LLAS Film Collection and Resources
LLAS Film Collection
![]() | BLACK IN LATIN AMERICAHarvard academic Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts this four-part series that explores colonialism, slavery and the influence of African culture in Latin America, making stops in 1) Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2) Cuba, 3) Brazil and 4) Mexico and Peru. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGEArizona lawmakers are trying to shut down Tucson High School's successful Mexican American Studies program because they believe students are being indoctrinated with dangerous ideology and embracing destructive ethnic chauvinism. Precious Knowledge illustrates what motivates Tuscon High School students and teachers to form the front line of an epic civil rights battle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | Voices from Mariel (Los Marielitos, Then and Now)In 1980, nearly 125,000 Cubans fled their country in hundreds of boats, heading for the US and a chance at a better life. Told through the previously unrecorded stories of ten Cuban-American families, Voices from Mariel examines the legacy of Los Marielitos and considers where that short but dangerous trip across the Straits of Florida has taken them in the decades since the Mariel boatlift. Portions with English subtitles. |
LLAS Film List
Resources
- Guide to research in Latino and Latin American studies
- HACER Internship Program QuintCareers.com- Career and job resources for Hispanic job seekers
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Diversity.com
- Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education
- Latino Policy Forum
- Puerto Rican Cultural Center
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
- Latin American Studies Association
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies
- National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund
- National Hispanic Institute
- National Institute of Latino Policy, Inc.
- United Negro College Fund Special Programs
- United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce