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Latin
American Resource Center
The Latin American Resource Center, housed in Stone Center for Latin American Studies, provides specialized services to schools and colleges across the nation. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind in the United States, and is dedicated to continuing and improving educational outreach programs. Its goal is to promote the study of all subject matter relating to Latin America at both the K-12 and university levels. LARC offers a variety of opportunities for students to become involved in outreach activities in addition to providing services and teaching materials for instructors. Regular services include a Lending Library of over 3,000 curricular materials for teachers, a documentary film series each semester, regular workshops and conferences for educators, a variety of curricular publications, and a Visitor Speakers Bureau. Tulane Libraries and Special Collections Amistad Research Center, Tilton Hall Manuscripts and book collections that include materials about African roots of Caribbean culture. Koch Botanical Library, Dinwiddie Hall Collections
of rare botanical works, including 18th- and 19th-century
works on Latin America. Latin American Library, Howard Tilton Library Building Tulane is one of three universities in the U.S., which has created separate collections for Latin American materials. Current holdings total some 365,000 volumes. The LAL comprises 20% of total main library holding and occupies one sixth of total floor space. Its holding ranks tenth among institutions surveyed by the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). Combined holding of all Latin American materials at Tualne place us in the top four or five libraries ranked in a 1997-8 study of U.S. collections. LAL is visited by scholars from throughout the world, including many from Latin American searching for information about their own countries. Yearly it honors about a thousand interlibrary loan requests from other institutions. Every year it fields some 1,000 extramural scholar inquiries and its award-winning website registers 280,000 “hits”. Vol. 56 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies identifies LA as one of the four most important Internet research sites on Latin America. The historic focus of the LAL has been Mexico and Central America, given the nature of the original gift around which the library has evolved. This focus remains and, in fact, the Library of Congress uses the LAL as a yardstick to evaluate its own collections for Guatemala and Belize. Among the more notable holdings is an archive of almost 30,000 historic photographs, many of them depicting customs, costumes and buildings no longer extant. The photo collection also includes unique glass negatives and lantern slides taken by early photographers. LAL has an extensive collection of original Spanish Colonial handwritten documents, including the first letter written by Fernando Cortes in Mexico. LAL is especially rich in its collection of native language dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, legal dossiers, administrative proceedings and notarial records from New Spain. Another extremely important special collection includes over 2,000 rubbings (many of them huge in size) of Maya stone carving. These are work of Merle Greene Robertson, the inventor of the rubbing technique as applied to this stonework. The importance of this collection increases yearly as the original stone material is pilfered, looted or eroded by acid rain and petrochemical pollution. In many cases it is best full-scale record of particular inscriptions extant. Perhaps the crown jewel of the LAL is its collection of original Mexican pictorial manuscripts in the Native tradition, the largest such collection in the U.S. These pre-Columbian and colonial painted manuscripts, codices, lenzos, and mapas are visited by scholars from throughout the world. A notable example of these manuscripts is the Codex Tulane, a beautiful color Mixtec document from around 1550 which offers a mythological history of an area of Oaxaca and recounts details of the regimes of fifteen generations of rulers. Louisiana Collection, Jones Hall Books and journals relating to all periods of Louisiana history, including Spanish colonial imprints, compilations of Louisiana law, a copy of the Spanish law code Las Siete Partidas, and a complete set of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, which contains numerous reports on tropical diseases in the Gulf region. In the collection are Spanish-language newspapers published in New Orleans. Manuscripts Department, Jones Hall Extensive
holdings of manuscripts from the French and Spanish colonial period,
including family letters, military and official correspondence, army
rosters and commissions; collections relating to Gulf shipping and trade
with Central America, such as the Standard Fruit Company Papers;
personal papers of travelers in Mexico and Central America, such as the
Francisco Reibeau and Mary Ashley Townsend Papers; and the political
papers of Mayors Chep Morrison and Victor Schiro, who worked to promote
