Professor Gregorio Mora Torres
Chicana/o History
MAS 205
Fall, 2011
CHICANO HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. Preconquest Indigenous Peoples
Burr Cartwright Brundage, The Fifth Sun, Aztec Gods, Aztec World, 1979.
Inga Clandinnen, Aztecs: an Interpretation, 1995.
Susan Gillespie, The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History, 1989.
R..C. Padden, The Hummingbird and the Hawk, !967.
Richard F. Townsend, The Aztecs, 1993.
Michael Coe, Mexico, 1993.
Herbert J. Spinden, Ancient Civilization of Mexico and Central America, 1999.
Alfonso de Zorita, Life & Labor in Ancient Mexico, 1971.
II. The Conquest of Mexico
Bernal Dias del Castillo, The Conquest of Mexico, 1973.
Patricia de Fuentes, The Conquistadors, 1993.
Ross Hassig, Mexico and the Spanish Conquest, 1994
Patricia de Fuentes, The Conquistadors, 1993.
Miguel Leon Portilla, The Broken Spear, 1966.
Jaime Montell, La Caida de México-Tenochtitlan, 2003.
Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortez, and the Fall of Old Mexico, 1995.
III. Colonial Mexico
Silvia Marina Arrom, The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857, 1985.
Herman L Bennett, Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole
Consciousness, 1570-1640, 2003.
Patrick J Carroll, Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development,
1991.
R. Douglas Cope, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebian Society in Colonial Mexico City,
1994.
Claudio Esteva-Fabregal, Mestizaje in IberoAmerica, 1987.
Enrique Florescano, Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, 1994.
Jacques Lafaye, Quetzalcoalt and Guadalupe, 1976.
Doris Ladd, The Mexican Nobility at Independence, 1780-1826, 1976.
Peggy Liss, Mexico Under Spain, 1521-1556: Society and Origins of Nationality, 1975.
James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of
Central Mexico, 1500-1700, 1992.
Lesley Byrd Simpson, The Encomienda in New Spain, 1982.
IV.
The Borderlands during the Colonial Period
Armando C. Alonzo. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros, and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900,
1998.
John Francis Bannon, Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821, 1974.
Gilbert C. Din, Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: the Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana,
1763- 1803, 1999.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Roots of Resistance: Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980, 1980.
William C, Foster, Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768, 1995.
Lisbeth Hass, Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1995.
Albert L. Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California, 1999.
Albert L. Hurtado, Indian Survival on the California Frontier, 1988.
Michael J. Gonzalez, This Small City Will be a Mexican Paradise: Exploring the Origins of
Mexican Culture in Los Angeles, 2005.
Ramon A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away, 1991.
Kent G. Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on
the California Frontier, 2005.
Martha Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots
of Mexican Americans, 2001.
Robert Ryal Miller, Juan Alvarado, Governor of California, 1836-1842, 1998.
Gregorio Mora-Torres, Californio Voices: The Oral Memoirs of Jose Maria Amador and
Lorenzo Asisara, 2005.
Douglas Monroy, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Culture in Frontier California,
1990.
James E. Officer, Hispanic Arizona, 1536-1856, 1987.
Antonio Maria Ossio, The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California, 1996.
James A. Sandos, Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Mission, 2004.
David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America, 1992.
V. The Mexican War and Mexicans Under U.S. Domination.
Tomas Almaguer, Racial Faultlines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California,
1994.
Mario Barrera, Race and Class in the Southwest, 1979.
Albert Camarillo, Chicanos in a Changing Society, 1979.
Scott Cook, Mexican Brick Culture in the Building of Texas, 1800s-1980, 1998.
William David Estrada, The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space, 2008.
Richard Griswold Del Castillo, La Familia, 1989.
Richard Griswold Del Castillo, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict, 1990.
Richard Griswold Del Castillo, The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890, 1979.
Beatriz de la Garza, A Law for the Lion: A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands, 2003.
Arnoldo de Leon, Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 18481890, 2003.
Benjamin Heber Johnson, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and its Bloody
Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, 2003.
Heidenreich, Linda, “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern
California, 2007.
Arnoldo de Leon, Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 18481890, 2002.
Arnoldo de Leon, The Tejano Community, 1836-1900, 1982.
Martha Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots
of Mexican Americans, 2001.
Natalia Molina, Fit To Be Citizens: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, 2006.
Douglas Monroy, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier
Caliofrnia, 1990.
David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1989.
Stephen J. Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican
Americans, 2003.
Ricardo Romo, History of a Barrio, East Los Angeles, 1983.
Robert J. Rosenbaum, Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest: “The Sacred Right of SelfPreservation,” 1981.
Alan Rosenus, General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans, 1995.
Andres Tijerina, Tejanos & Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836, 1994.
Elliot Young, Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, 2004.
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, The Squatter and the Don, 1992.
Thomas S. Sheridan, Los Tucsonenses, 1986.
David Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico, 1982.
VI. The Mexican Revolution, Mexican Workers and Immigration
Rodolfo F. Acuña, Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933, 2007.
José M. Alamillo, Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a
California Town, 1880-1960, 2006.
Gabriela F. Arredondo, Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39, 2008.
Balderrama, Francisco E. and Raymond Rodriguez, Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in
the 1930s, 1995.
Dan La Botz, Cesar Chavez and la Causa, 2006.
Kitty Calavita, Inside the States: the Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS, 1992.
Margaret Clark, Health in the Mexican American Culture: A Community Study, 1970.
William Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of the
Mexican Past, 2004.
Barbara Driscoll, The Tracks North: The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II, 1999.
Ernesto Galarza, Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story, 1964.
