Latin American Studies: Web

LAPOP carries out targeted national surveys, conducts impact evaluation studies, and produces reports on individual attitudes, evaluations, and experiences. Their AmericasBarometer survey is the only scientifically rigorous comparative survey that covers 34 nations including all of North, Central, and South America, as well as a significant number of countries in the Caribbean. Each year it publishes dozens of academic studies and policy-relevant papers.

Launched in 2001 by the Pew Research Center to improve public understanding of the Hispanic Population in the US, based on public opinion polling and demographic studies on a wide range of topics. Downloadable data sets, statistical portraits, election fact sheets, interactive maps, and reports.

LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over A major directory of topics related to U.S. Hispanics, Chicano, and Latin American Studies. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.

The Google Cultural Institute collaborated with more than 35 museums and institutions to develop this platform that brings more than 2,500 Latino cultural artifacts online. The site includes immersive storytelling, 360-degree virtual tours,high-resolution imagery, and visual field trips.

Social Sciences and Humanities database produced by Dirección General de Bibliotecas, UNAM.

A primary access point for research related to the Caribbean, Latin America, Spain and Portugal; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage, including Latinos in the U.S. and peoples of Portuguese or Spanish heritage in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

The literature section of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes containing digitized works that span different literary genres. Includes Spanish and Latin American novels, plays, poetry and literary criticism.

Companion site to an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on contemporary Latino artists. Includes podcasts, video shorts, and photographs of the exhibit's installation.

Created by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Contains information about branches of government, political processes, elections, national constitutions, and other topics related to democracy in Latin America.

A cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. It provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections of dLOC's partner institutions.

Contains retro-digitized cultural magazines from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Puerto Rico dating back to the period between 1880 and 1930. Digitized by the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin.