Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month - Recommended Readings
Written by Faculty
Natalie Mendoza - History
Assistant Professor - Mexican American History / Modern US
“Good Neighbor in the American Historical Imagination: Mexican American Intellectual Thought in the Fight for Civil Rights, 1930s-1940s”The Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2021), 393-413.
Phoebe S.K. Young - History
Professor - Environmental History / Modern US
Phoebe S. Kropp (Young), California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
Jessica Ordaz - Ethinic Studies
Assistant Professor - Chicanx / Latinx Studies
The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
*Fredy Gonzalez - History
*Former Assistant Professor (2013-2018) - Latin American History / Chinese Diaspora
Recommended by Faculty
- Geraldo Cadava, The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump(Harper Collins, 2021).
- Ernesto Chávez,“¡Mi Raza Primero!” (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
- Miroslava Chávez-Garcia, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
- Miroslava Chávez-García, “Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State: The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility”The Journal of American History 102, issue 1 (June 2015): 47-60.
- Elizabeth Escobedo, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
- Lilia Fernández, Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
- María Cristina García, Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
- Matthew Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).
- Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, Sergio M. González, eds., Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics since 1945(New York: NYU Press, 2022).
- Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States(Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
- Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds., Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
- Rosina Lozano, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018).
- Natalia Molina, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).
- No Más Bebés directed by Renee Tajima-Peña (2015); Documentary, available for streaming via CU-Boulder Library
- Ana Raquel Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2020)
- Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic (Picador, updated 2021 edition)
- Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Coffee House Press, 2017)
- Gabriela Soto Laveaga, "Every American needs to take a history of Mexico class", Washington Post, 22 July 2021