Latina/os in the Pacific Northwest
Selected Bibliography
(March 31, 2004)
Compiled by José Alamillo,
Washington State University
General Surveys:
Carlos Maldonado and Gilberto Garcia, eds. The Chicano Experience in the Northwest (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1995)
Erasmo Gamboa, "Chicanos in the Pacific Northwest: Expanding the Discourse" Americas Review,
Erasmo Gamboa, "Chicanos in the Northwest: A Historical Perspective," El Grito 6 (Summer 1973).
Carlos Gil, "Washington's Hispano American Communities" in Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on cultural diversity, edited by Sid White and E.E. Solberg (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1989).
Bruce E. Johansen and Roberto Maestas, "The Creation of Washington's Latino Community: 1935-1980" (Seattle: El Centro de la Raza, 1981)
Carlos Gil, "The Many Faces of the Mexican American: An Essay Concerning Chicano Character" Working Paper Series, Centro de Estudios Chicanos, Department of History, University of Washington, 1982.
Robert McCarl (ed.) Latinos in Idaho: Celebrando Cultura (Idaho Humanities Council, 2003).
Journal Articles/Book Chapters:
Erasmo Gamboa, "Mexican Mule Packers and Oregon's Second Regiment Mounted Volunteers, 1855-1856" Oregon Historical Quarterly 92 (Spring 1991)
Erasmo Gamboa, "The Mexican Mule Pack System of Transportation in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia," Journal of the West, 29 (January 1990)
Fred Krissman, "Agribusiness Strategies to Divide the Workforce by Class, Ethnicity, and Legal Status" in Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States, edited by Paul Wong (Westview Press, 1999)
Jerry Garcia, "A Chicana in Northern Aztlan: An oral history of Dora Sanchez Trevino" Frontiers, v. 19, n. 2 (1998).
Erasmo Gamboa, "Mexican Migration into Washington State: A History, 1940-1950" Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 72, n. 3 (July 1981)
David J. Weber, "The Spanish Moment in the Pacific Northwest" in Paul Hirt (ed.) Terra Pacifica: People and Place in the Northwest States and Western Canada (Washington State University Press, 1998)
Patricia Ourada "Mexican Heritage and Experience in Idaho" in Interpreting Local Culture and History, edited by J. Sanford Rikoon and Judith Austin (Boise. ID: Idaho State Historical Society, 1991)
Annabel Kirschner Cook, "Diversity Among Northwest Hispanics" Social Science Journal, v. 23, n. 2 (1986), 205-216.
Richard Slatta and Maxine P. Atkinson, "the Spanish Origin Population of Oregon and Washington" Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 70 (October 1979)
Richard Slatta, "Chicanos in the Pacific Northwest: A Historical Overview of Oregon's Chicanos," Aztlan, v. 6 (1975).
Robert C. Dash and Robert E. Hawkinson, "Mexicans and 'Business as Usual': Small Town Politics in Oregon" Aztlan, 26: 2 (Fall, 2001).
Cecilia Martinez-Vasquez, " In the USA-Its English or Adios Amigo': The Politics of Race and Language in the Yakima 'Old Town Pump" Court Case," Mc Nair Journal, v.1 (Fall 2001)
Patricia Acevedo, "Chicana Gang Members: Resistance to Traditional Women's Roles" Mc Nair Journal, v.1 (Fall 2001)
Daniel Estrada and Richard Santillan, "Chicanos in the Northwest and the Midwest United States: A History of Cultural and Political Commonality" in Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, v. 6, (1997).
