This selection of scholarly essays and books is meant to address a need within institutions of higher education to serve a population that is too often invisible, despite the prevalence of quantifying demographics. The works selected address the way in which institutional cultures affect the experience of Latino/a students in the classroom. As the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire insists, the classroom is not a rarefied space with little pragmatic value in the “real world.” The classroom and the world are “co-extensive.” Again, the selection is not exhaustive. It is meant to introduce readers and researchers at varying levels to important topics across a range of academic fields and pedagogical perspectives that include Linguistics, ESL, Composition, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Law, and Political Science.

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Amaury, Nora and Laura Rendon. “Hispanic Student Retention in Community Colleges:Reconciling Access with Outcomes.” Class, Race, and Gender in American Education.  Ed. Lois Weis. Albany, New York:  SUNY Press, 1988. 126-43.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 4th ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2012.

Aparicio, Frances R. “Of Spanish Dispossessed.” Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement.  Ed. Roseann Duenas Gonzalez. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 248-275.

Arrizón, Alicia. Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press: 2006.

Baca, Damán. “The Chicano Codex: Writing against Historical and Pedagogical Colonization.” College English 71.6 (July 2009): 564-583.

Barron, Nancy G. “Dear Saints, Dear Stella: Letters Examining the Messy Lines of Expectations, Stereotypes, and Identity in Higher Education.” College Composition and Communication. 55.1 (September 2003): 11-37.

Bender, Steven W., Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2005.

Benitez, Cristina. Latinization: How Latino Culture is Transforming the US. Ithaca, NY: Paramount Market Publications, 2007.

Bokser, Julie A. “Sor Juana’s Rhetoric of Silence.” Rhetoric Review  25.1 (2006): 5-21.

Cafferty, Pastora San Juan. “The Language Question: The Dilemma of Bilingual Education for Hispanics in America.” Ethnic Relations in America. Ed. Lance Liebman. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. 101-127.

Chong, Nilda and Francia Baez. Latino Culture: A Dynamic Force in the Changing American Workplace. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005.

de Genoa, Nicholas and Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas. Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Darden, Antonia and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds. Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Dussel, Enrique. The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of “the Other” and the Myth of Modernity. 1992. Trans. Michael Barber. New York: Continuum, 1995.

Elias-Olivares, Lucia, et al. Spanish Language Use and Public Life in the United States. New York:  Mouton de Gruyter, 1985.

Farr, Marcia, and Gloria Nardini. “Essayist Literacy and Sociolinguistic Difference.” Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies and Practices. Ed. Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri. Modern Language Association (1996): 108-119.

Fox, Geoffrey, Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics and the Constructing of Identity. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1997.

Fregoso, Rosa-Linda. MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the
Borderlands. Oakland, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2003.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

——- . Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2000.

Galeano, Eduardo. The Open Veins of Latin America. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.

Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Penguin, 2011.

Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole M. Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National
Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2011.

Habell-Pallán, Michelle. Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture.
New York: New York Univ. Press, 2005.

Kirklighter, Christina; Diana Cardens and Susan Wolff Murphy, eds. Teaching Writing with
Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Albany, NY: SUNY Press 2007.

Kirschner, Samual  A. and G. Howard Poteet. “Non-Standard English Usage in the Writing of
Black, White, and Hispanic Remedial English Students in an Urban Community
College.” Research in the Teaching of English 7 (1973): 351-5.

Lomas, Laura. Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American
Modernities. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2008.

López, Antonio. Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America. New
York: New York Univ. Press, 2012.

Meier, Kenneth J., and Joseph Stewart, Jr. The Politics of Hispanic Education: Un paso pa’lante
y dos pa’tras. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991.

Mooney, Margarita, and Deborah Rivas-Drake. “Colleges Need to Recognize, and Serve, the 3
Kinds of Latino Student.” Chronicles of Higher Education 54:29 (March 2008).

Moreno, Renee M. “‘The Politics of Location’: Text as Opposition.” College Composition and
Communication 54.2 (December 2002): 222-242.

Murillo, Jr., Enrique G., Sofia Villenas, Ruth Trinidad Galván, Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Corinne
Martínez, and Margarita Machado-Casas, eds. Handbook of Latinos and Education: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Ortiz, Flora Ida. “Hispanic-American Children’s Experiences in Classrooms: A Comparison
Between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Children.” Class, Race, and Gender in American
Education. Ed. Lois Weis. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1988. 63-86.

Parédez, Deborah. Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. Durham, NC:
Duke Univ. Press, 2009.

Perea, Juan F. “The New American Spanish War: How the Courts and the Legislatures Are
Aiding the Suppression of Languages Other Than English.” Language Ideologies: Critical
Perspectives on the Official English Movement.  Vol. 2. Ed. Roseann Duenas
Gonzalez. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. 121-140.

Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez; An
Autobiography. Boston: David R. Godine, 1981.

Santiago Baca, Jimmy and Releah Lent. Adolescents on the Edge: Stories and Lessons to
Transform Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Hinemann, 2010.

Van Wagenen, Michael. Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-
Mexican War. Amhearst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2012.

Viego, Antonio. Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies. Durham, NC: Duke
Univ. Press, 2007.

Villa, Daniel. “No nos dejaremos: Writing in Spanish as an Act of Resistance.” Latino/a
Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education. Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2004. 85-95.

Villanueva, Victor, Jr. Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color. Urbana, IL: National
Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

Worthan, Stanton E.F., Enrique G. Murillo Jr. and Edmund T. Hamann, eds. Education in the
New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Publishing Group, 2002.