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AAAD 260: Blackness in Latin America: Digital Libraries, Online and Miscellaneous Resources

Digital Libraries

Hathi Trust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Podcasts

The Mix(ed)Tape Podcast Taking an anti-racist approach to center the contribution of Black people and culture across the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora through dance and music.

Radio Ambulante Distributed by NPR, Radio Ambulante covers Latin American life with stories of love and migration, youth and politics, environment and families in extraordinary circumstances. 

Radio Caña Negra Three Afro Latinas host this podcast where they deliver sharp and hilarious commentary and critical analysis on a range of topics.

Code Switch  Discussions focused on issues of race and identity, which often covers immigration and Latinx stories.

AFROSAYA: The Afrolatino Podcast Alejandro Gutierrez, an academic, hosts the Afrosaya podcast, which aims to showcase the African roots across the Americas.

Dialogues in Afrolatinidad Explores history, culture, and contemporary issues in Afro-Latin America and U.S.-Afro-Latinx communities.

Alt.Latino   Alt.Latino is a radio show and podcast about Latin alternative music and Latinx culture on National Public Radio.

Las Caras Lindas  Host Manuel Mendez explores the intersection of blackness in Latinx communities by shedding light on the neglected and untold stories of Afro-Latinx people.

Negra Como Yo  From Venezuela, this podcast welcomes a number of guests to discuss their work and how race in their communities or countries affects them.

Undocumented Black Girl The host is an undocumented Black DACA recipient and national immigrant rights, activist, who speaks about her experience as an undocumented Black Latina.

 

Documentaries @ Carolina

Black and Cuba

This award-winning documentary follows street-smart Ivy League students who are outcasts at their elite university, band together and adventure to the enigmatic Caribbean island of Cuba, whose population is 60% Black. Their journey through the streets of Havana and Santiago reveals enthralling scenes of Cuban life including hip hop performances, block parties, and candid spontaneous encounters with AfroCuban youth. As they film their experience, the travelers discover connections between Cuban and American perspectives on human rights, race, and revolution.

 

Black in Latin America. Episode 1, Haiti and Dominican Republic : an island divided; Episode 2, Cuba : the next revolution; Episode 3, Brazil : a racial paradise?; Episode 4, Mexico and Peru : the Black grandma in the closet

Henry Louis Gates travels to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and Hispanic worlds meet.

 

Tony Brown's Journal. The Conflict Between Blacks and Latinos

This 2004 episode of Tony Brown's Journal is a discussion of the conflict between Blacks and Latinos in the United States with author and attorney Nicolas Vaca.

 

My American Girls: A Dominican Story

This is a vivid portrayal of a year in the life of the Ortiz family -- hard working Dominican immigrants who live frugally in Brooklyn and dream of retiring one day in their native country. Their American-born daughters have different ideas and aspirations. These bittersweet contradictions form the core of the film as we watch the family sort out the rewards and the costs of pursuing the American dream.

 

Igualada

Black Colombian activist Francia Elena Márquez Mina transforms the derogatory term "Igualada" into a symbol of rights defiance. Her presidential campaign inspires a nation to dream of a more equitable future, challenging societal norms.

 

Relevant Websites

Black Latinas Know Collective

Black Latinas Know is a collective of Black Latina scholars, producers of innovative and important intellectual contributions to the intersectional study of race within Latinidad and Blackness.

Afro Cuba Web

AfroCubaWeb.com was founded in 1997 to support the African cultures in Cuba.

Kilombo Collective

A collective dedicated to centering the perspective and realities of Black Brazilian people, especially Black women and girls in their multiple identities, in the international scenario, connecting with other Black women's movements in the African Diaspora.

Latinx Talk Latinx Talk is an online, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and moderated forum for the circulation and discussion of original research, commentary, and creative work in brief and diverse formats such as essays (500-2000 words), multimedia presentations, podcasts, and short video.

 

Related Documents

Centering Black Latinidad

n this brief, the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institutuse the 2015-19 American Community Survey microdata to analyze the U.S. Afro-Latinx population, including their unique trends in education, employment, and homeownership.

https://latino.ucla.edu/research/centering-black-latinidad/