Publication Date: 2018
Race and identity in Hispanic America: the white, the black, and the brown by ISBN: 9781440867842Publication Date: 2020
Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene by ISBN: 9781477323328Publication Date: 2021
The Translational Turn: Latinx Literature into the Mainstream by ISBN: 9780822965510Publication Date: 2019
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