Latinx History at Duke University

We'll be adding to this list as we learn about new books, articles, research papers, and more. Contact us to suggest additional sources!

• Arkin, Nicole E. "Sick and Tired in the City of Medicine: A Study on Healthcare and Language Barriers through Fieldwork at El Centro Hispano in Durham." Senior honors paper, Duke University. 2007.
• Barahona, Elizabeth. The History of Latinx Students at Duke University. Senior honors paper, Duke University. 2018. (digital copy available online)
  • Pay particular attention to Barahona's citations and bibliography, as they'll point to useful collections and publications at the Duke University Archives.
• Bejarano, Santiago. Modern Transnational Familia: Exploring Cultural Gaps in the Experiences of Latinx Families. Senior honors paper, Duke University. 2016. (digital copy available online)
  • A member of a transnational Latinx family himself, this paper's author includes narratives of interviews with five Duke students who also belong to transnational Latinx families.
• López, Baligh ibn Antonio De Jesús. Spic'ing into Existence: Epitaph, Epithet, and the Ethnopoetic Imagination. Senior honors paper, Duke University. 2016. (digital copy available va DukeSpace)
  • For an account of Mi Gente’s 2016 boycott of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend, see pages 130-139, "Black Die-In, Brown Boycott: How Ethnopoets Speak in Silence."
• Patrick, Ben. The Front Line: Materials for a Study of Leadership in College and After. Durham: Duke University, 1942. (print copy or digitized copy)
  • This study by a Duke staff member is a cross between a primary source and a secondary source: it's a great record of all Duke student groups through 1942, including lists of students in major leadership positions. Check The Front Line if you're looking for information about a student who attended Duke before 1942.
• Remedios, Jesse. "The Politics of Identity." Audio podcast. Duke History Revisited program, 2016.
• Ross, Andrea Lundeberg. A History of the Duke University Press and its Three Humanities Journals: American Literature, the Hispanic American Historical Review, and the South Atlantic Quarterly. Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1967.

Do you need to find general histories of Duke University and Durham to help contextualize your research? This bibliography should help. Most, if not all of these books, should be available as an e-book or as a copy that can be checked out from Perkins/Bostock.

When in doubt, the four books below are the key resources on Duke and Durham history:

• Anderson, Jean. Durham County. 2nd edition. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. (print copy OR ebook)
• Chaffin, Nora Campbell. Trinity College, 1839-1892: The Beginnings of Duke University. Durham: Duke University Press, 1950. (print copy)
• Durden, Robert F. The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. (print copy OR ebook)
• Porter, Earl W. Trinity and Duke, 1892-1924. Durham: Duke University Press, 1964. (print copy OR digitized copy available via Internet Archive)

Note that the Duke histories end in 1949. Jean Anderson's Durham County will provide some information about recent Duke history--particularly as it relates to Durham--and Jon Phelps' booklet, "'I have selected Duke University': A Short History," will help with big historical highlights through the 1970s (a copy of the booklet is available online).