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Hispanos / Hispanic-Americans

For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research. Use PONI to determine the call numbers and to find other books on your topic.  Journals are shelved alphabetically by title, without call numbers.

See also other guides in this series on:   Art:  Architecture   |   Art: Painting and Sculpture 
Art:  Photography     |     Biographies    |    Literature—Hispanic Writers     |      New Mexico History
Religion, Mythology, Folklore    |    Spanish Language    |    Taos
        Categories within this guide:    Reference    |    New Mexico    |    General/Southwest beyond New Mexico
 

Reference Books

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans (1997)
Chronology of Hispanic-American History (1995)
A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish (1983)
Hispanic Almanac from Columbus to Corporate America (1994)
Hispanic-American Almanac (1993)
Statistical Handbook on U.S. Hispanics (1991)

New Mexico
"The Century of Hispano Expansion," [1790-1880] (Nostrand, Richard L.),
    New Mexico Historical Review, 62:4 (October 1987)
Chimayó Valley Traditions (1987)
The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico (Maciel, David and
    Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda, 2000)
Foreigners in their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican-Americans (1973)
Forgotten People: A Study of New Mexicans  (1970/1996)
Grito!  Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grant War of 1967 (1970)
Hispanic Culture in the Southwest (1993)
Hispanic Villages of Northern New Mexico  (Weigle, 1975)
Hispanics of New Mexico  (1985)
Hispano Folklife of New Mexico (1978)
Hispano Homeland (1992)
"Hispañas in Territorial New Mexico," Ayer y Hoy en Taos, no. 17
    (Spring 1994)
Land Grants and Law Suits in Northern New Mexico (1994)
Land Grants in Taos Valley (1968)
"Land, Water, and Pueblo-Hispanic Relations in Northern New
    Mexico,"  Journal of the Southwest, vol. 32, no 3 (autumn 1990)
"Lowriders Cruise on Down the Line," New Mexico Magazine,
    68:7 (July 1990)
My Penitente Land (1993)
Las Mujeres: Conversations from a Hispanic Community (1980)
New Mexico: Voices in an Ancient Landscape (about Española, 1985)
No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic
    Frontier, 1880-1940 (1987)
Old Ones of New Mexico (1991)
On the Edge of Empire: The Taos Hacienda of los Martínez (1996)
Origins of New Mexico Families (1992)
Otero, Miguel Antonio.  See special issue of New Mexico Historical
    Review, 67:1 (January 1992)
People of the Valley (historical fiction by Frank Waters, 1969)
Penitente Moradas of Abiquiu (1986)
Penitente Self-Government: Brotherhoods and Councils, 1797-1947 (1985)
Penitentes of the Sangre de Cristos (1969)
Penitentes of the Southwest (1970)
"Political Construction of Latino Nomenclatures in Twentieth-Century
    New Mexico," Journal of the Southwest, 35:2 (Summer 1993)
Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal (1989)
Primeros Pobladores (1974)
"A Prophet Without Honor: Bilingualism in New Mexico,"  (Welsh,
    Michael), New Mexico Historical Review, 69:1 (January 1994)
Refusing the Favor: Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880  (Gonzalez, Deena J.)
"Roots of Economic and Ethnic Divisions in Northern New Mexico: The Case of the Civilian
    Conservation Corps," (Montoya, Maria E.), Western Historical Quarterly, XXVI:1 (Spring 1995).
Sabino's Map: Life in Chimayó's Old Plaza (1995)
So All is Not Lost: The Poetics of Print in Nuevo Mexicano Communities, 1834-1958  (1997)
Schools of Their Own: The Education of Hispanos in New Mexico, 1850-1940  (1997)
Spanish-American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico’s Rio Arriba  (1990)
Spanish-Americans in New Mexico: A Heritage of Pride  (1969)
Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado (1980)
Spanish and Mexican Records of the American Southwest
Spanish Irrigation in the Taos Valley (1990)
Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the
    Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920 (1996)
[Los] Tesoros del Espíritu: Familia y Fe: A Portrait in Sound of Hispanic New Mexico (1994)
Tijerina (1968)
Tierra Amarilla Grant: A History of Chicanery (1980)
Traditional Arts of Spanish New Mexico (1994)
Villages of Hispanic New Mexico (1987)
We Fed Them Cactus (1994)
Wood Carvers of Cordova (1989, c1980)

Contemporary (including relationships between Hispano and non-Hispano residents)

Cañones: Values, Crisis, and Survival in a Northern New Mexico Village  (1981)
[A] Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm (1993)
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988)
Milagro Beanfield War (novel by John Nichols, 1996, c1974))
River of Traps: A Village Life  (1990)
Truchas: Village with a View, Life in a Spanish Village (1969)

General, and Southwest beyond New Mexico

"Becoming Latinos: Mexican Americans, Chicanos, and the Spanish Myth in the
     Urban Southwest," (Rodriquez, Joseph A.), Western Historical Quarterly, XXIX:2 (Summer 1998).
Becoming Mexican American  (1993)
Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940-1990 (1990)
"Descansos," [memorial crosses along roadside] New Mexico Magazine, 64:2 (February 1986)
Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (1981)
Heart of Aztlán  (novel by Rudolfo Anaya,  1988, c1976)
Hispanic Elite of the Southwest (1989)
Hispanic Nation (1997)
Land, Water and Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants (1987)
[Una] Linda Raza: Cultural and Artistic Traditions of the Hispanic Southwest (1988)
Mexican-American Family Album (1994)
Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest (Chavez, John,  1984)
Mexican-American Low Riders: An Anthropological Approach to Popular Culture (1994)
Mexican Americans-American Mexicans (1993)
Mexican Americans and the Administration of Justice in the Southwest (1970)
Mexican-Americans in the Southwest (1970)
[La] Raza: the Mexican-Americans  (1970)
Roots of Chicano Politics (1994)
Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States (1991)
Spanish Heritage in the United States (1968)
Spanish-name People in the Southwest and West (1955)
Spanish Pioneers of the Southwest (1989)
Spanish-speaking Children of the Southwest (1968)
Unwanted Mexican-Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939 (1974)
Water in the Hispanic Southwest : A Social and legal History, 1550-1850 (1984)

 
 
 

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