Hispanic American
This section includes literature by Chicano, Puerto Rican and Latin American immigrant authors in the United States, as well as relevant nonfiction books and ephemera. Original materials from the farmworker movement, the Cuban-American diaspora and other Latin American immigrant groups will be found here.
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Fight fraud / Vote No on 22 [pinback button]
n.p. [1972]. 1.25 inch diameter pin, with small black UFW eagle in circle. The UFW called the proposition "California growers' latest attempt at union-busting." More
Cat.No: 226689
Fighting for Puerto Rican independence is not a crime / Political asylum for William Morales! No extradition to the US! / Puerto Rican national hero Rafael Cancel Miranda speaking Friday, August 16, 1986 [poster]
San Francisco: El Comité Nacional Pro-Libertad Prisioneros de Guerra Puertorriqueños; Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño; Fireworks, 1986. 17.25x22.25 inch poster, very good, for an event at the Women's Building. The event marked the anniversary of the arrests of the "Puerto Rican 16" in 1985. Fireworks was a project of the Prairie Fire..... More
Cat.No: 240859
"First Annual Event" of the Mexican American Studies & Research Center, the University of Arizona [program] 8:00 p.m., Holiday Inn, March 25, 1986
Tucson: MASARC, 1986. 8p. 6x9 inches, history, program, very good program booklet in stapled white printed wraps. More
Cat.No: 116817
![First Festival of Traditional Latin American Music [mailer/brochure] April 7-12, 1981, California...](/pictures/medium/201794.jpg?v=1484088147)
First Festival of Traditional Latin American Music [mailer/brochure] April 7-12, 1981, California State University & East Los Angeles College
Los Angeles: California State University/Latin American Studies, 1981. Six panel mailer/brochure with Perivian flute-players design, event schedule, map and other info, fold creases, pinholes, otherwise good, printed in blue and red on heavy goldenrod stock. More
Cat.No: 201794
The First Spaniards in the Southwest; culturally democratic learning environments, a bicultural/bilingual approach
Riverside: Follow Through Project, University of California, n.d. 9p. 5.5x8.5 inches, bilingual text, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. A simply-produced historical sketch in English and Spanish. More
Cat.No: 24218
Floreciendo: Día a día ... de sol a sol. un periódico para la gente de Aztlán. vol. 1, no. 3 (Abril-Mayo 1980) Chicano Killings in Roswell, NM
Roswell, NM: Centro de la Familia, 1980. Newspaper. 12p. folded tabloid newspaper, text both in English and Spanish, photos, news, edgeworn and toned newsprint. Articles on Chicano and Native American activities in New Mexico, including farmworkers; Chicano-on-Chicano killings in Roswell, problems with the food stamp program, Chicano support for Puerto..... More
Cat.No: 150937
[Flyer for a night of Cuban music presented by Casa de Las Americas]
[New York]: Casa de Las Americas, nd. Single sheet, printed on one side, 8.5 x 11 inches, illus., horizontal crease, some offsetting to lower half, else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Advertises a night of Cuban music sponsored by Casa de Las Americas, featuring both traditional and protest songs..... More
Cat.No: 242249
For Acuña: ¡Take back our history!, vol. 1, #1, Summer 1994; Acuna vs UC
Granada Hills, CA: For Acuña Committee, 1994. Newspaper. 8p. folded tabloid issued in support of the Chicano scholar's attempt to obtain a faculty position at UC Santa Barbara within the larger context of rollbacks in Chicano studies throughout the state system. More
Cat.No: 62013
The Founding Document of Mission San Juan Capistrano; with a translation by Monisgnor Vincent Lloyd-Russell
San Juan Capistrano: Classic Frame Company, 1976. [16p] 5.25x8.25 inches, rubricated title page, facsimile of the document, English translation, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 92556
Four Spanish-language AIDS brochures
San Francisco and Los Angeles: San Francisco AIDS Foundation, AHF Healthcare Centers, Latino AIDS Project, et al, 1988 & 2003. Four brochures, six panels and ten panels, 3.75x8.5 inches, texts in Spanish and English, information, resources, illustrations, very good. Included are: Alcohol Drogas y SIDA, El Uso Drogas el VIH..... More
Cat.No: 224416
Free Los Siete [pinback button]
n.p. n. pub. [1970-?]. 1.25 inch diameter pin, yellow background with an orange “7.”. More
Cat.No: 202051
Free the Cuban 5 [pinback button]
n.p. freethefive.org, [200-]. 2.25 inch pin, portraits of the five men. The five Cuban intelligence officers (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González), were arrested in 1998 and convicted on various conspiracy charges. Supporters argue that they were fighting against terrorism in the Miami-based expat community..... More
Cat.No: 241503
Free the Cuban Five: unjustly imprisoned in the United States [handbill]
San Francisco: The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, [2007?]. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides, black text on white stock, photos of the prisonors, very good condition. Post-August 2006. The front of the leaflet has smiling headshots of the five with their first names below, a short..... More
Cat.No: 208949
![The Free Trade Agreement: a Mexican perspective [program] a conference presented by The Mexican...](/pictures/medium/230004.jpg?v=1539227226)
The Free Trade Agreement: a Mexican perspective [program] a conference presented by The Mexican American Studies & Research Center at the University of Arizona etc. March 13-14, 1992
Tucson: University of Arizona, 1992. Four-panel program, 5.5x8.5 inches, printed on three sides only, green ink on cream stiff stock, very good. Simple event program with schedule inside. More
Cat.No: 230004
Free You: Vol. 4, No. 15, July 1, 1970
Palo Alto, CA: Midpeninsula Free University, 1970. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper format, 7.5 x 11.5 inches when folded, worn and evenly toned, top corner dog-eared else good condition on newsprint. Newsletter of the alternative school with news, articles, poetry, class listings, and more. Articles on Black Panther Lonnie McLucas, Los..... More
Cat.No: 254538
Frida y sus amigos; para niños y niñas 8 a 108 años, un libro de actividades y guía a la exposición Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera y Arte Mexicano del Siglo Veinte ...
