Sylvia Lopez
Beloit College
Latina/o Studies: Selected Readings and Films
Multidisciplinary Reader:
 Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres (Eds.). The Latino Studies Reader:
Culture, Economy, and Society (1998)
 Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo (Eds.) Companion to Latina/o Studies (Blackwell
Companions in Cultural Studies, 2007)
 Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Vilma Ortiz (Eds.) Challenging
Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. (1997)
 Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco & Mariela M. Paéz (Eds.). Latinos: Remaking
America (2002)
Anthropology/Cultural Studies/Sociology:
 Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)
 Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic: The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader
(1998)
 Jorge Duany. The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and
in the United States (2002)
 Hedda Garza. Latinas: Hispanic Women in the United States (2001)
 Ed Morales: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America
(2002)
 Himilce Novas. Everything You Need to Know about Latino History (1998)
 Suzanne Oboler: Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of
(Re)Presentation in the United States (1995)
 Jorge Ramos: The Other Face of America: Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping
Our Future (La otra cara de América) (2003)
 Earl Shorris. Latinos: A Biography of the People (1992)
 Ilan Stavans. The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People (2001, 2nd ed.)
History:
 Juan Gonzalez: Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (2000)
 David Gutierrez: The Columbia history of Latinos in the United States since 1960
(2004)
 George Ochoa and Carter Smith: An Atlas of Hispanic-American History (2008)
Literary works
Various:
 Cuentos hispanos de los Estados Unidos (Julián Olivares. Ed., 1993)
 En otra voz: Antología de literatura hispana de los Estados Unidos (Nicolas
Kanellos, Ed., 2002)
 Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (Nicolas
Kanellos, Ed., 2003)
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Iguana Dreams (Delia Poey & Virgil Suárez. Eds., 1992)
Se habla español: Voces Latinas en USA (Edmundo Paz Soldán & Alberto
Fuguet. Eds., 2009)
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Latino Literature (Eduardo del Río, Ed., 2001)
U.S. Latino Literature Today (Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Ed. 2005)
Mexican:
 Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera
 Norma Elia Cantú: Canícula
 Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street (La casa en Mango Street)
 Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez: I am Joaquin (Yo soy Joaquín)
 Francisco Jiménez: Cajas de cartón
 Tomas Rivera: …y no se lo tragó la tierra (...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him)
 Richard Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez;
Brown: The Last Discovery of America
 Luis Valdes: Zoot Suit (Zoot Suit)
 Helena Maria Viramontes: The Moths and Other Stories
Puerto Rican:
 José Luis González: El país de cuatro pisos
 René Marqués: La carreta
 Judith Ortiz Cofer: Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican
Childhood; The Latin Deli
 Miguel Piñero: Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and
Feelings
 Esmeralda Santiago: When I was Puerto Rican (Cuando era puertorriqueña)
 Piri Thomas: Down these Mean Streets (Por estas calles bravas)
Cuban:
 Dolores Prida: Beautiful Señoritas
 Oscar Hijuelos: Mambo Kings
 Gustavo Perez Firmat: Next Year in Cuba; poems
Dominican:
 Julian Alvarez: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent; In the Time of the
Butterflies
 Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Drown
Films and Documentaries
Mexicans
 A Day without a Mexican
 An American Story with Richard Rodriguez
 Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
 Hispanic American: One or Many Cultures?
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My Family/Mi familia
Real Women Have Curves
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Tortilla Soup
Zoot Suit
Puerto Ricans
 Almost a Woman (made for TV)
 La guagua aérea (not subtitled)
 Los dos mundos de Angelita
 Mi Puerto Rico
 West Side Story
 Yo soy boricua, pa que tú lo sepas!" (I Am a Boricua, Just So You Know It.)
(Listen to interview with Rosie Perez (producer) on NPR: “Rosie Perez Film
Explores Puerto Rican Pride”)
Cubans
 Balseros
 El super
 Mambo Kings
 ¿Qué pasa, U.S.A?
Dominicans
 Nueba Yol
Latinos in Cartoons
 http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/directory/l/latinos.asp
 Google images: Lalo Alcaraz, Latino cartoons, Hispanic cartoon, etc.