Latin American & Caribbean Studies: Reference Resources

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Native Land is an app to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages.

Acts as a guide to the current scholarship on a this topic, and includes commentary and annotations. Available as ebook.

A continuously updated encyclopedia of scholarly work on Latin America's peoples and experiences from pre-Columbian to contemporary times. Available as ebook.

Presents the current scholarly understanding of the subject. During the past generation, historians have broadened that understanding by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flows of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. Available as an ebook and in print.

Entries cover national groups, ethnicities, indigenous native peoples, and small immigrant populations of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Entries include historical and cultural background, population estimates, language, and religion. Also included is a history of the group through the turn of the 19th century, with background on societal organization and culture and expanded information on language and religious beliefs, and information on the group in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

This project serves as an online resource for samples and research on endangered languages as well as a forum for advice and best practices for those working to strengthen linguistic diversity.

A resource for information on Mexico's Indigenous People.

Essays explore the unity and diversity of the region's cultural expressions, analyze history and politics from the nineteenth century to the present day, and consider the heritage of pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America. Available as ebook and in print.

This three-volume encyclopedia covers more than 40 regions and a time-span of 1920 to the date of publication. "Culture" is broadly defined to include food, sport, religion, television, transport, alongside architecture, dance, film, literature, music and sculpture. Available in print only.

Overviews of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, transnational issues, and military of countries of the world. Website.

Library of Congress maintains a number of research guides covering each country in Latin America. Each guide offers links to databases, digital collections, and print titles. Additional guides address topics such coffee, law, and composers.

Includes entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to 2004. Available as ebook.

Provides an overview of Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. This resource covers a wide range of topics, highlighting how Latin American literature became conscious of its continental scope and international reach in moments of political crisis, such as independence from Spain, the Spanish–American War, and the Mexican and Cuban revolutions. Available as an ebook.

Provides an account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence. This resource explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. The works of Spanish, creole, and Amerindian authors highlighted here have been chosen for the merits of their writings and their participation in the larger literary and cultural debates of their times. Available as an ebook.

Provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms. Available as ebook.

Excellent resource for biographical information of Latinx playwrights. Available in print.

Succinct biographical and production information for playwrights from all of Latin America. Available in print.

Addresses the politics of mass mobilization in the early twenty-first century and examines the rise of left leaning governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Bolivia. Available as ebook.

This book adopts a political-economy perspective to understand Latin American economies. Available as ebook and in print.

Through a development economic lens, this series looks at longer-term issues in the region, macroeconomic topics, and the region's economies in global context. Available as ebook and in print.

Offers analysis of the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region. Available as ebook.

A project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University in collaboration with institutions like the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the Organization of American States and FLACSO-Chile, and also with the support of other organizations and entities in the region. It provides centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region.

Provides current political information and political controversies at the country level. Browse by country or by political and electoral systems. Annual publication allows you to read how political controversies were portrayed in recent history.