Winter 2004

This information effective for Winter 2004. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Latin American and Latino Studies

[LALS-001] [LALS-173] [LALS-194M]

1. Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies

T/Th 2-3:45
Instructor: Susanne Jonas, Merrill 110, x9-3232, 9-2855-message
E-mail: sjonas@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 12:30-3:30, Th. 11-12, or by appointment
TAs: Ernesto Bustillos, Riccardo Rivera

Course Description:

In these first years of the 21st century, we are living not just in the United States, but in the northern zone of the Americas. Every day, Latin Americans and North Americans, especially Latinos, are more connected—for better or for worse. To understand our lives in this hemisphere, we need cross-border perspectives.

This course is designed to provide a cross-border, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of Latin America and Latinos in the U.S. Although we introduce Latin America historically, our main emphases in this course will be contemporary. We will also focus on cross-border realities and issues facing Latino populations in the U.S. We will learn directly from Latin American and Latino writers and activists in order to gain a greater understanding of their life-conditions and cultural traditions. You will have the opportunity to hear lectures by some of UC Santa Cruz's leading Latin Americanists and Latino scholars. This course is designed to prepare you to pursue your interests in Latino and Latin American issues in LALS at UCSC—and as a citizen of the Americas.

Course Readings: Required readings are: 1) Peter Winn, Americas (at Bay Tree); 2) Juan González, Harvest of Empire (also at Bay Tree); 3) a Course Reader (to be sold in class); and 4) maps (at Bay Tree).

In addition, a number of books on Latin America and Latinos will be on reserve for use in preparing written assignments:

1. Books on Latin America:
   Mark Rosenberg, et al. (Eds.), Americas
   James Cockcroft, Neighbors in Turmoil: Latin America
   James Cockcroft, Latin America: History, Politics and U.S. Policy
   Thomas Skidmore and Peter Smith, Modern Latin America
   Jan Black, Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise
   Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost, Politics of Latin America
   E. Bradford Burns and Julie Charlip, A Concise History of Latin America (5th ed.)
2. Books on Latinos:
   Earl Shorris, Latinos
   Richard Delgado/Jean Stefanic, The Latino/a Condition
   Lillian Castillo-Speed, Women's Voices from the Borderlands
   Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us
   Abby Bogomolny, New to North America
   Antonia Darder and Rodolfo Torres, The Latino Studies Reader
   Mary Romero, et al., Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
   Ilan Stavans, Latinos: A Cartoon History

Course Requirements and Evaluations:

1. a midterm examination (part in-class, part take-home);
   
2. a final examination (part in-class, part take-home);
   
3. smaller assignments (maps, pre-midterm case study of a country you will "adopt," identity statement, Chicano/Latino assignment);
   
4. regular class attendance and keeping up with course readings;
   
5. attendance at discussion sections (which are required, and at which you should be prepared to discuss the readings and to raise your other questions). There will also be opportunities to raise questions and discuss issues in class.

Notes:

1. Class (as well as section) attendance is mandatory; attendance will be taken, and all absences should be excused. Consistent attendance and participation will raise your grade/evaluation; unexcused absences will lower it.
   
2. If for some reason you should need to take an "Incomplete" in this class, you must negotiate it ahead of time with the Instructor/TA—including the deadline for turning in the work and the forms.

Topics and Sessions

- Course Introduction and Overview: Latinos and Latin Americans Across Borders (Jan. 7)

Readings: Winn, Chap. 1

I. Conquests and Underdevelopment in the Americas

- The Two Conquests (Jan. 9)

Readings: González, Chap. 1
Vanden & Prevost (both selections), Chasteen, de las Casas, in Reader, Sec. I

Assignments:
1) Maps (due in section, week of Jan. 13)
2) Start browsing through Cockcroft, Skidmore & Smith, Black, and other books on reserve, choose a country to "adopt"

- The Roots of Inequality: Colonial and Neo-Colonial Latin America and the U.S. Southwest (Jan. 14)

Readings: Winn, Chap. 2
González, Chap. 2 (Chap. 3 optional)
New York Times, Barrera in Reader

- The Key to Development/Underdevelopment: Internal Market vs. World Market (Jan. 16)

Readings: Winn, Chap. 3 and 4

Assignment: (pre-Midterm): "adopted" country outline, due in section the week of Jan. 20 (guidelines to be handed out).

- Sustainable Development vs. Neoliberalism (Jan. 21)

Film: "The Burning Season"

Readings: Berger, Martínez, New York Times 1990 and 1994, Mendes in Reader

- Theories of (Under)Development, Latin America's "Lost Decade," and the Question of Globalization: Who Benefits? (Jan. 23)

Readings: Isbister, Dos Santos, Anderson et al., Cooper in Reader
Winn, Chap. 5 (optional)

II. Social Structures and Social Movements in the Americas: Class, Race, Gender

- Class Structure and Class-based Movements (Jan. 28)

Readings: Sec. II(A) in Reader
Winn, Chap. 6

- Indigenous Movements: Genocide and Mayan Activism in Guatemala (Jan. 30)

Readings: Sec. II(B) in Reader
Winn, Chap. 7 (Chap. 8, optional)

Assignment: Midterm will be handed out on January 30 (to be completed partly in class)

- Mexicano/Chicano Lives in the U.S. (Feb. 4)

Film "Mi Familia"

Assignment: Midterm due February 6, at beginning of class

- Chicano History and Social Movements (Guest Lecture: Pedro Castillo) (Feb. 6)

Readings: González, Chap. 5 (pp. 102-107)
Ruíz, Martínez, Muñoz in Reader, Sec. II(C)

Feb. 11: No Class (Advising Day)—but Tuesday sections will meet

- Latina/Latinamericana Women on the Borders (Guest Lecture, Rosa-Linda Fregoso) (Feb. 13)

Readings: "Women's Voices," Anzaldúa in Reader, Sec. II(D)

Assignment: Identity Statement (free-write), due in section week of Feb. 17

- Latin American Immigrants in the U.S.: The Immigration Debates and Binational Lives (Feb. 18 and Feb. 20)

Readings: González, Chap. 11, Chap. 12, start Chap. 10,
Wilson through Navarro in Reader, Sec. II(C)

- Latinos and the Economy in California (Guest Lecture: Manuel Pastor) (Feb. 25)

Readings: finish Reader, Sec. II(C), especially Pastor
finish González, Chap. 10

Assignment: Chicano/Latino Assignment due in section week of Mar. 3 (guidelines to be handed out)

- Women's Movements in Latin America (Feb. 27)

Readings: Navarro, Chanduvi in Reader, Sec. II(D)
Winn, Chap. 9, (Chap. 11, optional)

Film: "In the Time of the Butterflies," to be seen in Section, or on Reserve in the library—based on novel by Julia Alvarez (on Reserve)

III. Politics: Revolution and Intervention, Cross-Border Issues

- State and Revolution, Mexican Revolution, NAFTA and Chiapas (Guest Lecture: Irma Sandoval, John Ackerman) (Mar. 4)

Readings: Reader Sec. III(A) (Cockcroft optional)
González, Chap. 13 (pp. 242-5)
Winn, Chap. 12 (pp. 487 ff.) and Chap. 13 (pp. 502-03)

- Cuban Revolution and U.S. Response, Cubans in the U.S. (Mar. 6)

Readings: Reader, Sec. III(B)
Winn, Chap. 13 (pp. 504-11)
González, Chap. 6

- Central America: Revolutions, Interventions, and Central Americans in the U.S. (Mar. 11)

Readings: Reader, Sec. III(C)
Winn Chap. 13 (pp. 515-36)
González, Chap. 8

- 2003: Lula in Brazil, and Cross-Border Future of the Americas (Mar. 13)

Readings: Reader, Sec. III(D)

Assignment: Get take-home final on March 13; due March 20; in-class portion of final: March 13

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173. Crossing Borders: Latin American Immigration to the U.S.

