SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE U.S.
For the talk, “From Mexican to Mexican-American:
A Family Immigration Story”
By Carlos B.Gil, Ph.D.
Humanities Washington Speaker 2019
Acuña, Rodolfo.Occupied America (1988). Contentious text.
Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (2000).
Brown, Theresa Cardinal and Jeff Mason, “Immigration Trends and the Immigration Debate,” Bi Partisan Policy Center, August 2017. https://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/immigration-trends-and-the-immigration-debate/
De la Garza, Rodolfo O. Et al. Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics (1992).
Foley, Neil. Mexicans in the Making of America (2014).
Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy: The Story of a Boy’s Acculturation (1971).
Gamboa, Erasmo. Bracero Railroad Workers: The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West (2016).
Gamboa, Erasmo. Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 (1990).
Gamio, Manuel. Mexican Immigration to the United States (1939).
García, Mario T. Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930–1960 (1989).
Gil, Carlos B. We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream (2012, 2014).
Griswold del Castillo and Arnoldo de León. North to Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (1997).
Hart, Elva Treviño Barefoot Heart, Stories of a Migrant Child (1999). Autobiography, south Texas.
Limón, José. José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir (1998?). Late Chicano/Mexican American choreographer.
McWilliams, Carey. North from Mexico: The Spanish Speaking People of the United States (1948 ed.) Old classic.
Ramón, Cristobal and Tim O’Shea. “Immigrants and Public Benefits: What Does the Research Say?” Bi Partisan Policy Center, November 2018. https://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Immigrants-and-Public-Benefits-What-Does-the-Research-Say.pdf
Ruiz, Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (1998).
Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American:Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles (1993).
Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. And Mariela M. Páez. Latinos: Remaking America (2002).
Young, Biloine W. A Dream for Gilberto: An Immigrant’s Family’s Struggle to Become American (1999). Colombian Americans.