The Latin American Studies Collection
The Latin American Studies Collection includes the following titles:
Six young Maya present a wholly indigenous perspective, in which all life is sacred and connected, as they resist the destruction of their culture and environment.
Seven Brazilian teenagers film their housemaids, exposing issues of class, race, and gender in their families, and in their country.
Saga of two colonists in the Amazon rainforest.
Concludes the Amazon colonists' saga.
An evocative vision of El Salvador and its tragic civil conflict.
Ometepe, Nicaragua, and Bainbridge Island near Seattle work together for a better life for both communities.
Takes a camera where few have been, a criminal courtroom in Rio de Janeiro, to record the social theatre, the structures of power, what is usually invisible.
Investigates the human rights and legal issues involved when two Salvadoran generals are sued in an American court for atrocities (such as the murder of four American churchwomen) committed during El Salvador's civil war.
Following El Salvador's civil war, a farmers' cooperative puts down roots, builds resilience and provides a model of how to mitigate climate change and resist unsustainable, extractive development.
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