The University of Tennessee collects books related to the issues of Mexican Americans as well as Mexico and the countries of Latin America.

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Subject headings to think about:

Mexican American

Cuban American

Hispanic

Migrant agricultural workers

Mexican American Border Region

Immigration- Hispanic

Hispanic Americans in the United States

United States - Relations - Mexico

Reference Books: A Selected List

(All reference books are located in the Reference and Instructional Services Department- 1st Floor Hodges Library- 1015 Volunteer Blvd.)

Atlas of Hispanic-American History

E184.S75 0287 2001 Reference
Includes historical maps, photographs, paintings, and graphs. Puts history into perspective highlighting important events and people. Also has a good bibliography that can lead to additional resources.

Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society in the United States

E184.S75 E587 2005 Reference

Explores the impact Latinos have played in U.S. history, culture, and society. The approximately 650 entries range from 500 to 5,000 words in length. Topic areas include the arts, education, family life, immigration, religion, and sports.

Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics

E184.A1 E574 2000 Reference
Has a section on Hispanic Americans. Addresses key issues such as immigration, bilingual education, and political participation. Suggestions for additional reading follow each article.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the Untied States

E184. S75 097 2005 Reference (4 vol.)
Looks at some of the most important intellectual, social, and political developments in the field of Latino/ Latina studies. Over 900 articles written by scholar specialists.

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States

E184.S75 H365 1993 (vol.1-4)
Includes literature, art, history, sociology, and anthropology. This work is attempting to provide the general public with a series of well researched studies of the historical and contemporary cultural contributions of the Hispanic communities within the United States.

Hispanic American Almanac: a Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States

E184. S75 H557 2003
Topical essays as well as biographies, and chronologies of important events.

Here is a selection of recent books in our collection:

Aguirre-Molina, Marilyn and Carlos W. Molina, editors.

Latina health in the United States : a public health reader.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, c2003. RA778.4.H57L38 2003

Andreas, Peter.

Border games : policing the U.S.-Mexico divide.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
HJ6690 .A7 2000

Bacon, David.

The children of NAFTA : labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.
HD8081.M6B33 2004

Berry, Kate A.

Geographical identities of ethnic America: race, space, and place.
Reno: University of Nevada Press, c2002.
E184.A1 B44 2002

Brittain, Carmina.

Transnational messages: experiences of Chinese and Mexican immigrants in American schools.
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2002.

Brooks, David and Jonathan Fox.

Cross-border dialogues : U.S.-Mexican social movement networking.
La Jolla, Calif. : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2002.
E183.8.M6C75 2002

Cafferty, Pastora San Juan and David W. Engstrom.

Hispanics in the United States : an agenda for the twenty-first century.
New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : Transaction Publishers, c2000.
E184.S75H623 2000

Cohen, Sandro.

De cómo los mexicanos conquistaron Nueva York.
México : Editorial Colibrí, 2002.
JV6348.M4C63 2002

De Genova, Nicholas.

Working the boundaries: race, space, and "illegality" in Mexican Chicago.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
F548.9.M5D425 2005

Dougherty, Jon E.

Illegals : the imminent threat posed by our unsecured U.S.-Mexico border.
Nashville : WND Books, c2004.
JV6483.D684 2004

Ellingwood, Ken.

Hard line : life and death on the U.S.-Mexico border.
New York : Pantheon Books, 2004.
HD8081.M6 E4 2004

Foner, Nancy.

New immigrants in New York.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.
F128.9.A1 N48 2001

Fox, Jonathan and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado.

Indigenous Mexican migrants in the United States.
La Jolla, Calif. : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD/Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, c2004.
E184.M5I455 2004

Gallo, Donald R.

First crossing : stories about teen immigrants.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004. FF528 (Children's and Young Adult Collection)

Ganster, Paul and David E. Lorey.

Borders and border politics in a globalizing world.
Lanham, MD : SR Books, c2005.
JC323.B667 2005

García, Alma. M.

The Mexican Americans
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
E184.M5 G34 2002

González, Juan.

Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America.
New York : Viking, 2000.
E184.S75G655 2000

González, Gilbert G.

A century of Chicano history : empire, nations, and migration.
New York : Routledge, 2003.
E184.M5G645 2003

Hanson, Gordon H.

Why does immigration divide America? : public finance and political opposition to open borders.
Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, c2005.
JV6471 .H36 2005

Hanson, Victor Davis.

Mexifornia : a state of becoming
San Francisco : Encounter Books, c2003.
F870 .M5H37 2003

Hayes, Helene.

U.S. immigration policy and the undocumented : ambivalent lives, furtive lives
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
JV6483 .H383 2001

Hirsch, Jennifer S.

A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
HQ562.H57 2003

Jacoby, Tamar.

