Reading Schedule with Additional Reading Links

 

Date

Topic

Reading

1.8

Introduction & Defining Geography

 

1.10

Physical Landscape

AR0

1.15

Pre-Colombian Americas & Conquest

Green p.5-11; AR1; Fuentes p.51-147

1.17

Conquest of Mexico

 

1.22

Colonial Americas & Independence

Fuentes p.151-297

1.24

Curse of Wealth to ISI

Green p.12-27

1.29

ISI to the Debt Crisis

Green p.28-48

1.31

The Neoliberal Order

AR2

2.5

Life & Debt

 

2.7

EXAM ONE

2.12

Political Independence & Developing Nationalism

Fuentes p.299-329

2.14

The Last Zapatistas - (Proposal Due)

2.19

The State & the Military

Green p.51-63

2.21

US Interventionism

Green p.64-71; AR3; AR4

2.26

The Left & New Social Movements

Green p.71-86; 166-176

2.28

Protests & Rebellion

AR5; AR6

3.4

Zapatista!

 

3.6

EXAM TWO

3.11

Peopling of Latin America -- Race & Ethnicity

Green p.135-148; AR7; Quilombo1; Quilombo2

3.13

Religion

Green p.200-215

3.18

Spring Break -- No Class

 

3.20

Spring Break -- No Class

 

3.25

Gender

Green p.148-166; AR8; AR9

3.27

Blossoms of Fire - (Paper Due)

4.1

Land Issues

Green p.89-103; AR10

4.3

Environmental

Green p.116-132; AR11

4.8

Population & Urbanization

Green p.104-116

4.10

Recycled Life

 

4.15

Diaspora

AR12; Fuentes p.341-355

4.17

EXAM THREE