August 23 – Week 1 – Introduction – Course Goals, Objectives, and Requirements; The Struggle for

• Independence and the Rise of Caudillos
• (ICR) Larry Cebula, “How to Read a Book in One Hour,” in Hacking the Academy
• (ICR) Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Mark Sample, and Daniel J. Cohen, “Voices: Blogging” in Hacking the Academy
• Adam Dachis, “Which Blogging Platform Should I Use?” www.Lifehacker.com
• Jon Russell, “The 15 best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today. Which one is for you?” www.TheNextWeb.com

August 28, 30 – Week 2 – Independence and Everyday Life and Regional Wars in the Early Independent Era

• Adelman, “Independence in Latin America”
• “Décimas dedicated to Santa Ana’s leg”
• “Facundo: Barbarian Caudillo”
• Hernández, “Gauchos in and out of the State”
• Echeverría, “The Slaughterhouse”
• “The Black Girl”
• Seeber, “The Triple Alliance”

September 4 - Labor Day. No class.

September 6 – Week 3 – The Rise of Oligarchies and Modern Economies

• Scenes from a Lumber Camp
• Avellaneda, “Political Stability and Economic Development”
• Borges, “A Mirror of Progress”
• “Abolition Decree, 1888”
• “Solemn Inaugural Session of December 24, 1900 Congress of Engineering and Industry”
• "”The Civilist Campaign” and “Gaucho Leaders”
• “Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900 Legislature of Minas Gerais”

Map Quiz, Wednesday, September 6

September 11, 13 – Week 4 – Mass Migration to Latin America

• Moya, “Spanish Emigration to Cuba and Argentina”
• Devoto, “A History of Spanish and Italian Migration to the South Atlantic Regions of the Americas”
• Immigrant letters

September 18, 20 – Week 5 – Historiography Snapshot - Studies in Public Health and History of Medicine

• Armus and López Denis, “Disease, Medicine, and Health”
• Birn and López, “Footprints on the Future: Looking Forward to the History of Health and Medicine in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century”
• Dimas, “Harvesting Cholera: Fruit, Disease and Governance in the Cholera Epidemic of Tucumán, Argentina, 1867–68”

September 25, 27 – Week 6 – Everyday Life in the Age of Modernity: Urbanization & Popular Culture

• Scene from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
• Poems to be Read on a Trolly Car
• Soccer and Popular Joy
• Modern Women

October 2, 4 – Week 7 – The Mexican Revolution

• The Mexican Revolution
• Zapatistas in the Palace
• La Punitiva
• The Ballad of Valentín of the Sierra

October 9, 11 – Week 9 – Rise of Populism in Latin America

• Watch film Los Olvidados (1950) in class
• Economic Dependency
• The Indian Problem
• Perón Appeals to the People
• Eva Perón: On Women’s Right to Vote
• Hyland, “Solemn Expression of Faith”: Muslims and Belonging in Peronist Argentina, 1946-1955”

October 16 – No class. Fall Break.

October 18 – Week 9 - Historiography Snapshot - Winter Has Come: The Cold War in Latin America

• Kirkendall, “Cold War Latin America: The State of the Field”
• Pettinà and Sánchez Román, “Beyond US Hegemony: The Shaping of the Cold War in Latin America”
• Iber, Neither Peace nor Freedom

Paper on Patrick Iber’s Neither Peace nor Freedom is due Wednesday, October 18, by 1:45pm

October 23, 25 – Week 10 – Digital Projects Boot Camp

• Why Digital Humanities? Why digital projects?
• Digital Research Projects Lab Work

October 30, November 1 – Week 11 - Social Revolutions, Dirty Wars, and the Cold War

For Monday, October 30

• A Coup: Made in America (documentary film on 1954 coup d'etat in Guatemala and CIA's role in it)
• Castro, "What Cuba's Rebels Want" (1957)
• Castro, "When the People Rule" (speech delivered January 21, 1959)
• Guevara, "Mobilizing the Masses for the Invasion" (1961)
• CIA, Briefing for AG Robert Kennedy on Operation Mongoose
• Maestra (documentary film about the literacy campaign in 1961)
  • Maestra (8-minute version with English subtitles)

For Wednesday, November 1

• Tucumán is Burning
• "Suppression in Uruguay," Emir Rodríguez-Monegal, April 4, 1974
• National Security Archive's page on Argentina's Dirty War
  • Efforts to Account for the Disappeared
  • Subject: Conversation with Argentine Intelligence Source, April 7, 1980
  • Subject [excised] more on PST disappearances, May 14, 1980
  • Subject: Hypothesis - The GOA as Prisoner of Army Intelligence, August 18, 1980
  • Subject: A source in Argentine intelligence services reviewed the following subjects with me, August 21, 1980

November 6, 8 - Week 12 – Return to Democracy and New Social Movements

• Living with Inflation
• The Maquiladoras
• The New Populism
• Women Take Charge
• (Subcomandante) Marcos is Gay
• Pipe-Smoking Rebel Who Took on Mexican State (BBC Witness)
• The Zapatista Uprising (20 Years Later) (Vice News)

