What's New Archives: April 2002

Central America and Guyana are new categories to be found on LANIC's African Diaspora page, among other new links. Special thanks to Isaiah J. Imani for sending in many great suggestions over the past few months.
• Latin American Resources: Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cultures in the Americas
• The Estevanico Society
• Caribbean:
  • Caribbean and African Television Network
  • Raceandhistory.com
• Central America:
• "Authentic African Culture in Honduras? Afro-Central Americans Challenge Honduran Indo-Hispanic Mestizaje"
• Brazil
  • Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos CEAA, Universidade Candido Mendes
  • Centro de Estudos da Cultura Afro-Brasileira
  • CRIOLA
  • Fundação Cultural Palmares
  • Instituto Nacional Afro-Brasileiro INABRA
  • Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito dos Homens Negros
  • Portalafro.com
  • Projeto Quilombolas
  • Sociedade de Estudos da Cultura Negra no Brasil
• Colombia: Chocó
• Cuba: The Route of the Slave in Cuba
• Guyana
  • Guyana Caribbean Politics
  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana Exaltation and Ambiguity
  • The Walter Rodney Institute for Social Action
• Other
  • "Articulating Blackness in Afro-Ecuadorian Marimba Performance" Jonathan Ritter
  • Día de la Etnia Negra Nacional Panama
  • Hermanos Santa Cruz Peru
  • Kalaú Centro de investigación cultural y acción creativa Afro Caribeña
  • "Winti Culture, an Afro-Surianme religion
• International: The Black Web Portal

• Check out the Indigeous Peoples page for a new Nicaragua category and other new links:
  • Latin American Resources: Convergencia de Movimientos de los Pueblos de las Américas Construyendo Alternativas Frente al Neoliberalismo - COMPA
  • Brazil:
    • Área Indígena
    • Associação Nacional de Ação Indigenista ANAI
    • Autonomias Locais
    • Centro de Documentação Eloy Ferreira da Silva CEDEFES
    • Centro e Trabalho Indigenista
    • Comissão Pró-Yanomami CCPY
    • Comunidades Indígenas e Minorias
    • Grupo de Estudos em Relações Interétnicas
    • Instituto de Desenvolvimento das Tradições Indígenas IDETI
    • Instituto Socioambiental
    • Projeto Quilombolas
    • Rede de Comunicação Indígena Sob Perspectiva de Gênero e Direitos GRUMIN
    • Video nas Aldeias
  • Chile: Ser Indígena
  • Nicaragua:
    • Evaluación Social y Plan de Desarollo Indígena, World Bank 1998
    • Fundación para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua FADCANIC
    • Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community Case Corte Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
    • La Nación Moskita en Internet
    • "Rama Indian Lands and the Protection of Nicaragua's Cultural and Biological Diversity" University of Florida
  • Garífuna:
    • Ballet Nacional folklórico Garífuna
    • El Espíritu de mi Mamá a film by Ali Allie
    • Garinet.com
    • Garifuna People of Belize
    • The Garífuna Peoples of Honduras
  • International Resources:
    • Indian Law Resource Center
    • United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
    • United Nations Documents and Studies about Indigenous Peoples

• There are more new links on the Higher Education page today:
  • Costa Rica: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
  • Cuba:
    • Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
    • Cuban Research Institute
    • Science & Human Rights Program
  • Dominica: Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology
  • Ecuador: Ecuadorian Studies
  • El Salvador:
    • Instituto Tecnológico Centroamericano
    • Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador
  • Jamaica:
    • Institute of Jamaica
    • Management Institute for National Development
    • Northern Caribbean University
  • Nicaragua:
    • Ave Maria College of the Americas
    • Instituto Nacional Tecnológico
    • Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
  • Panama: Centro de Estudios Regionales
  • Peru: Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann de Tacna
  • Puerto Rico: Escuela de Artes Plásticas

• There are new links on the Higher Education page:
  • Costa Rica: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
  • Cuba:
    • Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
    • Cuban Research Institute
    • Science & Human Rights Program
  • Dominica: Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology
  • Ecuador: Ecuadorian Studies
  • El Salvador:
    • Instituto Tecnológico Centroamericano
    • Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador
  • Jamaica:
    • Institute of Jamaica
    • Management Institute for National Development
    • Northern Caribbean University
  • Nicaragua:
    • Ave Maria College of the Americas
    • Instituto Nacional Tecnológico
    • Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
  
  
• Also see these new resources on LANIC's Scholarships, Grants & Loans page:
  • Hispanic/Latino: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
  • Argentina: Becas, from the Red de Estudiantes y Graduados Argentinos en Estados Unidos

• New links were just added to the Academic Research Resources category to the Barbados country page.
  • Centre for Gender and Development Studies - UWI-Cave Hill
  • Sir Arthur Lewis Insitute of Social and Economic Studies - UWI-Cave Hill
  • The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
  • University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre

• LANIC's Guyana page, under Arts & Culture, has the following new links:
  • Guyana Music Broadcast
  • Guyanese Music Radio
  • Radio Guyana1 Hot FM
  
  
• The Higher Education page also has some new resources:
  • Argentina: Universidades
  • Belize:
    • Field Schools in Belize
    • University of Belize Student Government
  
  
• Don't miss Immigration & Migration:
  • Academic Research Resources:
    • A new category, Guyana, has been added!
    • Under General Resources, a link to the homepage of a specialist on Chinese migration to Latin America, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, has been added.
    • Under Other Countries: Centenario de la Inmigración Japonesa al Perú
  • There are new links to two Brazilian directories under Portals, Directories & Search Sites: Links relacionados à cultura e à música japonesa and OrientalFriends.
  • Under Publications & Documentaries, you can now find a link to the Japanese-Brazilian newspaper Jornal Nippo-Brasil.

Lanic's St. Lucia page includes a few new links:
• Academic Research Resources:
  • Cheddie's Rajya: East Indians in St. Lucia
  • "EU/US trade war" Banana Link
  • History of the Town and District of Vieux Fort
  • The National Archives Authority of St. Lucia
• Arts & Culture
  • Derek Walcott Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Economy
  • St. Lucia Free Zone Management Authority FZMA
  • Windward Islands Banana Development and Exporting Company, Ltd.
• Environment
  • Saint Lucia's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Project
  • Saint Lucia's Official Climate Change Website
• General
  • updated Background Notes: Saint Lucia
  • St.Lucia at a Glance Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade - Canada
• Government
  • Government of St.Lucia
  • Inland Revenue Department
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
  • Ministry of Commerce International Financial Services and Consumer Affairs
  • Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development, Youth and Sports
  • Office of Private Sector Relations
• News & Media
  • Helen Television System
  • Radio Saint Lucia Limited RSL
  • St. Lucia Beat
  • St. Lucia Mirror
  • St. Lucia Online Radio
  • The Voice Online

LANIC's ever-growing subject directory now totals 59 with the addition of a new Telecommunication in Latin America page. The page has over 100 links to telecommunication resources in 21 Latin American countries, as well as regional and international resources. Offerings include domestic regulatory agencies, ministries and secretariats, sector journals and other publications, and telecom research resources.