Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month - Recommended Readings

Recommended by Faculty

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• Geraldo Cadava, The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump (Harper Collins, 2021).

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• Ernesto Chávez,“¡Mi Raza Primero!” (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

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• Miroslava Chávez-Garcia, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

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• Miroslava Chávez-García, “Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State: The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility” The Journal of American History 102, issue 1 (June 2015): 47-60.

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• Elizabeth Escobedo, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

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• Lilia Fernández, Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

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• María Cristina García, Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).

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• Matthew Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

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• Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, Sergio M. González, eds., Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics since 1945 (New York: NYU Press, 2022).

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• Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).

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• Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds., Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

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• Rosina Lozano, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018).

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• Natalia Molina, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

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• No Más Bebés directed by Renee Tajima-Peña (2015); Documentary, available for streaming via CU-Boulder Library

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• Ana Raquel Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2020)

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• Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic (Picador, updated 2021 edition)

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• Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Coffee House Press, 2017)

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• Gabriela Soto Laveaga, "Every American needs to take a history of Mexico class", Washington Post, 22 July 2021

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