INTRODUCTION

September 17: Overview of Course 

CONQUEST AND SLAVERY

September 22, 24:Colonial Experience 

Precept Reading: Rebecca Scott,  Slave Emancipation in Cuba : The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899. 

WAR AND REVOLUTION 

September 29: Porfiriato  October 1: The Revolution

Precept Reading:  John Tutino, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico : Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 

THE PERFECT DICTATORSHIP

October 6: The Limits of Autonomy 
October 8: Rise and Fall of the Technocrats 

Precept Reading: Jeffrey Rubin, Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitan, Mexico 

THE SEARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE w

October 13: The Limits of Independence 
October 15: Of Doves & Men 

Precept Reading: Thomas G. Paterson, Contesting Castro : The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution 

 

LIMITS OF CHARISMA

October 20: Creating "Socialist Man" 
October 22: The Bureaucracy Takes Over 

Precept Reading: Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara : A Revolutionary Life 

GROWTH AND INEQUALITY

October 27: The Mexican Miracle 
October 29: Neo-Liberalism 

Precept Reading: Judith Adler Hellman, Mexican Lives. 
 
 

TAKE HOME EXAM ON FIRST PART OF THE COURSE DUE BY 4:00 PM OCTOBER 30TH IN WILSON COLLEGE OFFICE

FALL BREAK

INESCAPABLE DEPENDENCY

November 10:  Ten Million Tons 
November 12: Rectification and Special Periods 

Precept Reading: Susan Eckstein, Back from the Future : Cuba Under Castro. 

RACE AND CLASS 

November 17: Global and Domestic Inequality 
November 19: Race and Revolution 

Precept Reading: Pedro Perez Sarduy & Jean Stubbs, AfroCuba 

ACROSS THE BOUNDARIES
November 24: Exile: Politics and Economic 

 

MORALITY

December 1: Sexuality and Identity;
December 3: God andthe Revolutions 

Precept Reading: Matthew Guttman, The Meaning of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City 

CELEBRATING LIFE 

December 8: Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, & Fiestas 
December 10: Arts and music 

Precept Reading: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Mea Cuba

THE FUTURE 

December 15: After Fidel
December 17: After the PRI

Precept Reading: Carlos Monsivais, Mexican Postcards

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