Latin American Studies

In June 1960, less than nineteen months after the establishment of Cuba's revolutionary government, the first issue of Cine Cubano was published. Despite the turbulent times, it had a print-run of 20,000 copies and was launched as a monthly. The cover featured a photograph of ‘Rebeldes,’ the second episode of the movie Historias de la Revolución, which at the time was yet to be released. The new journal would become the longest ongoing film magazine of Latin America and continues to be published until today.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1960

End: 2019

Place: Cuba

Editor: Carl J. Mora

A unique collection of digitized historical film magazines from the 1910s to the 1960s, providing students and researchers with easy access to rare an previously dispersed sources documenting the cinematographic history of the biggest country in Latin America, Brazil.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1943

End: 1958

Place: Brasil

Editor: Carl J. Mora

Mexican cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its Golden Age (1930s to 1960), was consistently the largest and most important of all the Spanish-speaking countries.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1943

End: 1958

Place: Mexico

Editor: Project advisor: Arien González Crespo, Director,

Primary-source collection of ca. 45,000 fully-searchable documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana, documenting the culture and cultural relations of Revolutionary Cuba and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1959

Place: Cuba

Editor: Project advisor: Arien González Crespo, Director

This primary-source collection documents the literary, intellectual and cultural milieu of Revolutionary Cuba. Sourced from the archives of the Casa de las Américas in Havana, it provides unprecedented access to files covering more than a thousand writers, thinkers and artists from Cuba and abroad.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1959

Place: Cuba

Editor: Project advisor: Arien González Crespo, Director

Online collection of archival documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana on the topic of Latin American and Caribbean theater and Cuban theater in particular.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1959

Place: Cuba

Music in Latin America is a universe of sound that reflects the region's rich cultural heritage. From the contagious rhythms of samba to the passionate melodies of bolero, Latin American music is the result of the intense process of transculturation developed over more than four centuries between the native populations and the diverse cultures brought from Europe, Africa and Asia. Each country in the hemisphere has shaped its own musical culture, bringing to the international scene such significant genres as Argentine tango, Colombian cumbia, Brazilian bossa nova, and Cuban son. These, as well as numerous other music and dance genres and expressions, are an effective means of celebrating and preserving the cultural identity of Latin American communities. Likewise, music is a space for recording the historical memory of peoples who have been able to turn song into a weapon of struggle, a cry of protest, or a call for unity and solidarity in the defense of their rights.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1960

End: 2019

Place: Cuba

Editor: Luisa Campuzano Sentí

Cuban Periodicals: Cultural Magazines Published by Casa de las Américas, 1960–2009

Subject: Latin American Studies

Place: Cuba

Editor: Luciano Castillo Rodríguez

Cuban Pre-Revolutionary Cinema

Subject: Latin American Studies

Place: Cuba

Until now it has been impossible to develop the study of religion in modern Latin America. The imprints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that reflect local devotions and syncretist rituals, religious iconography and poetry, and the pastoral campaigns of the various churches and sects, went uncollected and unnoticed until the early 1960s, when Ivan Illich began to search for them and to collect them in the CIDOC Library of Cuernavaca, Mexico. The filming of a selection of material from this collection has been done in many libraries throughout Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1897

End: 1972

Place: Peru

Editor: Max Nettlau e.a.

This collection contains the periodicals that have been accumulated by the Austrian anarchist, historian and collector Max Nettlau (1865-1944), together with a number of later additions, held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. The collection provides a richness of documentation pertaining explicitly to the formative anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist episode (1890-1920) in the history of Latin American labor movements.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1880

End: 1940

Place: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Surinam, Uruguay

Editor: Project advisor: Luisa Campuzano Sentí

Electronic edition of the Cuban magazine Revolución y Cultura, spanning the years 1967–2009.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1967

End: 2009

Place: Cuba

Spanning more than four hundred years, The Guatemala Collection: Government and Church Documents for Sacatepéquez (1587-1991) concentrates primarily on the national era, particularly 1824-1948. The vast majority of the documents—correspondence, annual reports, statistics, letters, litigation—found within The Guatemala Collection are copies from the Archivo General de Centroamérica and the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano “Francisco de Paula García Peláez” (formerly known as Archivo Eclesiástico de Guatemala) in Guatemala City. In recent years, the latter has seldom been opened to the public. Colonial documents mainly come from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. A few of the documents and transcripts come from the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) in Antigua. In general, the documents are organized by place, theme, and chronology.

Subject: Latin American Studies

Start: 1587

End: 1991

Place: Guatemala