Bibliographies:
Published bibliographies are excellent starting points in the research process. UCI Libraries subscribes to a resource called 'Oxford Bibliographies Online' (OBO) which offers authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. These entries are annotated bibliographies that offer you comprehensive lists of the best scholarship across a variety of subjects. Here are a few examples related to this course:
Latino Studies:
Film; US Spanish language Radio; Telenovelas; Spanish-Language Newspapers; Public Radio; Popular Culture
Cinema + Media Studies:
Latina/o Americans in Film and Television; Immigration and Cinema; Latina/o Representation and Border Cinema; Spanish Language Television
African American Studies:
Afro-Latinos
Latin American Studies:
Popular Culture and Globalization
Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedias are highly recommended as a starting point for your research on a particular topic. Encyclopedias will give you introductory information to help you broaden or narrow your topic, while also providing keywords and terms needed to conduct further research.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States by 
Latino history and culture : an encyclopedia by 
A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film by A list of recommended Latinx Film & Television books:
Chicanos and Film : representation and resistance by 
Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles by 
Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century by 
Heroes, lovers, and others : the story of Latinos in Hollywood by 
Latin American films, 1932-1994 : a critical filmography / by A list of recommended books on Latinx Studies:
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader by 
The Chicano Studies Reader : an anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000 by 
Brown trans figurations : rethinking race, gender, and sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx studies by 
Gay Latino Studies : a critical reader by UC Library Search is the easiest way to find and discover books. To make it a bit easier, when you enter keywords into UC Library Search, use the filters on the left-hand side and select "books" and "book chapters" as the format, and also pay attention to publication year.
Search for thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
Google Books contains millions of digitized books beyond UCI Library. You can use it as a "discovery tool" . For example, you can keyword search an artist's name to see where they appear in various chapters of books. Only public domain (out of copyright) books are available as full-text in this tool, so check the library for the full-text copy.
Finding Books in the Library Stacks
Sometimes, it is nice to browse the print collection available locally on campus. Because this course can be interdisciplinary in nature, you may be looking at multiple sections in the library (history, social sciences, humanities, communication, film studies, and more). Here are a few starting points to browse the library stacks:
| Class H: Social Sciences | Examples: |
| HT51-1595 | Communities. Classes. Race. |
| HM1206-1211 | Communication. Mass Media |
| Class E: History of the Americas | |
| E151-909 | United States |
| Class F: History of the Americas | |
| F1201-3799 | Latin America. |
| F1201-1392 | Mexico |
| F1421-1440 | Central America |
| F2202-3799 | South America |
| F2251-2299 | Colombia |
| F2501-2659 | Brazil |
| F3051-3285 | Chile |
| Class P: Language and Literature | |
| PN1993-1999 | Motion Pictures |
| PN1990-199.92 | Broadcasting (Radio, Television) |
| PN4699-5650 | Journalism. The periodical press, etc. |
