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INTRODUCTION: NEW VIEWS ON OLD PREJUDICES
From: From Du Bois to Van Vechten

African American Artists Observe the South
From: The South

Architecture, Art, Sculpture, and Photography
From: Culture and Customs of the Dominican Republic

ART
From: African American Quotations

Art
From: Culture and Customs of Costa Rica

Art
From: Culture and Customs of Cuba

ART
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture

Art
From: The Jim Crow Encyclopedia

Art (Painting, Sculpture, Photography)
From: Culture and Customs of Argentina

Art and Architecture
From: Culture and Customs of Brazil

Art and Architecture
From: Culture and Customs of Chile

Art and Architecture
From: Culture and Customs of Venezuela

ART AND ARTISTS
From: W.E.B. Du Bois

ART AND LITERATURE
From: W.E.B. Du Bois

Art, Architecture, and Photography
From: Culture and Customs of Peru

Art, Artifacts, Music, and Entertainment
From: DAILY LIFE OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Art, Blacks as Represented in European
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

Art, Visual (to 1960)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

Art.
From: The Borderlands

Arts and Crafts
From: Daily Life in Maya Civilization

Aztec Aesthetics: Flowers and Songs
From: Daily Life of the Aztecs

Black Mountain College
From: The South

Border Arts Workshop.
From: The Borderlands

Chicano Mural Movement
From: Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture

Contemporary Art and Architecture/Housing
From: Culture and Customs of Guatemala

Crafts, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
From: Culture and Customs of Ecuador

Douglas, Aaron
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights

Graffiti (aka Aerosol Art)
From: Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture

Hispanic Traditional Technology and Material Culture in the United States
From: Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology

Latino Visual Arts
From: Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture

Pictographs
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

Pinto Arte
From: Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture

Spanish Colonial Culture
From: Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: History

The Art of Fun and Games: Native American Leisure and the Environment
From: Nature and the Environment in Pre-Columbian American Life

The Plastic Arts, Photography, and Architecture
From: Culture and Customs of Colombia

The Use of Feathers in Native New England
From: ENDURING TRADITIONS

Traditional Culture and Popular Entertainment
From: Culture and Customs of El Salvador

Visual and Performing Arts
From: Culture and Customs of El Salvador

Visual and Performing Arts
From: Culture and Customs of Panama

Visual Arts
From: Culture and Customs of Mexico

Visual Arts
From: Culture and Customs of Spain

African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm

AfroCubaWeb
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/

Arizona State University Art Museum
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/collections/lacat.htm

Bilingual Review Press
http://www.asu.edu/brp/

Curare
http://www.laneta.apc.org/curare/index.html

Del Corazon: Latino Voices in American Art
http://delcorazon.si.edu/

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
http://www.eiteljorg.org/

El Museo del Barrio
http://www.elmuseo.org/

Fundación Cultural Armella Spitalier
http://www.fundacionarmella.com/

Humanities-Interactive: Border Studies
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html

Museo de las Americas
http://www.museo.org/

Museo Popol Vuh
http://www.maya-archaeology.org/museums/popolvuh/popolvuh.html

Native American Art Links
http://www.artnatam.com/links.html

Native American Fine Arts Movement: A Resource Guide
http://216.235.201.146/NETCOMMUNITY/Document.Doc?&id=2

Native American Indigenous Cinema and Arts
http://thenaica.org/

Native American Web
http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/subject/nativ5m.html

Puerto Rico and the American Dream
http://prdream.com/

Raven Chronicles
http://www.ravenchronicles.org/

Smithsonian Latino Center
http://latino.si.edu/

Taino Boricano
http://www.nyboricua.com/boricua.htm

The Studio Museum in Harlem
http://www.studiomuseum.org/

Museum of the Revolution, previously the Presidential Palace.

Painting created in protest of NAFTA by adult bilingual learners. Photograph by author.

Painting created by adult bilingual students in a literacy class. Photograph by author.

“Paisaje Serrano,” by Enrique Camino Brent. Photo by Gloria Satizabal de Araneta. Collection of Eduardo Dargent.

Mural by Alejandro Obregón in Barranquilla

Diego Rivera mural in the Palacio Nacional depicting Hernán Cortés and the Spanish conquest.

