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Encyclopedias and Handbooks

• Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide
• Dictionary of Mexican American History
• Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
• Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
• Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States
• Hispanic Firsts: 500 Years Of Extraordinary Achievement
• Hispanic Writers
• Hispanics in Hollywood: A Celebration of 100 Years in Film and Television
• Latino Encyclopedia
• Masterpieces of Latino Literature
• Reference Library of Hispanic America

Print-Based Indexes and Bibliographies

• Bibliografia Chicana: A Guide to Information Sources
• Bibliographic guide to Chicana and Latina narrative
• Bibliography of Criticism of Contemporary Chicano Literature
• Bibliography of Mexican American History
• Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities
• Chicana Studies Index: Twenty Years of Gender Research, 1971-1991
• Chicano Anthology Index, 1965-1987
• Childbearing among Hispanics in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography
• Cuba, Cubans and Cuban-Americans, 1902-1991: a bibliography
• Cubans in the United States: a bibliography for research in the social and behavioral sciences, 1960-1983
• Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen, 1898-1935
• Hispanic Periodicals in the United States, Origins to 1960
• Latinas of the Americas: A Sourcebook
• Latinos in the United States: A Historical Bibliography
• Literatura Chicana, 1965-1995: An Anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló
• Mexican Americans: A Research Bibliography
• Mexican Americans: An Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies
• Mexican Americans in Urban Society: A Selected Bibliography
• México/Estados Unidos: bibliografía general sobre estudios fronterizos
• Reference Materials on Mexican Americans: An Annotated Bibliography
• Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Studies
• Sourcebook of Hispanic Culture in the United States

Electronic Indexes and Bibliographies

Resources with Substancial Latino/Chicano Coverage:

• Chicano Database
  1960 to present; the Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos, providing extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Also includes the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
  1935-present; an annual bibliography prepared by a group of scholars and published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. It lists new publications under broad subject headings, and includes annotations.
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
  1970-present; HAPI is an online source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Included are complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in over 400 key scholarly social science and humanities journals published worldwide.

Resources with Partial Latino/Chicano Coverage:

• Academic Search Premier
  Current; multi-discipline, full text reference database, designed for the academic community. Includes full text coverage for just under 3000 journals, including 1,850 peer-reviewed journals.
• Alternative Press Index
  1991 to present; international and interdisciplinary, Alternative Press Index provides access to nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.
• America: History and Life
  1954-present; article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• Biography Index
  1984-present; indexes more than 2,700 English-language periodicals for biographical information.
• Contemporary Women's Issues
  1992-present; full-text access to global information on women, including journals and gray literature on women in over 150 countries.
• ERIC
  1982-present; source for information on all aspects of education, including counseling, tests, and measurement.
• Essay and General Literature Index
  1985 - present; Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science and history to criticism of literary works, drama and film. Essay and General Literature Index provides access to the wealth of literature often hidden in compilation works.
• Ethnic Newswatch
  Current; a full-text comprehensive collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press.
• Literature Resource Center
  Current; provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexe s publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.
• MLA Bibliography
  1963 to the present; produced by the Modern Language Association of America, it consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
• PAIS International
  1972-present; information on political science, government, international relations, law, economics, business, finance, and other social sciences.
• PsycArticles
  1988 to present; provides full text access to articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA)and allied organizations. Topics include general psychology, as well as specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
• PsycInfo
  1887-present; international source for journal articles, dissertations, and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as sociology, linguistics, law, business, and anthropology.
• Social Sciences Citation Index
  1988-present; source for information in all major social sciences disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles which cite a known earlier article.
• Social Services Abstracts
  1980-present; CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
• Sociological Abstracts
  1974-present; information in sociology and related disciplines.

Biographical Sources

• Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987
• Notable Hispanic American Women
• Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans, 1991-92

Statistical Information

• Current Population Survey (Hispanic Data), U.S. Census
• Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook
• Statistical Handbook on U.S. Hispanics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Statistical Abstract of the United States-Mexico Borderlands
• We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity

Chronologies

• Chronology of Hispanic-American history

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Images:
Top left: Original watercolor of an Inca (possibly Manco Capac) found in vol. 2 of Borrones: un recuerdo para la historia del Alto Perú. Undated. Church Collection. John Hay Library.

Left: details from "Calavera Carrancista" by José Guadalupe Posada.