League of United Latin American Citizens. “All for One and One for All.” Accessed December 8,

2021. https://lulac.org/about/.

 

Garcia, Carmen. “A Tribute to Mariachi Estrella.” Our Lady of Guadalupe Fiesta Mexicana 1982,

1982. Hazel and Robert Gomez Collection.

 

“La Mujer.” Topeka, Kansas Historia Mexicana: Cuando Mexico Canta 1984, 1984. Hazel and 

Robert Gomez Collection.

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Lopez, Lorena. Generations United: A History of Our Lady of Guadalupe Community, February

1992. Robert and Hazel Gomez Collection.

 

Interview with Jesse Alcala, July 1992. Hazel and Robert Gomez Collection.

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Interview with Natividad Morales, July 1982, Hazel and Robert Gomez Collection.

 

Loya, Christina. Interview with Carmen Rangel at her home in Kansas City, Kansas, August 10, 2021.

 

Loya, Christina. Interview with H.M. at her home in Lawrence, Kansas, August 24, 2021.

 

 Loya, Christina. Interview with Isabel Gonzales at her home in Topeka, Kansas, September 29, 2021.

 

Loya, Christina. Interview with L.J. at her home in Topeka, Kansas, August 3, 2021.

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“Mariachi Estrella- Ad Astra Per Aspera,” Kansas Humanities Council, May 2, 2011, video, 9:18, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzcSze3K5CY

 

Mendoza, Virginia. “La Mujer.” Topeka, Kansas Historia Mexicana: Cuando Mexico Canta 1984, n.d. Hazel and Robert Gomez Collection.

 

Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940.

Culture, Labor, History Series. New York: NYU Press, 2013.

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Sanchez, John. Our Lady of Guadalupe Fiesta Mexicana 1982, July 1981. Hazel and Robert Gomez

Collection.

Tetuan, N. “La Mujer.” Topeka, Kansas Historia Mexicana: Cuando Mexico Canta! 1984, 1984.

Hazel and Robert Gomez Collection.

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For Further Reading, Check Out: 

• Arredondo, Gabriela F. Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39. Statue of LibertyEllis Island Centennial Series. University of Illinois Press, 2008.

• Elizabeth R. Escobedo. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

• García, Juan Ramon. Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932. University of Arizona Press, 1996.

• George J. Sanchez. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los  Angeles, 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

• Lawrence A. Cardoso. Mexican Emigration to the United States 1897–1931: Socio-Economic Patterns. Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897–1931. University of Arizona Press, 2019.

• Mendoza, Valerie M. “Kansas City’s Guadalupe Center and the Mexican Immigrant Community.” In Wide-Open Town, edited by Diane Mutti Burke, Jason Roe, and John Herron, 216–36. Kansas City in the Pendergast Era. University Press of Kansas, 2018.

• Monica Perales. Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

• Torres, Theresa. The Paradox of Latina Religious Leadership in the Catholic Church: Las Guadalupanas of Kansas City. Vol. First edition. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Vicki L. Ruiz. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.