Instructor: Susanne Jonas
Merrill 110; office phone 459-3232; message 459-2855
E-mail: sjonas@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 1-4; Thurs. 2-3 or by appt.
Course Assistant: Carlos Alemán, carlitoscharlie@hotmail.com

Course Description:

This interdisciplinary course (Gen Ed code E) addresses Latin American immigration to the U.S. from a variety of perspectives. Areas to be covered include:

- Background and history of immigration to the United States—the U.S. as an immigrant nation;
- Major social-economic and political conditions in Latin America causing immigration to the U.S., especially since the 1980s—and ongoing U.S. business needs for immigrant labor;
- Varieties of immigrant experiences, contrasting arrival/survival experiences (border and non-border, Latin American, Asian, etc.);
- Diverse experiences of Latino immigrants and their communities in the U.S.—the view "from below," with special focus on women’s stories;
- Cross-border binational/transnational identities, ties to home communities;
- Immigrant labor in the context of U.S. economic restructuring, and immigrant labor organizing;
- Immigration laws and current debates about U.S. immigration/refugee policy—among these, Proposition 187 in California (1994), anti-immigrant Congressional laws of 1996, the Latino vote, U.S./Mexico negotiations on guest-workers and legalization, black/Latino relations, anti-immigrant environmentalism, debates about economic impact, immigrant contributions to the U.S. economy and society;
- Legalization struggles, citizenship, and immigration as an issue of democracy in the U.S.;
- Special concerns for 2003: greatly increased attacks on immigrant rights since 9/11/01 and the war against Iraq—and responses by Latino and other immigrant communities and organizations.

Course Readings and Materials: Required readings are a Course Reader (to be sold in class), and two texts (available at Bay Tree Bookstore):

• Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, Immigrant America
  
• Leo Chavez, Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society
  
• Optional reading: Susanne Jonas & Suzie Dod Thomas (Eds.), Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas
  
• Additional resources will include audio tapes, videos, recommended books and novels (on Reserve), and guest speakers.
  

Requirements and basis for evaluation of students: a midterm exam and a final exam (both take-home); attendance at all course sessions; keeping up with readings; active participation in class discussions, including occasional presentations for extra credit; smaller written assignments (e.g., immigration-related items in the news, identity statement, interview with immigrant(s) in the community, or report on an immigrant-experience novel).

Notes:

1. Class attendance is mandatory; all absences must be excused.
   
2. Section arrangements to be announced.
   
3. If for some reason you should need to take an "Incomplete" in this class, you must negotiate it ahead of time with the instructor and course assistant—including the deadline for turning in the work.

Topics / Sessions

I. Background and History: U.S. as an Immigrant Nation

– Overview History of 19th and 20th Immigration Trends and Policies (April 3 and 8)

Readings: Reader: Section I
Chavez, Introduction

II. Latin American Migration to the U.S.: Causes and Experiences

– Border Crossings, Border Violence (April 10)

Video: El Norte
Readings: Chavez, Ch. 1-3
Assignment: News Summary/Critique (due April 17)

– Economic Causes of Migration (April 15)

Readings: Portes/Rumbaut, Ch. 1
Reader: Section II (a)

– The Revolving Door: Mexican Migration (April 17)

Readings: Reader: Section II (b)
Portes/Rumbaut, Ch. 2
In-class discussion, April 17

– Political Causes: Central American Refugees from Civil Wars (April 22)

Readings: Reader: Section II (c)

– Varieties of Immigrant Experiences and Non-Border Arrival (Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Dominicans, Cubans, Andeans, Asians) (April 24 and 29)

Readings: Reader: Section II (d) (readings will be divided up for presentations)
Student Presentations, April 24
In-class discussion/review for midterm, April 29
** Assignment: Receive Take-Home Midterm: April 29
** Midterm Due: May 6, at beginning of class

III. The "View from Below:" Immigrants and Their Communities

- Immigrant Struggles: Crossing Borders, Surviving in Communities & Workplaces (May 1)

Readings: Chavez, Ch. 4-6
Videos: selections from La Ciudad, Border Stories

- Immigrant Women and Gay Border-Crossers (May 6 and 8)

Readings Reader: Section III (a)
Catch up on Chavez, Ch. 4-6

- Identity, Incorporation, and Binational Lives (May 8 and 13)

Readings: Portes/Rumbaut, Ch. 4 and 7
Chavez, Ch. 7 and 10
Reader: Section III (b)
Video: Mayan Voices, American Lives, May 13
In-class discussion, May 13
Assignment: Identity Statement, Interview, or Novel (due May 22)

- Guest Speaker, Nestor Rodríguez: Immigrant Perspectives on Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform and Anti-Immigrant Laws (May 15)

Readings: Hagan & Rodríguez, "Resurrecting Exclusion …" (in Reader. Sec. IV (a)
Chavez, Ch. 9 and Epilogue

- Immigrant Labor in the Context of Economic Restructuring (including NAFTA) and New Guest-Worker Programs (May 20)

Readings: Portes/Rumbaut, Ch. 3
Chavez, Ch. 8
Reader: Section III (c)
Video: selections from The Downsizing of America

- Immigrant Labor Organizing (May 22)

Reading: Reader: Section III (d) (choose 3-4 articles)
Recommended Video: Bread and Roses (on Reserve or in Section)

IV. Immigration Laws, Policies, and Debates and Immigrant Rights Organizing

- Policy Debates on Prop. 187 and Beyond: Anti-Immigrant Laws of 1996, Politics and the Latino Vote, Latinos and African Americans, Anti-Immigrant Environmentalism, Debates over Economic Impact, Immigrant Contributions (May 27)

Readings: Reader: Section IV (a) and start Section IV (b)
Portes/Rumbaut, Chapter 8
"Guest-Speaker" Tape: David Binetti and Kathy Nelson Turner: The Case for Prop. 187

- 9/11/01, Wars against Terrorism and Iraq: "Patriot Acts" and Other Effects for Immigrants/Non-Citizens (May 29)

Readings: Reader: Finish Section IV (b) and Section IV (c)
In-class debates, May 29

- Legalization Struggles, Rethinking Citizenship, Immigration as an Issue of Democracy in the U.S. (June 3)

Readings: Reader: Section IV (d)

- Advocacy, from Local to Global, and the Future of Immigrant Struggles (June 5)

Readings: Reader: Section IV (e)

- Receive Take-Home Final: June 5

- Final Due: June 12

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194M. Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions

(Also offered as Sociology 162)

Note: This Syllabus from Winter 2003

Instructor: W. L. Goldfrank
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 459-4461; e-mail: wally@ucsc.edu

Course Description:

We shall study the causes, processes, and outcomes of selected twentieth-century revolutions, from Zapata to the Zapatistas, as it were. We shall pay most attention to the causes, some attention to the outcomes, and a little attention to the processes. We shall primarily consider three cases where revolution occurred (Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua), and secondarily three where it did not (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Peru).

Students will be expected to buy the following texts at The Literary Guillotine (204 Locust Street) as well as a set of readings available through E-res (code: LAREV).

• N. Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion
  
• S. Eckstein, Back from the Future
  
• J. Goodwin, No Other Way Out
  
• T. Wickham-Crowley, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America

Course requirements include frequent class participation, one class presentation, and a 15-page paper on a topic to be negotiated with the instructor. This paper may be fashioned into the Senior Exit Requirement for Latin American and Latino studies majors.

Syllabus

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