Explore Hispanic Heritage: Dig Deeper
Construction of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino is underway! In the meantime, begin to explore their collection online.
- Does Hispanic Heritage Month Need a Rebrand?Article from the NYT. To access article for free through the library, click here. You'll need to log in using your Carroll email address and password.
- Latine vs. Latinx: What They Mean, Why They MatterArticle about emerging gender-inclusive terms for Latin Americans.
- 'Hispanic,' 'Latino,' Or 'Latinx'? Survey Says ...NPR interview with a Pew Research Center director, continuing the conversation about Latinx
- What Does "Latinx" Mean, Exactly?Everything you need to know about the gender-inclusive term, formatted like an FAQ.
Extended reading
Cuentos: Stories by Latinas
The first collection of short fiction to bring together writing by Latinas from both the US and Latin America.
The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures
This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages.
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States.
Open Veins of Latin America
(E-book.) The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history.
Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History
Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies.
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights.
Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater
This anthology is a testament seeks to document the historic festival as well as to make these works available to a wider audience.
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands
The book highlights "film moments" in New Mexico's history including the "filmic turn" ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen.
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance.