Emory Libraries is honored to be celebrating Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month by showcasing the first ever Latinx pop-up exhibit at the Robert W. Woodruff Library on Level 2 from September 15 to October 15. The exhibit is curated by Arturo Contreras, a fourth-year student majoring in Latin American & Caribbean Studies in the College of Arts…
Posts Tagged: Latin American Studies
Emory Libraries celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month 2021
Emory Libraries is pleased to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, which takes place each year between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. This period commemorates the important contributions of Americans who trace their roots to Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean and Spain. Did you know that there are more…
Latin American LGBT and Small Press Collections at Emory
This is the third of a series of blog posts to highlight the Libraries’ efforts to build more inclusive and diverse collections, from reflecting under-represented groups and marginalized populations to acquiring more unique material from smaller publishers, to better representing our communities and their interests. The acquisition of LGBT materials from Latin America and the…
Rose Library Blog
- New Digitized Collection: William H. Scott Family Papers March 6, 2023Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is excited to announce the addition of a new digital collection to Emory Digital Collections. The William H. Scott Family Papers is a manuscript collection from the family of William H. Scott (1848-1910), who was a Black Baptist minister and political activist who was...Erin Glogowski
- Carter G. Woodson, The Father of Black History at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library February 13, 2023As we observe Black History Month we look to Carter G. Woodson, who is known as the Father of Black History. Rose Library holds a collection of materials from Woodson’s library which includes, correspondence, photographs, and books. Woodson with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, an organization he helped found announced...Erin Glogowski
- Ernest Hartsock’s Bozart Magazine: An Oasis in the Sahara January 30, 2023Siân Round is very near to finishing a PhD in English at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines literary magazines in the American South between 1921 and 1945. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, The Cambridge Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. Who was Ernest...Erin Glogowski
- How Ebony magazine engaged and reacted to the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s January 10, 2023Sid Ahmed ZIANE is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He studies African American history and his area of interest revolves around race and media in Post-war America. He is currently working on a project which looks at the correlation between the modern black print media and the modern black liberation movement in the US....Erin Glogowski
- Personality and the Passage of Time in Handwritten Letters December 20, 2022Colin Newton is a writer from Los Angeles whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Ignatian, Westwind, Maudlin House, Red Planet Magazine, The Fabulist and Northridge Review. Newton was a 2018 Trillium Project resident at Oregon State University’s Shotpouch Cabin, and has years of experience as a freelance writer and writing instructor. Research conducted...Erin Glogowski