Heyck, Denis L., Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Routledge, 1994.

This book highlights the diversity of the United States's three major Latino cultures—Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban—and points out their distinctive features. The chapters are organized around the six central issues to these groups, which are family, religion, community, the arts, immigration and exile, and cultural identity. Each chapter includes readings from various genres, including poems, essays, short stories, and novel excerpts.

Jackson, Richard, Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon, Twayne's World Author Series, No. 867, Twayne Publishing, 1997.

This book is designed to broaden the reader's view of the Hispanic literary canon beyond Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez and discover the realm of Black Hispanic writers such as Manuel Zapata Olivella, Pilar Barrios, Juan Pablo Sojo, and many more. The book...