About This Guide
This highly selective guide covers the most useful, current and basic reference sources for social sciences and historical information on the Latin American countries and region.
For sources on language and literature in Latin America see the guide to Romance Languages & Literatures.
This guide includes sources professors expect students to consult when researching paper topics and locating data or evidence to support a thesis.
Since the purpose of this guide is to facilitate your research and is only part of the research process, you are encouraged to ask the Reference Desk Staff or me questions while you are in the library or email me your questions.
Additional information and guidance is available from the Subject Specialist for Latin American Studies, Shari Grove (617-552-4481; grove@bc.edu).
Introductions to Latin American Studies
- Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (BC Community Only) Essays analyze Latin American history and politics from the nineteenth century to the present day and consider the heritage of pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America.
- A Companion to Latin American History (BC Community Only) A compendium of chronologically and thematically arranged descriptive and interpretive essays on the history of Latin America.
- A Companion to Latina/o Studies (BC Community Only) A collection of essays exploring "everything from theories of latinismo, immigration, education, language and religion; to discussions on political and economic perspectives, and race, class, gender, and sexuality."
- A Companion to Latin American Anthropology (BC Community Only) This guide "introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the [anthropological] study of this diverse region."
- A Reference Guide to Latin American History (O'Neill Reference F1410.H463 2000)
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