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This page is intended to direct you to databases with information relevant to AAS285. Not finding what you need here? Contact Erica Bruchko for help.
Research Guides & Reference Sources
The library has research guides to help you find materials in many subjects. For this class, check out our Latin American and Caribbean Studies Guide and Caribbean Studies Guide.
You can also find useful reference sources related to the history of racial formation in Latin America. Here's one example: The Black Experience in Modern Latin America and Race and Racism in Atlantic History. If you'd like to find more sources like this, contact Erica!
Articles+ & Library Search
Find books, film, music, and more in Library Search, Emory's library catalog.
Not sure where to look for scholarly articles? Try using Articles+.
Need help reading citations? Check out this guide from the University of Berkeley.
Media Databases
Newspapers
The Woodruff Library subscribes to many newspaper databases. Here are a few to get you started.
- ProQuest News & Newspapers This link opens in a new windowAn extensive collection of historic and present-day news sources from around the world. You can focus your search to a region, current newspapers, or historical newspapers.
- NewsBank Access World News This link opens in a new windowCoverage includes domestic newspapers, international newspapers, news wires, transcripts, and broadcasts, including 16 Georgia newspapers.
- World Newspaper Archive : Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new windowContains newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century from various Latin American countries including Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, and more.
- World Newspaper Archive : Latin American Newspapers, Series 2 This link opens in a new windowOver 250 different newspapers published between 1822 and 1923 includes titles from the larger Latin American countries but also from Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay.
Magazines
Find popular magazines in the databases below! Not finding a magazine that you'd like to use for your final project? Contact Erica (berica@emory.edu) for help locating it.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess backfiles of Beat, Billboard, Boxoffice, Broadcasting & Cable, Melody Maker, Musician, New Musical Express, Spin, Variety, and other entertainment titles.
- Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals Online This link opens in a new windowContains Latina American anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, and labor periodicals. Materials are organized by country and author.
- News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess consumer magazines in the fields of news, policy, and politics. Titles include Newsweek, the UN Chronicle, the UNESCO Courier, and more.
Social Media & Other Internet Sources
In addition to searching on social media platforms to find topics of interest, here are some additional sites that you can search. For more suggestions check out this page.
- Wayback MachineSearches webpages from the past.
- Social SearcherOne of several social media search engines.
- Listen NotesSearch engine for podcasts.
Other Historical Sources
- Caribbean History and Culture, Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (1535-1920) This link opens in a new windowAccess documents related to the history of the Caribbean Islands, including books, pamphlets, almanacs, and more. This collection is a subset of Afro-Americana Imprints.
- Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century This link opens in a new windowAccess primary source documents about Latin American and the Caribbean. Includes academic journals, newsfeeds, maps, video, and more.