Painting by Raul Anguiano at the Museo de Arte Moderno; from the “La Espina” (Thorn) Series.

Diego Rivera murals in the corridors of the National Palace, Mexico City.

Armando Reverón at work in the 1930s.

Sculpture, murals, and modern architecture on the campus of the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas. Architectural design by Carlos Villaneuva.

Exhibition of the designs of Carlos Villanueva, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas.

Diorama of the founding of Santiago on February 12, 1541, by Pedro de Valdivia. The site is Huelén Hill, also known as Santa Lucía. The future capital of Chile was named in honor of Spain’s patron saint.

Edouard Duval Carrié, Mardigras au Fort Dimanche (1992), oil on canvas in artist frame, 65? x 65?.

Julio Galan, Brilette (2001), oil, acrylic, mixed media on canvas, 74½? x 51??.

Graciela Iturbide, Portrait of Julio Galan.

Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky (1937), oil on masonite, 30? x 24?.

Guillermo Kuitca, Gran corona de espinas (1989) (left); acrylic on canvas, 117? x 78½? (297.2 x 199.4 cm).

María Martinez-Cañas, Libérame: Figura con Totem (1991) (below), gelatin silver print, edition of 2.

Ramón Oviedo, Autorretrato en Azul (Self-Portrait in Blue) (1999).

Central American mothers of the disappeared looking for their loved ones represented in a mural at Balmy Alley in San Francisco, CA. Photo by Carlos Texca.

Credit: Clemencia Alexander.

King Philip II (1527-1598) by Titian.

A painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe by Juan de Villegas, eighteenth century.

Portrait of Queen Isabel de Castilla by Bartolomé Bermejo.

A painting of the Virgin of the Seafarers by Alejo Fernández.

Attendants dress and adorn an Aztec ruler in this Diego Rivera mural at the National Palace in Mexico City.

Terra-cotta sculpture of an eagle warrior found at the Great Temple.

Stone sculpture of an Aztec man in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

Stone sculpture of a jaguar from the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

Stone sculpture of a dog from the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

Monumental stone sculpture of Coatlicue from the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

Lorenzo Homar, “Le-lo-lai,” 1952–53.

Antonio Martorell, “Visiones de Proteus.”

Francisco Oller, “Hacienda Aurora.”

Francisco Oller, “El Velorio” (“The Wake”), 1893.

Francisco Rodón with one of his most well-known works, “Alicia Alonso,” 1982–1983.

Francisco Rodón, “Penelope y el gallo.”

Rafael Tufiño, “Vita Cola.”

Myrna Báez, “Barrio Tokio.”

Luis Germán Cájigas, “La plaza del mercado de San Juan.”

José Campeche, “Lady on Horseback.”

Artist making congo packets, Port-au-Prince. (Photo by Alyx Kellington)

Los Guajiros (Peasants) by Eduardo Abela (1938) oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.

Multivisión espacial (Spatial Multivision) by Sandú Darié (1955) oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.

El Combate (The Combat) by Carlos Enríquez (1941) oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.

Captive Torso, bronze sculpture (1951). Courtesy of Roberto Estopiñán.

Self-Portrait of Antonio Gattorno with nude models (Paris, 1926) from Ernest Hemingway, Gattorno (Havana, 1935).

Original statue of La Giraldilla, housed in the Museum of the City of Havana. A replica stands atop the Castillo de la Real Fuerza. Photograph by Luis Martínez-Fernández.

A young Wifredo Lam in his studio. Courtesy of Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, Havana.

Gitana tropical (1929) by Víctor Manuel. Courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.

Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973–1974. Courtesy of Estate of Ana Mendieta and Galerie Lelong, New York.

Peces (Fishes) by Amelia Peláez del Casal (1943) oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Inter-American Fund. Photograph © 2000 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

José Clemente Orozco’s 24-panel mural, The Epic of American Civilization, depicts the history of Mexico from the migration of the Aztecs to the modernization of the country in the twentieth century. Shown here is Panel 16 (entitled “Hispano-America”), which shows an idealized peasant revolutionary standing between Mexico’s modern military-industrial society and a foreigner struggling to hold onto the country’s wealth.

La Tierra Santa, 1986. Painting in oil on canvas by and courtesy of Cecilia Concepción Alvarez.