19275 |
LAIS 203 Latin American Nations: Emergence and
Distinctive Trajectories |
Pierre Ostiguy |
M . W .
. |
3:00
pm -4:20 pm |
RKC
100 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: GIS, History This course deals with the birth, rise, and consolidation
of Latin American nations since their birth in the 19th 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
19th century was marked by the conflicts and civil wars between
liberals and conservatives, with liberals gaining the upper hand by the end of
the 19th 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 19th 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.
19400 |
ARTH 160 Survey of Latin American Art |
Susan Aberth |
M . W . . |
3:00
pm -4:20 pm |
RKC
102 |
AART / DIFF |
19545 |
HIST 179 People and Power in Colonial and Contemporary Mexico |
Annette Richie |
. T . Th . |
2:30
pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN
301 |
HIST |
19208 |
LIT 3128 Saints, Sinners & Lunatics |
Gabriela Carrion |
. T . . . |
1:30
pm -3:50 pm |
OLINLC
208 |
FLLC |
19547 |
PS 259 Spanish Politics: Democracy after Dictatorship |
Omar Encarnacion |
M . W . . |
12:00
pm -1:20 pm |
OLIN
205 |
SSCI |
19141 |
PS 339 Populism and Popular Culture in Latin America |
Pierre Ostiguy |
. T . . . |
7:30
pm -9:50 pm |
OLIN
202 |
SSCI / DIFF |
19284 |
SOC 254 Social Movements |
Roberto Velez-Velez |
M . W . . |
1:30
pm -2:50 pm |
OLINLC
118 |
SSCI |
19201 |
SPAN 202
Intermediate Spanish II |
Nicole Caso |
M T W Th . |
10:30 -11:30 am |
OLINLC
120 |
FLLC |
19053 |
SPAN 220 The Hispanic Presence in US |
Melanie Nicholson |
M . W . . |
10:30 -11:50 am |
OLINLC
206 |
FLLC/DIFF |
19056 |
SPAN 302 Introduction to Latin American Lit.erature |
Nicole Caso |
M . W . . M . . . . |
1:30
pm -2:50 pm 3:00
pm -4:00 pm |
OLIN
303 |
FLLC |