Rigoberta Menchú: Role Model or Fraud?

Resources for oral presentations and final paper

GEN 89 ~ Interim 2005

General information on Guatemala

Background Notes on Guatemala (U.S. Department of State) http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2045.htm

CIA World Factbook: Guatemala http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gt.html

BBC’s Country Profiles: Guatemala http://news.bbc.co.uk//hi/english/world/americas/country_profiles/newsid_1215000/1215758.stm

Lonely Planet Destinations: Guatemala http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/central_america/guatemala/

Background information on Guatemalan history and politics

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Ref. F1406 .E53 1996 (5 vols.)
In this encyclopedia, the entry on Guatemala focuses on its political history.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics.  Ref. F1410 .E56 2002
The entry on Guatemala includes a historical overview, followed by brief information on key political figures, parties, and movements.

Latin America : A Political Dictionary.  Ref. F1406 .R67 1992 
Coverage of people, political parties, events, issues, and concepts related to politics in Latin America

Information on the Guatemalan civil war, U.S. involvement, & related events

Books

The BSC Library has a growing collection of books in the realm of Latin American studies, selected by the faculty of the College.  You may search for these books through the BSC Library Catalog, available from the Library homepage.  Some useful subjects to search under include:

Rigoberta Menchu

Guatemala politics and government

Guatemala relations United States

Mayas Guatemala

Human rights Guatemala

Violence Guatemala

Articles

General Databases:

Some of BSC's general indexes and databases may yield relevant articles on Guatemalan history, or citations to such articles. Most of these databases begin coverage in the mid-1980s; Expanded Academic ASAP and Infotrac go back to the early 1980s, and Lexis Nexis Academic provides some coverage back to the 1970s.

Social Science / History Databases:

Social Sciences Full Text (1983 – present) indexes articles from several hundred social science journals, and includes the full text of many of these articles from 1995 forward.

WorldWide Political Science Abstracts (1975 - present) indexes and abstracts the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields (such as international relations, law, and public administration/policy).

PAIS (via FirstSearch - password required)(1972 - present, 1950 - 1972 in Archive) indexes and abstracts articles relating to public affairs from several thousand periodicals, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters.

Humanities FullText (1984 - present) indexes articles from several hundred humanities journals; includes the full text of many articles from 1995 forward.

Historical Abstracts (1955 – present) indexes and abstracts books and articles from over 1700 history journals.
JStor (1830s – 3 to 5 years ago) includes the searchable full text of nearly 250 key journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Databases Specific to Latin America:

HAPI, the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (1970 – present) – indexes articles and other works appearing in over 400 social science and humanities journals. 

Handbook of Latin American Studies online (1936 – present) – indexes books, journal articles, conference papers, and electronic resources in Latin American Studies.

To see if an article is available full-text in a library database, or if it's available in print or microfilm format in the Library, please consult Periodicals @ BSC on the Library home page.  And remember: the BSC Library offers interlibrary loan service for articles and books not available locally - simply fill out an interlibrary loan request form.

Websites

The Guatemalan Peace Process: Historical Background (Conciliation Resources) http://www.c-r.org/accord/guat/accord2/background.shtml

Guatemala’s Lethal Legacy (Amnesty International) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR340012002?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CGUATEMALA

LANIC: Guatemala (Human rights section) http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/ca/guatemala/#human

Peace Process (Permanent Mission of the UN) http://www.un.int/guatemala/english/english.html

Report of the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) (English version) http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/report/english/toc.html

If you have questions at any time, feel free to ask a reference librarian for assistance.
E-mail libref@bsc.edu or phone 226-4766 during library hours.