Latin American and Iberian Studies  Tags: latin_american_iberian_collections  

If you're interested in reading more about the African experience in Latin America, here are some of the books that are in UNM's collection.

Suzanne M. Schadl & Tarah Kessé

Inter-American Library Programs would like to celebrate African American History Month by recognizing the long history of African peoples in the Americas. While many of us recognize their presence throughout the United States, we overlook the historical presence of Africans in the Southwest and ‘south of the border’. Inter-American Library Programs would like to encourage exploration and research on the contributions of African descendants throughout this region.

If you interested in reading more current articles on Afro-Latinos, here are some Peer Reviewed Scholarly Articles.

The resources below are really just a sampling of the vast resources on the African Diaspora in Latin American and Iberian resources. I would encourage anyone to contact Suzanne Schadl, schadl@unm.edu for help, should they desire assistance.

Relevant Journals in the Herzstein Room

Though many of the journals in this room will run articles dealing with the African Diaspora in Latin American and Caribbean history, society, culture and etc; the Afro-Hispanic Review (PQ 7081 A1 A36I is quite obvious.

Researchers and students can locate other pertinent articles by

1.       going to elibrary@unm.edu

2.       clicking on the bottom grey box entitled “Special Collections and Research Programs”

3.       clicking on “Latin American and Iberian Resources”

4.       clicking on subject guides to the left

5.       clicking on “Latin American History”

6.      following the “Locating Articles” link

For Example: In The Handbook of Latin American Studies (general bibliography of works hand-picked by scholars in the field) the subject heading “African Diaspora” yields, 401 items with one of those terms in the title and five with both: Below are the first several.

Similarly HAPI (the Hispanic American Periodicals Index, which offers bibliographic data on articles) pulled up 34, also listed below

Once the student/researcher locates something they want to find, they can search book titles in LIBROS and articles (not easily linked to from HLAS or HAPI) in PRISMA, JSTOR, Historical Abstracts – which all work great for articles. I’ve included Subject headings for books below these listings, which will also work for article searches in any of the above resources

FOR BOOKS on the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

One could search varied terms (subject headings) and replace Latin America (see my examples below) with an individual country to get additional and often times more specific.  I’ve included brief records for sample titles with some of these subject heading.

1. Blacks—Latin America—History

AUTHOR       Rout, Leslie B., 1936-

TITLE        The African experience in Spanish America / Leslie B. Rout, Jr. ;

               with a new introduction and bibliographical update by Miriam

               Jiménez Román and Juan Flores.

PUBLISHER    Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2003.

As Country Specific Blacks—Bolivia -- History

LOCATIONS    ZIM

AUTHOR       Portugal Ortiz, Max.

TITLE        La esclavitud negra en las epocas colonial y nacional de

               Bolivia / Max Portugal Ortiz.

PUBLISHER    La Paz : Instituto Boliviano de Cultura, 1977 [i.e. 1978]