HIST 382
Spring 2008
Instructor: Professor Carlos Aguirre
Office and Phone number: 369 McKenzie Hall, 346-5905
Office hours: Wed.
E-mail: caguirre@uoregon.edu
Web page: http://uoregon.edu/~caguirre/home.html
GTFs:
Torrie Hester
Office:
McKenzie 340U – Phone 346-4827
Email: thester1@uoregon.edu
Office hours: Tuesday
Matthew Kruer
Office:
McKenzie 340B - Phone: 346-6239
Email: mkruer@uoregon.edu –
Office
Hours: Tuesday
This
course is the third part of the Latin American History survey, covering the
period from 1910 (the beginning of the Mexican Revolution) to the present. It
pays particular attention to the political and social transformations that have
affected the development of the region throughout the 20th century
(revolutions, military dictatorships, social movements, democratic
consolidation). Although this course gives special attention to a few countries
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Course policies
1.
Students are expected to attend lectures consistently. A passing grade will be
difficult to achieve without regular attendance. Students must also
consistently read the assigned materials.
2. The course instructor and GTFs will hold regular
office hours every week. Students are encouraged to visit them to discuss
pertinent issues or get additional information about the course's themes,
policies, and grades.
3. A common form of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, will not be tolerated.
Students must become familiar with the
4. An atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance, and fairness will be encouraged
and enforced by the instructor. Students must behave in ways proper to an
academic environment--i.e. no talking, eating, or newspaper reading during
lecture. Laptop computers are allowed only for note-taking purposes.
Students that plan to use a laptop computer must seat in the front
row(s). All other electronic devices (cell phones, i-pods,
etc.) must be turned off during class time.
5. An “incomplete” grade will be granted only in cases of extreme need and only
to those students that have an acceptable record of class attendance and get at
least a C in all their grades. Students that need an "incomplete"
grade must make arrangements with the instructor on or before the last week of
classes.
6. No
late homework will be accepted, except in cases of health-related and other
types of emergency that could be documented.
Evaluations
Course
evaluations will include the following:
-Map
quiz (10 points)
-3
multiple-choice quizzes (10 points each, 30 points total)
-3 short, in-class written exercises (10 points each, 30 points total)
-Final
exam (30 points)
Required
The
following books are available for purchase at the U of O Bookstore and on
reserve at Knight Library:
Thomas
Benjamin, La Revolucion.
Mariano
Plotkin, Mañana Es San Peron. A Cultural
History of Peron's
Mark
Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote (Vintage Books, 1994)
Thomas
Wright,
In addition, a number of articles will be available electronically through
Blackboard (https://blackboard.uoregon.edu/).
Schedule of
Lectures and
Week 1
04/01
Introduction to the course / Overview of Latin America, 1910 to the present
04/03 MAP QUIZ /
Benjamin,
1-97
Chronology
of the Mexican Revolution
Week 2
04/08
Change and continuity in post-revolutionary
04/10
Benjamin,
pp. 99-165; Marc Eric Williams, “Traversing the Mexican Odyssey: Reflections on
Political Change and the Study of Mexican Politics,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos,
18, 1, Winter 2002, pp. 159-188.
Week 3
04/15
The era of populism, 1: Getulio Vargas and Estado Novo in
04/17 The era of populism, 2: Perón and Peronism in
Plotkin, ALL
Week 4
04/22
The Cold War and its impact in
04/24
Wright,
1-19; David M. Barrett, “Congress, the CIA and
Week 5
04/29
05/01
Wright,
21-38; Louis A. Perez, “Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy
Toward Cuba,” Journal of Latin American
Studies, 34, pp. 227-254; Julia Sweig, “Fidel’s
Final Victory,” Foreign Affairs,
Jan/Feb, 2007.
May 1: Lecture by Lincoln Cushing, “Cuban Poster Art and the Spirit of
Revolution” (
Week 6
05/06 The Heightening of Conflict: Che Guevara
and Guerrilla Warfare / QUIZ
# 1
05/08
Socialist experiments in
Wright,
39-147; Matt Childs, “An Historical Critique of the Emergence and Evolution of
Ernesto Che Guevara’s Foco
Theory,” Journal of Latin American
Studies, 27, 3, 1995, pp. 593-624.
Week 7
05/13
State-Terror in the Southern Cone:
05/15 Military regimes in
Wright,
149-164; J. Patrice McSherry, “Tracking the Origins
of a State Terror Network. Operation Condor,” Latin American Perspectives, 29, 1, 2002, pp. 38-60.
Week 8
05/20
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in
05/22 (Cont.)
Wright,
165-185; Mark Danner, El Mozote, ALL
Week 9
05/27
Women’s and Indigenous Social Movements
05/29
Zapatistas and Senderistas: Insurgency in
Christine
E. Eber, “Seeking
Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy San Pedro Chenalho,
Niels Barmeyer, “The Guerrilla Movement as a Project. An
Assessment of Community Involvement in the EZLN,” Latin American Perspectives, 30, 1, 2003, pp. 122-138.
Orin Starn, “Maoism in
the
Week 10
06/03
06/05 Discussion for final exam
Jorge G.
Castaneda, “Latin America's Left Turn,”
Foreign Affairs , May/June 2006.Greg Grandin,
“Latin America’s New Consensus,” The
Nation, May 1, 2006.
Final exam: