SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, GENDER AND THE STATE IN LATIN …



HIST 663 / LASP 441

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA

MW 1:25-2:40

Gambrell Hall

Professor: Dr. Lessie Jo Frazier

Gambrell 142 777-2734

lessie-frazier@sc.edu

This course introduces you to Latin American history by exploring the connections between social and economic hierarchies as they shape and are shaped by political and cultural transformations from the pre-colonial period to the present. Developing an analytic framework for thinking about race/ethnicity, class, and gender by using a set of rich case studies including the following: indigenous peoples and empires; race & social/economic reproduction in national and international politics; and sexuality & revolution. We investigate the ways in which the struggles of peoples consigned to the margins of formal political systems have, in fact, shaped state formation in the region and the dynamics of international relations in terms of competition and alliance across nationalist divisions. This course does not assume previous knowledge of Latin America.

Objectives of Course:

--Help you to understand ways in which non-elite peoples’ experiences and participation in social movements in Latin America have challenged and remade the politics of state formation and international dynamics.

--Expose you to cross-cultural historical inquiry through conducting original research, while encouraging you to link the issues with your own experiences.

--Develop your critical thinking skills through connecting analytic frameworks and concepts with scholarly studies of historical processes.

--Improve your written and oral expressive skills by presenting, discussing, and (substantial) writing.

Format: Class and small group discussions, student presentations, film viewings.

Undergraduate Course requirements: 300 points total.

--Participation (160 points):

A) in-class writing, in-class notes, quizzes, and informal commentaries on readings and films following worksheet format collected in loose-leaf binder class journal. Bring notes on each reading to class the day that reading is discussed.

B) participation on discussion committees and oral presentation (include notes in journal).

--Research Project (140 points):

A) Report (5-6 pages). Choose one of the books listed below and combine with two other sources from Unit One (12 pt., TimesRoman font, 1” margins, number pages, staple) You must take this report to the Writing Center before the due date.

B) B.) Paper (2-3 pg prospectus; 7-9pg complete draft; 10-12 page final paper) rethink your initial report using additional sources: at least 2 more from course readings + 2 outside secondary (scholarly, not textbook) sources + 2 primary sources (all sources must be approved)

C) Oral presentation of your project (10-15 minutes)

D) Comment on peer’s work (3-5 pages) plus marginal comments on the draft (both students are responsible for making sure this gets done).

You can earn a bonus on each phase if your attach a draft with substantial comments from another reader (include their name and phone#, another bonus if you are a reader for someone in the class).

--Extra credit: (up to two grades worth) for commentaries (up to 5 points each) on recommended readings, and indicated talks and films.

Graduate Student Course Requirements: (these can be modified depending on your discipline)

--Informal commentary (3-5 pages) on each units’ required, recommended, and additional readings.

--Short analysis of a run of major journals in the field

--2 book reviews (HAHR / AHR format)

--Historiographical essay (with prospectus & bibliography, essay; LARR format ). You may coordinate this paper with a thesis or work for a related class. Oral presentation on the essay topic.

General Guidelines: Late assignments drop 1/2 grade for each day late –including weekends (slip work under my door and pick up outside the door). In line with University policy, you should not miss more than 10% of class for any reason. When you do miss, you are responsible for all material and announcements covered in class: ask your classmates first and then consult me if you need further clarification. Attendance is defined as coming to class on time and remaining for the entire period. If you have special concerns such as scheduling problems, learning issues, etc., you should work these out with me in the first 2 weeks of the course.

Course materials: Books are on reserve at the Thomas Cooper Library; many books and photocopies are also on reserve at the Walker Institute library (4th floor Gambrell) and for purchase (books at the University Bookstore in Russell House (not a reliable source, you may want to order on your own) and articles at CopyPick-Up (on Rosewood). Not finding a text at the bookstore is not an acceptable excuse for failing to complete reading assignments. You are encouraged to share materials and to make use of reserve facilities. Required films can be seen through the USC Film Library (Wheat & S.Main).

Required:

1)The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945 Peter Beattie, Duke Univ Press 2001

3) Bad Language, Naked Ladies & Other Threats to the Nation Ann Rubenstein, Duke:98

4) Hotel Bolivia Leo Spitzer, Hill & Wang

5) Tracing the Veins Janet Finn, California: 98

6) The Idea of Race in Latin America Richard Graham, Texas (we will read selections)

7) The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender and Nation Nancy Stepan, Cornell:91 (we will read selections)

Project Books (Primary Sources): (no more than 3 students on the same book)

Pedogogy of the Oppressed Paolo Freire

Impressions of Cuba in the 19th Century Dimrock, Scholarly Resources: 98

Sandino: Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, Robert Edgar Conrad, ed.

The Rebel Leonor Villegas de Magnon, Arte Publico:94

The Salvador Allende Reader Salvador Allende, Ocean:00

Children of God’s Fire Robert Conrad, ed. Penn State

Let Me Speak Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Monthly Review

Shadows of Tender Fury Subcommandante Marcos, Monthly Review

My Brother Jamaica Kincaid, Noonday

In the Parish of the Poor Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Odyssey of Exile Katherine Morris, ed., Wayne State Univ Press

Barefoot Heart, Elva Trevino Hart

Honorable Exit, Lillian Lorca de Tagle

The Country Under My Skin: a Memoir of Love and War Gioconda Belli, Alfred Knopf

Refugees from Hollywood Jean Rouverol, Univ. of New Mexico

When a Flower is Reborn (indigenous woman of Chile) Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalalef, Duke Univ Press

Reference:

Keen A History of Latin America

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Name & email /phone number

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Name & email /phone number

UNIT ONE: Practices of Post-Colonial Nation-States: Thinking through Race, Class, and Gender

Objectives: To introduce the analytic concepts and current debates for understanding structures and practices of power in the social and economic history of Latin America. How do we think about other cultures? Who gets to tell history?

MON 1-13 Film: “Couple in the Cage”

WED 1-15 *June Nash “Aztec women”

*Irene Silverblatt “Andean women under Spanish Rule”

*Julianne Burton “Donald Duck”

*Intro to Machos, Mitresses and Madonnas

Film: ”Broken Silences: Rigoberta Menchu”

MON 1-20 MLK Day of Service

WED 1-22 * Trouillot “Unthinkable History: Haitian Revolution”

* Introduction to The Idea of Race

Intro + Ch.5 Hour of Eugenics “National Identities and Racial Transformations”

Beattie “House, street, barrackes” and “Penile Codes”

FILM: “Americas: Mirrors of the Heart”

Extra credit

Hal Cohen Menchu debate

Enloe “Bananas, Bases and Beaches”

Salazar "A Third World Woman's Text (Menchu)"

Inga Clendinnen “Disciplining the Indians”

Film “The Ona People of Tierra del Fuego” (Anne Chapman and Anna Montes de Gonzales)

UNIT TWO: Class, Gender, Race and Nation-Building

Jan. 27, 29, Feb. 3,5,10,12

Objectives: We consider the role of colonial and post-colonial states in the shaping of race, class and gender in everyday life in Brazil.

Readings: The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945 Peter Beattie, Duke Univ Press 2001

Extra Credit:

Skidmore “Race in Brazil” in The Idea of Race

Film “Camila” Maria Luisa Bemberg, Argentina

Film “Sugarcane Alley” Euzhan Paley (1983)

Film “Carmen Miranda: Bananas are my Business”

DUE: FRIDAY 2-14 REPORT DUE, NOON (under door of Gambrell 142)

UNIT THREE: Revolution, Part One, Creating "the People"

Feb. 17, 19, 24, 26

Objectives: We look at the role of gender, ethnicity/race and class in icons of populist movements of the early twentieth century, specifically in post-revolutionary Mexico. Readings and films concentrate on Mexico and Argentina.

