Individual Position Papers Assignments

Individual Position Papers.  Each reading is a separate position paper. Please see the syllabus to obtain the deadline.  Remember, papers are due at the beginning of Friday’s class (the week the reading is assigned.)

Nicole Caceres

1. E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress, chap. 1, 2

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960, ch. 3, 5

Jennifer Baker

1. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 6

2. Robert H. Dix, “Populism: Authoritarian and Democratic,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1985), 29-52.

Henry Lippert

1. Brian R. Hamnett.  “Liberalism Divided: Regional Politics and the National Project during the Mexican Restored Republic, 1867-1876,” The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 4, (Nov., 1996), pp. 659-689.

2. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 2.

Austin Sashko

1. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960, ch. 4, 6

2. Mieko Nishida, “Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery, Brazil, 1808-1888,” The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Aug., 1993), 361-391.

Allison Bates

1. Frederick Stirton Weaver.  “Reform and (Counter) Revolution in Post-Independence Guatemala: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Postmodern Controversies,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 2, Reassessing Central America’s Revolutions, (Mar., 1999), pp. 129-158.

2. Robert H. Dix, “Populism: Authoritarian and Democratic,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1985), 29-52.

Alice Gibson

1. E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress, chap. 6

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 3.

Josh Goldfarb

1. Michael Gismondi and Jeremy Mouat Merchants.  “Mining and Concessions on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1895-1912,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, (Nov., 2002), pp. 845-879.

2. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 4

Angelina Juklewicz

1. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 3

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), ch. 1

Joanne Belovich

1. Guillermo A. Baralt, Buena Vista. Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 (UNC, 1999), ch. 1-3

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 4.

Beverly Nordine

1. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 5.

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), ch. 4, 6

Catherine Ritchie

1. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 3.

2. Manuel Barcia, Seeds of Insurrection. Domination and Resistance on Western Cuba, 1808-1848 (Baton Rouge: LSU Press 2008), ch. 6

Peter Katsilis

1. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 4

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 6.

Rachaele Swartout

1. Paul Gootenberg, “North-South: Trade Policy, Regionalism and Caudillismo in Post-Independence Peru,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (May 1991), 273-308.

2. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 8.

Kristen Heider

1. Frederick Stirton Weaver.  “Reform and (Counter) Revolution in Post-Independence Guatemala: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Postmodern Controversies,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 2, Reassessing Central America’s Revolutions, (Mar., 1999), pp. 129-158.

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 6.

Vincent Bolton

1. Michael Gismondi and Jeremy Mouat Merchants.  “Mining and Concessions on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1895-1912,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, (Nov., 2002), pp. 845-879.

2. Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (Pantheon Books, 1987), ch. 8.

Mark J. Chmielecki

1. Peter Guardino and Charles Walker, “The State, Society, and Politics in Peru and Mexico in the Late Colonial and Early Republican Periods,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 2, Popular Organizing and the State (Spring, 1992), pp. 10-43.

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), ch. 6.

Michael Gallagher

1. E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress, chap. 6

2. Manzar Foroohar, “Liberation Theology: The Response of Latin America Catholics to Socioeconomic Problems,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sum, 1986), 37-58

Mark Gerace

1. Guillermo A. Baralt, Buena Vista. Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 (UNC, 1999), ch. 3.

2. Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (Pantheon Books, 1987), ch. 9.

Timothy Fury

1. Paul Gootenberg, “North-South: Trade Policy, Regionalism and Caudillismo in Post-Independence Peru,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (May 1991), 273-308.

2. Jean H. Delaney and Jeane H. Delaney.  “Imagining “El Ser Argentino”: Cultural Nationalism and Romantic Concepts of Nationhood in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, (Aug., 2002), pp. 625-658.

Justin Burgy

1. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 8

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), ch. 3.

Christine Lippucci

1. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), ch. 1.

2. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 5.

Jameson Scott Chapman

1. Marixa Lasso, “ Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Columbian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809-1815,” in Mark Thunder and Andrés Guerrero Eds. After Spanish Rule. Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 223-247.

2. E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress, chap. 6

Orion Yurgionas

1. Andrews, Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000, pp. 53-67, 85-92.

2. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 6.

Monica Campiri

1. Peter Guardino and Charles Walker, “The State, Society, and Politics in Peru and Mexico in the Late Colonial and Early Republican Periods,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 2, Popular Organizing and the State (Spring, 1992), pp. 10-43.

2. Guillermo A. Baralt, Buena Vista. Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 (UNC, 1999), ch. 1, 2.

Thomas Smith

1. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 6.

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 5.

Frederick Neal

1. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 1.

2. Manzar Foroohar, “Liberation Theology: The Response of Latin America Catholics to Socioeconomic Problems,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sum, 1986), 37-58.

Gerald Gonda

1. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 5

2. Manzar Foroohar, “Liberation Theology: The Response of Latin America Catholics to Socioeconomic Problems,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sum, 1986), 37-58.

Kenneth Grimm

1. Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 7.

2. Peter Guardino and Charles Walker, “The State, Society, and Politics in Peru and Mexico in the Late Colonial and Early Republican Periods,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 2, Popular Organizing and the State (Spring, 1992), pp. 10-43.

Keith Messerman

1. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 1

2. Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (Pantheon Books, 1987), ch. 7-8.

Gayle Novoty

1. Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 3

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture, ch. 4.

Ta’Shauna Bais

1. Manuel Barcia, Seeds of Insurrection. Domination and Resistance on Western Cuba, 1808-1848 (Baton Rouge: LSU Press 2008), ch. 6.

2. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture, ch. 6.

David Turkovic

1. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), ch. 3, 5.

2. Michael Gismondi and Jeremy Mouat Merchants.  “Mining and Concessions on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1895-1912,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, (Nov., 2002), pp. 845-879.

Graduate Students

Theodore Parssinos

1. Read for this Week: Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), Part I

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960, ch. 4, 6

3. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 2-6.

Faith Roy

1. Read for this Week: Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti. Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), Part 2.

2. Lara Putman, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960, ch. 3, 5

3. Christopher Dunn, Brutality in the Garden. Tropicalia and the Emergence of Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), ch. 2-6.

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