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Find books, e-books, videos, scores, and recordings at Oberlin by title, author, subject, keyword, or other options.
Using Subject Headings
Useful subject headings:
- Africans - Latin America -- History
- Aztecs
- Country - Race relations (e.g. Colombia - Race relations)
- Decolonization -- Geographical region (e.g. Decolonization -- Guatemala)
- Gay men - country (e.g. Gay men - Mexico, Gay men - Peru, etc.)
- Geographical division - Race relations (e.g. Caribbean Area -- Race relations)
- Lesbians - country (e.g. Lesbians - Mexico, Lesbians - Brazil, etc.)
- Incas
- Indians of the West Indies
- Indians of Mexico
- Indians of Central America
- Indians of South America
- Mayas
- Marriage -- Latin America -- History
- Mestizos -- Country (e.g. Mestizos -- Peru)
- Sex customs -- Latin America -- History
- Sex role -- Latin America -- History
- Women -- Latin America -- History
Subdivisions that can indicate that the content includes primary sources:
- Sources
- Captivity narratives
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Early Works to 1800
- Facsimiles
- Interviews
- Manuscripts
- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
- Pamphlets
- Personal narratives
- Slave narratives
- Speeches
Author search
Once you have identified key figures related to your topic, use author searches (Lastname, Firstname) in OBIS and OhioLink to find works written by that person.
For digitized books, especially those old enough to be out of copyright, use an author search in HathiTrust or national digital libraries, or a creator search in the Internet Archive.
Source Readers
- Latin America Readers SeriesThis series provides readers with a deep, human view of Latin America's many faces. Each volume will focus on a single country and cover the main themes in its history and contemporary life, including migration and urbanization, racial and ethnic diversity, art and culture, war and political strife, women's rights, the environment, economic reform, and democracy. Bringing together the best and most engaging work by scholars, journalists, novelists, and poets. In addition to first-person testimonies by peasants, shopkeepers, refugees, political activists, and others whose voices too often go unheard, these books will reflect the current thinking about a country. They will also be vivid, highly readable, and accompanied by a variety of images, including photographs, drawings, and maps—thus of interest to lay readers and travelers, in addition to scholars.
Afro-Latino Voices by Call Number: Main Library DT16.5 .A37 2009ISBN: 9780872209930Publication Date: 2009-11-15This book dramatically expands the canon of texts used to study the black Atlantic and the African diaspora, and captures the tenor of the 'black voice' as it collectively engaged the power of colonial institutions.
Colonial Spanish America by Call Number: Main Library F1412 .C642 1998ISBN: 0842025731Publication Date: 1998-04-01This text provides an examination of the cultural development of colonial Latin America, using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual material, including photographs, drawings and paintings. The illustrations are intended to offer avenues to discussion topics.
Colonial Latin America by Call Number: Main Library F1412 .C642 2002ISBN: 0842029974Publication Date: 2002-08-01A sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection.
Colonial Lives by Call Number: Main Library F1410 .C725 2000ISBN: 0195125126Publication Date: 1999-12-23Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies during 300 years of Spanish rule, as well as the day-to-day lives of the colonies' inhabitants.The concerns, struggles and perspectives of the inhabitants of colonial Latin America are reflected in transcripts of civil and criminal court cases, administrative reviews, ecclesiastical investigations, Inquisition trials, wills, and letters the editors have included in this reader.
Children of God's Fire by Call Number: Main Library HT1126.C455 1983ISBN: 0691076588Publication Date: 1984-01-21117 documents, translated from Portuguese. Sources include British consular reports, travelers’ narratives, newspaper advertisements, sermons, regional laws, Jesuit accounts, records of the Brazilian house of deputies, and reports by a select committee of the British house of lords and personal correspondence, as well as seven documents attributable to persons of African descent.
Resurgent Voices in Latin America by Call Number: Main Library BL2540 .R47 2004ISBN: 0813534607Publication Date: 2004-09-02Using case studies from Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Mexico, social scientists explore the important role of religion in indigenous activism, showing the ways that religion has strengthened indigenous identity and contributed to the struggle for indigenous rights in the region.
Native American Voices by Call Number: Main Library E77 .N3517 2001ISBN: 0130307327Publication Date: 2000-12-15Presents a collection of works designed to provide readers with a view into the diverse field of Native American Studies. This work incorporates a hemispheric approach that reflects the varied perspectives, histories, and realities of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It contains articles, journalistic selections, oral history and testimony.
