Week 1: Introduction
Thursday, January 9, 2019
Readings:
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The syllabus, and whole course website.
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“Effective Note-taking in Lectures”, Columbia University.
Week 2: Colonial Roots and Independence Review
Tuesday, January 14, 2019: Colonial Legacies
Readings:
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Eduardo Galeano, “Introduction: 120 Million People in the Eye of a Hurricane,” Open Veins of Latin America (Monthly Review, 1997 [1973]).
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Larry Rohter, “Author Changes His Mind on ’70s Manifesto,” New York Times 24 May 2014.
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Greg Grandin, “Preface,” The Last Colonial Massacre.
Thursday, January 16, 2019: In the Name of the King/In the Name of Law
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 4
Due: Weekly Report
Week 3: What is a Nation?
Tuesday, January 21, 2019: We’re All Peruvians Now?
Readings:
- Chambers, Sarah C. “Republican Friendship: Manuela Saenz Writes Women into the Nation, 1835-1856.” HAHR 81:2 (2001): 225-257.
Thursday, January 23, 2019: Citizen as Exclusion
Readings:
- Dore, Elizabeth. “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long-Nineteenth Century.” In Dore and Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000) 3-32.
Due: Weekly Report
Week 4: Brazilian Slavery and Abolition
Tuesday, January 28, 2019: Property and Citizen
Readings:
- Emilia Viotti da Costa, “Masters and Slaves,” The Brazilian Empire: Myths and Histories (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).
Thursday, January 30, 2019: Comparative Abolitions
Readings:
- José Ignacio Barros Cobra, “Slave Property”
- Joachim Nabuco, “Abolitionism”
Due: Weekly Report
Week 5: Caudillos and Liberals
Tuesday, February 4, 2019: The Man on the Horse
Readings:
- Chasteen and Wood, Problems in Latin American History Chapter 4: Caudillos.
- Sarmiento, “Facundo”
Thursday, February 6, 2019: Honor, Status, and Law
Readings:
- Sanders, James E. “The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Contesting Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America.” Latin American Research Review 46.2 (2011): 104-127.
Due: Weekly Report
Week 6: Export Economies and 19th-century Capitalism
Tuesday, February 11, 2019: Positivism and Progress
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 6.
- Reinhardt, “The Consolidation of the Import-Export Economy in 19th-Cent. Colombia”
Thursday, February 13, 2019: Visions of Progress
Readings:
- Duesta, “Mining Markets, Peasants, and Power in 19th-Cent Peru”
- G. de Secada, “Arms, Guano, and Shipping: The W.R. Grace Interests in Peru, 1865-1885”
Due: Weekly Report
Week 7: US Interventions and the Hemispheric Division of Labor
Tuesday, February 18, 2019: US “Protection”
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 7.
Thursday, February 20, 2019: From Marti to Sandino
Readings:
- Ramón Ruíz, “The Roots of Cuban Nationalism”
- José Martí, “Our America”
Due: Weekly Report
Week 8: Exam 1
Tuesday, February 25, 2019: Loose ends…
Readings:
- Exam Review
Thursday, February 27, 2019: Be Your Smartest Self
DUE: Exam
Week 9: Mexican Revolutions
Tuesday, March 3, 2019: From Order to Revolt
Readings:
- Meyers, Course of Mexican History, Part 1
- James Creelman, “President Díaz, Hero of the Americas”
Thursday, March 5, 2019: Nation and Revolution
Readings:
- Meyers, Course of Mexican History, Part 2
- Francisco Madero, “Plan of San Luis Potosí”
Due: Weekly Report
Week 10: The Cosmic Indian and the Crisis of Modernity
Tuesday, March 10, 2019: Mariategui, APRA, Cosmic Indians
Readings:
- José Carlos Mariátegui, “The Problem of the Indian”
- Ciro Alegría, “Wide and Alien is the World”
Thursday, March 12, 2019: Los Muralistas
Readings:
- Marisol de la Cadena, “Reconstructing Race”
Due: Weekly Report
Week 11: SPRING BREAK!!!
Tuesday, March 17, 2019: Rest
Thursday, March 19, 2019: Relaxation
Week 12: The Motorcycle Diaries
Tuesday, March 24, 2019:
Readings:
- Grandin, Empire’s Workshop, selections.
Thursday, March 26, 2019
Readings:
- Eduardo Elena, “Point of Departure: Travel and Nationalism in Ernesto Guevara’s Argentina.” In Paulo Drinot, ed., Travels with Che (Durham: Duke University Press).
Due: Weekly Report
Week 13: Peronism
Tuesday, March 31, 2019
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 8
- Juan Perón, “Declaration of Workers’ Rights”
Thursday, April 2, 2019
Readings:
- Daniel James, “Peronism and the Working Class, 1943-1955”
- Eva Perón, “1947 Radio Speech”
Due: Weekly Report, Motorcycle Diaries Reaction Paper
Week 14: Between Revolution and Reform
Tuesday, April 7, 2019
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 9.
- Through Line Podcast, “There Will Be Bananas”
Thursday, April 9, 2019
Readings:
- Fidel Castro, “History Will Absolve Me”
- Pablo Neruda, “The Poetry of Anti-imperialism”
Due: Weekly Report
Week 15: State Terrors
Tuesday, April 14, 2019
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 10
Thursday, April 16, 2019
Readings:
- Argentine Junta Fundamental Concepts, 1983.
- Thomas C. Wright, “Chile Under State Terrorism,” in State Terrorism in Latin America. Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007), pp. 47-94.
Due: The Little School Reaction Paper
Week 16: New Nationalisms
Tuesday, April 21
Readings:
- Chasteen, Chapter 11.
Thursday, April 23: Loose ends…
Readings:
- None!