FAH92/192-12–the Latina/o Body in Visual Culture
Professor Adriana Zavala, Fall 2008


Library Research Sources & Strategies
Prepared by Chao Chen, Reference Librarian at Tisch Library

Latinos and Latinas in the United States   ·  The Studies of Visual Culture

  Books ·   Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Articles  ·  Images  ·  films ·  Latino Studies Site

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Latinos and Latinas in the United States (Works in the Tisch Reference Collection unless noted otherwise.)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. (online)
Latinas in the United States: a historical encyclopedia. (E184.S75 L35 2006)
The Latino encyclopedia. (6 volumes. E184.S75 L357 1996)

Encyclopedia of minorities in American politics. (Volume 2 on Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. E184.A1 E574 2000)
Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. (E184.A1 G14 1995)

Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies. (Stacks: E184.S75 A795 2007)
The Latino studies reader: culture, economy, and society. (Stack: E184.S75 L3644 1998)
Sourcebook of Hispanic culture in the United States. (Z1361.S7 S64 1982)
Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States (E184.S75 H365 1993)
              Vol. 1: Literature and art; Volume 2: History; Volume 3: Anthropology; and Vol. 4: Sociology.

Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. (E169.1 .E624 2001)
The essay by Eduardo Obregon Pagan "Latinas and Latinos in the United States"
  Terms of Identity ·  Demographic Diversity ·  Racial Diversity ·  Linguistic Diversity ·  Religious Diversity ·  Cultural Diversity: Music and Dance; Literature · Latinismo in the United States

Latinos in the United States [Series]
  Historical Themes and Identity: Mestizaje and Labels. (Stacks: E184.S75 H65 1995)
Latina Issues: Fragments of Historia(ella) (Herstory). (Stacks: E184.S75 L362 1995) 
Criminal Justice and Latino Communities. (Stacks: HV9950 .C7435 1995)
Latino Employment, Labor Organizations, and Immigration. (Stacks: HD8081.H7 L37 1995)
Latino Language and Education: Communication and the Dream Deferred. (Stacks: LC2669 .L38 1995) 
Land Grants, Housing, and Political Power. (Stacks: F790.S75 L36 1995)

Masterpieces of Latino literature. (PQ7081.A1 M29 1994)
Hispanic literature criticism. (PQ6039 .H5 1994)
U.S. Latino literature: a critical guide for students and teachers

eHRAF World Cultures  (primary source)
eHRAF
World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Tip: Browse by country; then select the cultural group of interest and view the documents.

Biographical Sources
Notable Latino Americans: a biographical dictionary. (E184.S75 M435 1997)
Notable Hispanic American women. (E184.S75 N68 1993)
Dictionary of Hispanic biography. (CT1343 .D53 1996)

Artists from Latin American cultures: a biographical dictionary. (Oversize: N6502.5 .C657 2002)
Hispanics in Hollywood: an encyclopedia of film and television. (PN1995.9.H47 R49 1994)
The Hispanic image on the silver screen: an interpretive filmography from silents into sound, 1898-1935. (Stacks: PN1995.9.L37 R55 1992)
Encyclopedia of Latin American theater. (PQ7082.D7 E63 2003)
Biographical dictionary of Hispanic literature in the United States: the literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and other Hispanic writers. (PQ7420.2 .K3 1989)
Latino and Latina writer. (PS153.H56 L39 2004)
Dictionary of Literary Biography  (online, including the Chicano Writers series)

Grove Art Online (The seminal source for art—the online equivalent of the 34 volumes of the print The Dictionary of Art  and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, plus updates since the print version.)
                 See, as an example, the entry and bibliography on Frida Kahlo.

 

Chronology and Census
Hispanic Population of the United States U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Census Bureau: Hispanic/Latino Tables from Statistical Abstract of the United States 2004-2005
The most recent statistical tables from the Census Bureau on U.S. Latinos.

We the People: Hispanics in the United States
A U.S. Census 2000 special report issued in December 2004.

