Research Guides: Latinx/e Studies: Home

Introduction

This guide is a selective listing of resources about Latin American and Caribbean diasporas in the United States.

Latino American Experience
The Latino American Experience is a digital resource focusing on the history and culture of Latinos in the United States. Its chronological coverage spans the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations of the Americas, the Spanish colonial period and the nineteenth century, up to the present day. Content includes articles and essays, reference materials, excerpts from primary sources, and a tool for simple analyses of statistical data. -- Description from NYU Libraries.
Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
Twenty-five essays by leading and emerging scholars discuss and reconsider a variety of key themes and issues, including the Chicano Movement, gender and race relations, the changes in demographics, the tension between rural and urban communities, immigration, the legacy of colonialism, language identity and the controversy surrounding Spanglish, and meditations on popular culture and the lasting power of literature.

Chicano Database
Chicano Database indexes monographs, journal articles, book chapters and other material related to the study of Mexican-American and Chicano history and culture; some materials also may be relevant for U.S. Latino studies more broadly. The database is produced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley, with extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present and selective coverage to the early 20th century.
Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Free E-Resources (LACLI)
Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian (LACLI) is an international collaboration to create a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. LACLI is an essential tool for finding websites that provide access to a great variety of resources, such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more.

Latin American Studies
by Melissa Aslo de la Torre Last Updated May 5, 2025 418 views this year
U.S. History
by Lidia Santarelli Last Updated May 5, 2025 1992 views this year
U.S. Census Data
by Nick Wolf Last Updated Mar 24, 2025 428 views this year
Data Sources
by Nick Wolf Last Updated May 13, 2025 4371 views this year

Latinx Civil Rights in the United States: A Resource Guide
Research guide, curated by the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, focuses on 20th-century court cases, legislation, and events that had important impacts on Latino and Latin American people in the U.S. through timelines and research materials.