Collins Memorial Library: SPAN 205: Spanish Contemporary Issues: Books & Media

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Using Library of Congress Subject Headings

Books in Primo are assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings. In many ways, subject headings are a form of tagging, in that they represent the content of the material and provide ways for you to efficiently locate more materials that are conceptually related.

Here are several examples of the various ways you can use LCSH to help pinpoint what you need:

Latin America -- Politics and government -- 21st century

Latin America -- Social conditions -- 21st century

Women -- Political Activity -- Latin America

Social Movements -- Latin America

Mexican-American Border Region

Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions

Featured Books

Latin America's Pink Tide: breakthroughs and shortcomings by Steve Ellner (Editor); Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Foreword by)
Call Number: F1414.3 .L382 2020 Print Books
ISBN: 9781538125632
Publication Date: 2019
This multidisciplinary book presents a balanced view of contemporary leftist and center-leftist Latin American governments. Drawing on the relationships among economic, social, and political factors, it explores the historically unprecedented duration of the Pink Tide phenomenon as well as the setbacks and conservative inroads of recent years.
Voices of Latin America: social movements and the new activism by Tom Gatehouse (Editor)
Call Number: HN110.5.A8 V58 2019 Print Books
ISBN: 9781583677971
Publication Date: 2019
This volume tells the story of the major issues, conflicts, and campaigns for social justice in the region today, in the words of the protagonists of these movements themselves.
The U. S.-Mexican Border Today: conflict and cooperation in historical perspective by Paul Ganster; Kimberly Collins
Call Number: Click on the title above for online access
ISBN: 9781538131794
Publication Date: 2021
Systematically explores the dynamic historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary. Now fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the history of the region and traces the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s through the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Environmental Justice in Latin America by David V. Carruthers (Editor)
Call Number: GE235.L29 E58 2008 Print Books
ISBN: 9780262033725
Publication Date: 2008
Investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analyses and case studies that examine both the promise and the limits of environmental justice in Latin America and the Caribbean -- both as a rallying point for popular mobilization and as a set of principles for analysis and policymaking.

Featured Primary Source Collections

Latin America since Independence: a history with primary sources by Michael Dawson; Alexander Dawson
Call Number: F1413 .D39 2011 Print Books
ISBN: 9780415991957
Publication Date: 2010
Short thematic chapters are bolstered by the inclusion of relevant primary documents including advertisements and posters, song lyrics, political speeches, government documents, and more. Each chapter also includes timelines highlighting important dates and suggestions for further reading.
The Rio de Janeiro Reader by Daryle Williams (Editor); Amy Chazkel (Editor); Paulo Knauss de Mendonça (Editor)
Call Number: F2646.3 .R568 2016 Print Books
ISBN: 9780822359746
Publication Date: 2016
Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. The volume contains a wealth of primary sources, many of which appear here in English for the first time.
The Chile Reader by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison (Editor); Thomas Miller Klubock (Editor); Nara B. Milanich (Editor); Peter Winn (Editor)
Call Number: F3081 .C485 2014 Print Books
ISBN: 9780822353461
Publication Date: 2013
Makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in English.
The Argentina Reader by Gabriela Nouzeilles (Editor); Graciela Montaldo (Editor)
Call Number: F2810 .A646 2002 Print Books
ISBN: 9780822329145
Publication Date: 2002
This diverse collection brings together songs, articles, comic strips, scholarly essays, poems, and short stories. Most pieces are by Argentines. More than forty of the texts have never before appeared in English.

Streaming Media

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Is a video subscription that delivers almost 70,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Kanopy
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, TV series, and more. Films streamed on Kanopy are provided to the Puget Sound community for classroom and educational purposes only. Films that have been licensed are immediately available on the Kanopy platform. If a film has not been licensed for use, you may submit a Kanopy request form and the library will consider the request.
Theatre in Video
Contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays together with film documentaries, online in streaming video.
Films on Demand - Archival Films & Newsreels Collection
A collection of archival films and newsreels spanning the 1880s to the 21st century.

Telescope Film
Offers a database of 450,000 films and series, with click through access to over 150 streaming services. Users can browse all films with the button in the header, and filter by streaming service, country, language, genre, and more or enter a search term in the search window. Find a film you want to watch? Just click through to the streaming service of your choice.