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Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe

This is a selected list of scholarly and news sites of value to researchers and students in Latin American Studies. New links will be added regularly.

• Mexican Migration Project, an interdisciplinary site about Mexican-US migration.
• LANIC is a comprehensive guide to online material and databases in and about the Latin American and Caribbean countries. Links are organized by country as well as by subject areas. Subject areas range from the African Diaspora, Cinema and Agriculture to Business and Finance to Sports and Immigration.
• LANIC now also includes the LANIC Newsroom.
• Resources for Locating and Evaluating Latin American Videos
• LASA, the Latin American Studies Association site, includes LASA Papers Online.
• The Latin American Database Online is an Internet-based news service in English about Latin America.
• The Political Database of the Americas, a joint Georgetown University-OAS project.
• The Latin American Jewish Studies Association
• Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project alerts users to the locations and contents of Latin American government sites on the WWW.
• The University of New Mexico's La Guia Nueva, a guide to using the Internet for Latin American Studies.
• A list of links to Luso-Afro-Brazilian culture. See also the AfroCubaWeb and the African Diaspora links on LANIC.
• There is an extensive list of links organized by subject at the University of Nebraska
• Latin American Studies Association

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Edited by Barbara A. Tenenbaum. New York: Scribners & Sons, 1996.   F1406.E531996, Vols. 1-5

Diccionario de literatura española e hispanoamericana. Dirigido por Ricardo Gullón. Madrid: Editorial Alianza, 1993. PQ6006.D6

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic literature in the United States, the literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and other Hispanic writers. Edited by Nicolas Kanellos. New York, Greenwood Press, 1989.  PQ7420.2.K3 1989

Latin America, a political dictionary. Ernest E. Rossi, Jack C. Plano. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, c1992.  F1406.R67 1992

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. General editors: Simon Collier, Harold Blakemore, Thomas E. Skidmore. 2nd ed. Cambridge [England]; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Latin America -- F1406.C36 1992

The United States in Latin America, a historical dictionary. David Shavit. New York, Greenwood Press, 1992. F1418.S494 1992

Handbooks and Guides

Handbook of Latin American literature. Compiler: David William Foster. 2nd Edition. New York, Garland Pub., 1992. PQ7081.A1H36 1992

Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States. General editors: Nicolas Kanellos, Claudio Esteva-Fabregat. Houston, Tex., Arte Publico Press; Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana, c1993-c1994. E184.S75H365 1993

Masterpieces of Latino literature. Edited by Frank N. Magill. 1st ed. New York, NY, HarperCollins, c1994. PQ7081.A1M29 1994

The Cambridge history of Latin America. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1984-. F1410.C1834 1984 Central Pattee Level 3 Blue, v.1-v.6 pt.2, v.7-v.8, v.10, v.11

Latin America and the Caribbean, a critical guide to research sources. Edited by Paula H. Covington, David Block [et al.],New York, Greenwood Press, 1992. F1408.L3225 1992

Indexes to Periodicals

Handbook of Latin American Studies. Prepared by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Available in print: Call no.: Z1605 .H23 PATTEE - Stacks 2, no.1 1935-To Date. Latest 5 years in Arts and Humanities, Reference Collection. Also available online at the Library of Congress as HLAS Online.

HAPI, Hispanic American periodicals index. 1970/74 -. Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California. Z1605.H4901 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection 1970-To Date.

Bibliographies

De identidades: María Luisa Bemberg, filmografía y bibliografía. Por  Lourdes Vázquez, Latin America, Africa and Anthropology Librarian Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Film in Latin America:  A Selective Bibliography, 1999.  Compiled by Marianne Siegmund,  Brigham Young University.

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