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 »

Many of us were taught the Bering Land Bridge Theory in school to explain how communities Indigenous to the Americas ended up in these lands. But an archaeological site in modern-day Chile has called that theory into question. Monte Verde, … Continue Reading »

The New York Times spotlighted two recent PBS POV documentaries that are available for a limited time to view online and may help develop your students’ perceptions of contemporary events in the Caribbean.    Landfall (2020) is an award-winning documentary from director-producer … Continue Reading »

Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti since 2017, was assassinated on July 7th in the early morning. The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) published a piece the following day, focusing on the problematic reporting that has occurred since the … Continue Reading »

The Smithsonian has two, free, upcoming virtual events for a variety of ages. Each event will feature real-time captioning for accessibility. On July 17th, the program mentioned above will include Museum technician Ingrid Rochon who will guide kids and families through … Continue Reading »