The Small Axe Project‘s aim “is to participate both in the renewal of practices of intellectual and cultural criticism in the Caribbean and in the expansion and revision of the scope and horizons of such criticism.” Offerings on their site include … Continue Reading »

There is an incredible amount of language diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean. The University of New Mexico’s Latin American and Iberian Institute hosts the K’iche’ Maya Oral History Project, which has a collection of 149 oral histories taken … Continue Reading »

Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) has a podcast focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Historias features “scholars, journalists, and activists discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events.” Topics of the around hour-long episodes range … Continue Reading »

NPR has an article from August of this year focusing on Indigenous art in the form of masks, drawings, etc to represent how COVID-19 has affected Indigenous Mexican communities. Blanca Cárdenas and Carlos Dávila, the ENAH professors who coordinated this project, commissioned masks from … Continue Reading »

The Endangered Archives Program at the British Library has thousands of digitized resources from around the world and is working to preserve more, including in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examples of digitized projects include newspapers from 20th century Nicaragua, diaspora collections … Continue Reading »

Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United States was celebrated on this Monday, October 11th. This week we offer resources to broaden your students’ understanding of historical and contemporary Indigenous communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.  Contemporary resources: … Continue Reading »

The International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston has a large catalogue of documents on 20 and 21st century art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and US Latinx communities. You can … Continue Reading »

Latinx Heritage Month began on September 15th and runs through October 15th. In this spirit, we want to offer resources on local Latinx communities of both past and present. Regarding communities in the greater Wisconsin area, Voces de la Frontera has a project … Continue Reading »

Today, we focus on migration. In fall of 2020, CLACS and UW-Madison’s Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program had a Migration Webinar Series, with one conversation entitled Crossing Borders, Navigating Race: Blackness and Migration in the Americas. That conversation, moderated by Ermitte … Continue Reading »

The Smithsonian Institution has a Volunteer Transcription project which asks “volunpeers” to help transcribe “field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimens labels, and historic audio recordings” from the collections. New projects are added periodically, but at … Continue Reading »