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This is a guide to information on the population of Mexican origin from those areas of the United States of America which were once a part of the Republic of Mexico, and on the United States population from what is known as Latin America, and their United States-born descendants.
Este documento está escrito para facilitar el uso del sistema de bibliotecas de la Universidad de Minnesota a personas interesadas en obtener información sobre la población chicana o latina de los Estados Unidos. El uso de la mayor parte de las fuentes de información en las bibliotecas requiere el dominio del inglés. En esta página encontrara en la sección VI algunas fuentes de información para cuyo uso el inglés no es indispensable.
Reference and Bibliographic Sources
The following sources are located in the General Reference Collection of the Wilson Library, on the West Bank of the Minneapolis campus. These sources contain factual information (encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, statistical compilations, and directories) or listings of books and articles (bibliographies and indexes.)
- Chicanos and Latinos in the United States
- Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States
Multi-volume reference source. Topical chapters in this encyclopedic work contain a wealth of information in brief thematic essays.
• Location(s): WILSON Reference Quarto E184 .S75 H365 1993
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- Latino encyclopedia
A treasure trove of information on Latino life, culture, and history in the United States organized in encyclopedia format.
• Location(s): WILSON Reference E184 .S75 L357 1996 Vol 1-6
- Who's who among Hispanic Americans
Annual biographic directory including an obituaries section with entries on recently deceased newsworthy Hispanic Americans.
• Location(s): WILSON Reference Quarto E184 .S75 W36
- Mexican American biographies
A historical dictionary, 1836-
1987. A comprehensive bibliographic directory.
• Location(s): WILSON Reference E184.M5 M454 1988
- Statistical handbook on U.S. Hispanics
Statistical information on Hispanics in the United States of America from demographic to economic conditions. It includes a list of sources.
• Location(s): Quarto E184 .S75 S27 1991
WILSON Reference
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- Hispanic American Information Directory
A biannual guide to organizations, agencies, institutions, programs, and publications concerned with Hispanic Americans.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference quarto E184 .S75 H566
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- Chicano Organizations Directory
A comprehensive directory organized by subject, including a listing of Chicano Studies Programs. It has a geographic index.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference E184 .M5 C26 1985
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- Chicano Scholars and Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
A directory of Chicano scholarship and writing, including information on the accomplishments of individuals whose contributions to the world of knowledge have been for the most part overlooked or de-emphasized by traditional directories and publishing houses.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference E184 .M5 M385
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- Chicana Studies Index
This index includes monographs and periodical articles published between 1971 and 1991. It has a listing of the periodicals indeed.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference quarto E184 .M5 C417x 1992
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- Chicano Index
A
comprehensive subject, author, and title index to articles published in Chicano periodicals since 1989. It was preceded by the Chicano Periodical Index, 1967-1988 (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1967-1988), catalogued under the same call number and shelved in the General Reference Collection of the Wilson Library.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference quarto E184 .M5 C44x
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- Hispanic American Periodicals Index
This annual index analyzes over two hundred journals of analysis. While most of the publications that it analyzes are publications specialized in Latin America, it also includes articles about the Spanish-speaking, Chicano, and Latino population of the United States. Also available online.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference F1401 .H51x
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- Chicanos and Latinos in Minnesota
- They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups
This history of immigrant groups in the state of Minnesota includes a chapter on the Mexican (pp. 92-107).
• Location(s): WILSON Reference Quarto F615 .A1 T45
- Mexican Americans in Minnesota: An Introduction to Historical Sources
A useful source for research on the history of the largest minority in this state.
• Location(s): Wilson Reference quarto F615 .M5 S28x 1977
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Periodicals and Newspapers
Most periodical publications by Chicanos or Latinos received at the University of Minnesota Libraries are in the Wilson Library, on the west bank of the Minneapolis campus. An important exception is the publication Chicano-Latino Law Review (Law Per. C439), housed in the Law School Library, also in the west bank of the Minneapolis campus. Periodicals in the Wilson Library are not given catalog numbers (except for annuals, which are catalogued and shelved under their call number), but shelved by title in the Periodicals Collection, located on the basement level of this library. The Wilson Library has the weekly newspaper La Prensa de Minnesota in its Newspaper Collection.
- Chicano and Latino Periodicals at the Wilson Library
- Americas Review
(quarterly published by Arte Publico)
- Aztlan
(publication of the Chicano Studies Center of UCLA)
- Campo Libre
(Publication of the Department of Chicano Studies of the California State University)
- Chicano Theatre
(published by Centro Cultural de la Gente, in San Juan Buatista, CA)
- Critica
(publication of the Chicano Studies Center of the University of California, San Diego)
- La raza habla
(published by the Chicano Affairs Office of the New Mexico State University)
- Revista Chicano-Riquena
(now ceased, continued by American Review)
- Trabajos monograficos
(published by Mujeres Activas en letra y Cambio Social)
Research Collections
The University of Minnesota Libraries houses a considerable number of printed documents, statistical sources, government publications, and printed collection of letters, memoirs, and other primary sources. Most important primary sources related to Chicano and Latinos are housed in the Wilson Library, on the west bank of the Minneapolis campus.