U.S. Census Bureau: Hispanic Heritage Month, 2005, Special Edition Report

U.S. Census Bureau: Hispanic Heritage Month, 2004, Special Edition Report


Statistical record of Hispanic Americans. (E184.S75 S743  1995)
1990 census of population. Persons of Hispanic origin in the United States
. (E184.S75 C46 1993)
Hispanic databook of U.S. cities and counties. (E184.S75 H567 1994) 
Hispanic Americans: a statistical sourcebook.
(E184.S75 H5655)
Measuring the foreign-born population in the United States with the current population survey: 1994-2002 [electronic resource]
Racial and ethnic diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites.
(E184.A1 R78 2000)

Chronology of Hispanic-American history: from pre-Columbian times to the present. (E184.S75 C49 1995)

 

Theories and Methods in the Studies of Visual Culture (in Tisch Book Stacks.)

Visual methods in social research. (HM500 .B35 2001) 
Visual worlds. (HM500 .V56 2005) 
An introduction to visual culture. (P93.5 .M57 1999)
Images: a reader. (P93.5 .I4668 2006) 
Image-based research: a sourcebook for qualitative researchers. (GN347 .I43 1998) 
Approaches to understanding visual culture. (HM500 .B37 2001)
Picturing the social landscape: visual methods in the sociological imagination. (HM500 .P53 2004)
Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture. (HM500 .S78 2001)
Picturing power: visual depiction and social relations. (HM15 .S545 NO. 35)
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BooksLatino/a (Hispanic Americans) in Mass Media/Popular Culture

A Subject browse in the Catalog:  
 
There are 506 under 232 sub-topics.  
 

A keyword search for a more focused result in the Catalog:

  • su: searches for subject indexing terms
  • * is called a truncation symbol. Latin* searches for latino, latina*, latinos, etc..
  • (latin* or hispanic*) searches for either or both of the two words.
 
 
 

Other searches to try out:

  • substitute "media" with "popular culture" in the above search
  • su: "popular culture" and (latin* or hispanic*) and identit*
 
 
Films about Latinos/Latinas in Tisch Library (search the Catalog)

Latino Studies Journals
Tip for finding latino studies journals and full text articles
Many latino studies journals are indexed in databases listed below. If you are searching for a specific journal either in print or online, you can search for it in the following three ways:

  • Search the Tufts Library Catalog [http://library.tufts.edu/] by the title of journal
  • Search the Electronic Journals databases, the database list journals in electronic format
  • Search for or browse by journals in a database.
  • When you are in a database with citations to articles in Latino studies journals, following these steps to find the full text of the article: finding full texts.

fulltextJournal Articles
Access:  from  the Tisch Library Web Site [http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/], go to Databases and Articles.

Search Strategies—start with broad searches; then refine your searches by adding more specific focuses:

  • (latino* or latina* or hispanic*) and "mass media"and (image* or portra* or represent*)
  • "mexican american*" and "mass media" and (image* or portra* or represent*)
  • (latino* or latina* or hispanic*) and (television* or tv) and (image* or portra* or represent* or depict*)
  • (latino* or latina* or hispanic*) and (motion pictures or film* or movie*) and (image* or portra* or represent* or depict*)
  • (latino* or latina* or hispanic*) and (commercial* or advertis* or ads or marketing)

Primary Databases

PRISMA publicaciones y revistas sociales y humanísticas (full text) Search examples
It offers key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). See the next title below.

Race Relations Abstracts
It covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)  
Over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.

Ethnic NewsWatch  from 1990 -
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History  1960 -  1989
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers and periodicals from the ethnic, minority and Native American press.

America: History and Life

 

More Databases

General/Multidisciplinary Social Sciences
  • LexisNexis
    Regional, national, and international newspapers as well as legal news and law reviews.
  • Alt-PressWatch
    Magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.


 

Arts & Literatures Images

 

  • Academic OneFile  
    Tip:
    Select "More Search Options"; then Select "Limit results to Documents with images". (Statistical tables are also considered as Image.)
  • ABI Inform (Business)
    Tip: Select "Advanced Search"; then Select to search in the "Image Caption" field. (statistical tables are also considered as Image.)
  • AP Images
    AP news photographs from the 1840s through the present.

 

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