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Using the Online Catalog

 

Subject Headings:

 

American literature--Mexican American authors

American poetry--Mexican American authors

American poetry--Mexican American authors--History and criticism

Mexican Americans--poetry

 

Chicano movement

 

Mexican Americans--Civil rights

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century

 

 

 

Literary Criticism

 

The MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography indexes literary criticism from 1926 to the present. Note that it is not a full-text resource. Once you find a promising citation, click on the link that will take you to a search in the online catalog or cllick on the Discover UIUC full text linking button to find full-text in other databases we may have. You can also try a search for the journal title in the Online Research Resources page.

 

Magill OnLiterature is a definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses. It also includes brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.

 

Literature Resource Center identifies biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Coverage of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. This database only allows 4 simultaneous users.

 

The English Library on the third floor of the Main Library has a great variety of reference sources that can help you complete this project. Check their website of online reference sources for additional possibilities.

 

JSTOR searches full-text for backfile articles and reviews in over 130 multi-disciplinary journals. See Project Muse (below) for more recent articles.

 

Project Muse Searches full-text in over 150 journals supplied by 10 university presses. Click on the search button to start your search. Muse works well for more recent periodical issues, while JSTOR (see above) reproduces older volumes.

 

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.

 

Finally, consider the general periodical databases that are linked to from the Library's home page. Your best bets are WilsonSelectPlus, Ebsco's Academic Search Elite, and Infotrac's Expanded Academic ASAP. 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Websites

 

Border Statistics From the NMSU Library

 

The Borderlands Encyclopedia A Digital Education Resource on Contemporary United States-Mexico Border Issues from the University of Texas at El Paso

 

Chicano.org "The original Chicano magazine online"

 

Chicano, Hispanic, Latino: What does it mean? Definitions compiled by the College of Saint Benedict at Saint John's University

 

Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement video

 

Chicano Arts & Culture Links Collected by M. Miriam Herrera

 

Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA

 

Latino/Latina Studies Program at UIUC 

 

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. Click on Arts in the toolbar at the top of the page, then click on "Visit our ever expanding literary arts section" to find Chicano poetry.

 

 

 

How to Edit this Wiki Page

 

1. Click on the Edit button at the top of the page.

2. Log in with the wiki password (the same for most databases we subscribe to; ask Ms. Harris if you're unsure). Type in your first name only and your Uni e-mail address.

3. Add content in the appropriate sections or add sections. Don't worry about formatting--we can change that later. You can include links by clicking on the Link icon in the format bar above the text box; change the link type to URL.

4. Click Save when you're done!

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