Schedule
Part
I The Poverty of Progress: Civilization and Barbarism
Week
1 Jan. 21
W- Introduction: Red Tide Rising in Latin America
Cognitive Maps
Week
2 Jan. 26
M- US Views of Latin America
MLA, p. 1-12, 36-47
Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America, forward, intro, p. ix- 8
W- Civilization and Barbarism
Burns, Poverty of Progress, preface – ch. 2
Sarmiento, Civilization and Barbarism
Week
3 Feb 2
M-19th C. Paraguay
Burns, Poverty of Progress, ch. 6-7
W- Modernization, Dependency Theory, and Foreign
Investment
MLA (Brazil), p. 139-157, (Peru), p. 181-196, (Mexico), p. 254-60
Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America, 59-120
Gunder Frank, ÒThe Development of
UnderdevelopmentÓ
Rostow, ÒFive Stages of GrowthÓ
Week
4 Feb 9
M- Alternative Perspectives of Underdevelopment
Coatsworth, ÒEconomic and Institutional
Trajectories in 19th c. Latin AmericaÓ
Klein, The Shock Doctrine, ch. 2
Latin America Political Map
South America Topographical Map
Map Quiz
Debate 1: Modernization versus Dependency
W-
Porfiriato: Roots of Rebellion
Knight, Mexican Revolution, chs. 1-2
MLA, 260-274
Week
5 Feb. 16
M-Film- Viva Zapata
Brunk, Emiliano Zapata!, ch. 1-2
Plan de Ayala
Plan de San Luis Potos’
PLM Manifesto (1911)
W- The Mexican Revolution
Knight, ÒRevolutionary Project, Recalcitrant
PeopleÓ
Vanderwood, "Explaining the Mexican RevolutionÓ
Week
6 Feb 23
M- Zapata: The Man and the Myth
Power Shifts & Chronology in Mexican
Revolution
Debate 2: Mexican Revolution Exercise
PART
II Populism, Dictatorship and Revolution
W- Slavery, Racial Democracy, Whitening and the
Cosmic Race
De
la Fuente ÒMyths of Racial Democracy: Cuba 1900-1912Ó
Quiz #2
Week 7 Mar. 2
M- Peronismo, Tango and Evita: Politics of
Populism in Argentina
MLA, p. 47-51, 69-98
Guillermoprieto,
ÒLittle Eva,Ó 3-17
Milanesio,ÒÔThe Guardian Angels of the Domestic EconomyÕÓ
W- Revolutionary Populism: Cardenismo (Mexico),
MNR (Bolivia), Vargas (Brazil)
MLA, p. 51-55, 269-274, 157-163
Gilly, "The Emerging Threat of Radical Populism"; Dix, "Populism"
Debate 3: Populism
Week
8 Mar. 9
M- Mid-Term
Exam
W- Guatemala: From Reform to Revolution
MLA, 389-395
Cullather, Secret History, 74-103, 137-142, afterword
"Hearts and Minds," This American Life
Film- When the Mountains Tremble
Week
9 Mar. 16
M- Cuban Independence and US Intervention
Fidel, Che & the Cuban Revolution
MLA, 55-58, 296-327
Cuba Reader, ÒPlatt Amendment"
Castro, ÒHistory Will Absolve MeÓ
ÒProgram Manifesto of the 26th of July MovementÓ
Guillermoprieto, "Cuba" 87-154
T- Film: ÒEl CheÓ
at 6 pm in Miller 102
W-
Che Guevara: Martyr, Macho and Masochist
&
Cuban Exiles and Dissidents
Anderson, ÒThe Old Man and the BoyÓ
Guevara, ÒThe Essence of Guerilla Struggle,Ó and
ÒAt the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria,Ó p. 66-72, 301-312
Guillermoprieto, ÒThe Harsh Angel,Ó 72-86
Week
10 Mar 21-29 Spring Break
Week
11 Mar. 30
M- The Sandinista Revolution and the School of the Americas
MLA, p. 373-380
W- Chile: From Allende to Pinochet
MLA, 122-138
Steenland, "The Coup in Chile"
Winn, "An Economic Assessment of the Chilean Counterrevolution"
Week
12 Apr. 6
M- Post-Pinochet Chile: a Neoliberal Success
Story?
Anderson, ÒThe DictatorÓ
Klein, The Shock Doctrine, ch 3-5
Debate 4: The Allende Experiment
PART
III Neoliberalism and Its Discontents
W- Rebellion in Chiapas: The Emergence of the EZLN
EZLN readings
EZLNÕs New Laws
Group Questions
Week
13 Apr. 13
M- Film- A Place Called Chiapas at 6 pm in Miller 102
W- Catholicism, Liberation Theology and
Evangelicals
Hoffman,
ÒA Tale of Two Priests and Two StrugglesÓ
Week
14 Apr. 20
M- Neoliberalism & Free Trade in Latin
America
MLA 58-62
Green, ÒA Trip to the Market,Ó 13-32
Harrison,
ÒUnderdevelopment is a State of Mind,Ó 231-239
Stiglitz, ÒThe InsiderÓ
W- The New Leftwing Populism: Ch‡vez and the
Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
Grandin, Empire's Workshop, ch. 1-2
W- Film- ÒThe Revolution Will Not Be
TelevisedÓ
at 6 pm
Week
15 Apr. 27
M- Latin American Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Grandin, Empire's Workshop, ch. 3-4
W- Closing Ritual
Grandin, Empire's Workshop, ch. 5- end
Final
Exam: May 6 at 1-4 pm
