Research Guides: Cross-Cultural Engagement in the Library: September 15 to October 15-Hispanic Heritage Month

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Comics and Memory in Latin America by Jorge Catala Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, and James Scorer
Call Number: PN6790
Publication Date: 2017
Hispanic Immigrant Literature by Nicolás Kanellos
Call Number: PS153.H56 -- K35 2011eb
Publication Date: 2011
Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution : The Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz by Heather Fowler-Salamini
Call Number: HD6073.C6382 -- .M646 2013eb
Publication Date: 2020
¡Muy Pop! : Conversations on Latino Popular Culture by Frederick L. Aldama, Ilan Stavans, and Mary S. Lawrence
Call Number: PS153
Publication Date: 2013
¡Tequila! : Distilling the Spirit of Mexico by Marie Sarita Gaytán
Call Number: TP607
Publication Date: 2020

Articles of Interest

Black and Hispanic: The Racial Identification of Afro-Cuban Immigrants in the Southwest Drawing on interviews with forty-five Afro-Cubans, exploring the ways in which racial and ethnic identities are formed in dialogue with both self-appraisal and external classification from others. Findings reveal the complicated identification processes involved as Afro-Cubans attempt to maintain identification as both Cuban and Black in the face of external classification as either Black or Hispanic.
The global history of Latin America This article explains why historians of Latin America have been disinclined to engage with global history, and how global history has yet to successfully integrate Latin America into its debates. It suggests that both global history and Latin American history will benefit from recognition of the existing work that has pioneered a path between the two, and from enhanced and sustained dialogue.
New roots/Nuevas Raices: stories from Carolina del Norte The New Roots Latino Oral History Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents migrant stories and is one of the largest repositories of interviews related to new Latino migrant destinations in the South; the repository holds more than 160 recorded interviews and transcripts, in both English and Spanish. These stories take us from deep suffering to acts of courage and resilience, and from discrimination to acceptance in a new home.
Where Is the Geography? The Geographical Predicaments of the Panethnic Terms Hispanic and Latino In this article I outline the geographical and political problems associated with the terms Hispanic and Latino. To this end, I offer a four-tiered framework to help address these problems. Ultimately, I illustrate how these terms stem from (mis)perceptions deeply ingrained in academic and political imageries of Latin American populations. I discuss how these panethnic terms relate to a geographical predicament, and claim that their myopic perception in the academy feeds itself as much as it feeds U.S. policies. A plea is made here for the demythologization of a continent that is viewed as exclusively Spanish-speaking with an exclusive colonial heritage tied to Spain. My goal is to show how these views have continued to perpetuate powerful, intuitive yet deceptive representations of Latin America. I conclude that it behooves geographers and scholars to re-think, contest, and ultimately revise the interpretation and navigation of the terms Hispanic/Latino as they have been taken for granted.
Reclaiming Tangible Heritage: Cultural Aesthetics, Materiality, and Ethnic Belonging in the Maya Diaspora
Introduction: Indigeneity and Latin American Anarchism

Books

Finding Latinx: in search of the voices redefining Latino identity by Paola Ramos
Call Number: E 184 .S75 R37 2020
ISBN: 9781984899095
Publication Date: 2020
Immigrant-Origin Students in Community College by Carola Suárez-Orozco (Editor); Olivia Osei-Twumasi (Editor); James A. Banks (Series edited by)
Call Number: LC 3746 .I56 2019
ISBN: 9780807761946
Publication Date: 2019-07-26
Modern Latin America by Peter H. Smith
Call Number: F 1413 .S55 2019
ISBN: 9780190674656
Publication Date: 2019
Once I was you : a memoir of love and hate in a torn America by Maria Hinojosa
Call Number: PN 4874 .H495 A3 2020
ISBN: 9781982128654
Publication Date: 2020
Where we go from here by Lucas Rocha
Call Number: PZ 7.1 .R63 Whe 2020
ISBN: 9781338556247
Publication Date: 2020

Films and Videos

American futbol by Peter Madjarac
Call Number: GV 944 .L5 A64 2019
Publication Date: 2019

The life and times of Frida Kahlo by Amy Stechler
Call Number: ND 259 .K33 L54 2004
ISBN: 9781415716953
Publication Date: 2004
Rebel Loreta Velazquez, secret soldier of the American Civil War by Llewellyn Smith
Call Number: E 605 .R43 2013
ISBN: 9781608839285
Publication Date: 2013