UofL Libraries: LALS 310 Latin American and Latino Studies: Home

UofL Library Catalog

Background Information

The following books are available in the Reference Collection on the first floor of Ekstrom Library. There are many additional reference books on Latin American Studies topics, so ask a librarian if you don't see what you need.

Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics
Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater
Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture
Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works
Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Article Databases

Latin American Studies is an interdisciplinary field. This means you may need to consider the broader discipline(s) your research topic is associated with to determine which databases to search.

For example, a project on Cuban immigration to the U.S. could explore relations between the two countries (political science; economics), writings by or about Cuban immigrants (literature; history), or the complexities of immigrant identity (sociology; anthropology; literature).