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New Books: Hispanic Heritage Month

Welcome to National University Library's virtual display of new and featured books.

Welcome!: Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month Event Flyer

More information coming soon!

Documentary Highlights

All of the following streaming videos are available to NU faculty, staff, and students online; just click a cover to access the documentary.

Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation  They Called Me King Tiger: A Biography of the Chicano Malcolm X   Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground  Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America  Willie Velasquez: Your Vote is Your Voice  Latino Wisconsin  Spanish Fly  15: A Quinceanera Story  

 

 

Recommended Reads (ebooks)

All of the following ebooks are available to NU faculty, staff, and students online; just click a cover to access the ebook. (Did it tell you that you'd "timed out"? Just hit refresh.) Find more help here. 

Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America: Second Revised and Updated Edition  The Latinx Guide to Graduate School  Spirit Run : A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land  The Man Who Could Move Clouds : A Memoir  A Cup of Water Under My Bed : A Memoir  Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining 'Servingness' at HSIs  Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer : A Novel  Crying in the Bathroom : A Memoir  Figures of the Future : Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change  El Norte : The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America  Living Beyond Borders : Growing up Mexican in America  Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice  Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family   La Nueva California : Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials  An American Language : The History of Spanish in the United States  The President and the Frog : A Novel  The President and the Frog : A Novel  The House of Broken Angels  Finding Latinx : In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity  Undocumented : A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League  My Broken Language : A Memoir  Grounds for Dreaming : Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement  Sown in Earth : Essays of Memory and Belonging  From Coveralls to Zoot Suits : The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front  Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades  Smeltertown : Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community  The Young Lords : A Radical History  Cantoras : A Novel  Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico  Américo Paredes : Culture and Critique  A Century of Chicano History : Empire, Nations and Migration  Yo! : A Novel  The Grief Keeper  Letters from Filadelfia : Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite  The Undocumented Americans  Once I Was You : A Memoir  Ordinary Girls : A Memoir  Beneath the Spanish  Manteca! : An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets  Tell Me How It Ends : An Essay in 40 Questions  Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century  The King of Adobe : Reies lópez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement  Sabrina & Corina : Stories  Where the Ox Does Not Plow : A Mexican American Ballad   Making Mexican Chicago : From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification  Cesar Chavez : Autobiography of La Causa  The Heart of the Mission : Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco  Latin American Literature at the Millennium : Local Lives, Global Spaces  Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Recuerdo : A Story in English and Spanish  Queer Brown Voices : Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism  Race and Identity in Hispanic America: the White, the Black, and the Brown  I Don't Cry, but I Remember : A Mexican Immigrant's Story of Endurance  Afterlife: A novel  A House of My Own : Stories from My Life  Boy Kings of Texas : A Memoir  Shapeshifting Subjects : Gloria Anzaldua's Naguala and Border Arte  Becoming Julia de Burgos : The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon  Latinx Curriculum Theorizing  Latinx Teens : U. S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen  Madre and I : A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives  With a Diamond in My Shoe : A Philosopher's Search for Identity in America  MeXicana Fashions : Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction  Quinceañera Style : Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities  Latinas on the Line : Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications  In the Midst of Radicalism : Mexican American Moderates During the Chicano Movement, 1960-1978  The Mexican American Experience in Texas : Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality  Racial Baggage : Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border  Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of Spanish-Language Television in the United States  Chicanx Utopias : Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible  Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago : My Life, My Work, My Art  Racial Migrations : New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean  Don't Ask Me Where I'm From: A Novel  Race and identity in Hispanic america : the white, the black, and the brown  Cottonwood Saints  The Day of the Moon: A Novel  A Dream Called Home : A Memoir  My Beloved World  Dear Primo : A Letter to My Cousin  Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World Something More Splendid Than Two  From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals : US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging  Faith and Power : Latino Religious Politics Since 1945  Mothercoin : The Stories of Immigrant Nannies  Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away : Memories of Early Cuban Exiles  The King of Adobe : Reies lópez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement  The Line Becomes a River : Dispatches from the Border  Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions : Opportunities for Colleges and Universities  Agent of Change : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist