UW History Honors Hispanic Heritage Month

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Hispanic Heritage Month recognizes the histories, cultures, and contributions of Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. UW History has long been a home to academics whose research focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, offering an array of courses covering the rich histories of these regions. Enjoy this selection of scholarly works and other media compiled by UW History faculty Vanessa Freije, Ileana Rodriguez-Silva, and Adam Warren which illustrates the complex histories and experiences and vibrant cultures of Latin Americans in the U.S.

Scholarly Books
* = UW faculty, **=UW History alumnus

  • Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification by Mike Amezcua (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
  • American Sabor: Latinos y Latinas En La Música Popular Estadounidense (Latinos and Latinas in U.S. Popular Music) by Marison Berríos-Miranda, Shannon Dudley and Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington Press, 2018)*
  • Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, 2024)
  • Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico by Deborah Cohen (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
  • Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children by Yvonne Conde (University of Florida Press, 2023)
  • Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People by Arlene Davila (University of California Press, 2012)
  • Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago by Lilia Fernandez (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
  • From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity by Juan Flores (Bloomsbury, 2000)
  • Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura Gómez (The New Press, 2020)
  • Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan González (Penguin Books, 2022)
  • Latino/a Popular Culture by Michelle Habell-Pallán and Mary Romero (New York University Press, 2002)*
  • Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture by Michelle Habell-Pallán (New York University Press, 2005)*
  • Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol by Kelly Lytle Hernandez (University of California Press, 2010)
  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores (Duke University Press, 2010)
  • From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1917-1948 by Virginia E. Sánchez Karrol (Bloomsbury, 1983)
  • Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation by Cecilia Márquez (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
  • Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration by Ana Raqel Minian (Harvard University Press, 2020)
  • A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina (University of California Press, 2022)
  • Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream by Gina Pérez (New York University Press, 2015)
  • Daily Labors: Marketing, Identity, and Bodies on a New York City Street Corner by Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky (Temple University Press, 2017)*
  • Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs by Maria Quintana (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)**
  • Transnational Subjectivities, Cultural Expressions, and Political Contestations edited by Lina Rincón, Johana Londoño, and Jennifer Harford Vargas (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2022)*
  • Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 by Vicki Ruiz (University of New Mexico Press, 1987)
  • Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by George Sánchez (Oxford University Press, 1993)
  • Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy by George Sánchez (University of California Press, 2021)
  • Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era by Sophia Jordán Wallace and Chris Zepeda-Millán (Cambridge University Press, 2020)*

Articles and Essays

“My Brother’s Keeper” by Ada Ferrer (The New Yorker, Feb. 22, 2021)

Podcasts

Films and Documentaries

  • Salt of the Earth by Herbert Biberman (1954)
  • Dolores directed by Peter Bratt (2017)
  • From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale directed by Henry Chalfant (2006)
  • The Takeover directed by Emma Francys-Snyder (2021)
  • The Infiltrators: A True Story directed by Christina Ibarra and Alex Riviera (2019)
  • Palante Siempre Plante! The Young Lords directed by Iris Morales (1996)
  • El Norte directed by Gregory Navas (1983)
  • Zoot Suit Riots by PBS American Experience (2002)
  • Latino Americans by PBS (2013)

Spoken Word

Fiction

  • Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Julia Álvarez (1991)
  • Bless Me, Última by Rudolfo Anaya (1972)
  • Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987)
  • So Far from God, Ana Castillo (1993)
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1983)
  • Dominicana by Angie Cruz (2019)
  • The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007)
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