Chicano

=Chicano History and Culture= toc

**Subject Headings**
Chicano movement Mexican Americans--Civil rights Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century

UIUC Catalog Search Use the above-listed subject headings or use other keywords to search for books and other resources in the UIUC online catalog. You can narrow your search to the Uni Library by doing the following: 1) Enter your search terms, 2) Click FIND, 3) On the right side-bar that says **Narrow Your Search** scroll down to **Location** and select the University High School Library option.

Chicano-Related Databases
Chicano Database: This is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It identifies, in one place, all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of 200 newspapers and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Indexed in the database are articles, editorials, columns, and reviews which address minority news, culture, and history. Published by Proquest, it covers 1990-present.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

[|Chicano.org] "The original Chicano magazine online"

[|Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement]Video available from the UIUC Library. Call Number: VIDREC 332.1168 C432.

Chicano Arts & Culture Links Collected by M. Miriam Herrera

[|Chicano Studies Research Center] at UCLA

[|Latino/Latina Studies Program] at UIUC


 * The following databases might be useful as you connect your topic to an art form:**

[|Making Face, Making Soul... A Chicana Feminist Website] Includes links to chicano/a literature and poetry.

[|Modern American Poetry] is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry by the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Click on Poets to search for a particular Chicano/a poet.

[|Poets.org]: Search for a particular Chicano/a poet here.

[|Xispas Magazine]: an online journal of Xicano art, culture, and politics.

General Resources
Try [|Google Scholar], which searches “open-to-the-free-web” peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Consider the general periodical databases that are linked to from [|the Library's home page]. Your best bets are Ebsco's Academic Search Premier and Infotrac's Academic OneFile.

LexisNexis Full-text access to hundreds of recent (and even not-so-recent) newspaper and magazine articles. Type in your search terms in the center search box, using **//and//** to narrow and **//or//** to broaden; put quotation marks around unique phrases. The default search is set to **Major U.S. and World Publications** for the **Previous 2 years**, which can be changed to suit your needs. After you click search, notice that you can narrow your search by clicking on the categories in the left toolbar. Click on the plus sign to expand your options and click on the blue link to narrow your search.

Library PressDisplay Today's papers from around the world in their original full-page layout and design (advertisements and images intact). Over 250 titles from over 50 countries available online.

[|Newsbank] Full-text articles from major metropolitan newspapers, international papers, and smalltown U.S. papers. Articles from the Chicago Tribune date back to 1985. Click on Illinois. Or, click on United States or The World.

Proquest Historical Newspapers Scroll to the bottom of the database menu to access these papers:
 * Historical New York Times (1851-2003)
 * Historical Chicago Tribune (1860-1872, 1963-Present)
 * Historical Chicago Defender (1912-1975)
 * Historical Wall Street Journal (1923-1993)

Resources Listed on the Assignment
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center []

Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota []

Digital Chicano Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara []