The Schlager Anthology of Hispanic America offers a modern,
original sourcebook covering Hispanic American history from the 1100s to the
present day. Modeled after the award-winning Schlager
Anthology of Black America, this 2-volume set traces the history of
Hispanic America through 150 critical primary documents: speeches, letters,
court cases, interviews, government reports, and visual images. The set is
edited by Dr. Aaron E. Sánchez (Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900) and features the contributions of numerous scholars.
Inclusive and accessible to a wide range of researchers, The
Schlager Anthology of Hispanic America is an essential reference for academic, high
school, and public libraries.
Chapter 1: Pre-contact
Popol
Vuh (c. 250–925 CE)
Hopi
Creation Myth (c. 1100)
Codex
Boturini (1500s)
Codex
Mendoza (c. 1541)
Origin Myth
of the Acoma (1928, 1942)
Chapter 2: Contact with the Spanish (1492-1598)
Christopher
Columbus: Columbus Reports on His First Voyage (1493)
Columbus
Meets the Taíno (1493)
A
Universal Cosmography according to the Tradition of Ptolomy and the Surveys of
America Vespucci and Others (1507)
Requerimiento
(1513)
Hernán
Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V (1520)
Álvar
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1528)
A
Franciscan Friar Describes the Land and the People of New Mexico (1541)
Bartolomé
de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542)
Philip
II: Spain Asserts Control over the Indians of Nueva Galicia (1570)
Bernal
Díaz: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1576)
Juan de
Oñate: Letter about a Settlement in New Mexico (1599)
Fray
Antonio de la Ascension: A Brief Report of the Discovery in New Spain (1620)
Tzacoalco
(Jalisco): Concerns about a Marriage (1629)
Our
Lady of Guadalupe: “The Apparitions and the Miracle” (1649)
Chapter 3: The Spanish Borderlands and the Mexican
North (1600–1840s)
Pedro
Naranjo: The Pueblo Indians Call for War (1680)
Casta
Paintings (1700s)
Bishop
Pedro Tamarón y Romeral Visits New Mexico (1760)
Friar
Junípero Serra: Response to the Revolt and Destruction of Mission San Diego (1775)
José
Antonio Saco: “The Color Line” (1832)
Manuel
Mier y Terán: Reports on the Divisions in Texas (1828)
Richard
Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
Guadalupe
Vallejo Reminisces About the Ranchero Period (1890)
Chapter 4: U.S. Expansion: Internal and external
colonization (1830s–1898)
Lorenzo
de Zavala: Journey to the United States of North America (1834)
Stephen
F. Austin: Letter to George Fisher Describing the Occurrences in Texas (1834)
Stephen
F. Austin: A Letter Describing the Texas Cause (1836)
Juan
Nepomuceno Seguín: A Tejano Leader Calls for Support of the Texas Revolution (1836)
Antonio
López de Santa Anna Message to the Inhabitants of Texas (1836)
John G.
F. Wurdemann: A Physician’s Notes on Cuba (1843)
John L.
O’Sullivan: “Great Nation of Futurity” (1839)
Joint
Resolution for the Annexation of Texas (1845)
Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Alexander
von Humboldt: The Island of Cuba (1856)
Elisha
M. Pease: Letter to Texas Legislature on the “Cart War” (1857)
Juan
Seguín: Personal Memoirs (1858)
Juan
Nepomuceno Cortina: Proclamation to Texans, September 1859 (1859)
Juan
Nepomuceno Cortina: Proclamation to the Mexicans of Texas, November 1859 (1859)
Proclamation
of Las Gorras Blancas (1890)
José
Martí: “Our America” (1891)
Louis
Dalrymple: “School Begins” (1899)
Marian
M. George: A Little Journey to Puerto Rico: For Intermediate and Upper Grades (1900)
Platt
Amendment (1903)
Chapter 5: Expansion and Migration
El
Corrido de Kiansis (1860s)
The
National Boundary Line at Nogales (c. 1890)
El
Corrido de La Pensilvania (Early 1900s)
The
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (Early 1900s)
“Los
Padrinos en los Funerales de Don Pedrito” (1907)
“Los
Sediciosos” (1915)
Manuel
Gamio: Interview with Isidro Osorio (1928)
Manuel
Gamio: Interview with Anastacio Torres (1928)
Excerpts
from 1930s Census Vol 2 (1930)
Chapter 6: Revolution and Reform
Francisco
Madero: Plan de San Luis Potosí (1910)
Plan
de Ayala (1911)
The
Plan of San Diego (1915)
José
Vasconcelos: The Cosmic Race/La raza cósmica (1925)
Aims
and Purposes of the Latin-American Citizens League (c. 1927)
Constitution
of the League of United Latin American Citizens (1929)
Pedro
Albizu Campos: “Puerto Rican Nationalism” (1936)
Resolution
on Racial Discrimination (1937)
Emma
Tenayuca and Homer Brooks: “The Mexican Question in the Southwest” (1939)
Luisa
Moreno: “Caravans of Sorrow” Speech (1940)
Vernon
D. Northrop: Letter to Secretary of State Regarding Puerto Rico (1952)
Fidel
Castro: “History Will Absolve Me” (1953)
Fidel
Castro: Speech at Presidential Palace (1959)
Chapter 7: Cultural Negotiation—Acculturation and
Assimilation
Robert
N. McLean: Protestant Religious Work among the Mexicans (1923)
Manuel
Gamio: Interview with Juan Berzunzolo (1928)
Manuel
Gamio: Interview with Elías Garza (1928)
Manuel
Gamio: Interview with Juana de Hidalgo (1928)
Manuel
Gamio: Interview with Elisa Silva (1928)
Daniel
Venegas: The Adventures of Don Chipote; or, When Parrots Breast Feed (1928)
Paul
S. Taylor: Sociological Observations of Mexican Americans in Nueces County,
Texas (1934)
Paul
S. Taylor: Interviews with Mexican Americans in Nueces County, Texas (1934)
Américo
Paredes: “The Mexico-Texan” (1935)
Americo
Paredes – Alma Pocha (1936)
Jesús
Colón: “Greetings from Washington” (from A Puerto Rican in New York) (1961)
Chapter 8: The Great Depression and Postwar Years
Elsie
Chavez Chilton: Working with the Civilian Conservation Corps near Las Cruces (1930s)
Susan
Archuleta Looks Back at Jobs with the CCC and the National Youth Administration
in Northern New Mexico (1930s)
U.S.
Commissioner General of Immigration Reports on Mexican Immigration (1931)
Franklin
D. Roosevelt: 1933 Inaugural Address (1933)
Memorandum
by the American Ambassador in Mexico of a Conversation with the Mexican
Minister for Foreign Affairs (1933)
Works
Project Administration Interviews with Hispanic Women in New Mexico, 1936–39 (1939)
Américo
Paredes: George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel (1940)
Selden
C. Menefee and Orin C. Cassmore: The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio (1940)
Raul
Morin Discusses Mexican Americans in Military Service (1942)
Photograph
of Mexican Agricultural Laboreres (1943)
“Youth
Gangs Leading Cause of Delinquencies” (1943)
Zoot
Suiters Lined Up outside Los Angeles Jail (1943)
Chapter 9: Early Civil Rights and American
Liberalism
Report
of the Joint Fact-Finding Committee to the Fifty-Fifth California Legislature (1943)
Mendez
v. Westminster (1947)
Delgado
v. Bastrop (1948) (1948)
Hernandez
v. Texas (1954)
José
Antonio Villarreal: Pocho (1959)
Lyndon
B. Johnson: Remarks at a Reception Honoring Henry González (1965)
Henry
B. González: Speech against the Chicano Movement (1969)
Chapter 10: Civil Rights and Liberation
César
Chávez: Plan de Delano (1965)
Rodolfo
“Corky” Gonzales: “I Am Joaquín” (1967)
Piri
Thomas: “Brothers Under the Skin” (from Down These Mean Streets) (1967)
Patricio
Paiz: “En memoria de Arturo Tijerina” (1968)
Staff
Report: Demographic, Economic, and Social Characteristics of the Spanish
Surname Population of the Five Southwestern States—U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, San Antonio, TX (1968)
Staff
Report: A Study of Equality of Educational Opportunity for Mexican Americans in
Nine School Districts of the San Antonio Area—U.S. Civil Rights Commission, San
Antonio, TX (1968)
Staff
Report: Farm Workers—U.S. Civil Rights Commission, San Antonio, TX (1968)
Father
Ruiz: Statement before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1968)
Reies
López Tijerina: Interview after Martin Luther King’s Assassination (1968)
Young
Lords Party 13-Point Program and Platform (1968)
East LA
Walkout Demands (1968)
José
Angel Gutiérrez: “The Thirty-Ninth MAYO Walkout: A Diary” (1969)
Crystal
City Walkout Demands (1969)
Alurista
and Rodolfo Gonzales: “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan” (1969)
El Plan
de Santa Barbara: A Chicano Plan for Higher Education (1969)
Rodolfo
“Corky” Gonzales: Arizona State University Speech (1970)
Mexican
American Marines in Vietnam (c. 1970-72)
Luis
Valdez: “Pensamiento Serpentino” (1973)
Sandra
María Esteves: “Blanket Weaver” (1975)
Chapter 11: “The Decade of the Hispanic” and Hispanic
Politics in the 1980s
Cuban
Adjustment Act (1966) (1966)
Serna
v. Portales (1974)
Gerald
Ford: Address to the Republican National Hispanic Assembly (1975)
Plyer
v. Doe (1982)
Virginia
Escalante, Nancy Rivera, and Victor Valle: “Inside the World of Latinas” (1983)
David
Reyes: “In Pursuit of the Latino American Dream” (1983)
Frank
Sotomayor: “Latinos: A Diverse Group Tied by Ethnicity” (1983)
Ronald
Reagan: Address to the Nation on United States Policy in Central America (1984)
Tato
Laviera: “AmeRícan” (1985)
Reyes
Cárdenas: “If We Praise the Aztecs” (1986)
Frank
del Olmo: “Latino ‘Decade’ Moves into ’90s” (1989)
“The
Decade of the Hispanic: An Economic Retrospective” (1990)
Chapter 12: Latinos in Modern Politics
Linda
Chávez: “Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation” (1991)
Proposition
187 (1994)
Lionel
Sosa: The Americano Dream: How Latinos Can Achieve Success in Business and in
Life (1998)
DREAM
Act (2001)
Sonia
Sotomayor: “A Latina Judge’s Voice” (2001)
Samuel
P. Huntington: “The Hispanic Challenge” (2004)
Herman
Badillo: “From Kennedy Democrat to Giuliani Republican” (2006)
Leslie
Sanchez: “The Emerging Latino Republican Majority” (2007)
Lorna
Dee Cervantes: “Coffee” (2007)
Bill
Richardson: Democratic National Convention Speech (2008)
Sonia
Sotomayor: Supreme Court Nomination Speech (2009)
Barack
Obama: Speech at the National Council of La Raza (2011)
Barack
Obama: Speech Announcing DACA (2012)
Marco
Rubio: Presidential Campaign Launch Speech (2015)
Denice
Frohman: “Abuela’s Dance” (2015)
Donald
Trump: Speech on Immigration (2016)
Manuel
Pastor: “Latinos and the New American Majority” (2016)
Donald
Trump: State of the Union Address (2018)
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez: Response to Being Accosted by Ted Yoho (2020)
Latinx
LGBT Adults in the U.S. (2021)
Latino GDP Report for 2021 (2021)
"An excellent resource for U.S. history and Latinx studies and research. This anthology of primary sources presents a treasure trove of documents that can be used in a class setting.... A comprehensive overview of Latinx history that was tailor-made for educators and students."
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