Modern Latin America

Week 3 Wars of Independence

Faith Roy

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.

Theodore Parssimos

Andrews, Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000, ch. 2.

Week 4 Early 19th Century Latin American Nations.

Faith Roy

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

Sept 16: Cuadillismo and Society

Ta’Shauna Bias

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.

Week Five Civilization vs. Barbarism

Vincent Bolton

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

Henry Lippert,

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

Allison Bates, Josh Goldfarb,

Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 5.

Week Six Slavery and Emancipation

Theodore Parssinos

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

Faith Roy

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

Week Seven Triumph of Liberalism

Joanne Belovich, Faith Roy

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.

Keith Masserman, Gayle Novoty

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.

Mark Gerace, Thodore Parssinos

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

Week Eight Neocolonialism

Austin Sashko, Michael Gallegher, Gerald Gonda,

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.

Thomas Smith

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

Week Nine Dilemma of Race

Peter Katsilis, Kristen Heider,

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.

Week Ten Close Encounters of Empire: US-Latin American Relations

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

Beverly Nordine, chapter 3.

Jameson Scott Chapman, chapter 4.

Monica Campiri, chapter 5.

Frederick Neal, chapter 5.

Week Eleven Nationals Identities and Transformations

Orion Yurgionas,

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

Alice Gibson,

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

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

Week Twelve Cold War

Angelina Juklewicz,

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

Week Fourteenth Alternative Visions

Nicole Caceres, Justin Burgy

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

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

Jennifer Baker, chapter 7

Chatherine Ritchie, chapter 8

Mark J. Chmielecki, chapter 9

Kenneth Grimm, chapter 8

David Turkovic, chapter 7

Week Fifteenth Counter-Revolutions and Reactions

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

Tim Fury, chapter 5

Rachaele Swartout, chapter 4

Christine Lippucci, chapter 6