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Latin American Studies 100

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Course Syllabus

Blog posts are due Monday evening, by midnight; blog comments are due Wednesday evening.

Dates for the midterm, final, and other assignments will be announced in due course.

Week 1: Where is Latin America?

Week 2: The Meeting of Two Worlds

Week 3: The Colonial Experience

Week 4: Independence Narratives, Past and Present

Week 5: Caudillos Versus the Nation State

Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics

Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity

Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age

Week 9: Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire

November 10: midterm

Week 10: Power to the People

November 17: short research assignment due

Week 11: The Terror

Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power

December 1: video project due

December 3: video project showcase

Week 13: Towards an Uncertain Future”

Week 11: The Terror

November 24, 2016

This week’s readings focused on a few major conflicts including 1) the proxy war occurring in Guatemala between US and USSR with China and 2) Peru’s dirty war as a part of their civil war. The contrast between these two conflicts coincide with their attempts to differently create “prosperous peasantry” (Max Cameron). It is interesting to see how although many … More Week 11: The Terror

Research Assignment

November 16, 2016

Topic: Independence Narratives, Past and Present’ Primary Source: Simón Bolívar’s Proclamation of 1813 was issued as Bolívar was chosen to lead an army to drive the Spanish from Venezuela. The Proclamation appealed to Venezuelans in the city of Trujillo for support in liberating Venezuela from the Spaniard rule. In his declaration, he urges the Venezuelans … More Research Assignment

Power to the People

November 14, 2016

This week’s readings focused and were set in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 3 out of the 4 readings focused on Eva Parón’s 1951 speech to the people of Argentina, who was the the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón  (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.The speeches focused on … More Power to the People

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