Antonia Castañeda, "Que Se Pudieran Defender (So You Could Defend Yourselves)': Chicanas, Regional History, and National Discourses" Frontiers, V. XXII, N. 3 (2001)
Books/Monographs:
Erasmo Gamboa, Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest (First Published, University of Texas Press, 1990; University of Washington Press, 2000)
Erasmo Gamboa, Gritos del Alma: Chicano/Mexicano Music Traditions in Washington State (Olympia: Washington State Arts Commission, 1993)
Erasmo Gamboa and Carolyn Buan, (eds.), Nosotros: The Hispanic People in Oregon (Portland: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1995)
Erasmo, Gamboa, Voces Hispanas: Hispanic Voices of Idaho: Excerpts from the Idaho Hispanic Oral History Project (Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs: Idaho Humanities Council, 1992)
Richard Baker, Los Dos Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America (Logan, Utah: Utah State University, 1995)
Carlos S. Maldonado, El Colegio Cesar Chavez, 1973-1983: A Chicano Struggle for Educational Self-Determination (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000)
Jorge Iber, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000)
Lauro Flores, Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002)
Literary, Music and Art:
Special Issue, "On Literature and Art: The Americas in the Pacific Northwest" Americas Review, 1991
Lauro Flores, Chicano and Latino Artists in the Pacific Northwest (Olympia, Evergreen State College, 1984)
Lauro Flores, editor, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998)
Isabel Valle, Fields of Toil: A Migrant Family's Journey (Washington State University Press, 1994)
Bruce E. Johansen and Roberto Maestas, El Pueblo: the Gallego's Family's American Journey, 1503-1980 (Monthly Review Press, 1983).
Jim Boden (ed.) With My Hands Full/ Con Mis Manos Llenas: Young Latino Writers in Yakima (Yakima, WA: Blue Begonia Press, 1999)
Antonia Castañeda, Tomas Ybarra-Fruasto, and Joseph Sommers, eds. Literature Chicana: Texto y Contexto (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972).
Newspaper and Magazine Articles:
William Finnegan, "The New Americas" New Yorker, March 25, 1996
David Guterson, "The Kingdom of Apples," Harpers Magazine, New York, October 1999.
Brad Knickerbocker, "A Northwest Region's Family Ties to Mexico" Christian Science Monitor, 14 August 1992.
Master's Thesis:
Richard Slatta, "Chicanos in Oregon: A Historical Overview," Master's Thesis, Portland State University, 1974.
Margaret Miller, "Community Action and Reaction: Chicanos and the War on Poverty in the Yakima Valley, Washington," Master's Thesis, University of Washington, 1991.
Lynn Davis Paterson, "The Migrant Way of Life: A Study in Yakima Farm Workers Camp," Master's Thesis, University of Washington, 1968.
Ramon Chavez, "Emerging Media: A History and Analysis of Chicano Communication Efforts in Washington State," Master's Thesis, University of Washington, 1979.
Jerry Garcia, "The History of a Chicano/Mexicano community in the Pacific Northwest, Quincy, Washington, 1948-1993," Master's Thesis, Eastern Washington University, 1993.
Jesus Lemon Jr., "A History of the Chicano Political Involvement and the Organizational Efforts of the United Farm Workers Union in the Yakima Valley, Washington," Master's Thesis, University of Washington, 1974.
Karen Maria James, "Bill's Crew: A Small Group Yakima Valley Farm Workers Camp, 1967,” Master's Thesis, University of Washington, 1968.
Roberto Enriquez, "Finding Common Ground: Chicano History, Poetry and Oral Tradition in the Classroom," Master's thesis, Evergreen State College, 1992.
Jean Cecelia Powell, "Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds: Empowering Oregon's Hispanics," Master's thesis, University of Oregon, 1990.
Loretta Ann Teel, "An Exploratory Study of Association of North American Acculturation with the Risk of Domestic Violence Among Mexican American Migrant Farmworkers in a Rural Washington County," Master's thesis, University of Washington, 1992.
Jon Middaugh, “Limiting Mobility: Migrant Farm Worker in the Yakima Valley, Washington, 1965-1975” (Master’s thesis, Washington State University, May 2002).
Ph.D. Dissertations:
Anne Marjorie Brunton, "The Decision to Settle: A Study of Mexican-American Migrants," Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, 1971.
Doug Kupel, "Ethnic Genesis: Oregon's Chicanos," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 1979.
Erasmo Gamboa, "Under the Thumb of Agriculture: Bracero and Mexican American Workers in the Pacific Northwest, 1940-1950," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 1984.
Erick Howenstine, "Misperception of Destination Encouraging Migration of Mexican Labor to Yakima Valley, Washington," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 1989.
Carlos Maldonado, "The Longest Running Death in History: A History of Colegio Cesar Chavez, 1973-1983," Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1986.
David Salazar, "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Chicano/a and Anglo Undergraduates' Perceptions of Sex-Role Characteristics," Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, 1992.