Puerto Rican & Latino Studies 

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 Hispanic/Latinos

Northeast Children’s Literature Collection:

The Northeast Children's Literature Collection includes a number of works which explore the experiences of Latinos in the United States.  Search for titles in HOMER, or contact the curator, terri.goldich@uconn.edu for further information.

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.

Other Manuscript Collections at the Dodd Center and online resources:

• Homar (Lorenzo) Papers
• Peoples of Connecticut Project Records at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut, by Ruth Glasser. From Volume 1, no, 1 (Fall 2002) issue of Hog River Journal

Contact the curator, marisol.ramos@uconn.edu for further information.