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1. Africa Enslaved: Comparative Slave Systems Outside the United States

A Curriculum Unit for grades 9-12

2. Africans in Haiti, Jamaica and Brazil

Slavery in Latin America countries

3. Asphalt Angels

By Ineke Holtwijk, translated from the Dutch by Wanda Boeke (Front Street Press, 1999)

4. Carnaval

By George Ancona (Harcourt Brace, 1999)

5. Explorers, Traders & Immigrants: Tracking the Cultural and Social Effects of the Global Commodity Trade

A primary-source document based curriculum unit for grades 9-12

6. Exploring Africa, 15: Africa and the World

Explores the diaspora of peoples of African descent throughout the world.

7. Exploring Africa, 7B: The Era of Global Encroachment

Examines the impact of Europe on Africa through the slave trade and colonial occupation.

8. Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Slide show presents a look at life in the favelas.

9. How Iwariwa the Cayman Learned to Share: A Yanomami Myth

Retold and illustrated by George Crespo (Clarion, 1995)

10. How Night Came from the Sea: A Story from Brazil

Retold by Mary-Joan Gerson, illustrated by Carla Golembe (Little, Brown and Company, 1994)

11. Land of Diversity

A Curriculum Guide for Teaching about Latin America

12. LASP Video Lending Library

The video lending library of Cornell University's Latin American Studies Program.

13. Latin America

Curriculum Materials for the Middle Grades

14. Latin America in Cyberspace

A metasite of filtered website materials.

15. Latin America Multimedia Initiative: The Southern Cone

A website that incorporates video, audio, text and photographic resources

16. Latin America Overview

An annotated set of mostly weblinks to key Latin American reference materials.

17. Latin American & Caribbean Film and Video Collection

A List of films from 2005-2006

18. Latin American Film

Students will learn about film in Latin America through these primary, intermediate and secondary lesson plans.

19. Me in the Middle / Criação e Produção

By Ana Maria Machado, illustrated by Caroline Merola, translated by David Unger (Groundwood, 2002)

20. Nina Bonita

By Ana Maria Machado, illustrated by Rosana Faría, translated by Elena Iribarren (Kane/Miller, 1996)

21. Organization of American States Project

Introduces the history and rich cultural legacy of Mexico, Peru, Brazil and other Latin American countries.

22. People and Place: Curriculum Resources on Human-Environmental Interactions

Case studies address human adaptation to and modification of the environment

23. People and Place: Itaipu Dam and Power Plant

One of 12 lesson plans on People and Place: Human-Environmental Interactions

24. Political Database of the Americas

Provides contemporary political and institutional information about the 35 countries of the Western Hemisphere.

25. Restoring Women to World Studies

Restoring Women to World Studies introduces the notion of gender as a key social category and patriarchy as an important organizing structure in many societies and cultures. The unit then examines these concepts within case studies from the four regions. Each case study is meant to encourage students to address questions about gender roles in the different societies, either in a particular histori