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Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience [Three Volumes]
Rodolfo F. Acuña, Guadalupe Compeán
Book Code: GR4020
ISBN: 0-313-34020-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34020-8
1256 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/2008
List Price: $299.95 (UK Sterling Price: £170.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Because other resources in this subject tend toward dated bibliographies and indexes and because reference treatments of Latinos are often grouped in larger reference works on ethnic groups in America, this set fills a gap....Recommended for academic and large public libraries.
    —Library Journal     November 15, 2008
Description: The history and experiences of the diverse groups labeled Latinos in this country are abundantly documented in this major new collection. From the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1803 to remembrances of life on the frontier, to the Young Lords platform of 1969, to a discussion of Latinos and the war on Iraq today, this 3-volume collection showcases more than 400 crucial primary documents from and concerning the major Latino groups in the United States. Sources include letters, memoirs, speeches, articles, essays, interviews, treaties, government reports, testimony, and more. The voices include whites as well as Latinos, prominent and obscure, and Americans as well as foreigners. The bulk of the primary documents concern Mexico and the United States and Mexican Americans, who paved the way for immigrants from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America to come. The scope also includes primary documents pertaining to events in Latin American and Caribbean history that have had an impact on these groups. Each primary document has a short introduction, placing it in historical and cultural context. An introduction that gives an historical overview, a chronology, a selected bibliography chock full of useful websites, and a set index provide added value. Sample documents: memoirs of early Texas, commentary by a Mexican diplomat on the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848, essay on the social condition of New Mexico in 1852, Cuban independence leader Jose Marti in New York on race (1894), "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez"-- a ballad about a Mexican who stood up to the Texas Rangers in 1901, excerpts from an autobiography by Ella Winter on school segregation in the 1930s, a Latino soldier's reminiscences of World War II, testimony from a Bracero worker in the 1950s, article on Cuban Miami in the 1960s, socioeconomic profile of Dominicans in the United States in 2000, interview with Subcomandante Marcos from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Table of Contents:
  • Documents by Group
  • Introduction
  • Timeline of U.S. Latino History
  • Documents
  • Part I. Borders
  • Part II. 1820s
  • Part III. The Mexican American War
  • Part IV. The Border and Re-annexation
  • Part V. Texas
  • Part VI. Voces Mexicanas
  • VII. Land
  • VIII. Latinos South of the Border
  • IX. South of Mexico
  • X. The Occupation
  • XI. Push and Pull
  • XII. The Gateway to the Americas
  • XIII. Americanization
  • XIV. Latinos and the Great Depression
  • XV. Mexican Americans and the Great Depression
  • XVI. Latinos, World War II, and the Aftermath
  • XVII. World War II, Mexican Americans and the Aftermath
  • XVIII. Latinos in the 1960s
  • XIX. Chicanos, the Sixties, and Heritage
  • XX. Latinos, 1980-Present
  • XXI. Chicanas and Mexican Americans in Contemporary Society
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2007046170
LCC Class: E184
Dewey Class: 973
PDF Catalogs:
Greenwood Spring Reference 2008.pdf
Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf
Greenwood Multicultural Spring 2008.pdf
Greenwood History Spring 2008.pdf
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