91605

HIST / LAIS 203 Latin American Nations: Emergence and Distinctive Trajectories

Monique Segarra

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4:40 – 6:00 pm

Olin 205

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: GIS This course deals with the birth, rise, and consolidation of Latin American nations since their birth in the 19^th century, focusing on their distinctive trajectories and specific national patterns of politics, conflicts, identity, and culture. The “long nineteenth century”, from 1810 to 1930, is the century that shaped Latin American nations as we know them today. This key era is also when the slavery of people of African descent was abolished but racial inequalities remained, and when liberal projects were attempted for transforming indigenous people into “national citizens”. The long 19^th century was marked by the conflicts and civil wars between liberals and conservatives, with liberals gaining the upper hand by the end of the 19^th century. Paradoxically, however, the meaning of liberalism in Latin America varied greatly: anti-clericalism (Colombia), capitalist “science and progress” (Mexico, Brazil), civilized culture against “native barbarism” (Argentina). The course’s brief starting point is independence of the Americas through Enlightenment Creole leaders using military means. As a product, Spanish America exploded from four Vice-Royalties to 16 countries--and entirely new nations. We then turn to the controversial and distinctive period of caudillo rule in Latin America. Third, we explore the very different forms taken by the conflict between Liberals and Conservatives in these new Latin American nations –a conflict that would shape, thoroughly and negatively, the future of these nations’ society, culture, and politics. We then deal with the apex of liberalism in the last third of the 19^th century—a period of free trade associated with spectacular economic growth, dispossession of indigenous people and peasants, massive European working-class immigration, and increased power of foreign capital and landowners. At the same time, this apex saw the establishment of constitutional rule and the notions of citizenship, individualism, and secularism. Finally, under either revolutionary forces, as in Mexico in the 1910s, or the devastating impact of the 1930 crash, the liberal era collapsed. The course also examines cultural expressions of the various time periods, from gaucho poetry, to anti-modernist religious messianism, to tango, to the birth of soccer. The course is open to any and all interested students. Chronologically, it is the second of a “three-course” sequence: LAIS 110, LAIS 203, and PS 253.

91298

ARTH 253 Africa in the Americas

Susan Aberth

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 102

AART

91093

PS 214 US-Latin American Relations

Omar Encarnacion

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin 202

SSCI

91099

PS 253 Latin American Politics

Pierre Ostiguy

M . W . .

7:00 -8:20 pm

ASP 302

SSCI/DIFF

91245

SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish

Nicole Caso

M T W Th .

8:50 -9:50 am

10:10 - 11:10 am

Olin L. C. 210

FLLC

91244

SPAN 110 Accelerated First Year Spanish

Anna Cafaro

M T W Th .

1:30 -2:30 pm

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

91247

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

Gabriela Carrion

. T W Th F

8:50 -9:50 am

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

91249

SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II

Melanie Nicholson

M T W Th .

8:50 -9:50 am

Olin L. C. 206

FLLC

91246

SPAN 240 Testimonial Literature

Nicole Caso

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin L. C. 118

FLLC/DIFF

91250

SPAN 265 Intro to Literary Analysis

Melanie Nicholson

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

91248

SPAN 301 Intro to Spanish Literature

Gabriela Carrion

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

91476

SPAN 351 Spanish Through Spanish

Eyes: Recent and Past Cinema from Spain

Gabriela Carrion

. . W . F

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC