Library Web Site -- http://web.mnstate.edu/library/

http://www.pals.msus.edu -- Will search holdings of MSUM, Concordia, NDSU, and other libraries in the MnSCU/PALS system.

Gale Search Databases.

This database is the expanded version of the Business Periodicals, Contemporary Authors, Computer Database, General Magazine, Expanded Academic and Health Databases. Graphic enhancements such as tables and graphs can be viewed via this access method as opposed to the text only versions in PALS.  Try Infotrac Onefile!

Project Muse.

http://muse.jhu.edu

Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Very good for latino, chicano/a, Hispanic topics.

Includes full text of the following Latino journals:

The Americas
CR: The New Centennial Review
Economia
Hispanic American Historical Review
Hopscotch: A Cultural Review (archive-only)
Latin American Music Review
Latin American Research Review (new for 2003)
Nepantla: Views from South

 

FirstSearch. Contains 46 databases in a variety of disciplines:

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP

FirstSearch includes:

Contemporary Women’s Issues: Provides full text access to global information on women. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Try "chicana"or "machismo" or "marianismo" or "Sondra Cisneros"

Social Sciences Abstracts: Gives access to journal citations & abstracts in the social sciences.

Humanities Abstracts: Would include review of The House on Mango Street and other literary aspects of Cisneros' work.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Location: REF. E184.A1 G14 1995 (1^st Floor, Reference)

Atlas of Hispanic-American History. Location: REF E 184 .S75 O287 2001(1^st Floor, Reference)

Dictionary of Chicano Folklore. Location: REF. GR111.M49 C37 2000 (1^st Floor, Reference)

Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook. REF E184.S75 H784h 2002 (1^st Floor, Reference)

Chicano Writers. Location: REF. PS153.M4 C485 1999 (1^st Floor, Reference)

Sondra Cisneros is featured in "Contemporary Authors." Location: REF. PN451 .C61 (1^st Floor, Reference) You can also access "Contemporary Authors" via Gale Search Databases.

Cisneros is also highlighted in the following two publications in the Reference Collection at MSUM Library:

Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 69, Gale, 1992. Location: REF. Volume 69, Gale, 1992. Location: REF. PN771 .C592 (1^st Floor, Reference)

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 152: American Novelists since World War II, Fourth Series, Gale, 1995. Location: REF. PS379 .A554 1995 (1^st Floor, Reference)

The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story. Location: REF. PS374.S5 C57 2000 (1^st Floor, Reference)

2000 United States Census: http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

Hispanic or Latino Demographic Profiles (US Census, 2000): http://www.clac.state.mn.us/Demo_Profiles/Technical_Document.PDF

--access state or local data for Fargo-Moorhead, Red River Valley, Minnesota, North Dakota

Library of Congress -- Hispanic Reading Room -- http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/

Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage -- http://www.chicanas.com/huh.html -- Includes "Reading Suggestion in Chicana Literature" and "Academic Resources" which includes:

Statistical resources on Latinas in the U.S.
Defining Chicana Feminisms: A sampling of texts
Recommended introductory works on Chicanas in the United States
Bibliographies & collections on Chicana and Chicano Studies
Other scholars and scholarly resources on the 'net 

American Latino -- Political Magazine online -- http://www.politicomagazine.com/

U.S. Hispanic.Net -- Demographics -- http://www.ushispanic.net/USHisp/index.htm

Barrio streets, carnival dreams : three generations of Latino artistry. Location: CURRIC. B2766 (2^nd Floor, Curriculum Center)

Cultural diversity in the United States : a critical reader / edited by Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson. Location: E184.A1 C847 2001 (3^rd Floor)

De colores means all of us : latina views for a multi-colored century / Elizabeth Martínez. Location: E184.A1 M313 1998 (3^rd Floor)

Chicana ways : conversations with ten Chicana writers / Karin Rosa Ikas -- Interviews with: Gloria Anzaldua -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Denise Chavez -- Lucha Corpi -- Jamie Lujan -- Demetria Martinez -- Pat Mora -- Cherrie Moraga -- Mary Helen Ponce -- Estela Portillo-Trambley. Location: PS153.M4 C455 2001 (4^th Floor)

Chicana traditions : continuity and change / edited by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez. Location: E184.M5 C4 2002 (3^rd Floor)

Cultural diversity and the U.S. media / edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour, Theresa Carilli ; foreword by George Gerbner. Location: P94.5.M552 U628 1998 (4^th Floor)

Facing difference : race, gender, and mass media / Shirley Biagi, Marilyn Kern-Foxworth. Location: P94.5.M552 U626 1997 (4^th Floor)

Just another poster? : Chicano graphic arts in California. Location: OVERSIZE N6538 .M4 2001 (2^nd Floor)

Mestizo : the history, culture, and politics of the Mexican and the Chicano : the emerging Mestizo-Americans. Location: E184.M5 V42 1998 (3^rd Floor)

 

Brittney Goodman, goodmanb@mnstate.edu, 1/29/03, PH # 236-2358