Latin American and Latinx History: Latinx History
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) offers comprehensive bibliographic citations for scholarly journals focused on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s. It supports research in Latin American studies and covers political, economic, social, and cultural topics and. With key words in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, it facilitates searches across multiple languages.
Encyclopedias, handbooks, companions
- Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction [on order]
Primary Source Collections
- Hispanic Digital Collections at the LIbrary of CongressIncludes digitized primary source collections on topics including literature, government, history, and more
- VOCES Oral History Project (UT)The Voces Oral History Project documents and creates a better awareness of the contributions of U.S. Latinos and Latinas of the WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War generations.
- Sabin AmericanaThis collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, etc.
- Farmworker Movement Documentation ProjectPrimary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
- Latinx Diaspora in the Americas Project (LDAP)100+ oral histories dedicated to creating space for Latina/os to share their historical experiences related to identity, immigration reform, labor conditions, education, and civil rights.
Sample search text
Primary sources:
sources OR correspondence OR diaries OR personal narratives OR interviews OR diaries OR facsimiles OR notebooks OR speeches OR manuscripts OR early works to 1800 OR pamphlets
Sourcebooks:
"primary sources" OR "documentary history" OR sourcebook OR "history in documents" OR "documents in"
Immigration
immigra* OR emigra* OR migra* OR asylum OR refug* OR "illegal alien*" OR diaspora
Sourcebooks and documentary histories
- Mexican American voices : a documentary reader (print book) 973.046872 M611
- AFRO-LATINO VOICES: NARRATIVES FROM THE EARLY MODERN IBERO-ATLANTIC WORLD, 1550-1812. [on order]
- Kids like me : voices of the immigrant experiencePrint book - 305.23086912 B652k
- First generation : in the words of twentieth-century American immigrantsPrint book (request from offsite) - 325.73 F527
- Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United StatesPrint book - 973.0468 M539c
- Between the lines : letters between undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants and their families and friendsPrint book - 305.86872073 B565 1995
Secondary Sources
- Immigrant America : a portraitExplores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation
- Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern AmericaTraces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy
- Crossing the border : research from the Mexican Migration ProjectPrint book - 305.86872073 C9505
Statistics & Data
- U.S. Census BureauSearch "hispanic" in search box
- Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States (2015)Statistical profiles and trends of the Latino population based on the Pew Hispanic Center tabulations.
- Latin American Migration Project (LAMP)The Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) is a multidisciplinary research effort between investigators in various countries of Latin America and the United States. Data from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, Haiti and Colombia are available, and can be downloaded from this website. For more information, see https://lamp.opr.princeton.edu/
- Hispanics in the United States : a demographic, social, and economic history, 1980-2005Print book - 973.0468 B493h
