African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Website presents information about African culture in Cuba, including resources on music, dance, festicals, events, authors, teachers, theater, film, conferences, local news and organizations.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Contains the full text of 1,310 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Contains the full text of plays, written from the 1850s to the present, by playwright
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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A discussion and information mailing list for the RSLP funded CASBAH project, Caribbean Studies - Black and Asian History. The project aims to identify and map national research resources for Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain.
Miami, FL: Florida International University, Cuban Research Institute
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Cuban Research Institute (CRI) at Florida International University (FIU) is dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about Cuba and Cuban Americans. The institute encourages original research and interdisciplinary teaching, organizes extracurricular activities, collaborates with other academic units working in Cuban and Cuban-American studies, and promotes the development of library holdings and collections on Cuba and its diaspora. Founded in 1991, CRI is a freestanding entity within FIU's Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs and works closely with its prestigious Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think-tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean through policy dialogue and analysis. It seeks to create new partnerships and policy options throughout the Western Hemisphere through its promotion of good governance, economic prosperity and social justice.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Inter-governmental organization, composed of 25 countries from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, exchanging experiences and knowledge on state reform and the modernization of public administration in the search for higher levels of social development and equity; news, databases, and information on publications, meetings, projects, agreements, and more; English and Spanish.
Santiago, Chile: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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ECLAC, which is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world. The promotion of the region's social development was later included among its primary objectives.
In June 1951, the Commission established the ECLAC subregional headquarters in Mexico City, which serves the needs of the Central American subregion, and in December 1966, the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean was founded in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, ECLAC maintains country offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo and Bogotá, as well as a liaison office in Washington, D.C.
5 p., During most of the last half century, discussions aimed at normalizing relations with Cuba have been rare and mainly unproductive. Due to Obama's optimism for political change toward Cuba during his presidential campaign, there was considerable hope that policy would be altered in a more constructive direction, but after a year, it is argued that "change" in Latin America policy has been more in reverse than in fast-forward. Tables.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Part of Tulane University's Stone Center for Latin American Studies responsible for the organization of lectures, performances, courses, symposia, etc.; aimed at promoting an academic and cultural exchange between Cuba and the US.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Institute for Ibero-American Studies aims to observe and scientifically analyze political, economic, and social development processes in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Academically and legally independent research establishment connected with the German Overseas Institute (Deutsches Übersee-Institut, DÜI), which is funded by the German federal government and the city-state of Hamburg. Links to online newspapers and magazines in Latin America (annotations in German), to institutes researching Latin America, and to other resources; projects descriptions, newsletter, and several papers online.
