Resources to explore Latin Americans’ struggles to achieve nationhood, the impact these struggles had on race and class relations throughout time, and the role that U. S foreign policy had on these events. Beginning with the wars for independence, through the era of the caudillos or military chieftains in the nineteenth century, the shaping and establishment of national identities, and the consolidation of neo-colonialism. The Tate Library has resources that will help frame the connection between U.S. imperialist and interventionist policies and the profound inequality and poverty in the region as well as the ongoing waves of revolutions and counter-revolutions that have convulsed the Latin American continent during the 20th century and the present one, starting with the Mexican Revolution.