Latin American Studies

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Web Resources

LANIC  - Latin American Network Information Center
The most comprehensive directory to electronic information on Latin America. Links are grouped in broad categories by country and by subject. From the University of Texas at Austin.

LADARK - The Latin American Development Archive
Data sets, working papers and other useful resources for researchers investigating Latin American social trends and issues. From Johns Hopkins University.

LAPOP - Latin American Public Opinion Project
A collection of over 60 surveys, analyzing major topics of great interest to Latin American Studies researchers, political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists. The surveys include analyses of popular opinion, polls, and surveys, as well as data sets.  These are now being archived for many Latin American countries (see the web page for a list of included countries) and are presented here, along with information on requesting data sets.  LAPOP is a project of Vanderbilt University.

Internet Resources for Latin America 
From New Mexico State University Library.

Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies
Images of more than 750,000 ecclesiastical records of African and African descended individuals from Brazil, Cuba, and Spanish Florida. Includes 16th century black baptisms, marriages, and burials from the Cathedral of Havana, 18th century black wills and testaments from the Diocese of Nova Iguaçu, Brazil, 18th and 19th century black brotherhood records from Brazil and Cuba, and 19th century burials of unbaptized "Asiaticos" in Matanzas, Cuba.Team members have also digitized related collections dealing with Africans and African descended people in the provincial archives in Matanzas and Guantanamo, Cuba.