Communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinxs in the US have a variety of ways they fight for access to reproductive rights. In the US, we’re facing our own issues with Roe V. Wade’s ruling coming under scrutiny. In … Continue Reading »
Recent Latin American and Caribbean Politics
This week was a big one for politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Barbados, Queen Elizabeth II was removed as the head of state after over 400 years of the island being ruled by the British Monarchy. Sandra Mason, the Queen’s own … Continue Reading »
The Small Axe Project
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 »
Language in Latin America and the Caribbean
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 »
Historias Podcast
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 »
Mexican Masks Portray COVID As A Tiger, A Devil, A Blue-Eyed Man
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 »
Endangered Archives Program at the British Library
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
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 »
Documents of Latin American and Latino Art at ICAA
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 Wisconsin and Milwaukee
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 »