Hispanics

Beeson, Margaret, Marjorie Adams, and Rosalie King. Memories for Tomorrow: Mexican-American Recollections of Yesteryear. Detroit: Blaine Ethridge, 1983.

Benson, Janet E. "Staying Alive: Economic Strategies Among Immigrant Packing Plant Workers in Three Southwest Kansas Communities." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 107-120. Based on many structured interviews with Hispanic, Lao, and Vietnamese immigrants in Garden City, Dodge City, and Liberal.

Braun, Marian. "A Survey of American Mexicans in Topeka, Kansas." Master's thesis, Emporia State University, 1970.

Carranza, Miguel A. "The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains: An Introduction." Great Plains Quarterly 10 (Spring 1990): 67-70. Serves as intro to a special issue on this often neglected subject.

Laird, Judith Fincher. "Argentine, Kansas: The Evolution of a Mexican-American Community, 1905-1940." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1975.

Mendoza, Valerie M. "They Came to Kansas: Searching for a Better Life." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 97-106. A look at the immigrants from rural Mexico in the early 20th century, with attention to gender and family issues.

Mines, Cynthia. Riding the Rails to Kansas: The Mexican Immigrants. McPherson, Kans.: The Author, 1980.

Oppenheimer, Robert. "Acculturation or Assimilation: Mexican Immigrants in Kansas, 1900 to World War II." Western Historical Quarterly 16 (October 1985): 429-48.

Ricart, Domingo. "Just Across the Tracks, Report on a Survey of Five Mexican American Communities in the State of Kansas." Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1950. Study of communities in Emporia, Florence, Newton, Wichita, and Hutchinson.

Rutter, Larry G. "Mexican Americans in Kansas: a Survey and Social Mobility Study, 1900-1970." Master's thesis, Kansas State University, 1972.

Smith, Michael M. "The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond the Borderlands: The Case of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19." Great Plains Quarterly 10 (Spring 1990): 71-85. Analyzes content of this 4-page weekly, published in Kansas City.

__________. "Mexicans in Kansas City: The First Generation, 1900-1920." Perspectives in Mexican American Studies 2 (1989): 29-57.

__________. "A Carrancista in Kansas City: Jack Danciger versus the Colonia Elite During the Mexican Revolution." Kansas History 14 (Fall 1991): Forthcoming.