San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art. Department of Education, 2000. 16p., 8.5x11 inches, text in Spanish, b&w line drawings and paper dolls for coloring and cutting out, very good activities booklet in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 111581
From the west; Chicano narrative photography, curated by Chon A. Noriega
San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1995. 87p., illus. with black/white photos from the exhibition, 9x12 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 101924
Frontera Gay: vol. 1, no. 12, Mayo de 1993; Gay Baja Directory
San Diego: Emilio Velásquez, 1993. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid newspaper in Spanish and illustrated with photos and ads, light wear and creasing otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 253527
Gaceta de el Colegio de Sonora: publicación trimestral [4 issues]
Hermosillo: Ramón Cota Meza, El Colegio de Sonora, 1993-1995. Four issues of the newsletter, various pagination, 7.5x10.75 inches, text in Spanish, photos, articles, reports, Mexican postage stamps on the all but Año VII, Num. 25, address label on front wrap of Año VIII Num. 29 otherwise very good. Issues present..... More
Cat.No: 251010
Gaceta de el Colegio de Sonora: publicación trimestral; año iv, núm. 13-17, Abril 1991-Julio 1992 with three issues of Cuaderno de trabajo #5-7
Hermosillo: Ramón Cota Meza, El Colegio de Sonora, 1991-1992. Five issues of the newsletter, various pagination, plus 3 of the workbooks also various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, text in Spanish, photos, articles, reports, Mexican postage stamps on the 5 newsletters otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 198701
Galeria de la Raza/Studio 24: vol. 1, #6, Spring 1988: From behind prison walls: art of Puerto Rican patriots
San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza/Studio 24, 1988. 4p. newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, glossy stock, cover story on the exhibit From Behind Prison Walls: Art of Puerto Rican patriots, calendar of local art events on rear panel, info on two other exhibits, mild wear. More
Cat.No: 208952
Glorificad a Jehova porque su misercordia es para siempre
San Rafael, CA: Primera Iglesia Bautista Betania, [199-?]. 47p. hymnal, text in Spanish, slightly stained spiral-bound pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 76582
Grandioso Mitin auspiciado por el "Hispano Civic Political Club"... Hoy Viernes 26 de Agosto, de 1938... campaña pro Vito Marcantonio, Oscar Garcia Rivera y demas candidatos progresistas [broadside]
New York: Hispano Civic Political Club, 1938. 9x12 inch broadside, paper toned and brittle, some edge chipping, not reaching the printe dportion. Vito Marcantonio was the long-serving Italian-American lawyer who represented East Harlem in Congress; Oscar Garcia Rivera was running (successfully) for the state Assembly. Both men were former progressive..... More
Cat.No: 253317
Grito del sol; a Chicano quarterly, year one - book four, October-December, 1976
Berkeley: Tonatiuh International, 1976. 96p. plus appendices, wraps worn and soiled else very good condition. The successor to EL GRITO, the journal concentrated on literary productions. This issue includes a lengthy list of Nahuatl words used in Chicano vernacular. More
Cat.No: 161808
Grito del sol; a Chicano quarterly, year one - book one, January-March, 1976 through year three -book four, October-December, 1978
Berkeley: Tonatiuh International, 1976. Paperback. 12 issues, approx. 1300 pages, texts in English and Spanish, very good trade paper journals in wraps. The successor to"El Grito" the journal concentrated on literary productions. More
Cat.No: 15616
Carnaval / San Francisco. 1987 [screen print poster]
Hom, Nancy; artist
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