Tag: Latin America
Library Trial: Brill’s Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 4: Music
The Library is currently trialing Brill’s Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, Part IV: Music until October 14, 2024. The database can be accessed here.
This primary source collection documents the history of music in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a special focus on Revolutionary Cuba. It explores the role of music in society and covers festivals, performances, trends, and persons (musicians, composers, producers, etc.). The collection is scanned from the so-called “vertical archive” at Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba (source: Brill)
Please use ez proxy or VPN if you are accessing the resource from an off-campus location. Please provide your feedback to your Librarian of the Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Lpendse (at) berkeley (dot) edu
Please access the resource here.
Latin American Studies Grants for Research: Vanderbilt University
VANDERBILT LIBRARY TRAVEL GRANTS
The Center for Latin America, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (CLACX) at Vanderbilt offers a short-term library research grant to promote scholarly use of the library’s extensive Colombian collections. The Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education funds the grant, which will be used during the fall or spring of 2024-5 and completed by July 2025. Recipients are awarded up to $2000 to support expenses such as airfare and lodging.
The Latin American collection is one of Vanderbilt’s longstanding strengths. In particular, the Colombian collection is one of the country’s most distinctive collections. Please refer to: a general description of Vanderbilt’s Latin American special collections. There are websites with digital content of some of the library’s prized distinctive collections: the Helguera Collection of Colombiana and the Delia and Manuel Zapata Olivella Collections. Finding aids are available for portions of these archival collections. Additional materials can be found in the Library’s catalog.
Questions regarding the collections or the application process should be directed to Paula Covington, Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Librarian.
ELIGIBILITY:
- Current scholars at a college or university or research institute
- Faculty or students at the dissertation level
- Demonstrated research and teaching interest in Latin America
The application deadline is October 1, 2024. Questions regarding the collections or the application process should be directed to Paula Covington, Latin American Specialist. Applications should be sent to the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (CLACX).
Please submit a current CV, budget, and statement about the research project. Include the topic, a plan of materials to be consulted, and a description of how the resources will enhance your teaching and/or your research project.
Within two weeks following the completion of the access period, grantees are required to submit to the Center a one-page report detailing the work carried out during the grant period. Reports will be provided to the U.S. Department of Education for grant reporting purposes.
BECAS PARA VISITAR LA BIBLIOTECA DE VANDERBILT
El Centro de Estudios de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y Latinx (CLACX) en Vanderbilt está ofreciendo becas para aquellos investigadores interesados en viajar a visitar la rica y extensa colección de materiales exclusivos en colombiana. Estas becas deben ser utilizadas durante el otoño del 2024 o en la primavera del 2025 y el viaje debe completarse en julio, 2025. Estos fondos vienen del Departamento de Educación Pública de los Estados Unidos “Title VI National Resource Center (NRC)” por hasta $2000 dólares para contribuir por hospedaje y/o vuelos.
COLECCION COLOMBIANA:
La Colección Latinoamericana de la Biblioteca de Vanderbilt es uno de sus más fuertes recursos reconocidos, en particular la colección Colombiana es una de las más distintiva en este país. Aquí encontrará su referencia y descripción: Latin American special collections. Tenemos paginas digitales en nuestro sitio web con selecciones de las colecciones prestigiadas como: La Helguera Collection of Colombiana y de Delia and Manuel Zapata Olivella Collections. Contamos con ayudas de búsqueda para visitar porciones disponibles de estos archivos: archival collections. También contamos con materiales adicionales que podrá encontrar aquí:
Para cualquier pregunta con relación a las colecciones o proceso de aplicación, dirigirlas a Paula Covington, Latin American Specialist.
ELEGIBILIDAD:
- Investigadores dados de alta en Universidades o Institutos
- Estudiantes o facultad docente a nivel de posgrado
- Demostrar que tiene intereses de investigación o enseñanza en Latinoamérica
REQUERIMIENTOS:
- Fecha límite para aplicar es octubre 1, 2024. La aplicación debe ser mandada al Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (CLACX)
- Por favor mande su CV, presupuesto de gastos, y un escrito sobre su proyecto de investigación. Incluya el tema que trabaja, que materiales consultara, y describa como estos recursos elevaran su proyecto y/o su docencia. Nos gustaría que compartiera su trabajo en una ponencia para nuestros colegas de Vanderbilt.
- Durante las dos semanas después del término de su visita, aquellos seleccionados para recibir la beca deben escribir un reporte de una página detallando su trabajo realizado en Vanderbilt. Este reporte se mandará al Departamento de Educación Pública como parte de nuestro reporte de manejo de fondos.
TERMINOS:
- Fondos de NRC son distribuidos como reembolsos. Estos fondos deben ser usados para transporte y/o hospedaje únicamente.
