Introduction to Latin American Studies

Winn, Peter. Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780520201811.

Spooner, Mary Helen. Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520080836.

Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits . New York, NY: Everyman’s Library, 2005. ISBN: 9781400043187.

Colburn, Forrest D. Latin America at the End of Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780691091815.

Márquez, Gabriel García. “Big Mama’s Funeral.” Short Story, 1962. In No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories . Translated by J. S. Bernstein. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1979, pp. 153-70. ISBN: 9780060907006.

Winn, Peter. “A View from the South,” Chapter 1, and “Legacies of Empire,” Chapter 2. In Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean . 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 2-83. ISBN: 9780520201811.

Colburn, Forrest D. “Latin America as a Place,” “Urban Bias,” and “The Poor.” In Latin America at the End of Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 9-24, 82-88. ISBN: 9780691091815.

Americas video: Continent on the Move: Migration and Urbanization . Or presentation on basic data about the region.

Winn, Peter. “Children of the Sun,” Chapter 7, and “A Question of Color,” Chapter 8. In Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 234-303. ISBN: 9780520201811.

Begin reading Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits. (Note names of the women)

Americas video: Mirrors of the Heart: Color, Class, and Identity .

Klaren, Peter F. “Lost Promise: Explaining Latin American Underdevelopment.” In Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America. Edited by Peter F. Klaren, and Thomas J. Bossert. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986, pp. 3-33. ISBN: 9780813300078. (Ignore discussion of “corporatism”)

Frank, André Gunder. “The Development of Underdevelopment.” In Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America. Edited by Peter F. Klaren, and Thomas J. Bossert. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986, pp. 111-23. ISBN: 9780813300078.

Santos, Teodoro dos. “The Structure of Dependence.” The American Economic Review 60, no. 2 (May 1970): 231-6.

Haber, Steven. “Assessing the Obstacles to Industrialization: The Mexican Economy, 1830-1940.” Journal of Latin American Studies 24, no. 1 (February 1992): 1-32.

Colburn, Forrest D. “The Business of Being in Business.” In Latin America at the End of Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 45-54. ISBN: 9780691091815.

Continue reading House of the Spirits. (Be sure to read the story about the “chinchillas.”)

Gereffi, Gary. “Drug Firms and Dependency in Mexico: The Case of the Steroid Hormone Industry.” International Organization 32 (1978): 237-86.

Class Discussion of The House of the Spirits

Finish reading Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits .

Valenzuela, Arturo. “Chile: Origins, Consolidation, and Breakdown of a Democratic Regime.” In Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America . Edited by Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1989, pp. 194-216. ISBN: 9781555870447.

The Battle for Chile (Part I).

Valenzuela, Arturo. “Chile: Origins, Consolidation, and Breakdown of a Democratic Regime.” In Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America. Edited by Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998, pp. 216-226. ISBN: 9781555870447.

Spooner, Mary Helen. Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1-5, 56-77, 83-104, and 113-159. ISBN: 9780520080836.

The Battle for Chile (Part II).

Valenzuela, Arturo. “Chile: Origins, Consolidation, and Breakdown of a Democratic Regime.” In Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America . Edited by Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1989, pp. 227-240. ISBN: 9781555870447.

Spooner, Mary Helen. Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994, pp. 163-267. ISBN: 9780520080836.

Karl, Terry, and Philippe C. Schmitter. “What Democracy is…and is Not.” Journal of Democracy 2, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 75-86.

Colburn, Forrest D. “Fragile Democracies” In Latin America at the End of Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 33-44. ISBN: 9780691091815.

La historia oficial .

Huntington, Samuel P. “The Torturer Problem,” and “The Praetorian Problem.” In The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century . Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, pp. 211-51. ISBN: 9780806123462.

Langguth, A. J. Hidden Terrors: The Truth about U.S. Police Operations in Latin America . New York, NY: Pantheon, 1993, pp. 160-64. ISBN: 9780806125169.

Mendez, Juan E. “Accountability for past abuses.” Human Rights Quarterly 19, no. 2 (May 1997): 255-82.

Colburn, Forrest D. “Crime.” In Latin America at the End of Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 73-80. ISBN: 9780691091815.

Magaloni, Beatriz, and Guillermo Zepeda. “Democratization, Judicial and Law Enforcement Institutions, and the Rule of Law in Mexico.” In Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico . Edited by Kevin J. Middlebrook. La Jolla, CA: Institute of Latin American Studies and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of the University of California at San Diego, 2004, pp. 166-95. ISBN: 9781900039451.

Soto, Hernando de. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else . London, UK: Bantam Press, 2000, pp. 1-37, and 208-218. ISBN: 9780465016143.

Holston, James. “The Misrule of Law: Land and Usurpation in Brazil.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 33, no. 4 (October 1991): 695-725.

Holston, James, and Teresa P. R. Caldeira. “Democracy, Law, and Violence: The Disjunctions of Brazilian Citizenship.” In Fault lines of democracy in post-transition Latin America . Edited by Felipe Aguero, and Jeffrey Stark. Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center Press/University of Miami; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 9781574540468.

Márquez, Gabriel García. “Big Mama’s Funeral.” Short Story, 1962. In No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories . Translated by J. S. Bernstein. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1979, pp.153-70. ISBN: 9780060907006.

Winn, Peter. “Latin America and the Caribbean at 2000: A New Millennium?” In Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 601-608. ISBN: 9780520201811. (Epilogue)

Colburn, Forrest D. “Conclusion.” In Latin America at the End of Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 127-34. ISBN: 9780691091815.