History 510:631
Colloquium: Latin American History
20th Century
SYLLABUS
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Gail
D. Triner Van
Dyck Hall 002C 732-932–6696 e-mail:
triner@ix.netcom.com web
site: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~triner |
Office Hours: Monday & Thursday: Or by appointment |
The
colloquium will provide an opportunity for extensive reading of 20th
century Latin American historiography. Students will read major scholarly works
on the era from the late nineteenth century to the present. Organized around major themes, we will
examine the issues that have most concerned historians. In addition to critical
analyses of these issues, we will pay attention to changes in the focus of the
historiography over time and differences among national perspectives. Students
will also share in the responsibilities of organizing and leading discussions.
The goal of the colloquium is to begin preparation for Ph.D. qualifying exams
and, ultimately, for teaching survey courses.
The
reading list (included with a tentative
schedule of colloquium sessions)
should serve as suggestions. We will need to juggle session scheduling and,
perhaps our meeting time to accommodate the schedule of guests.
General
reference readings to provide background include advanced survey volumes, such
as: Halperín Donghi, Contemporary History of
Most
of the mechanics of the colloquium can be handled through e-mail. In order for
this to work, all participants must subscribe to the colloquium’s
listserv (instructions attached.)
Please
note that the attached class schedule is incomplete and tentative. The
structure of the course may change, depending on enrollment and our needs as we
go along. I will post the remainder of the reading lists as we approach the
later part of the semester.
You should check the on-line version of the syllabus
frequently. I expect to make adjustments to schedule and readings as we
progress through the semester. (http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~triner/20CColloq/syllabus.htm)
Colloquium requirements:
Each week we will all
undertake common readings and each student will also read an additional
monograph. The common readings will typically serve as an overview to the
week’s topic (very often a historiographic essay from
the Latin American Research Review.)
The common readings and additional book that you commit to read are the minimum
reading requirements. You should also include additional readings and
supplementary articles, as appropriate. In each session, each student will give
a short presentation of his/her reading.
As you find useful
readings, please forward citations to me so that I can consider their future
inclusion on the syllabus.
** Designation to indicate common
readings for the class session:
·
You can retrieve journal articles from
electronic journals
·
Chapters & portions of books will be
available through on-line links (electronic version of this syllabus)
·
Books are available from the library or
on-line bookstores. I have not ordered books at the bookstore; you will need to
plan your book needs in advance (and perhaps co-ordinate among yourselves);
availability problems will not constitute an acceptable explanation for lack of
preparation.
Common
journal references:
AHR American
Historical Review
JLAS Journal
of Latin American Studies
LARR Latin
American Research Review
HAHR Hispanic
American Historical Review
You should have one
historiographic paper each week, of 3-7 pages, in which you identify: the
argument made in the materials you have read, its contribution to the
historiography of the field, the author’s methodology and the strengths and
weaknesses of the arguments made in the monograph. You should assess the
important “historical facts” that the support (or weaken) the arguments. You
may (should) consult reviews published in journals; but your paper needs to
clearly indicate your assessment of the material. The paper should also
identify topics that you would like to explore during class session, based on
the common readings and the monograph that you have read. You should distribute
your paper to colloquium participants via e-mail, no later than the night
before each colloquium meeting.
This colloquium is
small enough that if every participant is not prepared to participate fully
each week, the session will suffer significantly.
We will have guest
participants for at least one session.
Final semester
assignment: you have an option of:
· Specify two questions, drawing from the semester’s readings and discussions, which may be appropriate as qualifying exam questions, and will answer one of them in a 15-20 page paper.
or
· Draft a syllabus, complete with background bibliography (organized within each topic – not one consolidated bibliography) and general thesis statements for classes (not a general topic statement – give thesis statement of conclusions you want students to walk away with), for an undergraduate course in 20th Century Latin American History.
We will discuss this, including the due dates, early in the semester.