Reinventing the melting pot : the new immigrants and what it means to be American.
New York : Basic Books, c2004.
JV6475.R45 2004

Johnson-Webb, Karen D.

Recruiting Hispanic labor: immigrants in non-traditional areas
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003.
HD8081.H7 J64 2003

Kiy, Richard and Christopher Woodruff.

The ties that bind us : Mexican migrants in San Diego County.
La Jolla, Calif. : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, c2005.
F868.S15T54 2005

Laufer, Peter.

Wetback nation: the case for opening the Mexican-American border.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
F786.L325 2004

Laó-Montes, Agustín and Arlene Dávila.

Mambo montage [electronic resource] : the Latinization of New York.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

Lin, Ann Chih, editor and Nicole W. Green, author.

Immigration.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2002.
JV6483 .G74 2002

Luibhéid, Eithne.

Entry denied : controlling sexuality at the border.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
JV6602 .L85 2002

Lydersen, Kari.

Out of the sea and into the fire : immigration from Latin America to the U.S. in the global age.
Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, c2005.
JV7398.L93 2005

Lyons, Mark y August Tarrier.

Espejos y ventanas: historias orales de trabajadores agrícolas Mexicanos y sus familias = Mirrors and windows: oral histories of Mexican farmworkers and their families
Philadelphia, PA : New City Community Press, c2004.
E184.M5E87 2004

Martínez, Oscar J.

Mexican-origin people in the United States : a topical history.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2001.
F790.M5 M37 2001

Martínez, Ramiro.

Latino homicide : immigration, violence and community.
New York : Routledge, 2002.
HV6529 .M37 2002

Martínez, Rubén.

Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Massey, Douglas S.

Beyond smoke and mirrors : Mexican immigration in an era of economic integration.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2002.
JV6483 .M33 2002

McKay, Sandra Lee and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong.

New immigrants in the United States: readings for second language educators.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
PE1128.N384 2000

Murphy, Arthur D., Colleen Blanchard and Jennifer A. Hill.

Latino workers in the contemporary South.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2001.
GN2.S68 no.34

Nevins, Joseph.

Operation Gatekeeper : the rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary.
New York : Routledge, 2002.
JV6483 .N47 2002

Ono, Kent A.

Shifting borders : rhetoric, immigration, and California's Proposition 187
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.
JV6920 .O56 2002

Perl, Lila.

North across the border: the story of the Mexican Americans.
New York : Benchmark Books, c2002.

Ramos, Jorge.

The other face of America : chronicles of the immigrants shaping our future.
Translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
New York : HarperCollins, c2002.
E184.S75 R3613 2002

Salgado, Sebastião.

Migrations : humanity in transition.
New York : Aperture, c2000.
TR681.R45S25 2000

Sampaio, Anna and with Manolo González-Estay.

Transnational Latina/o communities : politics, processes, and cultures.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.
E184.S75T73 2002

Sarmiento, Socorro Torres.

Making ends meet : income-generating strategies among Mexican immigrants.
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2002.
E184.M5 S28 2002

Schneider, Friedrich.

The shadow economy : an international survey.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
HD2341 .S363 2002

Smith, Clint E.

Inevitable partnership : understanding Mexico-U.S. relations.
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.
JZ1480.A57M67 2000

Smith, Robert C.

Mexican New York: transnational lives of new immigrants.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
F128.9.M5S64 2006

Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel and Mario T. García.

Migrant daughter : coming of age as a Mexican American woman.
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.
F870.M5T96 2000

Welch, Michael, Ph. D.

Detained : immigration laws and the expanding I.N.S. jail complex.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.
JV6483 .W455 2002

Yoshida, Chisato.

Illegal immigration and economic welfare.
Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag, 2000.
JV6217 .Y67 2000

Yoshida, Chisato.

The economics of illegal immigration.
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
JV6217 .Y667 2005

Victor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernñndez-León.

New destinations : Mexican immigration in the United States.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2005.
E184.M5N36 2005

Combating the illegal employment of foreign workers.

Paris : OECD, 2000.
A selection of papers delivered at the seminar "Preventing and combating the employment of foreigners in an irregular situation" held in The Hague on 22 and 23 April 1999.
HD6300.C65 2000

Also:
• David McMurray (2001). In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown
JV6455.C44 2001
Hodges Reserves
• Joshua Hotaka Roth (2002). Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
DS832.7.B73 R68 2002
Hodges Reserves

• Leo R. Chávez (2001).Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001. HV5840.M82 N336 2001
Hodges Reserves

• Andrew Causey (2003). Hard Bargaining in Sumatra: Western Travelers and Toba Bataks in the Marketplace of Souvenirs

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2003. DS632 .T62 C38 2003