STUDY GUIDE FOR MID-TERM LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America

ABOUT THE MIDTERM (i) Coverage: Weeks 1-6 Grade share: 33% (without optional paper) Format: closed-book exam (no electronic devices) Date: Thursday, February 19 (in class) Duration: 80 minutes (12:30-1:50 pm) Bring blue books and writing materials

ABOUT THE MIDTERM (ii) Readings: – Modern Latin America, introduction + chapters 1-6, 9-10, – MLA website, Documents 10, 37, 39 – García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold Videos: – “The Garden of Forking Paths” – “Mirrors of the Heart” Class Notes: – Lectures 1-12 (outlines on-line)

STUDY GUIDE (a) Identify and state the significance of: – Santiago Nasar – Bayardo San Román – Emiliano Zapata – Evita Perón – The “boom” – ISI – César Augusto Sandino – Mestizaje – Platt Amendment – NAFTA – Bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes – Augusto Pinochet – Hispanidad

STUDY GUIDE (b) Compare the Spanish American path to independence with that of Brazil. What difference did it make? How does Chronicle of a Death Foretold exemplify the phenomenon of “magical realism”? Compare the Mexican Revolution with either (a) the Cuban Revolution, or (b) the revolution in Nicaragua. Compare economic strategies in Chile and Argentina. Describe Latin America’s patterns of democratization during the course of the twentieth century. What are the implications of these trends?