LATI 50 INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA HOW TO READ MODERN LATIN AMERICA.

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LATI 50 INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA HOW TO READ MODERN LATIN AMERICA

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CASE STUDIES Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution Cuba: Key Colony, Socialist State The Andes: Soldiers, Oligarchs, and Indians Colombia: Civility and Violence Venezuela: The Perils of Prosperity Argentina: Progress, Stalemate, Discord Chile: Repression and Democracy Brazil: The Awakening Giant

SYNTHESES Strategies for Economic Development Dynamics of Political Transformation Culture and Society Latin America in the World Arena, 1800s-1980s Latin America in the World Arena, 1990s-Present

ANALYTICAL THEMES economic transformations induce social changes which, in turn, lead to political consequences shifting alliances among social class groups give shape to patterns of political conflict over time a country’s place in the international division of labor defines the shape of available paths to economic growth differences in economic processes have produced different forms of social structure and patterns of social change

SOCIAL STRUCTURE Upper Class:  Urban (industrialists, bankers)  Rural (landowners) Middle Class:  Urban (merchants, lawyers, etc.)  Rural (small farmers) Popular/Lower Class:  Urban (workers)  Rural (peasants, campesinos) National Institutions:  State (including military)  Church External Sector:  Economic (investors, merchants)  Political (foreign governments)

KEY QUESTIONS What social sectors/classes are present? Are any absent? Are there alliances between social groups? Or conflicts of interest? Which groups hold economic and/or political power? Through what mechanisms?

CHRONOLOGY OF CHANGE Liberal Era (1880s-1920s)  Export-import development  Oligarchs and strong men Import-Substitution Industrialization (1930s-1970s)  Industrialization  Populism and dictatorship Socialist Alternative (1950s-1980s)  Revolutionary movements  State-controlled economies Neoliberalism (1980s-present)  Pro-market policies  Democracy (of sorts)  Radical protest and “new left”

COMPARING POLITICS Mexico: Revolution of dominant-party system Central America: plantation society, U.S. influence, dictatorship and protest Cuba: plantation society, socialist revolution, resistance to United States Question A: Compare Mexican and Cuban revolutions Question B: Trace colonial legacies in Mexico and Cuba Question C: How much revolutionary ferment outside of Cuba?

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