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Databases by Subject: Mexican American Studies

Major Indexes
Arizona-Sonora Documents Online
Provides access to digital images of archival collections relating to Sonora, Mexico dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Chicano Database   
Multi-disciplinary coverage of all types of material about Mexican Americans/Chicanos and other Latino groups in publications published from the 1960's to the present.

HAPI - Hispanic American Periodical Index
Contains citations to scholarly journals, book reviews and drama and film reviews about US-Hispanic and Latin American topics, in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish languages. Coverage: 1970 - present.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980  (Spanish and English)
Full-text of hundreds of Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the United States from 1808-1980. Based on the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project" directed by Professor Nicolas Kanellos.

HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
Citations and abstracts to books, book chapters, and journal articles about all aspects of Latin American studies, many of them published in Latin America, from 1935 to present.

PRISMA - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas  (Spanish, Portuguese)
Full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Additional Indexes
Anthropology Plus   
Provides indexing of journal articles, reports, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, and interdisciplinary studies from early 19th century to the present.

AnthroSource
Full coverage of articles published in many anthropology journals back to their beginnings. From the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

DRSW Database of Spanish Colonial Documents on Microfilm  (English, summary of handwritten Spanish documents)
Provides the research tools and finding aids to the written record that began with the arrival of the Spanish explorers and includes the diaries of explorers and reports of missionaries and soldiers, from 1530 to 1821.

Ethnic Newswatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from 1960 to the present.