Latin American studies
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'''Latin American studies''' ('''LAS''') is an [[academic discipline]] dealing with the study of [[Latin America]] and Latin Americans.
== Definition ==
Latin American studies critically examines the [[history]], [[culture]], [[politics]], and experiences of Latin Americans in [[Latin America]] and often also elsewhere (such as [[Latino (demonym)|Latinos]]/[[Hispanics in the United States]]).
Latin American studies is [[Interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] from numerous disciplines such as [[sociology]], history, [[Literary criticism|literature]], [[political science]], [[geography]], [[gender studies]], and [[economics]], Latin Americanists consider a variety of perspectives and employ diverse analytical tools in their work.
Though Latin America is a fluid (and sometimes contested) concept, with no fixed definition, Latin American studies is usually quite open and often includes or is closely associated with, for instance, [[Latino studies]], [[Caribbean studies]], and transatlantic studies. The [[Latin American Studies Association]], for instance, has sections dealing with [[Europe]] and Latin America, [[Haiti]], and Latino studies (among many others).[http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/lasaSections.html]
==History==
Latin America has been studied in one way or another ever since Columbus's "discovery" of 1492, and even before. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, scientist explorers such as [[Alexander von Humboldt]] published extensively about the region. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the turn of the twentieth, within the region itself writers such as [[José Martí]] and [[José Enrique Rodó]] encouraged a consciousness of regional identity. But "Latin Americanism" as a concept and an academic discipline emerges only later in the twentieth-century, and mostly in Europe and North America.
In the USA, Latin American Studies (like other [[area studies]]) was boosted by the passing of Title VI of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958, which provided resources for Centers of Area and International Studies.[http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/history.html] In the UK, the 1965 "Parry Report" provided similar impetus for the establishment of Institutes and Centres of Latin American Studies (see Bulmer-Thomas).
==Associations==
* [[Brazilian Studies Association]]
* [http://www.claspprograms.org/ Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs]
* [[Latin American Studies Association]] (USA, founded 1966)
* [http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/salalm/ SALALM], the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials
* [[Society for Irish Latin American Studies]] (Ireland, founded 2003)
* [http://www.slas.org.uk/ Society for Latin American Studies] (UK, founded 1964)
==Journals==
* ''[[Bulletin of Latin American Research]]''
* ''[[Colonial Latin American Review]]''
* ''[[Hispanic American Historical Review]]''
* ''[[Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies]]''
* ''[[Journal of Latin American Studies]]''
* ''[[Latin American Research Review]]''
* ''[[NACLA Report on the Americas]]''
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probl%C3%A8mes_d%27Am%C3%A9rique_latine''Problems of Latin America'']
==Some Major Programs==
* [[Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos|CELA]], Mexico
* [[Institute for the Study of the Americas]], London
* [http://clacs.aas.duke.edu// Duke University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies]
* [http://lacc.fiu.edu/ Florida International University's Latin American and Caribbean Center]
* [http://clas.georgetown.edu/ Georgetown University's Center for Latin American Studies]
* [http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/ Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies]
* [http://www.albany.edu/lacs SUNY-Albany's Department of Latin American, Caribbean, & U.S. Latino Studies]
* [http://www.tulane.edu/~clas Tulane University's Roger Thayer Stone Center], the oldest LAS program in the United States
* [http://violet.berkeley.edu:7001/ University of California, Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies]
* [http://ilas.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina's Institute of Latin American Studies]
* [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas University of Texas at Austin's Long Institute], one of the largest LAS programs in the United States
* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/rilas University of Liverpool's Research Institute of Latin American Studies]
==Some Notable Latin Americanists==
See also [[:Category:Latin Americanists]]
* [[Richard Adams (anthropologist)|Richard Adams]]
* [[Manuel Alcántara]]
* [[Victor Bulmer-Thomas]]
* [[Simon Collier]]
* [[Antonio Cornejo Polar]]
* [[Ariel Dorfman]]
* [[James Dunkerley]]
* [[Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)|Arturo Escobar]]
* [[Richard Fagen]]
* [[Albert Fishlow]]
* [[Jean Franco]]
* [[Néstor García Canclini]]
* [[Federico Gil]]
* [[Roberto González Echevarría]]
* [[Lewis Hanke]]
* [[Albert O. Hirschman]]
* [[Daniel James (historian)|Daniel James]]
* [[John J. Johnson]]
* [[George Kubler]]
* [[Neil Larsen]]
* [[Miguel León-Portilla]]
* [[John Lynch (historian)|John Lynch]]
* [[Sylvia Molloy]]
* [[Alberto Moreiras]]
* [[Richard McGee Morse]]
* [[June Nash]]
* [[Guillermo O'Donnell]]
* [[Gustavo Pérez Firmat]]
* [[James Petras]]
* [[Mary Louise Pratt]]
* [[Ángel Rama]]
* [[Nelly Richard]]
* [[Riordan Roett]]
* [[William Rowe]]
* [[Beatriz Sarlo]]
* [[Donald Shaw]]
* [[Thomas Skidmore]]
* [[Doris Sommer]]
* [[Osvaldo Sunkel]]
* [[Michael Taussig]]
* [[Alain Touraine]]
* [[Victor L. Urquidi ]]
* [[Arturo Valenzuela]]
* [[Charles Wagley]]
* [[Henry Wells (author)|Henry Wells]]
* [[Ayonna Gray]]
* [[John Womack]]
* [[Peter Winn]]
== References ==
* [[Victor Bulmer-Thomas]], ed. ''Thirty Years of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom 1965-1995''. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1997.
==See also==
* [[Latino/a studies]]
* [[Chicano Studies]]
* [[Caribbeanist]]
* [[Latin America]]
== Links ==
* [http://memory.loc.gov/hlas/ Handbook of Latin American Studies]
* [http://lanic.utexas.edu/subject/lastudies.html Latin American Studies] at the University of Texas's [http://lanic.utexas.edu/ Latin American Network Information Center]
* [http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ Latino Studies Resources]
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