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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Help win the strike / Ayude en ganar la huelga [handbill]
San Francisco: Bay Area Support Committee - Watsonville Teamsters Local 912, [1985]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, English text on one side, Spanish on the other, very good. Seeks support in San Francisco for cannery and frozen food workers, mostly Latinas, affiliated with the Teamsters Union, who were striking in Watsonville to..... More
Cat.No: 243276
Hispanic Cultural Foundation [brochure]
Albuquerque: Hispanic Cultural Foundation, [1993?]. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with thumbnail b&w photos front and rear, projects and programs, very good. More
Cat.No: 238142
Hispanic Population in the United States: March 1988
Washngton: U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census, 1989. iv, 70p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, highlights, footnotes, charts, figures, detailed tables, three-hole punched for binding otherwise very good booklet in stapled wraps. Current Population Reports. Population characteristics. More
Cat.No: 99238
Hispanics and Grantmakers: a special report of Foundation News
Washington: Council on Foundations, 1981. Paperback. 150p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos and tables, lists of organizations and contact information, very good paperback in pictorial wraps. Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Latinix. More
Cat.No: 22327
Hispanics in America's Defense
Washington: Department of Defense. Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy, 1990. Paperback. iv, 237p., 8.5x11 inches, one-page introduction by then-Defense Secretary Cheney, photos of military personnel in text, biographical sketches, very good first edition oversized trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Historical overview..... More
Cat.No: 116630
Hispanics: challenges and opportunities, a working paper from the Ford Foundation
New York: Ford Foundation, 1984. Paperback. 68p., preface, introduction, conclusion, notes, illustrated with tables, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Includes a section on Puerto Rico. More
Cat.No: 55906
Holy week in Tomé; a New Mexico passion play, translated by Thomas J. Steele, S.J.
Santa Fe: The Sunstone Press, 1976. Paperback. 207p., preface, introduction, text, preface, hymns, sermons, illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Two hundred year old play passed from generation to generation. More
Cat.No: 116208
Homosexuality and social justice; report of the Task Force on Gay/Lesbian Issues, July, 1982
San Francisco: Commission on Social Justice, Archdiocese of San Francisco, 1982. viii, 155p., 8.5x11 inches, dampstain running throughout, statement of purpose, introduction, appendixes, printed orange wraps with coffee-cup stain. Sections on violence, the Latino community, language, family, spiritual lives, religious congregations, education et al. More
Cat.No: 50158
Horizontes: año 4, número 3 - año x, número 4, broken run of 9 issues
San Francisco: Horizontes, 1987-1993. Newspaper. various paginations, 9 issue broken run of this folded tabloid newspaper, illustrations, photos, ads, texts in Spanish, California Spanish-language free paper. Issues included: 4:3, 8:13, 9:11, 22-24, 10:2-4. Local San Francisco and Bay Area news and concerns of Spanish-speaking readers. More
Cat.No: 169364
Hostosiana serie músico - teatral; en barco de papel de Eugenio Maria de Hostos [playbill]
San Juan: Cimarron, [1986?]. Four panel playbill/program, 7.25x10 inches, text in Spanish, illustrated with portraits of de Hostos on covers and photos (in pink inks) of the cast and musicians inside; has a small marginal stain, very good otherwise. A playbill for a musical play in Puerto Rico about Eugenio..... More
Cat.No: 193941
Huelga / Delano (pinback button)
[Berkeley]: Berkeley Litho Service, [196-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, orange lettering and Farmworkers' eagle on black background, very good, union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 202685
Huelga / Delano (pinback button)
n.p. [UFW], [196-]. 1.25 inch diameter pin, black lettering and Farmworkers' eagle on bright orange background, very good, union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 204533
Huelga / Delano (pinback button)
[Berkeley]: Berkeley Litho Service, [196-]. 1 inch diameter pin, black lettering and Farmworkers' eagle, very good, union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 204596
Huelga / Delano (pinback button)
n.p. [196-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, red lettering and Farmworkers' eagle on black background, union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 209821