trade and cultural exchange between New Orleans and Latin America. Middle American Research Institute, Dinwiddie Hall, 4th floor Collections of pre-Columbian artifacts, Mayan textiles, lantern slides and photographs of archaeological expeditions to Mexico and Central America.Southeastern Architectural Archive, Jones Hall Elevations, floor plans, and specifications of 19th- and early-20th-century commercial buildings and residences; records of the leading architectural firms in New Orleans; photographs of New Orleans and Gulf-South architecture. University Archives, Jones Hall Correspondence and clipping files relating to the establishment and history of the Middle American Research Institute, as well as to other Tulane activities in Latin America. U.S. Government Documents, Howard Tilton Library Reports of the Department of Commerce for statistics on trade with Latin America; reports of the Department of State for foreign relations material; extensive documentation about the Panama Canal, border relations with Mexico, treaties, and other topics.William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, Jones Hall Photographs, sheet music, scores, oral interviews, and other types of material relating to New Orleans jazz. The repository offers the opportunity to study the influences of music from Cuba, Mexico, and the trans-Caribbean area on local music. The photograph collection contains many images of African-American culture. Stone Center Grants and Funding Opportunities For Graduate Students Academic Year FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowships Summer Tinker and Stone Center Summer Field Research Grants FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Summer Fellowships For Faculty Summer Research Click here to view projects funded in Summer 2001 Latin American Immersion Project The Latin American Immersion Project (LAIP) is an innovative, country specific non-credit course that is being offered at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans. Project collaborators include Orleans Parish Public Schools', Africana and Multicultural Studies Unit, Pan-American Life, and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. LAIP's goal is to educate the students of Warren Easton High School about the life, culture, and history of Latin America, from which almost 20% of the school is descended. For more information on this innovative and critical program, please visit Project LA. The Pebbles Center- List of materials available at the Pebbles Center
Area Resources Archdiocesan Archives, 1100 Chartres Street Records of the Catholic Church in Louisiana from the early 18th century to the present, including marriage, baptismal, and burial records. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street A private research facility in the French Quarter with collections of books and manuscripts relating to New Orleans and the Lower Mississippi. For the Latin Americanist, of particular value is a collection of hundreds of reels of microfilm of documents in the Archivo Nacional in Havana and in the Archivo de Indias in Seville that relate to Spanish colonial Louisiana. Located in the Old Mint on Esplanade Avenue; houses the official records of the French Superior Council and the Spanish Cabildo of the colonial period of Louisiana. Notary records from the French and Spanish colonial period to the present day. Included are records of civil transactions and contracts, wills, estate inventories, marriage contracts, slave sales, building contracts, often with floor plans and elevations attached. New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave. City records, court records, historic and contemporary newspaper files, and official city publications. Of interest are the Board of Health publications that record the effects of the frequent epidemics of yellow fever and cholera in the 19th and early-20th centuries of the city. University of New Orleans Archives Department Collections that relate to Hispanics in New Orleans. A Latin Americanist's Guide to New Orleans Greater
New Orleans has a long history of cultural and economic ties with Latin
America. Sometimes called
“The Gateway to the Americas,” New Orleans has historically served
as an entryway for people and products from Latin America.
New Orleans did not have a well-established Hispanic community
until the second half of the twentieth century.
Since the 1950s, there has been a significant increase in the
Hispanic population as a result of the political and economic problems
in Cuba and Central America and an open door policy toward Caribbean and
South American immigration. Today, the New Orleans Hispanic community continues to grow. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hispanic workers migrated to the city to help rebuild the city . The Gulf Coast Latin American Association estimated an influx of 30,000 Latinos in the first few weeks after the storm. The demographics of the city continue to shift. These newcomers join a Hispanic community estimated at 50,000 from the 2000 Census. Unlike many cities in the United States whose Latino population is dominated by one or two national groups, the national origins of Greater New Orleans’ Hispanics are diverse, with individuals from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. To help you become familiar with the Hispanic community in New Orleans, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University has prepared this Latinamericanist’s Guide to New Orleans. Since there are new and exciting developments each and every day, please email news and updates to crcrts@tulane.edu. |
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