- Fondos de NRC no pueden ser utilizados en alimentos.
- Todo aquel que esté interesado, incluidos los investigadores Internacionales, son responsables por su propia cobertura de seguro médico.
- La residencia debe de ser de un mínimo de 4 días hábiles.
Discover What’s New: Caribbean and Latin American Studies Library Fall Semester News
I’m excited to share some recent library acquisitions that will enhance your research and teaching resources at UC Berkeley. Here are the highlights of our new collections. Besides electronic resources, I purchase print materials for current teaching and research. This year, I launched a permanent approval plan for contemporary Mexican books. I will continue to offer by appointment student research consultations regularly throughout this semester. Please have your students reach out to me through my email: Lpendse at Berkeley.edu
Digital Archives and Journals
Cine Cubano: Latin America’s Oldest Film Magazine
This invaluable resource offers over 200 issues spanning six decades of Cuban revolutionary and Latin American cinema. It provides unparalleled access to film theory, filmmaking approaches, and reviews from 1960 to 2019.
This collection documents the development of Cuban cinema from the Silent Era to 1959, including the complete run of Cinema magazine from 1935 to 1965
Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958
Compiled from Cuban sources, this collection illuminates Cuban feminism, women in politics, and literature by Cuban women from independence to the end of the Batista regime.
E-book Collections
Iberoamericana Vervuert Frontlists (2022-2024)
We’ve acquired the latest front lists from the Iberoamericana Vervuert publishing house through DeGruyter, covering publications from 2022 to 2024.
This collection offers Spanish and Catalan e-books published in Latin America and Spain.
Archival Material
I collaborated with the Bancroft Library’s curator for Latin Americana to purchase the archive of Lucas de Careaga, a military officer and merchant. This collection provides insights into trade in Mexico, including:
– Dealings with Veracruz merchants
– A 1714 inventory of Hacienda de Tetitlán, detailing:
– Estate houses and furnishings
– Chapel adornments
– Sugar cane mill (Ingenio)
– Carpentry tools
– Animal pens
– Cattle branding irons
– Agricultural tools
– Inventory of slaves with names[5]These new resources significantly expand our holdings in Latin American studies, film, literature, and history. I encourage you to explore these materials for your research and teaching needs.If you have any questions or need assistance accessing these resources, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Rare Periodicals for Berkeley
Zulma Nuñez (Dir)
Published in Buenos Aires by Impresiones El Sol, 1953
In-8. #1 Oct 1953 – #3 Dic 1953 (Complete set). Wrappers in slipcase.
Collaborators: Fanny Navarro, Iris Marga, Duilio Marcio, Maciel Barbosa, Evelina Benasso, Gomez Cou, and others. Apart from literary and artistic criticism, this magazine dedicates many chapters to the life and work of Alfonsina Storni, with many illustrations of his house in Lugano, Switzerland, and stages of his life. Missing to all bibliographies
Publication Date: 1941
Edition: 1st Ed
In-8. #1 Sep 1941. #2 Oct 1941, #4 May 1942, #5 Jan Mar 1943. Collaborators: Pablo Paoppi, Jose Carbonell, Felix de Ugarteche, Among others. Rare graphic magazine that only cites incompletely Washington Pereyra, it came out with an irregular frequency for three years, from September 1941 until September 1943, probably 7 or 8 issues max. In all its issues, this magazine brings some extraordinary studies on the first printing presses of Argentina and Paraguay Jesuit missions. Washington Pereyra T4,p204.
Publisher: Buenos Aires S.A.G.A.
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Sin Encuadernar
Edition: 1ª Edición.
Liladhar
Library Liaison for the Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Library purchases digital archive of Prensa Libre (Guatemalan Newspaper): 1951-2024
UC Berkeley Library has purchased ongoing access to Prensa Libre Digital Archive (1951-2024). Prensa Libre is a well-respected Spanish-language Guatemalan Newspaper. It began publishing in 1951, and since then has provided extensive coverage of politics, news, social conditions, history, governance issues, Garífuna, Mayan, and other indigenous communities (Pueblos Originarios en Guatemala), and civil war(s) in Guatemala and Central America.
We hope that this newspaper resource will be of great use to our faculty and students who study Anthropology, Politics Social Sciences, History of Central America, and Latin America.
Prensa Libre digital archive can be accessed from off-campus locations using the proxy or VPN here.
Below is the screenshot of the landing page of the archive. It has a robust search interface.
Primary Sources: Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958
The Library recently acquired Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958 a digital archive of documents relating to feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba between Cuban independence and the end of the Batista regime.
