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A Select List of Books in Mexican-American History (2018 Update) John R Southern Methodist University SMU Scholar History Faculty Publications History 7-8-2018 A Select List of Books in Mexican-American History (2018 update) John R. Chavez Southern Methodist University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_history_research Part of the Latin American History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Chavez, John R., "A Select List of Books in Mexican-American History (2018 update)" (2018). History Faculty Publications. 7. https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_history_research/7 This document is brought to you for free and open access by the History at SMU Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of SMU Scholar. For more information, please visit http://digitalrepository.smu.edu. A SELECT LIST OF BOOKS IN MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY The following list of secondary sources includes surveys and monographs, but few collections or biographies; while some works may overlap disciplines, their content is historical on the whole and focused significantly on ethnic Mexicans in the United States. Acosta, Sal. Sanctioning Matrimony: Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Acosta, Teresa Palomo, and Winegarten, Ruthe. Las Tejanas: 300 Hundred Years of History. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, no. 10. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 8th ed. New York: Pearson, Longman, 2014. -----. Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. -----. East Los Angeles: A Community under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975. Monograph no.11. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, University of California, 1984. Alanís Enciso, Saúl Fernando. They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression. Translation by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Alaniz, Yolanda, and Cornish, Megan. ¡Viva la Raza! Chicano Identity and Resistance. Seattle, Wash: Red Letter Press, 2008. Alamillo, José M. Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960. Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Centennial Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Allsup, Carl. The American G.I. Forum: Origins and Evolution. Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies and University of Texas Press, 1982. Almaguer, Tomás. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734- 1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 2 Alvarez, Luis. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II. American Crossroads. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Anders, Evan. Boss Rule in South Texas: The Progressive Era. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Andrés, Benny J. Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. Arredondo, Gabriela F. Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39. Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Centennial Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Araiza, Lauren. To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Balderrama, Francisco E. In Defense of La Raza: The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Community, 1929 to 1936. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982. ----- and Rodríguez, Raymond. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Barajas, Frank P. Curious Unions Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. Barton, Paul. Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, no. 18. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Bebout, Lee. Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Behnken, Brian D. Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Benton-Cohen, Katherine. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Blackwelder, Julia. Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929- 1939. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1984. 3 Blackwell, Maylei. Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. Chicana Matters Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Blanton, Carlos Kevin. A Promising Problem: The New Chicana/o History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. -----. The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Bowman, Timothy P. Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016. Boyle, Susan Calafate. Los Capitalistas: Hispano Merchants and the Santa Fe Trade. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Brackenridge, R. Douglas, and García-Treto, Francisco O. Iglesia Presbiteriana: A History of Presbyterians and Mexican Americans in the Southwest. Presbyterian Historical Society Publications, 15. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1974. Buitrón, Richard A. The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000. Latino Communities: Emerging Voices. New York: Routledge, 2004. Cadava, Geraldo L. Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Calderón, Roberto R. Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930. Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions, no. 2. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. -----. Chicanos in California. San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser, 1984. Cardoso, Lawrence A. Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931: Socio- Economic Patterns. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1980. Carrigan, William D., and Clive Webb. Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Carroll, Patrick J. Felix Longoria’s Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism. History, Culture, and Society Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, Center for Mexican American Studies, 2003. Casas, María Raquel. Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and 4 Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. Chávez, Ernesto. My People First! “Mi Raza Primero!” Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. -----. The U.S. War with Mexico: A Brief History with Documents. Boston, Mass.: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008 Chávez, John R. The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. -----. Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968- 1993. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. Chávez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico. Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 1992. Chávez-García, Miroslava. Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. -----. States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System. American Crossroads, 35. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012. Cohen, Deborah. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Post-War United States and Mexico. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Cool, Paul. Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande. No. 11, Canseco-Keck History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Crimm, Ana Carolina Castillo. De León: A Tejano Family History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Cuéllar, Carlos E. Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2003. Daniel, Clete. Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness: The FEPC in the Southwest, 1941-1945. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. De la Garza, Beatriz. From the Republic of the Rio Grande. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. 5 De León, Arnoldo. Ethnicity in the Sunbelt: A History of Mexican Americans in Houston. Mexican American Monograph Series, no. 7. Houston: Mexican American Studies Program, University of Houston, 1989. -----. Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1993. -----. Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848- 1890. Histories of the American Frontier.
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