A list of works I recommend to anyone interested in Latino/Hispanic American history and identity.
Books
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies, by Ann Twinam
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, by Laura E. Gómez
The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump, by Geraldo Cadava
George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration, by Carlos Kevin Blanton
Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race, by Arlene Dávila
Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States, by Clara E. Rodríguez
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies, edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America, by Edward E. Telles
The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History, by Benjamin Francis-Fallon
Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America, by Mark S. Anner
The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market, by Laura López-Sanders
Articles
Jackson, Melinda S. “Priming the Sleeping Giant: The Dynamics of Latino Political Identity and Vote Choice.” Political Psychology 32, no. 4 (2011): 691–716. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41262886.
MacDonald, Victoria-María. “Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, or ‘Other’?: Deconstructing the Relationship between Historians and Hispanic-American Educational History.” History of Education Quarterly 41, no. 3 (2001): 365–413. http://www.jstor.org/stable/369201.
Marrow, Helen. “To Be or Not to Be (Hispanic or Latino): Brazilian Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States.” Ethnicities 3, no. 4 (2003): 427–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23889866.
Vasquez, Jessica M. “The Whitening Hypothesis Challenged: Biculturalism in Latino and Non-Hispanic White Intermarriage.” Sociological Forum 29, no. 2 (2014): 386–407. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43654100.
MCCONNELL, EILEEN DIAZ, and EDWARD A. DELGADO-ROMERO. “LATINO PANETHNICITY: REALITY OR METHODOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION?” Sociological Focus 37, no. 4 (2004): 297–312. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20832244.
Stokes-Brown, Atiya Kai. “America’s Shifting Color Line? Reexamining Determinants of Latino Racial Self-Identification.” Social Science Quarterly 93, no. 2 (2012): 309–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42864073.
Gracia, Jorge J. E. “The Nature of Ethnicity with Special Reference to Hispanic/Latino Identity.” Public Affairs Quarterly 13, no. 1 (1999): 25–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40441213.
Calderón, José. “‘Hispanic’ and ‘Latino’: The Viability of Categories for Panethnic Unity.” Latin American Perspectives 19, no. 4 (1992): 37–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2633843.
Sullivan, Dennis H., and Andrea L. Ziegert. “Hispanic Immigrant Poverty: Does Ethnic Origin Matter?” Population Research and Policy Review 27, no. 6 (2008): 667–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41217977.
Eschbach, Karl, and Christina Gómez. “Choosing Hispanic Identity: Ethnic Identity Switching among Respondents to High School and Beyond.” Social Science Quarterly 79, no. 1 (1998): 74–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42863768.
LICHTER, DANIEL T., DOMENICO PARISI, and MICHAEL C. TAQUINO. “Spatial Assimilation in U.S. Cities and Communities? Emerging Patterns of Hispanic Segregation from Blacks and Whites.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 660 (2015): 36–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541826.
Johnson, Kenneth M., and Daniel T. Lichter. “Diverging Demography: Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Contributions to U.S. Population Redistribution and Diversity.” Population Research and Policy Review 35, no. 5 (2016): 705–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158857.
HERNÁNDEZ, TANYA KATERÍ. “Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other?” In Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader, edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, 361–72. NYU Press, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2tr539g.30.
Calderón, José. “‘Hispanic’ and ‘Latino’: The Viability of Categories for Panethnic Unity.” Latin American Perspectives 19, no. 4 (1992): 37–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2633843.
Fox, Cybelle, and Thomas A. Guglielmo. “Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945.” American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 2 (2012): 327–79. https://doi.org/10.1086/666383.
POYO, GERALD E. “The Cuban Experience in the United States, 1865–1940: Migration, Community, and Identity.” Cuban Studies 21 (1991): 19–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24485700.
Laó-Montes, Agustín. “Afro-Latinidades and the Diasporic Imaginary.” Iberoamericana (2001-) 5, no. 17 (2005): 117–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41675679.
Mirabal, Nancy Raquel. “The Afro-Cuban Community in Ybor City and Tampa, 1886-1910.” OAH Magazine of History 7, no. 4 (1993): 19–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25162907.
Newby, C. Alison, and Julie A. Dowling. “Black and Hispanic: The Racial Identification of Afro-Cuban Immigrants in the Southwest.” Sociological Perspectives 50, no. 3 (2007): 343–66. https://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2007.50.3.343.
Gross, Ariela J. “Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness.” Law and History Review 21, no. 1 (2003): 195–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/3595072.
Fox, Cybelle, and Irene Bloemraad. “Beyond ‘White by Law’: Explaning the Gulf in Citizenship Acquisition between Mexican and European Immigrants, 1930.” Social Forces 94, no. 1 (2015): 181–207. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24754250.
Nostrand, Richard L. “The Hispanic-American Borderland: Delimitation of an American Culture Region.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 60, no. 4 (1970): 638–61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2561575.
Sheridan, Clare. “‘Another White Race:’ Mexican Americans and the Paradox of Whiteness in Jury Selection.” Law and History Review 21, no. 1 (2003): 109–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/3595070.
Mora, G. Cristina. “Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990.” American Sociological Review 79, no. 2 (2014): 183–210. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43187533.
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