Chicana/o Studies: Selected Research Sources

For assistance in research in Chicana/o Studies contact the subject specialist: Jennie Quiñónez-Skinner

Jump to: Types of Resources | Ideas for Topics | Finding Articles in Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers | General Reference Sources | Statistics and Demographics | Additional Resources | Citing Your Sources | Plagiarism

Information on the topic of Chicanas and Chicanos may be found using a variety of search terms combined with any or all of the following terms which can be used to identify a specific group:

• Mexican Americans
• Mexican American children
• Mexican American women
• Hispanics
• Hispanic Americans
• Hispanic American women
• Latino
• Latinos
• Latinas

Types of Resources

http://library.csun.edu/Guides/ResearchStrategies/GettingStarted - Be alert to the need or requirement for specific types of information such as primary and secondary or scholarly or credible.  There are specific research tools that may assist in the search for required types of information. 

Ideas for Topics

Specialized Sources (on the surface/free web)

• Latino Policy & Issues Brief series – UCLA
  http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/press/briefs/documents/PB22_000.pdf
• Pew Hispanic Center – Chronicling Latinos diverse experiences in a changing America
  http://pewhispanic.org/
• TRPI -The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute
  http://www.trpi.org/

Finding Articles in Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

Consult the "Databases by Subject" on the Oviatt Library homepage for additional indexes. You should also use (How to Locate Articles Online or in the Library)

Specialized indexes to articles – Use the “Databases A-Z” linked on the Oviatt Library home page to link to these:

• Chicano Database  Over 59,000 items on Mexican-American and Chicano topics. 1960-
• Ethnic NewsWatch + Ethnic NewsWatch: A History (ProQuest)  Full-text collection of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Over 270 titles, 1960
• HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index  Indexes more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text. 1970-
  
• Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980  Digital archive of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Features hundreds of titles, many published bilingually in Spanish and English.

General indexes to articles – Use the “Databases A-Z” linked on the Oviatt Library home page to link to these:

• Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) Abstracts to 3,000 journals (over 1,500 peer-reviewed journals), with full text to more than 2,000 of the journals. Dates may vary, most from 1985-
• America: History & Life (EBSCO) Indexes 1,700 journals as well as dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. 1964-
• General OneFile (Gale) Indexes over 9,700 journals; full text to over 5,000 journals, 1980-
• CountryWatch News, statistics and trends for 192 countries.
• GenderWatch Publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas, 1970-
• JSTOR Latin American Studies Comprehensive archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in Latin American studies.

General Reference Sources

• Encyclopedia of the Mexican American civil rights movement
  Reference Room - E184.M5 M458 2000
• Mexican American biographies : a historical dictionary, 1836-1987
  Reference Room - E184.M5 M454 1988
• Dictionary of Hispanic biography
  Reference Room - CT1343 .D53 1996
• Latinas! : women of achievement Detroit : Visible
  Reference Room -  E184.S75 L354 1996
• Voices of the U.S. Latino experience  (paper and electronic version available)
  E 184 .S75 V65 2008 v.1-3
• Meier, Matt S.
  Notable Latino Americans: a biographical dictionary
  Reference Room - E184.S75 M435 1997
• Meier, Matt S.
  The Mexican American experience: an encyclopedia.
  Floor2 - E184.M5 M4535 2003
• Encyclopedia of Mexico: history, society & culture
  Reference Room - F1210 .E63 1997  v.1-v.2
• Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States
  Reference Room - E184.S75 H365 1993  v.1 –v.3
• Hispanic American Almanac : a reference book on Hispanics in the United States Reference Room
  E184 .S75 H667 2003
• The Latino Encyclopedia
  Reference Room -  E184.S75 L357 1996  v.1 –v.6
• Meier, Matt S.
  Dictionary of Mexican American history
  Reference Room - E184.M5 M453

Statistics and Demographics

• Changing America : Indicators of Social and Economic Well-being by Race and Hispanic Origin
  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/ca/pdfs/ca.pdf
• Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook
  Reference Room - E 184 .S75 H5655 2002
• Pew Hispanic Center – Chronicling Latinos diverse experiences in a changing America
  http://pewhispanic.org/
• American Factfinder
  http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html
• General Statistical Data Sources
  http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/statistical-data
• RAND – California Statistics
  http://ca.rand.org/

Government Information Sources

• Ways to Search for Government Information
  http://library.csun.edu/GovernmentPublications/FindDocuments

Additional Resources

Organizations

• National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
  http://naccs.org/
• Association of Mexican American educators
  http://amae.org/
• Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities
  http://hacu.net/
• Congressional Hispanic Caucus
  http://www.chci.org/
• Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
  http://malcs.net/
• Hispanic National Bar Association
  http://www.hnba.com/
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists
  http://www.nahj.org/
• National Hispanic Medical Association
  http://www.nhmamd.org/

Citing Your Sources

• http://library.csun.edu/guides/subject-guide/13-Step-5-Citing-Your-Sources?tab=51

Avoiding Plagiarism

• http://library.csun.edu/Guides/ResearchStrategies/AvoidingPlagiarism