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Reference Books and Databases

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Surveys Hispanic culture from its Iberian origins to the present-day situation of Hispanics in the United States. Divided into four parts composed of 14 chapters. Part 1 treats historical and ethnographic background material. The second division covers the Hispanic presence in early U.S. history. In the third part, the focus shifts to society and culture in Spain and the New World, including the Spanish borderlands, through the eighteenth century. The final section examines the three largest Hispanic groups in the United States -- Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans -- over the last 200 years. Black and white photographs accompany the narrative, and each chapter has its own bibliography. Concludes with an elaborate chronological table and a thorough index.

A comprehensive study. The chapters combine to form a sociology of Hispanic people built around the systematic study of social interaction and change among Hispanics and relations with the larger society, from the vantage points of Hispanic writers and people. Topics examined critically (across centuries and across Latino groups) include immigration experiences, labor/employment studies, Latinos in American politics, educational experiences, family, religion, identity, Latina feminist experiences, mass communication representations of Hispanics, and much more.

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology
edited and introduced by Thomas Weaver
Houston, TX: Arte Público Press; Madrid, Spain: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, c1993-c1994
Uris Library Reference E184.S75 H23
Olin Library Stacks E184.S75 H23 +

Some themes which constitute the anthropological study of Hispanic groups in the U.S. may overlap the content of the other volumes because of the converging nature of the fields. While some chapters look similar to those in the Sociology volume, the perspective is taken from an anthropologist's viewpoint. The reader will see, again, topics such as identity, family, politics, religion, education, and social problems. However, not included in the other volumes, readers can also examine topics such as "Latino Legacies," "Hispanic Traditional Technology and Material Culture," "Language," "Rituals," " Spiritualism," "Dimensions of Hispanic Festivals," and "Food and Dietary Adaptation."

St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists
Thomas Riggs, editor
Detroit, MI: St. James Press, c2002
Fine Arts Library Reference N6538.H58 S7x 2002

This guide provides critical analysis of approximately 400 20th-century Hispanic artists from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America, and American artists of Spanish descent. Coverage includes artists working in a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, print making, photography, graphic design and others. Detailed entries typically include biographical information (nationality, birth and death dates, education, military service, career information, awards, memberships, addresses and Web sites); a list of individual exhibitions and a select list of group exhibitions; lists of museums and public galleries holding works by a given artist in their permanent collections; publications by and about the artist; a statement by the artist about his/her work (as available); and a signed analytical essay written by an expert in the field. Additional features include a bibliography; multiple indexes, including name, nationality, medium and an index to illustrations; and approximately 250 black-and-white photographs.

Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture and Education
Gary D. Kellar, et al.
Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, c2002
Fine Arts Library N6538.M4 C664x 2002

This two-volume (volumes 3 and 4 forthcoming) work of art covers the artistic production and biographies of nearly 200 individual artists from across the United States as well as Chicano/a artists residing in Mexico and elsewhere. Produced with the support of the Center for Latino Initiatives of The Smithsonian Institution, the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, and numerous art organizations around the nation, this book represents a major advance in the national and international understanding, appreciation, and dissemination of Chicana/o art.

Bibliographic Index
New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1942 -
Olin Library Z1002 .B58 + (Five latest volumes in Reference)

Updated regularly and published in hard-cover book form annually, Bibliographic Index lists, by subject, works that are subject bibliographies themselves or titles that include 50 or more references (including journal articles). Subject headings conform to Library of Congress Subject Headings. Therefore, the term of interest for Latino Studies in these volumes is "Hispanic Americans." Examples of sub-categories under "Hispanic Americans" are Social Conditions, Ethnic Identity, Youth, Cultural Assimilation, Economic Conditions, Employment, Medical Care, Music, and many more.

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans
Nicholas E. Meier
New York: Checkmark Books, c2001
Olin Library Stacks E184.S75 M49x 2001

An updated bibliography, expanded lists for further reading, and three new subject indexes -- organized by year of birth, country of heritage/ethnic group, and profession -- greatly enhance this detailed portrait of over 500 years of achievement. This extensive biographical dictionary includes more than 250 entries profiling Hispanic men and women whose achievements have made an impact on American society. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, the volume discusses each individual's background and the highlights of his or her career from a wide spectrum of human endeavor, including business, literature, politics, science, health and medicine, arts and entertainment, and religion.

Contemporary Hispanic Biography
Detroit : Gale, c2002-2004
Olin Library Stacks E184.S75 C66 +

Four-volume set. Contains biographical entries on notable Hispanics/Latinos from a variety of fields -- from art, music and literature to science, politics and business. Emphasis is placed on active figures, but the set also includes entries on significant figures from the 20th century. Each volume includes approximately 65 detailed entries. Entries include a photograph (as available), a narrative biography of the entrant's personal and professional life, and a list of further reading sources. Covers significant persons who originate in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain or the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and South America, and also Brazil.

Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary
Matt S. Meier; with Conchita Franco Serri and Richard A. Garcia
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997
Olin Library Reference E184.S75 M51 1997

Provides profiles of 127 Latino/as who have made major contributions to American life and culture. Those profiled represent 35 fields of endeavor and all 50 states. Substantive entries written by experts in their ethnic fields detail subjects' goals, struggles, and commitments to success and to their ethnic communities.

Notable Hispanic American Women
Diane Telgen and Jim Kamp, editors
Detroit : Gale Research, c1993
Uris Library Reference E184.S75 N89 and Olin Stacks E184.S75 N89 +

Based on a mixture of personal interviews, book studies, and/or articles from such periodicals as Más, Nuestro Tiempo, Hispanic, Intercambios Femeniles, Hispanic Business, and Vista, the entries in Notable Hispanic American Women feature historical and contemporary women from a broad range of professions, including medicine, labor, entertainment, business, law, sports, journalism, science, education, politics, religion, literature, and others. The nearly 300 entries range from 500 to 2500 words and cover the noteworthy personal, family, and career details that helped shape and define each woman's life. In addition, many of the longer entries are accompanied by a personal photograph. Includes lists of Entrants, Entrants by Occupation, Entrants by Ethnicity, and an extensive subject index containing names, book titles, and general subjects.

Notable Hispanic American Women: Book II
Joseph M. Palmisano, editor
Detroit : Gale Research, c1998
Olin Library Stacks E184.S75 N68x 1998 +

Offers 200 biographical profiles of historical and contemporary women who have achieved local, national, or international prominence in a broad range of professions such as activism, art, business, education, film, radio, and television, government, humanities, science and medicine, and sports. The entries range from 500 to 3,000 words in length and cover noteworthy personal, education, and career details. For literary figures, film, and television personalities, and musical entertainers, a selected list of works has also been included. Also, full bibliographic citations are listed in the majority of the entries. Personal photographs accompany more than 100 of the entries. This second book also includes lists of Entrants, Entrants by Occupation, Entrants by Ethnicity, and an extensive subject index, but also lists, in both the frontmatter and the subject index, entries that appeared in Book I with page references to the first volume.

Dictionary of Hispanic Biography
Joseph C. Tardiff & L. Mpho Mabunda, editors ; foreword by Rudolfo Anaya
New York : Gale Research, c1996
Uris Library Reference CT1343 .D53x 1996 +

Provides an excellent biographical history on the role of Hispanics in world events. The poets, musicians, actors, doctors, and scientists included are prominent individuals -- from the past as well as contemporaries -- in their respective professions. Includes Occupation, Nationality, and Subject indexes.

Latinas! Women of Achievement
Diane Telgen, Jim Kamp, editors
Detroit : Visible Ink Press, c1996
Olin Library Stacks E184.S75 L354x 1996

Profiles of 70 20th-century Hispanic women who trace their roots to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain and Central & South American countries. Each entry has a photo and provides biographical information including struggles and achievements. The women are activists, astronauts, artists, business professionals, poets, politicians, and scientists.

Hispanics in Hollywood: An Encyclopedia of 100 Years in Film and Television
Luis Reyes and Peter Rubie
Hollywood, CA: Lone Eagle Pub., 2000
Olin Library Stacks PN1995.9.H47 R49x 2000 +

400 films and television shows from the past 100 years are listed with credits, synopses, production information relating to Hispanic stars and their contributions, as well as critical commentary. Alphabetical listing of Hispanic/Latino actors, actresses, directors, producers and others. Includes biographical information and black & white photographs. See also Hispanics in Hollywood: An Encyclopedia of Film and Television (New York : Garland Pub., 1994) by Reyes and Rubie -- Olin Library PN1995.9.H47 R49x 1994+.

The Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen: An Interpretive Filmography from Silents into Sound, 1898-1935
Alfred Charles Richard
New York : Greenwood Press, 1992
Olin Library Stacks PN1998 .R54x 1992

Lists over 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters. Each entry includes a brief scenario which details the film's Hispanic connection. Entries are arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with in-depth annotations, cross-references and four indexes. A study of Hollywood's treatment of Hispanics worldwide. Richard has organized the work for those interested in assessing the effects that motion pictures have had on the viewing public in establishing and perpetuating accepted stereotypes. The role of censorship, the Production Code Administration, the Motion Picture Society for the Americas, the Latin American market, and Hollywood's version of Hispanic history are fully covered. Latino/a Popular Culture
edited by Michelle Habell-Pallan and Mary Romero
New York : New York University Press, c2002
Olin & Uris Stacks E184.S75 L3554 2002
Habell-Pallán and Romero bring together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres - media, culture, music, film, theatre, art, and sports - that are emerging across the nation in relation to Chicanas, Chicanos, mestizos, Puerto Ricans, Caribbeans, Central Americans and South Americans, and Latinos in Canada.

