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 »

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled on September 7th that the ban on abortion in the country is unconstitutional. According to the New York Times, the ruling only “applies immediately only to the northern state of Coahuila, where the justices said that … Continue Reading »

The Vistas project hosts a variety of “high resolution color images, each of them fully annotated, videos and interpretive essays” on artwork produced in the colonial Spanish empire of the Americas that ranged from modern day California all the way … Continue Reading »

On August 14th, 2021, the deadliest natural disaster to occur in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake rocked the nation. Haitian director Raoul Peck’s 2012 film Fatal Assistance has been made available for viewing on Vimeo in light of this more … Continue Reading »

Food is likely one of the largest cultural facets of Mexico that is found in the U.S. today, but much of what we know as Mexican food is a narrow slice of traditional Mexican cuisine. Today we offer a variety … Continue Reading »