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24 Jan. |
Introduction: Paradigms for studying 20th
century ** Joseph, Rubenstein and Zolov
(eds.). Fragments
of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in ** Haber. “Anything Goes: ** Socolow. “Putting the ‘Cult’
in Culture” HAHR (May 1999) ** Knight “Subalterns, Signifiers and Statistics:
Perspectives on Mexican Historiography;” LARR vol. 37, no. 2 (2002) |
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31 Jan. |
Economic Reality ** Love, “The Rise and Decline of Economic Structuralism
in ** Coatsworth “ Structures, Endowments and Institutions in
the Economic History of ** Triner, “Recent Latin American Economic History and its
Historiography” LARR Vol. 38, No. 1 (2003) Choose individual readings from among those
listed below - or suggest an alternative to me: Suzigan. Indústria brasileira (1986) Triner. Banking and
Economic Development: Cárdenas, E. La industrialización mexicana durante la
Gran Depresión (1987) Haber, Industry and Underdevelopment (1989) Palacios. El café en Colombia, una historia económica social y
politica (1979) Cortés Conde. El progreso argentino (1979) Dye. Cuban Sugar in
the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929 (1998) |
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7 Feb. |
Political – authoritarianism &
democratization ** Collier & Collier. Shaping
the Political Arena Part I
(1991) ** Kelly. “Democracy Redux: How
Real is Democracy in ** Taylor, S. L. “Democratization in Latin America” LARR
Vol. 37, No. 3 (2002) Haggard & Kaufman The
Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995) (Includes interesting
cross-regional comparative studies with some East Asian cases.) Halperín Donghi. Argentina:
La democracia de masas (1983) Meyer, L. La crisis en el sistema
político mexicano, 1928-1977 (1977) Rock, D. Politics in
Deutsch, Sandra McGee Las
Derechas: The Extreme Right in Rouquié. The Military and the State in Remmer. Military Rule in Serbin, K. Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations,
Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Collier & Collier. Shaping
the Political Arena (1991) |
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14 Feb. |
Guest speaker –
Professora
Maria Antonieta Leopoldi
Department of
Political Science Universidade Federal Fluminense “Reforming Social
Security in Brazil during the Lula Government” Also read |
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21 Feb. |
Political
Culture
** Andrews & Chapman. The
Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990; selected chapters ** Leaman, D. “Changing Faces of
Populism in ** Recovering from State Terror: The Morning After in Lessa, A invenção republicana
(1999) Power, M. Right Wing
Women in |
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28 Feb. |
Revolutions
and Social Movements
** Selbin, E.; “Resistance,
Rebellion, and Revolution in Eckstein, Susan, ed.
Power and Popular Protest: Latin
American Social Movements. Escobar, Arturo and Alvarez, Sonia E., eds. The
Making of Social Movements in Kampwirth, Karen. Women
in Guerrilla Movements: McClintock, Cynthia.
Revolutionary Movements in Selbin, Eric. Modern
Latin American Revolutions. Westview, 1993. Wickham-Crowley, Timothy
P. Guerrillas
and Revolution in |
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7 Mar |
Space &
Place: Region; rural; urban
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14 Mar. |
Labor ** Wolfe, J. “The Social Subject versus the Political:
Latin American Labor Studies at a Crossroads” Vol. 37, No. 2 (2002) Farnsworth-Alvear, A. Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men and
Women in Parker, D. The Idea
of the Middle Class: White Collar Workers and Peruvian Society (1998) Levenson-Estrada Trade Unionists Against Terror (1994) Gomes, A. A invenção do trabalhismo (1988) Chalhoub, S. Trabalho, lar e botequim:
O cotidiadano no Rio de
Janeiro da Belle Epoque (1986) Munck (with Falcón & Galitelli). Munck, G. Authoritarianism and Democratization:
Soldiers and Workers in Brennan. The Labor
Wars in Córdoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and
Labor Politics in an James, D. Resistance
and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working
Class, 1946-1976 (1988) Bergquist, C Labor in Weinstein, B. For
Social Peace in Winn, P. Weavers
of Revolution (1986) |
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21 Mar. |
Spring Break
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28 Mar. |
No class –
we will re-schedule
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4 April |
Migrations
For
this class session, you should read two monographs – one on immigration into Immigration
