Latin American and Iberian Studies  Tags: latin_american_iberian_collections  

So as not to shock you with too many titles ( we will be reading selections from books rather than full monographs) I will update this list and ask you to update your bookshelf regurally. This box also enables me to add suggested reading from some of the many physical books available in the library.

If we don't have something here, look for it on WorldCat. We can get it through Inter-Library Loan (ILL). Check the Internet archive as well for free access to lots of electronically/digitally available resources ..

Databases collect articles from thousands of individual books, journals, newspapers and magazines. Better yet, they organize those articles into "metadata" which you can search with keywords, author's names, titles, subjects etc. Since they're organized to collect only articles from reputable journals, newspapers and magazines -- you won't have to wade through a lot of individual or organizational web pages, which may or may not be useful.

During Brazil's military coup d'état of 1964, Buarque wrote about the events which transpired and avoided censorship by using cryptic analogies and wordplay. For example, in the song "Cálice" (English: "Goblet", "Chalice", "Cup" as used by Jesus at the Last Supper) he takes advantage of the homophony between the Portuguese words for "shut up" (cale-se) and "goblet" (cálice) to disguise criticism of censorship and oppression as a Bible story:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Buarque

Bibliographic databases allow you to access what others have already done, which really helps with your historiography or literature review.  Check these out