Readings: Ann Rubenstein Bad Language, Naked Ladies, & Other Threats to the Nation

Films: “Americas: Mexico”

“Americas: Garden of Forking Paths”

“Danzón”

“Frida Khalo”

Extra Credit: Helg, Aline “Cuba & Argentina” from Idea of Race in LatAmer

Guy, Donna “White slavery: Citizenship and Nationality in Argentina”

Alan Knight “Mexican Revolution” in Idea of Race…

Stepan Hour of Eugenics Chapter on Mexico

UNIT FOUR: Reproducing the Nation-State: Geo-politics and Eugenics

March 3,5, 17, 19

Objectives: Early twentieth-century Latin American nation-states attempted to shape their destiny by shaping the inhabitants of the nation. Social Darwinism encouraged eugenic policies around the world which took a particular form in Latin America and played out quite differently in different countries from policies of immigration and family planning. We consider the experiences of Austrian Jewish refugees in Bolivia, and female sterilization policies in Puerto Rico.

Readings: Spitzer Hotel Bolivia: A Refuge from Nazism (Hill and Wang 1998)

Film: "The Operation" (female sterilization in Puerto Rico)

Extra Credit: Lopez, Iris "Sterilization among Puerto Rican women in New York City”

DUE: Prospectus March 7 [noon, under door Gambrell 142]

UNIT SIX: Revolution/Counter-Revolutions, and Movements Across the Americas

March 24,26, 31, April 2

Objectives: We analyze the ways in which Latin American revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements and states have policed and at times reshaped gender, ethnic and class systems through case studies of working class communities in Chile and Montana.

Readings: Janet Finn Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata (California 1998)

Films: “Americas: In Women’s Hands” (in-class)

“Global Assembly Line” (tba)

“Chile: Obstinate Memory” (tba)

“One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train” (tba)

Extra Credit: Arguelles & Rich "Homosexuality, homophobia, and revolution"(CP)

Townsend "Refusing to follow La Via Chilena"

MacRae, Edward "Homosexual Identities in Transitional Brazilian Politics"

Patai "'You're a militant and homosexual; obviously there's a problem: Madalena"

Bell "The political-libidinal economy of the socialist female body"

Film “Missing” (Costa Brava)

Film “La Frontera” (Chile)

CONCLUSIONS:

DUE April 7 Project Draft Due in class

DUE April 9 Peer Review Due in Class

Mon 4-14 Symposium

Wed 4-16 Symposium

Mon 4-21 holiday

Wed 4-23 Symposium

DUE 4-25 Final Paper [10-12 pages, History Office]

Mon 4-28 Symposium

Wed 4-30 Symposium

Sat May 3 9am additional symposium time as needed

NOTES / COMMENTARY WORKSHEET

Author / Speaker / Director:

Title:

Source:

Date of Publication / Event:

Publisher and City:

For each article, book chapter, film, talk or lecture be sure you can answer the following 4 questions (about 1 paragraph answers).

1. What is the argument and evidence/sources? Not only what it's about (the topic), but what's it driving at, who's the audience, or what's at stake?

a. Argument

b. Evidence/Sources

2. Specify a passage/part that you find interesting or problematic and discuss it.

Page # and first line of passage: ______________________________

Title:

3. Connect to at least 1 specific other piece from our course readings or films and link them in a brief discussion.

Name of reading:___________________________

4. Reflect on HOW this aids or confuses your understanding of the issues we have been working on in this course. What will you take away from this reading/film/speaker/event?

FILM LIBRARY REQUESTS Spring 2003

HIST 663 / LASP 441

Professor: Lessie Jo Frazier

Dept. History

Phone: 7-2734

lessie-frazier@sc.edu

Classroom use: (campus mail)

1) Broken Silences: Rigoberta Menchu Jan15

2) "The couple in the Cage" Jan 13

3) Americas: Mirrors of the Heart 977V(4) Jan 22

4) "Americas: Mexico (exact title???) Feb 17

5) "Americas: Gardern of Forking Paths" 975V Feb 26

6) The Operation 2206 V March 19

7) Americas: In Womens Hands 978 V (5) March 24

8) Chile: Obstinate Memory April 2

9) One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Chile) March 31

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