The Ohio State University has made available their bibliography from their 2017 Global Teacher Seminar covering the Colombian civil war that began in 1964 and has never completely ended. Resources are grouped into headings such as “Who Are the FARC?” … Continue Reading »
Decolonizing the Classroom
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) published a blog post last year on decolonizing the classroom. This post aims to get educators thinking about the colonial structures in their classrooms, and about ways to dismantle these systems. Included … Continue Reading »
From Latin America to Hollywood: Latino Film Culture in Los Angeles 1967-2017
In 2017, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA released an e-book exploring “the intersections, inspirations, and creative intentions of a wide-ranging group of Latino and Latin American filmmakers” hosted on their website. This e-book looks at five decades of filmmaking in Latin … Continue Reading »
Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions
The University of Oregon has recently published a website that is the culmination of four years of research with Caribbean women elders in their healing practices. This site hosts interviews with these elders, as well as an ethnobotanical guide of … Continue Reading »
Public Books Database
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many publishers have made hundreds of their titles available to the public. The Public Books Database aims to catalog all of these offerings into a master list so that items of interest can be easily … Continue Reading »
Tres Cuentos Podcast
Carolina Quiroga-Stultz’s Tres Cuentos Podcast brings diverse stories of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx communities to listeners in podcast form. These stories weave in the history and culture of many different peoples, including Afro-Latinos, Indigenous folks, and New Mexicans. … Continue Reading »
Google Arts & Culture Collections
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2,000 museums and collections throughout the world. Approximately 60 of these organizations offer exhibits on Latin American, Caribbean, or U.S. Latinx art. Please see below for selected highlights, or follow this link … Continue Reading »
Coloring Pages by Illustrator Rafael López
From his website: “Rafael López is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. His illustrations bring diverse characters to children’s books and he is driven to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people.” Born … Continue Reading »
Weekly Resource
Due to the pandemic, we’ve started sending out a weekly email with resources for educators. We’ve decided to add those resources to our ñapa webpage and Twitter feed. We will post a Weekly Resource recommendation each day until we are … Continue Reading »
Telling Stories about the Americas: Digital Humanities Tools for the Classroom
August 4-6, 2020
free for K-16 educators
Digital Humanities employs information technologies to research and present humanities topics in innovative and engaging ways. With the availability of free authoring tools, educators can draw from openly accessible digital collections of maps, images and other primary sources to create multimedia classroom resources.… Continue Reading »