Readings

Texts

Buy at Amazon Azuela, Mariano. The Underdogs. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1996. ISBN: 9780451526250.

Buy at Amazon Dorfman, Ariel. Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. ISBN: 9780374168629.

Buy at Amazon Skidmore, Thomas E., and Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America. 6th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195170139.

Buy at Amazon Vasconcelos, José. The Cosmic Race. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801856556.

Additional Readings

Buy at Amazon Andrews, George Reid. "A Transfusion of New Blood: Whitening, 1880-1930." In Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004, 117-51. ISBN: 9780195152326.

Buy at Amazon Benjamin, Thomas. "Festival: A Vigorous Mexico Arising." In La Revolucíon: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000, pp. 99-116. ISBN: 9780292708808.

Buy at Amazon Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. "The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo," and "The Mothers Come Together." In Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002, pp. 1-17, 65-91. ISBN: 9780842024860

Buy at Amazon Craske, Nikki. "Women and Political Identity in Latin America," and "Feminisms in Latin America." In Women and Politics in Latin America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. 9-25, 162-91. ISBN: 9780813526935.

Buy at Amazon Dominguez, Jorge. "Cuba Since 1959." In Cuba: A Short History. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 95-139. ISBN: 9780521436823.

Buy at Amazon Feitlowitz, Marguerite. "Night and Fog." In A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 63-88. ISBN: 9780195106350.

Freyre, Gilberto. "Brazil as a European Civilization in the Tropics." In New World in the Tropics: The Culture of Modern Brazil. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, pp. 141-65.

Buy at Amazon Guillermoprieto, Alma. "Colombia." In Looking For History: Dispatches From Latin America. New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 2001, pp. 18-71. ISBN: 9780375420948.

Buy at Amazon "Introduction," "Letitia Herrera," "Luz Beatriz Arellano," and "Aida Gutiérrez." In Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Edited by Denis Lynn, and Daly Heyck. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990, pp. 1-20, 87-105, 163-82, 333-40. ISBN: 9780415902113.

Buy at Amazon Johnson, John J. Latin America in Caricature. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980, pp. 210-55. ISBN: 9780292746268.

Buy at Amazon Levine, Robert M. "Vargas's Incomplete Revolution." In Father of the Poor? Vargas and his Era. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 112-38. ISBN: 9780521585286.

Buy at Amazon Lockwood, Lee. "A North American Journalist Interviews Castro." In People and Issues in Latin American History from Independence to the Present. 2nd ed. Edited by Lewis Hanke, and Jane M. Rausch. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999, pp. 326-45. ISBN: 9781558761957.

Marquez, Gabriel García. "The Solitude of Latin America: Nobel Address, 1982."

Orozco, José Clemente. The Epic of American Civilization.

Buy at Amazon Perón, Eva. "My Mission in Life." In People and Issues in Latin American History from Independence to the Present. 2nd ed. Edited by Lewis Hanke, and Jane M. Rausch. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999, pp. 251-69. ISBN: 9781558761957.

Buy at Amazon Romero, Luis Alberto. A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. Translated by James P. Brennan. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002, pp. 1-58. ISBN: 9780271021928.

Buy at Amazon Smith, Peter H. Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. 2nd ed. Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 63-142. ISBN: 9780195129984.

Buy at Amazon Williams, Daryle. "Museums and Memory." In Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 135-76. ISBN: 9780822327196.

Films

Bradbury, David. Fond Memories of Cuba (Australia, 2002, 77 min).

Guzman, Patricio. The Battle of Chile (1975, excerpts).

Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Televangelism in Brazil (1999).

Valenti, Alexander. Coffee. A Sack Full of Power (52 min).