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Chicano & Latino Studies Research Guide

Rubén Salazar Collection
Writings by and about journalist Rubén Salazar collected by Library staff.

SSU Class Project (MAMS Program)
Student research papers, resource guides & indexes (1970s - 1990s)

Gaye LeBaron Collection

  • Topics: Braceros; Morales, Rafael; Carrillos
  • Audio media: Interview with Rafael Morales
  • Video media: Interview with Rafael Morales
  • Press Democrat Sunday newspaper columns (available online at North Bay Digital Collections)

Hector Lee’s California Folklore Miscellany
Material on a range of North Bay ethnic groups, based on interviews collected by SSU students in the 1960s

Indexes

  • Santa Rosa Press Democrat card index 1800s - 1990s
  • Santa Rosa Press Democrat online index 1986 + [ProQuest Global Newstream database, available from the Library’s OneSearch
  • MAMS newspaper index (1800s)
  • Sonoma State student newspapers

Books from the Regional Collection

"This land was Mexican once": histories of resistance from northern California [F868.N2 H45 2007]

Early Mexican American history of Sonoma County: a bibliography [E184.M5T53 1976]

Northern Sonoma County farmworker housing needs assessment [HD7289.5.A418 N67 1986]

Saints, peaches and wine: Mexican migrants and the transformation of Los Haros, Zacatecas and Napa, California [F1381.N536 2002a]

Testimonios: early California through the eyes of women, 1815-1848 [F864.T327 2006]

Books from Special Collections

A harvest of loneliness: an inquiry into a social problem by Henry P. Anderson [HD1527.C2A74 1964]

Border correspondent, 1955-1970 by Rubén Salazar [F787 .S18 1995]

Stranger in one's land by Rubén Salazar [F395.M5 U55 1970]

Class, race and Chicano oppression by Tomas Almaguer [E184.M5 A45 1975]

Don Zeferino: villista, bracero y repatriado by Ferreira, Zeferino Diego, b.1892-d.1973 [HD5856.U52 C22 1981]

El Teatro Campesino: the evolution of America's first Chicano theatre company, 1965 - 1985 [PN2270.M48 T4 1985 ]

La Raza: yearbook, 1968 [E184.M5 R356 1968]

SSU Masters Theses

Heart of an industry: the role of the bracero program in the growth of viticulture in Sonoma and Napa County [D 2006 L39]

Migrant farm workers, growers and the Healdsburg community, 1941-1945 [D 1997 R57]

Oral testimonies of Mexican workers who organized the Sonoma County Industrial Union: que es un boton? [D 1996 L37]

Que mas? an investigation into Spanish and English-speaking parents' opinions regarding the inclusion of their infants and toddlers with disabilities into community-based, recreation-oriented group programs [L 2000 A33]

The Carrillo Adobe: aspects of American perspectives on hispanic culture and their impact ... [D 1999 S83]

Statistical Resources in the 3rd Floor Stacks

Farm labor need and farm workers in California 1970 to 1989 [HD1527.C2A3]

Occupational mobility of current and former farm workers: comparative analysis in two California labor markets [HD1527.C2 G28 1991]

Media

Bettina Gray speaks with Luis Valdez, 1993 [VHS 4969]

Chicano! the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement, 1996 [VHS 2381] 

Cruisin' low: Taking steps, 19?? [VHS 3852]

Farmworkers in crisis, 1988 [VHS 3477]

I am Joaquin, 1999 [DVD PS 3557 I]

Harvest of Loneliness, 2010 [DVD HD 8081 Harvest]

La muerte de Danny Treviño, 197? [DVD HV 7936 Muerte]

Latino stories of World War II, 2006 [DVD D810 Latino]

Latino USA, 1995 (sound recording) [CASS 4571]

Madres Unidas: parents researching for change, 2003 [DVD LB 1048 Madres]

Rafael Morales oral history interview 1978 [CD 6705 & online access]

Rafael Morales oral history interview 1995 [DVD 1146 & online access]

Pt. St. George Fisheries & Sonoma County Industrial Union, 1988 [DVD HD 6490 Pt.] 

Requiem – 29, 1971 [DVD E184 Requiem]

Sonoma Sesquicentennial, 1985 [DVD LD 729 Sonoma Sesq.]

The Petaluma immigrant experience, 2008 [DVD F869 Petaluma]

Uneasy neighbors (San Diego area), 199? [DVD HD 8081 Uneasy]

Viva la causa: 500 years of Chicano history, 1995 [VHS 4481]

Voices of the Orishas, 1993 [VHS 2265]

Walkout, 2006 [DVD PN 1997 Walkout]

Special Collections (including Digital Special Collections) Locators