Latin American Studies
Palomar College | Publications | Organizations/Directories | Business | Culture | Environment | History | Politics | Specific Region | General Interest

Palomar College Catalog, Subject Guides and Web pages

• Library Catalog (Find Books & Other Materials at Palomar College Library)

• Cinco de Mayo- Selected Bibliography (Palomar College Library)

• Mexico and Mexican History Subject Guide (Palomar College Library)

Publications (Databases/E-Journals)

• CountryWatch contains information about countries, including news on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental events as they occur, and detailed geographical, political, economic, corporate, and environmental briefings.  This database is available online to Palomar College students, faculty, and staff-passwords required off-campus.

• Ethnic NewsWatch is a bilingual (English-Spanish) database of full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.  This database is available online to Palomar College students, faculty, and staff-passwords required off-campus.

• JSTOR contains articles from 55 titles relating to Latin American Studies.  This database is available online to Palomar College students, faculty, and staff-passwords required off-campus.

• Additional print and online journals on this topic available from Palomar College Library.

Organizations/Directories

• Latin American Studies Association

• LatinWorld (Search Engine)

• Society for Latin American Studies

Business

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

• Inter-American Development Bank

Culture

• Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

• Coleccion Cisneros

• Cultura Hispanica

• Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art

• Religion in Latin America

Environment

• Amazon Watch

• Environmental History of Latin America - Bibliography

History

• Historical Text Archive

• Modern History Sourcebook: 19th Century Latin America

Politics

• Derechos: Human Rights in Latin America

• Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional

• Electoral Data Sets: 3rd-wave democracies in Latin America

• LAPOP-Latin American Public Opinion Project (Vanderbilt)

• NACLA Report of the Americas

• NALEO Education Fund

• SAIIC: South and Meso American Indian Rights Center

• The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute

Specific Region

• Andean Links

• Borderlands Encyclopedia (Univ. of Texas)

• The Lost Empire (Inca)

• Maya/Aztec/Inca Center of the Lords of the Earth

• Washington Post: Articles on Mexico

General Interest

• HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)

• Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)

• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center

• LatIndex

• The Pew Hispanic Center

• Science and Development Network (articles on the social and economic impact of science and technology)