November 13, 15 – Week 13 – Latin America, Globalization, and Narco-Trafficking

• Monday
  • The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking (2011)
  • Colombia and the War on Drugs (1988)
    • At Home (That's Prison) With Medellin's Ochoas (NY Times, 1995)
    • Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, Co-Founder of Medellín Cartel, Dies at 65 (NY Times, 2013)
  • Drug Lord (Texas Monthly, July 1987)
  • Four Common Misconceptions about U.S.-bound Drug Flows through Mexico and Central America (WOLA, 2017)
• Wednesday
  • Mexico’s Drug Cartels (CRS Report, 2007)
  • The MARAS: A Menace to the Americas (2007)
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking and U.S. Counterdrug Programs (CRS Report, 2011)
  • Billionaire Druglords: El Chapo Guzman, Pablo Escobar, The Ochoa Brothers (Forbes, 2012)
  • The Golden Age of Drug Trafficking: How Meth, Cocaine, and Heroin Move Around the World (2016)
  • Heroin Production in Mexico and U.S. Policy (2016)
  • Mexico's Drug War (Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder, 2017)
  • Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations (CRS Report, 2017)
  • Colombia’s Changing Approach to Drug Policy (CRS Report, 2017)
  • Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) / Clan del Golfo (Colombia Reports, 2017)

November 20 - Week 14 – Latin America, Globalization, and Narco-Trafficking (A continuación)

• The Interminable War on Drugs and its Current Impact in Latin America
  • The Forgotten War on Drugs (2007 special series by National Public Radio)
  • The Cocaine Trail (2009 special report from British newspaper The Guardian)
  • Two Songs about Drug Smuggling
  • Cheap cocaine floods Argentina and Brazil (2008)
  • Mexican, Colombian drug traffickers said to seek refuge in Argentina (2012)
  • Bazuco, the cheapest drug on Colombian streets (2012)
  • The Cannabis Republic of Uruguay​ (Vice News, 2014)
  • Paco: The Poor Man's Drug in Buenos Aires (Vice News, 2014)
  • Rosario: Violence, Drugs and Football (Vice News, 2014)
  • Mexican drug cartels are expanding their reach in Peru (PRI, 2014)
  • The Gangs That Inherited Pablo Escobar's Drug Empire: Cooking with Cocaine (Vice News, 2014)
  • One mother's personal fight against a destructive drug (2017)
  • Mexico's most-wanted: A guide to the drug cartels (BBC, 2017)
• The Colossal Market for Controlled Substances 
  • Pellets, planes and the new frontier (Washington Post, 2015)
  • Reefer Madness to Marijuana Legalization: Media Exposure and American Attitudes Toward Marijuana (1975-2012) (2016)
  • El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis (Esquire, 2016)
  • ‘The Amazon of drug trafficking’: How a mail-order opioid operation took root on the high plains of Texas (STAT, 2016)
  • Record seizure of fentanyl, likely headed to the U.S., reported by Mexican border authorities (LA Times, 2017)
  • House Resolution 268 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States from Mexico and China. (2017)
  • The Cartels Next Door: Mexican drug lords corner meth market (Albuquerque Journal, 2017)
  • 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment (DEA, 2017)

​November 22 – No class. Thanksgiving Recess.


November 27, 29 – Week 15 – Latin America, Globalization, Violence, and Mobility

• Monday
  • Cities, culture and globalization (Jelin, 1998)
  • Latin America and the Challenges of Globalization - An Op-Ed (IMF, 2000)
  • Old and new forms of citizenship (Hopenhayn, 2001) 
  • Latin America and Globalization (The Globalist, 2005)
  • Mujica, Vengo del Sur (2013)
  • Latin America Confronts the Challenges of Globalization (Monthly Review, 2014)
  • Latin America: A Culture of Violence? (Foreign Policy, 2014)
  • Of growth and globalisation (The Economist, 2016)
  • Mafia of the Poor: Gang Violence and Extortion in Central America (2017)
  • What it will take to stem the violence in Latin America (LA Times op-ed, 2017)
  • The costs of Latin American crime (The Economist, 2017)
  • Take five: Fighting femicide in Latin America (UN Women, 2017)
  • Contexts of Exclusion, Insecurity and Violence (IACHR, 2016)
• Wednesday
  • Bilingual Education Traces Its U.S. Roots to the Colonial Era (Education Week, 1987)
  • From Native Language to Foreign Language: Spanish in 19th Century Schools (2013)
  • The Hispanic Challenge (Foreign Policy, 2004)
  • Migration in the Americas (2014)
  • Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas (Origins, 2015)
    
  • Facts on U.S. Latinos, 2015 (Pew Hispanic Center)
  • Two Poems about Immigrant Life
  • Latin American Immigration to the United States (National Institutes of Health, 2013)
  • South American Immigrants in the United States (Migration Policy Institute, 2016)
  • Latin America has a different migration problem (Bloomberg, 2016)
  • The face of migration via Mexico (CS Monitor, 2017)

December 4 - Week 16 - Historiography Snapshot - Gender and the Cuban Revolution

• Guy, “Gender and Sexuality in Latin America”
• Herman, “An Army of Educators: Gender, Revolution and the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961”
• Chase, Revolution Within the Revolution

Paper on Michelle Chase’s Revolution Within the Revolution is due Monday, December 4, by 1:45pm

December 8 – Digital Research Project Presentations, 1:30pm-4:30pm