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Understanding Difference

Suggested resources to help you see the world from perspectives different from your own and "bring... you into conversation with people different from those with whom you normally associate.”

The LatinX Experience

Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City  (Sonia Song-Ha Lee)  Library Catalog Access Online

Cantoras   (Carolina de Robertis)  PS3604.E129 C36 2019

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)  HV1568 .P534 2018  Library Catalog (Access Online)

Cesar’s Last Fast  VIRGO  VIDEO .DVD19668

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait  (Carlos Fuentes) VIRGO

Gentefied  IMDb  Netflix

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons (John Paul Brammer)   HQ75.8 .B7245 A3 2021

The House on Mango Street  (Sandra Cisneros)  PS3553 .I78 H6 2009  Library Catalog Access Online  Amazon

I am Hispanic and I am American [TED: Isabel Escobar]  Duration:3:24

Identifying Features  IMDb  Duration: 1h:35

In Search of Belonging (Jillian M. Báez )  E184 .S75 B34 2018

Indigenous Science With Jessica Hernandez  (Latino USA podcast: Victoria Estrada)  Duration: 19:49

Latinos Are Not All The Same [TED: Gabriel Iglesias]  Duration: 7:07

Latinx Immigrants: Transcending Acculturation and Xenophobia (Patricia Arredondo, editor)  Library Catalog (Access Online)

Library of Congress: La PALABRA Archive

Library of Congress Blogs: 4 Corners of the World International Collections 

Library of Congress Podcasts:   La Biblioteca: Season 2 : “Exploring Latinx Civil Rights in the United States”  Duration: 36:39 minutes

Library of Congress Research Guides: Hispanic Heritage

[Library of Congress Research Guides]   1978: Madrigal v. Quilligan     

Library of Congress: Researchers: Geography & Map Reading Room  

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States (Felipe Fernández-Armesto) E184 .S75 F46 2014

Someone Great     IMDb   Netflix    Duration: 1h:32    

Story Maps: Refranes   Poesías e Historias del Caribe: Mapping Caribbean Women Poets in the PALABRA Archive National Hispanic Heritage Month [portal]

Postcolonial Love Poem (Natalie Diaz)   PS3604 .I186 P67 2020   Amazon  

Tortilla Soup    VIRGO  VIDEO .DVD07903  Duration: 1h:43

The Undocumented Americans  (Karla Cornejo Villavicencio)  JV6483 .C59 2020  Amazon

What's Missing from the American Immigrant Narrative  [TED: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez]  Duration: 10:53 

Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A Memoir (Carmen Rita Wong)  Amazon

With the Fire on High (Elizabeth Acevedo)   Amazon