Human rights in the Great Society; a summary report of the 22nd annual Institute of Race Relations, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, june 28-July 10, 1965
Nashville: Race Relations Department, United Church of Christ, 1965. 124p., title page has a corner clipped, otherwise very good in wraps. Contributors include Julian Bond and Benjamin Quarles, among others. Short presentations on the Mexican-American and Puerto Rican experiences are included. More
Cat.No: 25198
Human Rights Watch/Americas newsletter: vol. 7, no. 4, April 1995: United States, Crossing the Line: human rights abuses along the U.S. border with Mexico persist amid climate of impunity
New York: Human Rights Watch/Americas, 1995. 40p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, background, updates,recommendations, footnotes, very good newsletter of sheets stapled upper-left corner. More
Cat.No: 162695
I & N Reporter and INS Reporter 8 issue broken run, vol 24-26
Washington DC: Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1975-1977. Magazine. Eight issue broken run, various pagination, 8x10.5 inches, demographics, administrative decisions, opinion, articles, news, reports, illustrations, maps, very good magazines in stapled pictorial wraps. Deals with immigration from all over the world but heavily focused on Latin American, South American, Mexican immigrants..... More
Cat.No: 236272
I seminario sobre la situacion de las comunidades negra, chicana, cubana, india y puertorriquena en Estados Unidos: Memorias
Havana: Editora Política, 1984. 522p., very good in wraps, text in Spanish. Includes papers by Roxanne Dunbar, Ron Daniels, Robert Chrisman and other American leftists in addition to Cuban and Latin American authors. More
Cat.No: 206426
If you think Sacco & Vanzetti were the last anarchists to be framed and killed by the government...
Van Nuys, CA: SRAFprint Co-op, General Defense Committee, n.d. Seven legal-size sheets stapled together at upper left, cover leaf in goldenrod, printed on one side. Staple starting to rust, mild wear. Early 1970s. Lists cases of anarchists killed in Mexico City and (suspected) in San Francisco, with others hassled by..... More
Cat.No: 124638
![II Congreso Internacional Sobre Camineria Hispanica [brochure] la raiz geografica en la historia...](/pictures/medium/240128.jpg?v=1562814433)
II Congreso Internacional Sobre Camineria Hispanica [brochure] la raiz geografica en la historia y en la literatura, convocatoria, 4 al 9 de Julio de 1994
Madrid: Instituto de Filologia del C.S.I.C., 1994. Six-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, text in Spanish, very good on glossy stock. More
Cat.No: 240128
Images of Faith/Imagenes de fe; religious art of Mexico: 18th and 19th centuries/arte religioso de Mexico: de los siglos xviii y xix
Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center, 1987. 44p., 8.5x11 inches, bilingual text in Spanish & English, illustrated with color and b&w reproductions from the exhibition, front wrap slightly creased, stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 132478
Imagine: international Chicano poetry journal, vol. 2, no. 1 Summer 1985: Edicion Feminista.
Boston: Imagine Publishers, 1985. viii, 159p., wraps, illus., wraps worn else very good condition. Special feminist issue. Includes a reprint of the poem "Recuerdo" by Frida Kahlo, originally published in "El Universal Ilustrado" in 1922, and several articles on Kahlo. More
Cat.No: 55974
Impacto Latino: revista mensual de AIDS Project Los Angeles sobre VIH/SIDA, noticias y culturas; Agosto 1997
Los Angeles: AIDS Project LA, 1997. Magazine. 16p., includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, text in Spanish, photos, services, resources, news, reports, events, fold crease and light wear otherwise very good in stapled pictorial wraps. LatinX AIDS information. More
Cat.No: 221613
Impacto: curas; edicion/numero 1, Enero/January 1992
San Francisco: Curas, 1992. 11p., 8.5x11 inches, text in Spanish, articles, reports, services and resources, very good newsletter. First edition of the LatinX AIDS newsletter. More
Cat.No: 221609
Impacto: el periodico indepentiente en lengua castellana mas antiguo del area metrpolitana de Washington D.C. ano 10, numero 138, 15 de Septiembre de 1995; "Soy potador del virus VIH desde hace 7 anos"
Washington DC: Impacto, 1995. Newspaper. 20p. folded tabloid newspaper, text in Spanish, articles, opinion, news, events, very good on newsprint. Cover story on Hugo Alexander Salinas who had been an HIV carrier for 7 years. More
Cat.No: 234381
Carnaval / San Francisco. 1987 [screen print poster]
Hom, Nancy; artist
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