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New AFC Latinx and Latin American Research Guide : Navigating AFC Collections During National Hispanic Heritage Month

Posted by: Allina Migoni

The research guides from the American Folklife Center help researchers navigate the AFC collections by geographic region or by topic. One of our most recent guides, Latinx and Latin American Collections: Resources in the American Folklife Center, provides quick access to our Latinx and Latin American resources during National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Posted in: AFC Events, Caribbean Americans, Chicano/a, Cuban Americans, Día de los Muertos, Día de Muertos, Folksong, Haiti, Hispanic American History, Latin America, Latino/a, Narratives, Oral History, Puerto Rican Americans, South America, Storytelling

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More Haitian Voices: The Rigaud collection finding aid goes online

Posted by: Todd Harvey

This guest post was authored by Marcia K. Segal, an archivist at the American Folklife Center who processed and authored the finding aid to the collection she describes below. Melville Herskovits, Alan Lomax, and Laura Boulton – three notable collectors, whose recordings of religious expression in Haiti are among the collections at the American Folklife …

Posted in: Archival Practice, Haiti

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A New Piece of History: Alan Lomax’s Lost Notes From Haiti

Posted by: Stephen Winick

There’s been a new discovery and new research into Alan Lomax’s fieldwork in the 1930s! On the John W. Kluge Center’s blog Insights, Antony Stewart, British Research Council Fellow at The Kluge Center, describes a notebook recently discovered by AFC’s Alan Lomax curator, Todd Harvey.  The notebook was used by Lomax during his 1936-1937 field …

Posted in: Alan Lomax, Haiti