By Rafael E. Tarrago
Librarian for Chicano/Latino Studies

The University Libraries commemorates Hispanic Heritage this week highlighting books published by past and present faculty members of the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in its collection of books about the Hispanic Heritage of the United States.

The titles represented in the collage at right are:

Louis Mendoza (chair from 2004-2014)

• Telling Tongues. A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience,
  edited by Louis G. Mendoza and Toni Nelson Herrera.
  Nation City; Austin: Calacas Press; Red Salmon Presss, 2007.
  Wilson Library PS508 .H57 T4 2007
• A Journey Around Our America. A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.
  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012
  Wilson Library E184 .S75 M454 2012

Eden Torres (Acting chair since 2014)

• Chicana Without Apology. The New Chicana Cultural Studies
  New York: Routledge Press, 2003.
  Wilson Library E184 .M5 T67 2003

Dennis Nodin Valdes (faculty member 1980 from to 2003)

• Barrios Nortenos: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century
  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000
  Wilson Library F614 .S4 V35 2000
• Mexicans in Minnesota
  St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society
  Wilson Library F615 .M5 V35 2005