& Emigration
** Moya, J. “A Continent of
Immigrants: Postcolonial Shifts in the Moya, J. Cousins and Strangers (1998) Baily S. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise (1999) Germani. Política y sociedad en una época
de transición; de la sociedad tradicional a la sociedad de masas (1971) Devoto. Movimientos migratorios : historiografía y
problemas (1992) Seyferth, Imigração e Cultura no Brasil (1990) Lesser. Negotiating
National Identity (1999) or Searching
for Home Abroad (2003) Whalen, C. From Need more on emigration |
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11 Apr. |
Women/Gender
** McGee Deutsch, S. “Gender and Sociopolitical Change”
(HAHR May 1991). ** Caulfield. “The History of Gender in the Historiography
of ** Besse, S. Restructuring patriarchy : the
modernization of gender inequality in Súarez Findlay, E.J. Imposing decency : the politics of
sexuality and race in Dore & Molyneaux (eds.) Hidden
histories of gender and the state in Stephen, L. Women
and social movements in French & James (eds.) The gendered worlds of Latin American women workers : from household
and factory to the union hall and ballot Klubock, T.M. Contested communities : class, gender, and
politics in Tinsman, H. Partners in conflict : the politics of
gender, sexuality, and labor in the Chilean agrarian reform, 1950-1973
(2002) (Either Klubock OR Tinsman - not
both) Lavrin. Women, Feminism and Social Change in Caulfield, S. In
Defense of Honor (2000) Guy. D. Sex and
danger in Alves, Branca Moreira Ideologia e
feminismo : A luta elo
voto no Brasil (1980) Susana Menéndez En búsqueda de las mujeres: percepciones sore género, trabajo y sexualidad, Buenos Aires 1900-1930
1997 |
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18 Apr. |
Race
& Ethnicity
** Graham, R. (ed.) The
Idea of Race in ** Triner, “Race, With or Without Color? Reconciling
Brazilian Historiography” in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América
Latina (February 1999) and History
Compass. http://www.History-compass.com/
(2005). ** Applebaum
“Post-Revisionist Scholarship on Race” LARR
Vol. 40, No 3 (2005) ** de la Fuente, A. “Race, Ideology, and Culture in De la Cadena, M. Indigenous Mestizos:
The Politics of Race & Culture in Jorge Dominguez, ed. Race
and Ethnicity in Latin America.(1995)
Dawson, A. Indian
and Nation in Revolutionary Schwarcz, L.M. O Espetculo das Raças: Cientistas,
Instituições e Questão
Racial no Brasil, 1870-1930 (1999) |
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25 Apr. |
Popular Culture: How societies have
represented themselves ** Levine, D. (ed.) Constructing
Culture and Power in ** Rowe & Schelling. Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in ** Hedeen, K. “Decolonizing
Culture: Visual Arts, Development Narratives, and Performance in the Morse, R. Williams, D. Culture
Wars in Brazil 2001 Rubensten, A. Bad Language, Naked Ladies and other
Threats to the Nation 1998 Vaughn, M. K. Cultural
Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants and Schools in Pilcher ¡Que vivan los
tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity 1998 Bosi, E. Memória e sociedade: Lembranças de velhos 1987 Sevcenko, N. Literatura como missão (1983) |
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2 May |
What is Latin
American about Latin American history?
** Armstrong, P. "The Brazilianists' ** Skidmore, T.
Studying the history of Berger Under Northern Eyes (1995) Barbosa, Eakin
& Almeida (eds.) O Brasil dos Brasilianistas (2001) Conclusion |
Possible
additional topics
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Dependency
** GunderFrank, A. “The
Development of Underdevelopment” from Cockcroft et.
al. Dependence & Underdevelopment (1972) ** Packenham, R. The Dependency Movement Chs. 1 and 5 **
Stern, S. “Feudalism, Capitalism and the World-System in the Perspective of
Latin America and the |
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Latin American-US
Relations
** H. Delpar; “Inter-American
Relations and Encounters: Recent Directions in the Literature” LARR Vol. 35,
No.3 (2000) Smith, Peter Talons
of the Eagle: Dynamics of US-Latin American Relations (2000)
Gilderhus, M. The Second Century: US Latin American
Relations Since 1889 (2000) Hall, L. Oil,
Banks and Politics: The
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Environmental
Note: I will choose from among these articles,
& make a copy for you. You will not have to read all of them.
** Kaimowitz, D. “Amazon
Deforestation Revisited” LARR Vol. 37, No. 2 (2002)
** Young, K. “Nature's Role in Latin American Governance
and History” LARR Vo. 40, No. 3 (2005) Dean,
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