1. Week 1: Introduction
    1. Thursday, January 21, 2021
  2. Week 2: Colonial Roots and Independence
    1. Tuesday, January 26, 2021: Colonial Legacies
    2. Thursday, January 28, 2021: In the Name of the King/In the Name of Law
  3. Week 3: What is a Nation?
    1. Tuesday, February 2, 2021: We’re All Peruvians Now?
    2. Thursday, February 4, 2021: Citizen as Exclusion
  4. Week 4: Brazilian Slavery and Abolition
    1. Tuesday, February 9, 2021: Property and Citizen
    2. Thursday, February 11, 2021: Comparative Abolitions
  5. Week 5: Contentious Liberalisms
    1. Tuesday, February 16, 2021: The Man on a Horse
    2. Thursday, February 18, 2021: Honor, Status, and Law
  6. Week 6: Export Economies and 19th-c. Capitalism
    1. Tuesday, February 23, 2021: The International Division of Labor
    2. Thursday, February 25, 2021: Debt, Conflict, Resources
  7. Week 7: US Interventions and the Hemispheric Division of Labor
    1. Tuesday, March 2, 2021: US “Protection”
    2. Thursday, March 4, 2021: From Marti to Sandino
  8. Exam
  9. Week 9: Mexican Revolutions
    1. Tuesday, March 16, 2021
    2. Thursday, March 18, 2021
  10. Week 10: The Cosmic Indian and the Crisis of Modernity
    1. Tuesday, March 23, 2021
    2. Thursday, March 25, 2021
  11. Week 11: From Popular Fronts to Cold Wars
    1. Tuesday, March 30, 2021
    2. Thursday, April 1, 2021
  12. Week 12: Between Revolution and Reform
    1. Tuesday, April 6, 2021
    2. Thursday, April 8, 2021
  13. Week 13: State Terror and Capitalism
    1. Tuesday, April 13, 2021
    2. Thursday, April 15, 2021
  14. Week 14: Hope, Struggle, and Catastrophe
    1. Tuesday, April 20, 2021
    2. Thursday, April 22, 2021
  15. Week 15: As Dave Chappelle says, “Wrap It Up”
    1. Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Week 1: Introduction

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Readings:

  1. The syllabus, and whole course website.

  2. “Effective Note-taking in Lectures”, Columbia University.

Week 2: Colonial Roots and Independence

Tuesday, January 26, 2021: Colonial Legacies

Readings:

Thursday, January 28, 2021: 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, February 2, 2021: We’re All Peruvians Now?

Readings:

  • Tristan Platt, “Simon Bolivar, the Sun of Justice and the Amerindian Virgin: Andean Conceptions of the Patria in Nineteenth-Century Potosi,” JLAS Vol. 25, No. 1 (Feb., 1993), pp. 159-185.

Thursday, February 4, 2021: Citizen as Exclusion

  • 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, February 9, 2021: Property and Citizen

Readings:

  • Emilia Viotti da Costa, “Masters and Slaves,” The Brazilian Empire: Myths and Histories (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).

Thursday, February 11, 2021: Comparative Abolitions

Readings:

  • José Ignacio Barros Cobra, “Slave Property”
  • Joachim Nabuco, “Abolitionism”

Due: Weekly Report

Week 5: Contentious Liberalisms

Tuesday, February 16, 2021: The Man on a Horse

  • Chasteen and Wood, Problems in Latin American History Chapter 4: Caudillos.

Thursday, February 18, 2021: 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-c. Capitalism

Tuesday, February 23, 2021: The International Division of Labor

Readings:

  • Edward D. Melillo, “The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Trade, 1840–1930,” AHR (Oct 2012): 1028-1060.

Thursday, February 25, 2021: Debt, Conflict, Resources

Readings:

  • Reinhardt, “The Consolidation of the Import-Export Economy in 19th-Cent. Colombia”

Due: Weekly Report

Week 7: US Interventions and the Hemispheric Division of Labor

Tuesday, March 2, 2021: US “Protection”

Readings:

  • Chasteen, Chapter 7.

Thursday, March 4, 2021: From Marti to Sandino

Readings:

  • Ramón Ruíz, “The Roots of Cuban Nationalism”
  • José Martí, “Our America”

Due: Weekly Report

Exam

No class this week. Exam due by Friday at 5:00pm.

Week 9: Mexican Revolutions

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Readings:

  • Meyers, Course of Mexican History, Part 1
  • James Creelman, “President Díaz, Hero of the Americas”

Thursday, March 18, 2021

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 23, 2021

Readings:

  • José Carlos Mariátegui, “The Problem of the Indian”
  • Ciro Alegría, “Wide and Alien is the World”

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Readings:

  • Marisol de la Cadena, “Reconstructing Race”

Due: Weekly Report

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

  • Daniel James, “Peronism and the Working Class, 1943-1955”
  • Eva Perón, “1947 Radio Speech”

Thursday, April 1, 2021

  • Watch Saludos Amigos.

Due: Weekly Report

Week 12: Between Revolution and Reform

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Readings:

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Readings:

  • Fidel Castro, “History Will Absolve Me”
  • Pablo Neruda, “The Poetry of Anti-imperialism”

Due: Film Review

Week 13: State Terror and Capitalism

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Readings:

Thursday, April 15, 2021

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: Weekly Report

Week 14: Hope, Struggle, and Catastrophe

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Readings:

  • Gil Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau, “The Embers of Revolution, 1968-2000,” Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution (Dukem 2013).

Thursday, April 22, 2021

  • Mario Garcés, “October 2019: Social Uprising in Neoliberal Chile,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 28:3 (2019): 483-491.

Due: Weekly Report

Week 15: As Dave Chappelle says, “Wrap It Up”

Tuesday, April 27, 2021