Networked

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: U.S. Latino History and Culture
Provides links to rich information and resources on Latino art and artists, including the webzine ¡del Corazón! which features the Smithsonian Museum of American Art's collection of art by Latino artists. Also included is a 56-page bilingual information booklet on Latino resources at the Smithsonian. Plus, links to virtual exhibits and much more....

General Interest and Reference

• Encyclopædia Britannica Online
• Oxford Reference Online
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Language Tools

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  Hispanic American
  Hispanic Americans
  Hispanic Americans Social Life and Customs
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Finding Articles

Indexes, Abstracts, and E-Journals

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All of the resources in Find Databases can also be found in and accessed through the CU Library Catalog.

Find Articles allows you to search for journal article citations in more than one database simultaneously. In many cases, these citations will provide links directly to online full text of the articles themselves.

Note: The number of databases available for simultaneous searching is a selective subset of the number of resources available in Find Databases.

Finding Periodicals and Periodical Articles

Periodical Abstracts
(ProQuest). Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International.

Indexes and abstracts approximately 2000 general interest magazines and scholarly journals. It also includes citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Many of the articles found by searching in this database are available in full text electronic formats. Pull down menus allow you to customize your searches. Also included is a limit for peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).

Project MUSE
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995.

Searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.

LexisNexis Academic
Dayton, Ohio: Lexis-Nexis

LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex)
Baltimore, MD : Alternative Press Center

Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. Subjects covered include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, and socialism.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California.

HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Contains authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters.

Chicano Database. Mountain View, CA : Research Libraries Group.

Bibliographic materials on Mexican-American topics 1967 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.

Art Full Text. H.W. Wilson Company.

Indexes, abstracts and full-text from international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Areas covered include archaeology, architecture, art, film, humanities, marketing, motion pictures and photography.

MLA. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

MLA bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are screened, and entries for books are included. Entries appear both for collections of essays and for their contents.

ATLA. American Theological Library.

Comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes.

Ethnic NewsWatch. Stamford, CT : Softline Information, Inc, 1960 to date.

A full-text collection of 240+ newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," Ethnic NewsWatch offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.


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Internet Resources

Portals, Search Engines, and Subject Guides

Use web portals, search engines, or Internet subject guides to find resources or sites on the World Wide Web on your topic. Search Engines are software programs that allow you to search the contents of web pages and Subject Guides are web pages that use menus and lists to sort and classify web sites.

Question and evaluate the information that you find on web pages. As you would do with books and journal articles, look to see who is responsible for producing the web page or site that you are accessing. How objective is the information? How accurate or truthful? How authoritative? Go to the Evaluating Sources section of this page for more information on how to assess the web sites you have accessed.

 

Selected Web Sites

CUL Latino Studies Research Guide

HispanicOnline.com

Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives

Low-Rider Magazine

Chicanos/Latinos in the Movies: A Bibliography

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Evaluating Sources

Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial step in the process of library research. The questions you ask about books, periodical articles, or multimedia sources are similar whether you're looking at a citation to the item or have the item in hand.

How to Critically Analyze Information Sources
Lists some of the critical questions you should ask when you consider the appropriateness of a particular book, article, media resource, or Web site for your research.

Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria
Shows how to evaluate periodicals by looking at their format, intended audience, and appearance.

Evaluating Web Resources
Lists ways to analyze the Web sites you find.

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
See this page for additional suggestions specific to Web sites.

Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
Offers a table of suggestions.

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

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Citing Sources

APA citation style (American Pyschological Association) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) Africana, Hotel, Management, Olin, and Uris Libraries BF 76.7 .P83x 2001x (located at the Reference Desks) Also in ILR and Mann Reference at BF 76.7 .A51 2001. APA citation style (CUL Gateway Help pages) APA Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials (Excerpted from the 5th edition of the Publication Manual) APAStyle.org (APA's web site)

MLA citation style (Modern Language Association) MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) Olin and Uris Libraries Z253 .M68 2003 (located at the Reference Desks) MLA citation style (CUL Gateway Help pages) MLA Style (MLA's web site)

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February 11, 2004
Ida Martinez, im58@cornell.edu
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