Ernesto Galarza, Barrio Boy, 1972.
Ernesto Galarza, Spiders in the House & Workers in the Fields, 1970.
Juan Garcia, Mexicans in the Midwest: 1900-1932.
Mario Garcia, Desert Immigrants, 1981.
Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los
Angeles, 1900-1970, 2001.
Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 1850-1935, 2006.
Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Workers in a Southern California
County, 1994.
Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American
Southwest, 1999.
Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, & Mexican Immigrants,
2004.
Camille Guerin-Gonzalez, Mexican Workers & the American Dream, 1994.
David G. Gutierrez, Walls & Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the Politics
of Ethnicity, 1995.
Ernesto Galarza, Barrio Boy, 1972.
Charles Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: the
Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920, 2004.
Abraham Hoffman, Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression, 1974.
James Douglas Monroy, Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great
Depression, 1999.
Stephen J. Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican
Americans, 2003.
F. Arturo Rosales, !Pobre Raza! Violence, Justice, and Mobilization among Mexico Lindo
Immigrants, 1900-1936, 1999.
Vicki L. Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives, 1987.
Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows, 1998.
Dionisio Nodín Valdez, Barrios Norteños: St Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the
Twentieth Century, 2000.
Dennis Nodín Valdez, Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1991.
Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farmworkers, Cotton, and the New Deal,
1994.
Mark Wild, Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in early Twentieth-Century Los
Angeles, 2005.
VII.
The Making of the Mexican American Ideology.
Luis Alvarez, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II, 2008.
Patrick J. Carroll, Felix Longoria’s Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican
American Activism, 2003.
Daniel Clete, Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness: The FEPC in the Southwest, 194145, 1991.
Ruben Donato, The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil
Right Era, 1997.
Edward Escobar, Race, Police, and the Making of Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the
Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945, 1999.
Ignacio M. Garcia, White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the
Supreme Court, 2009.
Mario Garcia, Memories of Chicano History (Bert Corona), 1994.
Mario Garcia, Mexican American: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930-1960, 1989.
Mario Garcia, The Making of a Mexican American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso, 1998.
Richard Garcia, Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class: San Antonio, 1929-1941, 1991.
Gilbert Gonzalez, Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation, 1990.
Richard Griswold del Castillo, Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice,
2007.
Julie Leininger Pycior, LBJ & Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power, 1997.
Kevin Allen Leonard, The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and WWII, 2006.
James J. Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and
Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America, 1999.
Benjamin Marquez, LULAC:The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization,
1993.
Benjamin Marquez, Constructing Identities in Mexican American Political Organizations, 2003.
Mauricio Mazon, The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation, 1992.
Henry A. J. Ramos, The American G.I. Forum: In Pursuit of the Dream, 1948-1983, 1998.
Guadalupe San Miguel, "Let all of them take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for
Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981, 1990.
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Mexican Americans & World War II, 2005.
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory, 1982.
VIII. The Chicano Movement
Rodolfo Anaya, Occupied America, 1988.
Mario Barrera, Beyond Aztlan, 1988.
Maylei Blackwell, ǃChicano Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement,
2011.
Susan Ferris and Ricardo Sandoval, The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker
Movement, 1997.
Ignacio Garcia, United We Win: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida Party, 1989.
Juan Gomez-Quiñonez, Chicano Politics: Reality & Promise, 1940-1990, 1990.
David Montejano, Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981,
2010.
Lorena Oropeza, Raza Si!, Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Viet Nam
War Era, 2005.
Laura Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow & Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, 2006.
George Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 19651975, 2005.
Carlos Muñoz, Youth, Identity, & Power: The Chicano Movement, 1989.
Armando Navarro, Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano
Movement in Texas, 1996.
Peter Nobokov, Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid, 1970.
Rodolfo Rosales, Illusion of Inclusion: the Untold Political Story of San Antonio, 2000.
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Campaign
for Educational Equality in Texas, 1987.
Jesus Salvador Treviño, Eyewitness: a Filmmaker’s Memoirs of the Chicano Movement, 2001.
Lea Ybarra, Vietnam Veteranos: Chicanos Recall the War, 2004.
IX.
The U.S., Mexico, and Chicanos
Rodolfo Acuña, Sometimes There is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality, 1998.
Rodolfo Acuña, Anything but Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles, 1996.
Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los
Angeles, 2004.
Tom Barry, Harry Browne, Beth Sims, The Great Divide, 1994.
Leo R. Chavez, The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, 2008.
Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City, 2000.
Roxanne Lynn Doty, The Law into their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of
Exceptionalism.
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles, 2005.
David E. Lorey, The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century, 1999.
John Mason Hart, Border Crossings: Mexican and American Workers, 1998.
David Hayes-Bautista, La Nueva California, 2004.
Chris Garcia, Latinos and the Political System, 1989.
Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Warrior for GringoStroika, 1993.
Gilbert G. Gonzalez & Raul A. Fernandez, A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations and
Migration, 2003.
David Gutierrez, Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 1996.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, 2010.
Oscar J. Martinez, Troublesome Border, 2006.
Oscar J. Martinez, Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1994.
Ruben Martinez, Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail, 2001.
Eric V. Meeks, Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona,
2007.
Douglas Monroy, The Borders Within: Encounters Between Mexico and the United States, 2008.
David Montejano, Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century, 1999.
Lydia R. Otero, La Calle:Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City, 2010.
Sam Quinones, Antonio’s Gun and Defino’s Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration, 2007.
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., Contested Policy: the Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in
the United States, 1960-2001, 2004.
Christian Zlolniski, Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: the Lives of Mexican Immigrants in
Silicon Valley, 2006.