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21H.802

Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Social and Political Democratization: Argentina, 1880 to 1930 (and some tangos)
  • The Mexican Revolution and its Aftermath
  • Authoritarian Populism in Brazil: 1930-1964
  • The “Browning and Blackening” of Latin American Ideology: Mestizaje and Luso-Tropicalism (2 hours only)
  • The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804, and its Aftermath
  • The U.S. and Latin America, to 1959
  • The Cuban Revolution
  • Class Presentations
  • Class Presentations (cont.)
  • The Southern Cone After the Cuban Revolution: Coups, Military Dictatorships, and the Legacy of Torture
  • Women, Gender, and Feminism in Twentieth-Century Latin America
  • Latin American Identity at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Economics, Religion

Readings

  • Azuela, Mariano. The Underdogs . New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1996. ISBN: 9780451526250.
    Listed reading
  • Dorfman, Ariel. Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. ISBN: 9780374168629.
    Listed reading
  • Skidmore, Thomas E., and Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America . 6th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195170139.
    Listed reading
  • Vasconcelos, José. The Cosmic Race . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801856556.
    Listed reading
  • Andrews, George Reid. “A Transfusion of New Blood: Whitening, 1880-1930.” In Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004, 117-51. ISBN: 9780195152326.
    Listed reading
  • Benjamin, Thomas. “Festival: A Vigorous Mexico Arising.” In La Revolucíon: Mexico’s Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History . Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000, pp. 99-116. ISBN: 9780292708808.
    Listed reading
  • Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. “The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,” and “The Mothers Come Together.” In Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002, pp. 1-17, 65-91. ISBN: 9780842024860
    Listed reading
  • Craske, Nikki. “Women and Political Identity in Latin America,” and “Feminisms in Latin America.” In Women and Politics in Latin America . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. 9-25, 162-91. ISBN: 9780813526935.
    Listed reading
  • Dominguez, Jorge. “Cuba Since 1959.” In Cuba: A Short History . Edited by Leslie Bethell. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 95-139. ISBN: 9780521436823.
    Listed reading
  • Feitlowitz, Marguerite. “Night and Fog.” In A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 63-88. ISBN: 9780195106350.
    Listed reading
  • Freyre, Gilberto. “Brazil as a European Civilization in the Tropics.” In New World in the Tropics: The Culture of Modern Brazil . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, pp. 141-65.
    Listed reading
  • Guillermoprieto, Alma. “Colombia.” In Looking For History: Dispatches From Latin America . New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 2001, pp. 18-71. ISBN: 9780375420948.
    Listed reading
  • “Introduction,” “Letitia Herrera,” “Luz Beatriz Arellano,” and “Aida Gutiérrez.” In Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution . Edited by Denis Lynn, and Daly Heyck. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990, pp. 1-20, 87-105, 163-82, 333-40. ISBN: 9780415902113.
    Listed reading
  • Johnson, John J. Latin America in Caricature . Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980, pp. 210-55. ISBN: 9780292746268.
    Listed reading
  • Levine, Robert M. “Vargas’s Incomplete Revolution.” In Father of the Poor? Vargas and his Era . Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 112-38. ISBN: 9780521585286.
    Listed reading
  • Lockwood, Lee. “A North American Journalist Interviews Castro.” In People and Issues in Latin American History from Independence to the Present . 2nd ed. Edited by Lewis Hanke, and Jane M. Rausch. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999, pp. 326-45. ISBN: 9781558761957.
    Listed reading
  • Marquez, Gabriel García. “ The Solitude of Latin America: Nobel Address, 1982 .” ↗
    Listed reading
  • Orozco, José Clemente. The Epic of American Civilization . ↗
    Listed reading
  • Perón, Eva. “My Mission in Life.” In People and Issues in Latin American History from Independence to the Present . 2nd ed. Edited by Lewis Hanke, and Jane M. Rausch. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999, pp. 251-69. ISBN: 9781558761957.
    Listed reading
  • Romero, Luis Alberto. A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century . Translated by James P. Brennan. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002, pp. 1-58. ISBN: 9780271021928.
    Listed reading
  • Smith, Peter H. Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations . 2nd ed. Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 63-142. ISBN: 9780195129984.
    Listed reading
  • Williams, Daryle. “Museums and Memory.” In Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 135-76. ISBN: 9780822327196.
    Listed reading
  • Bradbury, David. Fond Memories of Cuba (Australia, 2002, 77 min). ↗
    Listed reading
  • Guzman, Patricio. The Battle of Chile (1975, excerpts). ↗
    Listed reading
  • Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Televangelism in Brazil (1999).
    Listed reading
  • Valenti, Alexander. Coffee. A Sack Full of Power (52 min).
    Listed reading
Sources