Resources

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Films
My Father Belize (Leon Lozano, 2019)

In this film, a man travels to Belize to fulfill his father’s final wish of having his ashes scattered there. While on the journey, he discovers that he unknowingly fathered a son during a previous visit. Confronted with his own unresolved feelings about fatherhood and his strained relationship with his late father, he is forced to reckon with the past and reimagine his future.

Books
My Memories of Bluefields by Captain Eddie Hodgson (2024)

My Memories of Bluefields is a retrospective narrative that chronicles life in Bluefields, Nicaragua from the 1950s to the 1980s. Blending personal recollection with historical reflection, the book includes photographs from the era alongside stories of daily life, significant events, and cultural traditions. It also explores the city’s origins, including the legacy of the Dutch buccaneer after whom Bluefields is named, and documents the region’s rich folklore and customs.

Films
NEGRO: A docu-series about Latino Identity (Dash Harris, 2010)

Launched in 2010, the NEGRO docu-series examines the African Diaspora, colonization, the casta system, and the racist foundations of Latinidad. Through historical analysis and interviews with Afro-Latinx individuals, it unpacks how colonial legacies continue to shape race, class, gender, and colorism across Latin America and its diaspora.

Archives
Archives
National Archive of Panama
Archives
National Archives of Costa Rica
Organizations
National Garífuna Council

The National Garifuna Council (NGC) of Belize is an NGO that strives to preserve, strengthen and develop the Garifuna culture as well as to promote economic development and opportunities for the Garinagu people in Belize.The NGC specifically focuses on preserving the Garifuna culture through its language, music, food, dances, crafts, art and rituals as well as generating economic development for Garinagu people. Another objective is to seek education and training opportunities for Garinagu especially youth.

Museums and Cultural Centers
National Institute of Culture and History (NICH)

NICH is Belize’s premier cultural institution dedicated to the safeguarding, promotion, expression, conservation and sustainable development of culture in all its diversity in collaboration with the people of Belize.

Organizations
National Kriol Council

The National Kriol Council (NKC) in Belize is a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting, preserving, and developing the Kriol culture and language, focusing on the social, cultural, and economic advancement of the Kriol population in Belize through education and unity; essentially acting as a champion for the Belizean Creole community and its heritage.

Organizations
Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women

The Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women is a space for the articulation and empowerment of Afro-descendant women for the construction and recognition of democratic, equitable, just, multicultural societies, free of racism, racial discrimination, sexism and exclusion, and promotion of interculturality.