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Selected Resources for: Chicano/Latino Studies
Subject Librarian: Rafael Tarrago E-Mail: r-tarr@tc.umn.edu This subject covers: the study of U.S. population of Spanish American ancestry as well as those people in the Southwest whose Spanish speaking ancestors were there before the annexation of those areas to the United States. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
America: History and Life    This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with over 2,000 journals including all key English-language historical journals.
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| Chicano Database Subjects include Mexican-American and Chicano studies topics. Index to books and articles in English and Spanish languages. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs & Indexes to Government Publications
| Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Informe A collection of hispanic magazines with full text; This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects. Text in Spanish. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
| Mexican American biographies
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| Notable Hispanic American women [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Notable Latino Americans "Describes the lives of 127 U.S. Latinos who have made important contributions to American society and the world." Book Preface
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| Who's who among Hispanic Americans
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Dictionaries
| Dictionary of Mexican American proverbs [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Regional dictionary of Chicano slang
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Directories
| Hispanic resource directory [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848
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| Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States Four volume work covering anthropology, history, literature and art and sociology.
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| Latino encyclopedia
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Handbooks and Manuals
| Hispanic-American almanac
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
News Sources
| Ethnic newswatch Full-text articles from over 300 American ethnic and minority newspapers including Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and other multi-ethnic communities. Coverage dates back to 1990.
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Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
| Statistical handbook on U.S. Hispanics [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Statistical record of Hispanic Americans
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson
Reference Services.
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Writing Guides
| Manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Center for Writing The Rhetoric Department, English Department, Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing and the General College Writing Center
have come together to bring you writing support in one place.
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Library Information
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