According to the collection description, “in the decades following its independence from Spain in 1898, Cuba adopted the most progressive legislation for women in the western hemisphere. This collection provides a documentary explanation of how a small group of women and men helped to shape broad legal reforms, by describing their campaigns, the version of feminism they adopted with all its contradictions, and contrasts it to the model of American feminism.”
The archive includes a wide range of primary sources, including letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, and personal memoirs.
Prensa Libre (Guatemalan Newspaper) Archive Trial at UC Berkeley Library
The Library has started a thirty-day trial of Prensa Libre Newspaper. One can access the resource by authenticating from an off-campus location using the following hyperlink: https://libproxy.berkeley.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgpa.eastview.com%2Fpren%2F
Currently, the full-text content is available for the issues starting in 1980 through 2022.
Prensa Libre fue fundado el 20 de agosto de 1951 por Pedro Julio García, Álvaro Contreras Vélez, Salvador Girón Collier, Mario Sandoval Figueroa e Isidoro Zarco Alfasa.
Prensa Libre is a Guatemalan newspaper published in Guatemala City by Prensa Libre, S.A. and distributed nationwide. It was formerly the most widely circulated newspaper in the country and as of 2007 it has the second-widest circulation.[1] It is considered a local newspaper of record. It was founded in 1951. (Source: Wikipedia)
El Mundo Digital Archive (Puerto Rico): 1919-1990 [Open Access]
I am glad to report that the Center for Research Libraries, in collaboration with Eastview’s Global Press Archive platform, has released the full text of El Mundo newspaper published in Puerto Rico from 1919-1990.
Established in 1919, El Mundo was a well-respected and conservative newspaper hailing from Puerto Rico, widely acknowledged as a prominent news source until its cessation in 1990. The publication diligently aspired to uphold its motto of “Verdad y Justicia” (Truth and Justice). El Mundo extensively covered a range of significant topics, including the industrialization of Puerto Rican society, the impact of the Great Depression, territorial relations with the United States encompassing citizenship, activities of independence movements such as the Macheteros and FALN, the emergence of the Popular Democratic Party, the Ponce massacre, the enactment of the Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law), and more. In 1986 El Mundo temporarily closed due to a labor strike, which inflicted lasting damage on the newspaper. Despite reopening in January 1988, the publication faced ongoing union difficulties and ceased operations permanently in 1990.
SIGLA: States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America Database
SIGLA (States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America, www.sigladata.org) is a multilingual digital database that freely provides information on legal and political institutions in Latin America. The beta version of SIGLA offers data on national-level institutions in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, as well as on international institutions. Ultimately, SIGLA will provide cross-nationally comparable, current and historical, qualitative and quantitative data on over 50 legal and political institutions in 20 Latin American countries in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Bancroft Roundtable: California and the Making of ‘Latin America’: A View From the 19th-Century Hemispheric Archive
California and the Making of ‘Latin America’: A View From the 19th-Century Hemispheric Archive
February 16, 2023 | Noon | Register via Zoom
Presented by Alexander Chaparro-Silva, Ph.D. candidate in history, The University of Texas at Austin, and 2022 recipient of The Bancroft Library Summer Study Award
During the 19th century, many intellectuals and diplomats from Latin America came to California, published continental newspapers and books, sponsored intellectual circles and political clubs, and established transnational correspondence networks to engage with the political problems common to the American hemisphere. These transnational crossings contributed to debates over slavery, citizenship, and immigration in Latin America and reinforced an Anglo/Latin distinction within the hemisphere as the boundary between two competing civilizations. Drawing upon 19th-century printed materials, travelogues, diaries, official documents, and diplomatic correspondence — many from The Bancroft Library — Alexander Chaparro-Silva will explore the role of these hemispheric mobilities in the making of the geopolitical category of “Latin America,” and reflect on the possibilities and challenges of assembling a hemispheric archive dispersed across a vast geography.
We look forward to seeing you at these talks.
Cuba: Grito de Yara (10 October 1868)
Each year, on 10th October, the Cubans all over the world commemorate the call for national independence. The “Grito de Yara,” is one of many important events in the complex historical trajectory of Cuba that unleashed the potential of the national consciousness through rebellions against the Spanish imperial authorities. The full text of the “Manifiesto de la Junta Revolucionaria de la Isla de Cuba” can be read by clicking on the link here.
At UC Berkeley Library, despite our West Coast location and our Pacific Rim orientation, we have a large collection of books that will enlighten our readers about what does “Grito de Yara” means. The other essential Open Access source is dLOC (Digital Library of the Caribbean) where one can browse documents related to the “Grito de Yara.“
Below are some titles that might of interest to the readers of this blog. Since we believe in the equitable access, I am providing some links to the full-text of these items.
Below is a clip from a film,