The Government Publications Library, in the basement level of the Wilson Library, houses United States government publications, state of Minnesota documents, and Twin Cities Metropolitan Council publications with important information related to Chicanos and Latinos. While current materials at the Government Publications Library are represented in the University of Minnesota Libraries catalog (MNCAT), it is advisable to consult the reference staff in that special collection. For information on reference hours, call (612) 624-5073.
In addition to its paper sources, the Wilson Library has important microform collections. These include Chicano Studies Library Serial Collection (Microfilm 3859), Chicano newspapers filmed at the University of California - Berkeley, in an on-going project; and FBI File on Cesar Chavez & United Farm Workers (Microfilm 4015). There is a printed list of the titles in the Chicano serial collection available at the General Reference Collection of the Wilson Library, Chicano Studies Library Serial Collection: Guide (Wilson Reference quarto E184 .M5 C456x).
University Libraries Home Page
The University Libraries Home Page provides access to the University Libraries online catalog (MNCAT), and to a site with links to serial indexes online (ARTICLES AND MORE).
Para usar el catálogo de las bibliotecas use MNCAT. En este puede buscar libros y revistas por título, y libros por autor y tema también. Hay un tipo de búsqueda llamado "keyword" que permite hacer búsquedas con palabras de varios idiomas.
- Finding Books and Periodicals (MNCAT)
The University Libraries online catalog is self-explanatory and user-friendly. Remember, in a library catalog you will only find entries for books, reports, journals, and documents owned by that library. Do not search in MNCAT for journal articles, conference papers, or essays in collective works. You may, though, search for the journal in which an article that you want to read was published. At this point in time, through MNCAT you may access works by author, title, subject, or keyword. The keyword command tells the system to make a visual search throughout the database looking for library records where the word or words that you may type appear.
Library records indicate the location of the item and its call number (if it has been given a catalog number; most periodicals at the University of Minnesota Libraries are shelved by title in alphabetical order.) Call numbers are numbers assigned to individual titles, and at the University of Minnesota Libraries a word indicating book size is prefixed to the call numbers of large (folio) and slightly larger (quarto) books. Books are shelved in stacks by call number and folios and quartos are shelved together in folio and quarto sections on each floor of the library stacks. The location in MNCAT records refers the user to the library or special collection in the University wide libraries system where the item that it describes is located.
- Finding Articles in Journals and Periodicals (ARTICLES AND INDEXES)
The ARTICLES AND MORE site in the LUMINA menu gives access to a number of indexes (publications listing articles on a given discipline or subject area) available online. Once the user enters into this site he/she will find a menu indicating groupings of indexes by subject. Chicano Database is an online index listing only articles and books about Chicanos and Latinos. Informe is a full-text index of Chicano/Latino magazines on general interest and current event topics.
Other indexes useful for finding articles about Chicanos and Latinos are MLA Bibliography (for information on Chicano/Latino authors and their works), PAIS (for scholarly articles on public affairs), Sociological Abstracts (for scholarly articles on sociology), PsychINFO (for articles on social psychology), MasterFile Premier(for articles in popular and news magazine), and LEXIS-NEXIS (for articles from United States newspapers). Once one logs in an index database, one is given specific instructions on how to proceed.
Please, write down or print those instructions, because you are going to need them in order to get the information that you need, and they are not the same for each one of the indexes. Some online indexes will provide the text of the articles that they list, but that is not the case for most of them. In most cases you will have to locate in the library journals where the articles which you learned about are. Write down the author, title, journal of publication, volume, number, date, and page number for each article that you want to read. Faculty, students and staff may request through inter-library loans photocopies of journal articles from journals which the University of Minnesota Libraries does not have, and you will need the information mentioned above to fill an inter-library loan request form.
Even in cases where the online index lists the institutions holding the journal where the articles it cites were published, make sure that you search in MNCAT the title of the journal where the article you want to read was published.
- Chicano/Latinonet
chabran@latino.sscnet.ucla.edu
Electronic gateway between faculty and students. It is a joint project of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California-Berkeley, and the Linguistic Minority Research Institute at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
- Chicanos/Latinos in Minnesota
Collection of Hispano or Latino community democraphic profiles for over 200 geographic areas in Minnesota, taken from the Summary File 1, Cesus of Population and Housing data that the U.S. Census Bureau released in 2001.
- Hispanic Population of the U.S.A.
National summary data on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the nation's Hispanic population from the Current Population Survey.
- Latino Resources
Latino/Hispanic/border-related internet information with links to major directories, specific sites, lists, and usenet groups.
- LatinoWeb
Latinoweb is a virtual information center for Latino Businesses, non-profit organizations and the community.
- Congressional Compass
This is an online service covering the United States Congress and federal regulations, containing the status and the text of bills, useful for its currency. It can be searched from University of Minnesota Libraries public access terminals using Netscape.
- WebPALS
PALS is the Minnesota State University System catalog. Because it includes Minnesota State Agency library catalogs, it can be used to search for state of Minnesota documents and statistics.
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