In 2013, 2014, and 2015, SPOHP partnered with organizations around Alachua County, at the University of Florida, and the nation as research allies and supporters of community oral history projects.
The Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
The Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures at the University of Florida advocates on behalf of Hispanic-Latina/o populations and offers support to the University of Florida and the Gainesville community through various programs, resources, and networking opportunities in order to help facilitate cultural awareness, social justice, and empowerment. “La Casita” was established in 1994 and is the first institute of its kind in the Southeastern United States, focusing on the empowerment of the Hispanic Latina/o community through Advocacy, Education, and Outreach.
In 2014, SPOHP produced the documentary film “Nuestras Historias” in partnership with IHLC to celebrate the organization’s twentieth anniversary.
Smathers Library Latin American Collections at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
The Latin American Collections at the University of Florida’s Smathers Libraries are among the oldest and most detailed Latin American history libraries in the United States and throughout the Americas. The collection staff are responsible for providing various public, technical, and collection management services, and providing research support for interested students at the University of Florida.
Proytecto Algarabía in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States
Proyecto Algarabía is a global, nomadic collective of educators, organizers and artists that use popular education and decolonial pedagogy to create sustainable tools for the empowerment and political participation of youth within their communities and across borders. Through the use of literary tools, oral history and the local arts and cultural practices, we work with collectives and youth who live in historically and currently marginalized, criminalized or displaced communities in Latin America, the Caribbean and our diaspora through the world.
Director Solymar Solá Negrón serves on SPOHP’s Advisory Board and provides guidance for the development of LDAP. Proyecto was the official philanthropy of UF’s Hispanic Heritage Month 2013.
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