Americas An Anthology

by Rosenberg, Mark B.; Kincaid, A. Douglas; Logan, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780195077926
• ISBN10: 019507792X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A companion volume to a major PBS series premiering in January 1993, this anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the major regions and current issues in Latin America. Each of the volume's thirteen chapters corresponds with a segment of the series and contains a wealth of primary andsecondary source material, including speeches, letters, government documents, newspaper and magazine articles, and essays. Each chapter has a specific thematic and geographical focus: the chapter on women, for example, features readings on Chile, providing background on the recent political andeconomic upheaval that has had an especially dramatic influence on women's lives, while the chapter on religion examines the link between the renewed spiritual revival and theological debate in Brazil and Nicaragua and the marked renewal of social activism in those countries. Offering a generalintroduction, extensive notes, and a final integrating chapter, this anthology is an essential resource for anyone interested in Latin American history.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction	3	(14)
2. Legacies of Empire: From Conquest to Independence	17	(31)
2.1 The Trauma of Conquest	24	(2)
2.2 The Aztec Dirge	26	(2)
2.3 African Slave Migration	28	(3)
2.4 Working the Mines in Peru	31	(2)
2.5 The Hacienda	33	(2)
2.6 The Sugar Plantation	35	(3)
2.7 Latin America's First Revolution	38	(2)
2.8 A Revolutionary's Look at Independent Spanish America	40	(4)
2.9 A Caudillo in Action	44	(4)
3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Dilemmas of National Development	48	(24)
3.1 Peru in the Guano Age	54	(3)
3.2 The Soto Keith Contract on Foreign Investment	57	(2)
3.3 Birth of the Tango	59	(3)
3.4 Getulio Vargas and the "New State"	62	(2)
3.5 The Expropriation of the Oil Industry in Mexico	64	(2)
3.6 The Aprista Thesis	66	(1)
3.7 Evita and the People	67	(3)
3.8 Labor Confederation Supports Falkland Recovery	70	(2)
4. Capital Sins: Authoritarianism and Democratization	72	(32)
4.1 The Alliance for Progress	78	(4)
4.2 When Executives Turned Revolutionaries	82	(5)
4.3 The Military's Role in Politics	87	(4)
4.4 Torture in Brazil	91	(3)
4.5 Interview: "Lula," Brazilian Labor Leader	94	(4)
4.6 Deforestation and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	98	(6)
5. Continent on the Move: Migration and Urbanization	104	(33)
5.1 Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janiero	109	(2)
5.2 Mexico City's Garbage Society	111	(5)
5.3 Guatemalan Indians Escape to Mexico	116	(4)
5.4 West Indians on the Move	120	(4)
5.5 The Perilous Journey of Nicaraguan Migrants	124	(6)
5.6 Portrait of a Maquiladora Worker	130	(7)
6. Mirrors of the Heart: Color, Class, and Identity	137	(36)
6.1 Indian Resistance to Encroachment	144	(3)
6.2 Bolivian Weavers	147	(3)
6.3 An Indian Conflict with Landowners	150	(4)
6.4 Questions of Conquest	154	(3)
6.5 Racism in the Caribbean	157	(3)
6.6 The Negritude Movement	160	(3)
6.7 A Rainbow for the Christian West	163	(4)
6.8 The Merengue: Race, Class, Tradition, and Identity	167	(6)
7. In Women's Hands: The Changing Roles of Women	173	(35)
7.1 A Modern Voice from the Seventeenth Century	180	(2)
7.2 The Suffrage Movement in Chile	182	(2)
7.3 A Maid in the Capital	184	(4)
7.4 Life in the Favela	188	(3)
7.5 Women of El Salvador	191	(1)
7.6 The Peasant Women's Organization in Bolivia	192	(3)
7.7 Embroidery as Protest	195	(4)
7.8 Taming Macho Ways	199	(4)
7.9 Feminist Movements in Latin America	203	(5)
8. Miracles Are Not Enough: Continuity and Change in Religion	208	(33)
8.1 The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life	215	(3)
8.2 The Great Debate	218	(3)
8.3 The Wealth of the Church	221	(3)
8.4 The Catholic Church in Support of Human Rights and Justice	224	(5)
8.5 Liberation Theology	229	(5)
8.6 The Role of Religion in Daily Life	234	(7)
9. Builders of Images: Writers, Artists, and Popular Culture	241	(31)
9.1 Poetry of Ruben Dario	248	(2)
9.2 Jose Marti's Concept of Spanish America	250	(2)
9.3 Graciliano Ramos: Barren Lives	252	(4)
9.4 Pablo Neruda: Memoirs	256	(1)
9.5 Derek Walcott: A Sea Chantey	257	(3)
9.6 Poetry of Gabriela Mistral	260	(1)
9.7 The Shape of the Sword	261	(4)
9.8 Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel Speech	265	(5)
9.9 Art Thrives amid Violence	270	(2)
10. Get Up, Stand Up: The Problems of Sovereignty	272	(27)
10.1 The Monroe Doctrine	278	(2)
10.2 In Opposition to Monroe	280	(2)
10.3 The Roosevelt Corollary	282	(1)
10.4 In Defense of Monroe	283	(2)
10.5 Latin America in Caricature	285	(3)
10.6 Michael Manley on the Bauxite Production Levy	288	(4)
10.7 The Colombian Justice System	292	(2)
10.8 Between Dependence and Sovereignty in Panama	294	(5)
11. Fire in the Mind: Revolutions and Revolutionaries	299	(36)
11.1 Plan of San Luis Potosi	305	(3)
11.2 The Ayala Plan	308	(2)
11.3 The Mexican Revolution Is Dead	310	(3)
11.4 Fidel Castro's "Second Declaration of Havana"	313	(3)
11.5 In Defense of the Sandinista Revolution	316	(4)
11.6 A Call to Revolution	320	(2)
11.7 Guatemala's Indian Wars	322	(5)
11.8 U.S. Presidential Report on Central America	327	(3)
11.9 The Arias Peace Plan	330	(2)
11.10 About-Face for Salvador Rebel Leader	332	(3)
12. The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States	335	(38)
12.1 A Voice Against Massive Immigration	342	(3)
12.2 Starting Over	345	(5)
12.3 A Puerto Rican Migrant in the United States	350	(5)
12.4 Caribbean Quandaries	355	(2)
12.5 As American as Tamale Pie	357	(4)
12.6 Hispanics: A Common Agenda?	361	(5)
12.7 Molina's Destiny: A Lifetime of Firsts	366	(1)
12.8 A Surging New Spirit	367	(6)
Credits and Permissions	373