Guides to
FBL Resources

For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research in sociology and selected social issues. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

Categories within this            General    |    Communes     |   Crime and Punishment     |   Ethnicity  and Race   |  
Library Guide:                          Families    |   Labor    |   Urbanization

See also Library Guides in this series on        New Mexico History    |      Sciences:  Environment    |    The West

General

The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest (1981)
Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (1994)
Contemporary New Mexico, 1940-1990
Grassroots New Mexico: A History of Citizen Activism (1989)
Empires in the Sun: the Rise of the New American West (1985)
Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History (1994)
"The Impending Western Urban Past: An Essay on the Twentieth-Century
    West," (Lotchin) in Researching Western History: Topics in the Twentieth Century (1997)
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the Southwest (1986)
"Social Patterns in the Modern West," ch. 4 in The American West:
    A Twentieth-CenturyHistory (Malone & Etulain, 1989)

Communes

Assault on Eden: A Memoir of Communal Life in the Early 70s (1995)
Chamisa Road with Paul and Meredith (1971)
Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie  (2000)
Shalam: Utopia on the Rio Grande, 1881-1907 (1988)

Crime and Punishment

"Bone Dry? A Review of Prohibition, New Mexico Style, 1918-1933,"
    (McCullough,David J.), New Mexico Historical Review, 63:1 (January 1988)
"Courtesy, Service and Protection: 50 Years of the New Mexico State Police,"
    New Mexico Magazine, 63:10 (October 1985)
"Crisis in Corrections: Penitentiaries in the Far Southwest during the Great De-
    pression," (Johnson, Judith), New Mexico Historical Review, 69:1 (January 1994)
Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising (1988)
"Down by Law: Frontier Justice Hung in the Balance," New Mexico
    Magazine, 77:11 (November 1999)
"A Matter of Guilt: The Treatment of Hispanic Inmates by New Mexico Courts
    and at the New Mexico Territorial Prison, 1890-1912," in New Mexico Historical
    Review (74:3, July 1999)
Murder and Justice in Frontier New Mexico, 1821-1846 (1997)
"Prohibition in New Mexico," (Burran, James), New Mexico Historical Review,
    48:2 (April 1973)
Report of the Attorney General on the February 2 and 3, 1980 Riot at the
    Penitentiary of New Mexico

Ethnicity and Race

See also Library Guides            African-Americans in the West   |     Hispanos / Hispanic-Americans   |
in this series on                           Native Americans
 

Aging and Osteoporosis in Native Americans from Pecos Pueblo,
    New Mexico (1991)
Ethnic Ethics (1990)
Indian Drinking: Navajo Practices and Anglo-American Theories (1974)
Plural Society in the Southwest (1975, c. 1972)
Race and Class in the Southwest (1979)
Racial and Ethnic Patterns of Mortality in New Mexico (1993)
Racial Trends in New Mexico during the late 20th Century

Families

Building and Breaking Families in the American West (1996)
"I Do:" Courtship, Love and Marriage on the American Frontier: A Glimpse
    at America's Romantic Past Through Photographs, Diaries, and Journals,
    1715-1915 (1996)

Labor

American Labor in the Southwest: the First One Hundred Years (1982)
Building New Mexico the Experience of a Carpenters' Union in the
    Southwest (1983)
Labor in New Mexico: Union Strikes and Social History since 1861 (1983)

Urbanization

See also guide in this series on Towns in New Mexico

American Indian in Urban Society (pub. 1971)
City at the End of the World [about Albuquerque]
City Bound: Urban Life and Political Attitudes among Chicano Youth (pub. 1986)
Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993)
Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (1997)
Phoenix in the Twentieth Century (1993)
Phoenix: the History of a Southwestern Metropolis (1989)
Santa Fe: the Autobiography of a Southwestern Town (1959)
Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth since World War II (1983)
The Urban Southwest: a Profile History of Albuquerque, El Paso,
    Phoenix and Tucson (1982)
"Urbanization in the Wide-Open Spaces: Recent Historiography on Sunbelt
    Cities," Journal of the Southwest, 33:1 (Spring 1991)