Latin American & Caribbean Studies Resources  Tags: latin_america latin_american caribbean  

The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center housed an amazing collection of primary sources (first person accounts, newspapers, personal and business papers, photographs) and rare books from Spain, Latin American and the Caribbean. For a complete list of archival materials for Latin American and the Caribbean, please visit the Latin American & Caribbean Collection page If you want to use these collection for your research, contact the curator, marisol.ramos@uconn.edu for further information.

The Romano Human Rights Digital Photography Collection contains images of child labor from around the world, including in the United States and Mexico?  The collection is available through HuskyCT; please contact the curator of the collection, Valerie Love, for more information. 

Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Collections Relevant to Latin American Studies

Alternative Press Collection (APC):

The Alternative Press Collection was founded in the late 1960s as a repository for publications emanating from activist movements for social, cultural and political change. The collection contains thousands of newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations. The APC contains materials pertaining to non-white racial and ethnic identities and power movements, including the a number of Latino and Latin American publications.

Check HOMER for titles, or contact the curator, valerie.love@uconn.edu for further information.

The Latin American Newspaper Collection:  Finding Aid

Politics, commerce, social life, and other Latin American and Caribbean affairs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are covered in the approximately 2000 titles of the Latin American Newspapers Collection. The collection is strongest for the late nineteenth century and contains newspapers from virtually every country of Latin America and the Caribbean. The most notable portion of the collection is represented by newspapers from Bolivia and Peru. Twenty-nine cities of Bolivia are represented with major holdings from the cities of La Paz and Cochabamba. Newspaper titles are available from 18 cities of Peru. Examples of some of the larger runs in the collection include El Comercio (La Paz); El Comercio de Bolivia (La Paz); La (La Paz); El Telégrafo (La Paz); and El Heraldo (Cochabamba).

The Thomas J. Dodd research Center's Archives & Special Collections have several interesting books collections from Chile and Puerto Rico:

The Chile Collection

It has approximately 2,700 volumes that document the history and politics of Chile from the sixteenth century through 1940 with a particular strength in the years 1810-1940

The Puerto Rican Collection

This collection consist of over 2,000 volumes of books, pamphlets, goverment documents and some periodicals on the social, economic, political and literary history of Puerto Rico during the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

Both collections have been catalogued and can be searched using HOMER, the UCONN libraries, online catalog. If you have questions regarding this collection, please contact the curator, Marisol Ramos for assistance.