Guides: Latina/o/x Studies: Latinx Library Resources

Notable Authors

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street (1983)
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)
Caramelo (2002)
A House of My Own (2015)

Rudolfo Anaya

Bless Me Ultima (1972)
The Legend of La Llorona: A Short Novel (1984)
The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (2006)

Isabel Allende

The House of Spirits (1982)
Daughter of Fortune (1999)
Island Beneath the Sea (2010)

Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Of Love and Other Demons (1994)

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The Hernandez Bros.

Love & Rockets (1982 - )

Carmen Maria Machado

Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU (2013)
Her Body and Other Parties (2017)
In the Dream House (2019)

Juli Delgado Lopera

Fiebre Tropical
¡Cuéntamelo!
Quiéreme

Books Written by or Centering Latinx

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9781565129757
Publication Date: 2010
From Wikipedia: "[The] story spans more than thirty years in the lives of four sisters, beginning with their adult lives in the United States and ending with their childhood in the Dominican Republic, a country from which their family was forced to flee due to the father’s opposition to Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship."
Looking Out, Looking In by William Luis (Editor)
ISBN: 9781558857612
Publication Date: 2013
The poems included in this comprehensive anthology run the gamut of styles and themes, but all are by Latinos writing from the mid- twentieth century to the present.
¡Manteca! by Melissa Castillo-Garsow
ISBN: 1558858423
Publication Date: 2017
Containing the work of more than 40 poets--equally divided between men and women--who self-identify as Afro-Latino, ¡Manteca! is the first poetry anthology to highlight writings by Latinos of African descent.
Now We Will Be Happy by Amina Gautier
ISBN: 9780803255395
Publication Date: 2014
Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity.
Lluvia de Oro by Victor Villaseñor
ISBN: 0385315163
Publication Date: 1996
Rain of Gold is the captivating true story of author Victor Villasenor's Mexican-American family heritage and of the people who fled war-torn Mexico at the turn of the century to find a better life in the United States.

Books About Latinx Heritage

Streaming Resources from Kanopy

Latino Americans (2013) by PBS
Latino Americans is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have for the past 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S.
Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement (1995) Directed by Hector Galan
This four part landmark documentary series now a classic for Mexican American history of the U.S., chronicles the struggle for equality and social justice of the Mexican American community in the United States from 1965 to 1975. Produced from Austin Texas by Galan Productions, Inc. It features the Chicano land struggle, Cesar Chavez and the UFW, the Los Angeles High School Walk-outs and the creation of the political party La Raza Unida.
Abrazos (2014) Directed by Luis Argueta
ABRAZOS tells the transformational journey of a group of U.S. Citizen Children, sons and daughters of undocumented immigrants, who travel from Minnesota to Guatemala to meet their grandparents -and in some instances their siblings - for the first time. There are 4.5 million other U.S. citizen children who, like them, have at least one undocumented parent and are part of mixed-status families, ABRAZOS is the story of 14 of them.
Stolen Education - The Legacy of Hispanic Racism in Schools (2013) Directed by Enrique Aleman, Jr. and Rudy Luna
As a 9 year-old second grader, Lupe had been forced to remain in the first grade for three years, not because of her academic performance but solely because she was Mexican American. She was one of eight young students who testified in a federal court case in 1956 to end the discriminatory practice (Hernandez et al. v. Driscoll Consolidated Independent School District), one of the first post-Brown desegregation court cases to be litigated.

Latina/o/x Studies

Notable Authors

Sandra Cisneros

Rudolfo Anaya

Isabel Allende

Gabriel García Márquez

The Hernandez Bros.

Carmen Maria Machado

Juli Delgado Lopera

Books Written by or Centering Latinx

Books About Latinx Heritage

History of Latinos: Exploring Diverse Roots

Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences

Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society

Black Cuban, Black American

Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity and Politics in Los Angeles

100 Hispanics you should know

Alienation / Inés Estrada

Cartooning in Latin America

Chicano and Chicana art : a critical anthology

Clearing the path for first generation college students : qualitative and intersectional studies of educational mobility

Hijas Americanas : beauty, body image, and growing up Latina

La cucaracha

La perdida

Mexican Americans in Los Angeles

The new Latino studies reader : a twenty-first-century perspective

The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom

Streaming Resources from Kanopy