# Latin American Food Studies

As part of the Latin American Food Studies Project of the Science, Technology and Business Division (ST&B), 2021 Junior Fellow Joseph A. Torres-González created "Coffee in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Research Guide," will assist Library of Congress users interested in coffee in the aforementioned regions. This commodity shapes the lives of millions of people across the region in different ways, not only as a food staple, but as an item that has transformed the environment, the economies of the region, political processes, and culture. Joseph identified, organized, and annotated a selection of bibliographic, audiovisual, and photographic resources from the Library of Congress collections and other publicly available material.Torres-González's project illustrates the importance of exploring common foods to uncover deeper layers of research and understanding. Tania María Ríos Marrero also contributed to the Latin American Food Studies Project with "Memories of Movement: A Brief Account of the 1942 Sugar Strike in Puerto Rico," which used digital storytelling contextualize a selection of Farm Security Administration photographs of taken in mid-twentieth century Puerto Rico. Working in collaboration with librarians in the ST&B Division and in the Hispanic Division, she used the ArcGIS StoryMaps platform to highlight the activities of a famous 1942 labor strike, and to draw connections between aspects of land use, food production, and social movement in Puerto Rico at the…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697569/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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