ChicanoHist

HISTORY 151A/CHICANO-LATINO STUDIES 132A
CHICANA/CHICANO HISTORY: PRE -COLONIAL TO 1900
Winter 2007
Professor Vicki Ruiz

Library Contacts:

Kay Collins
U. S. Government Information Librarian and
Interim History Research Librarian
(949) 824-7290
kcollins@uci.edu

Philip MacLeod
Research Librarian for Spanish, Portuguese
and Latin American Studies
(949) 824-6548
pmacleod@uci.edu

Find Books and Documents--and some primary resources

Notes:

Language becomes important when searching any of these databases. Some give the option to search in either English or Spanish, so use the language that is apporpriate. Other times you may need to do 2 searches, one with the English words and one with the Spanish words. For example, when searching for a book in Spanish but you do not know the title, try a keyword search first on the English word (it may be in the subject headings in Engllish) and then do one in Spanish that might find the word in the Spanish Language title.
Subject Headings which might prove useful to you:

Mexican Americans History
Mexicans New Southwest
Latin America History to 1830 (broadens out a search and may include sources that include Mexico)
Sources (to identify primary resources in books). E.g., Mexican Americans history sources
Try the name of a specific culture or area. E.g. Aztlan

Note: Begin with a keyword search to identify some good subject headings, labeled in ANTPAC as LCSH. This helps provide you new words to add to your list of subject terms to search.

Find Journal Articles and other selected resources

HAPI Online (HIspanic American Periodicals Index). History is just one of the major topics included.
Handbook of Latin American Studies -- Bibliography on Latin America consisting of selected resources annotated by scholars and dating back to 1970. Select the language in which you want to search.
Chicano -- Indexes all types of materials and subjects, including history. Articles date back to 1967
ClasePeriodica -- Index to Latin American academic journals and other resources in the humaities and sciences. Contains bibliographic citations to books, journals, documents, conference proceedings, interviews and much more. Many are in Spanish so consider this as you search.

Chicano/Latino Studies Subject Guide -- Links to specialized sources in Chicano/Latino Studies. While many of the resources listed cover periods later than this class is studying, others can prove useful.
Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies Subject Guide -- If your topic includes women or gender topics, you may find special guidance to resources here.

Find Primary Resources

Tutorial on locating primary resources
Books can be primary resources in some cases. Use the words in the second part of the tutorial to help you. Also do an Advanced Search with keyword (Any Field)search on your topic and add the term "sources" as a subject.
History Subject Guide -- Look at the resources for general , multi-field resources. Though not specifically on Mexico, they may include information on Mexico.
U.S. Government History Subject Guide -- Most government history documents are considered primary resources. In addition to the online resources, there are indexes to other resources either in paper in some microform set.
Archive of Americana -- Search together or separately texts and newspapers of early America.
Microform resources may be useful. Some of these can be found in the search for books above. To limit to microforms, in the Advanced search there is a box to limit to microform. Do NOT select ANY.

Note: There is a computer attached to a microform reader down on the first floor in the microforms area. By using that you can download, page by page, from the microfilm/micorfiche onto either a thumb drive or you can burn a blank CD-ROM. There is no charge for this and you have your own copy. To print onto paper within the Library using a print card costs $0.25.

Online Archive of California -- Search the subject guides to various special collections in California. UCI is represented but the other archives and their collections would have to be visited as the resources do not loan. A few have some online resources.
Calisphere -- Electronic primary resources. One collection is of California Cultures and another is Hispanic Americans. Quality and age level can vary.
Portals to the World, Mexico -- From the Library of Congress, links to web pages about the History of Mexico. Many primary resources.
Bancroft Library at UCB Digital Collections -- More than one collection features some aspect of California history and cultures.
Sample titles to be found in the UCI Book Collection.:

García Icazbalceta, Joaquín, 1825-1894, ed
Colección de documentos para la historia de México
México, Editorial Porrúa, 1971
Langson Library F1203 .G21 1971
Langson Library F1203 .G21 1971 v. 2
Vargas, Zaragosa

Major Problems in Mexican American history: documents and essays.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995