Latin American & Caribbean Studies Resources  Tags: latin_america latin_american caribbean  

The mission of the Council is to foster and develop interests in Latin American studies by scholars, researchers, teachers, students, and the general public primarily located in the New England region, to encourage more effective training, teaching and research in Latin American affairs, and to facilitate greater exchanges within the region of information and ideas through lectures, forum, seminars, conferences, and publications.

LASA's mission is to foster intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas.

The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) is an independent professional organization devoted to the promotion of Caribbean studies from a multidisciplinary, multicultural point of view.

SALALM's primary missions are the control and dissemination of bibliographic information about all types of Latin American publications and the development of library collections of Latin Americana in support of educational research.

The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), was established (1975) among other things to "encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America." You can subscribe to receive update reports on Latin Am. policy

LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region.

The Hispanic Reading Room, serves as the primary access point for research relating to those parts of the world encompassing the geographical areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and Iberia; the indigenous cultures of those area.

LARRP is a cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American, and Caribbean libraries that seek to improve access to the array of research resources published in Latin America.

This site created by the Library of Congress's Hispanic Division, provides resources and documents about the Spanish-American War, the period before the war, and some of the fascinating people who participated in the fighting or commented about it. Information about Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States is provided in chronologies, bibliographies, and a variety of pictorial and textual material from bilingual sources, supplemented by an overview essay about the w

List of resources compiled by the NECLAS. Include links to US embassies in Latin America, universities in Latin America and much more.

This blog written by Yoani Sanchez, an online reporter, is a very interesting take on Cuba today by a young person in Cuba, which has been recognized with many international awards for her writing online.

The mission of Art Havana is to promote contemporary Cuban art and culture. We are the best choice in town to guide Art Collectors to visit Cuban artist home-studios as well as museums, cultural institutions, galleries and special events. This website was created to showcase Cuban artists to anyone, anywhere.

The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings (the Frontera Collection) is the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence.

The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape was begun in 1943 by Francisco Aguilera (1899-1979) to record on magnetic tape original voice recordings of selections of the writings of contemporary poets and writers.