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Minorities in Arizona: Historical Topics and Related Resources

Arizona Border Books

Arizona Border Community Books

  • A descriptive study of the control of illegal Mexican migration in the Southwestern U.S. by William T. Toney
  • A frontier documentary : Sonora and Tucson, 1821-1848 by Kieran McCarty
  • Americanization and Mexicanization: the Mexican elite and Anglo-American [i.e. Americans] in the Gadsden Purchase lands, 1853-1880 by Marcy Gail Goldstein
  • Attitudes toward bilingual education : a view from the border by Harmon M. Hosch
  • Aztlán Arizona : Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968-1978 by Darius V. Echeverria
  • Bloody border : riots, battles, and adventures along the turbulent U.S.-Mexican borderlands by Douglas V. Meed
  • Border citizens : the making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona by Eric V. Meeks
  • Borderline Americans : racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands by Katherine Benton-Cohen
  • Captive Arizona, 1851-1900 by Victoria Smith
  • Chicanos and Native Americans: the territorial minorities by Rodolfo O. de la Garza (listed in Native American communities too)
  • Crossing borders, erasing boundaries : interethnic marriages in Tucson, 1854-1930 by Salvador Acosta
  • Debating American identity : Southwestern statehood and Mexican immigration by Linda C. Noel
  • Desert dreams : Mexican American education in Arizona, 1870-1930 by Laura K. Muñoz
  • Distant neighbors : a portrait of the Mexicans by Alan Riding
  • Education = success : empowering Hispanic youth and adults by Anthony Patrick Carnevale
  • Empowered! = ¡Empoderados! : Latinos transforming Arizona politics by Lisa Magana
  • "I had to come here for my family" : Mexican migrant deaths in the Arizona desert 1990-2005 by Patricia A. Blaine
  • I know it's dangerous: why Mexicans risk their lives to cross the border by Lynnaire M. Sheridan
  • In search of fortunes : a look at the history of Arizona mining by William Ascarza
  • Irish priests and Mexicans in Arizona: the Diocese of Tucson, 1945-1970 by John Cunningham
  • Mestizo in America : generations of Mexican ethnicity in the suburban Southwest by Thomas Macias
  • Mexican exiles in the borderlands, 1910-13 by Peter V. N. Henderson
  • Mexican workers and the making of Arizona by Luis F. Plascencia
  • Mexican workers, progressives and copper : the failure of industrial democracy in Arizona during the Wilson years by Michael E. Parrish
  • Mexican-Americans in the Southwest by Ernesto Galarza
  • Mexicans in Phoenix by Frank M. Barrios
  • Mexicans in Scottsdale by Jose Maria Burruel
  • Mexicans in Tempe by Santos C. Vega
  • Mexicans, labor, and strife in Arizona, 1896-1917 by Michael E. Casillas
  • Myth and the history of the Hispanic southwest : essays by David J. Weber
  • The border economy : regional development in the Southwest by Niles M. Hansen
  • The colonias reader : economy, housing, and public health in U.S.-Mexico Border colonias by Angela J. Donelson
  • The Hispanic elite of the Southwest by Manuel G. Gonzales
  • The lost land : the Chicano image of the Southwest by John R. Chavez
  • The Mexican American experience : an interdisciplinary anthology by Rodolfo O. de la Garza