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| Revolt and Revolution in Latin America--History 180-4 |
First paper
Due Dates:
Decision on title selection: Feb 28
Initial draft due date March 10
Final draft date March 24s
Plagiarism Policy Strictly Enforced--Ask if you have any questions
Testimonial:
Select any personal narrative that has been the product of a revolutionary process. Read it, and write a critical report that inserts that narrative in the context of the themes discussed throughout this course.
Document:
Find a published (or not published if you want to do the footwork!) collection of documents connected to a revolt or revolutionary process. Read it and write a critical report that connects it to the themes of our course.
Below are some samples from which you may select an item, but feel free to do some bibliographic searching of your own. Use FirstSearch's WORLDCAT and don't hesitate to order items through Inter Library Loan (our library does not have most of these items!)
The best way of searching is to use the official library of congress subject classification for this kind of search: REVOLUTIONSTS--"country name"--BIOGRAPHY. Carry out this search in our catalog or WORLCAT.
You may read items in Spanish!
Some items in Spanish: http://www.l7.net/portfolio/libros-old/univ/TEST1.html
Some additional items:
Alegría, Claribel and D.J. Flakoll. No me agarran viva. La mujer salvadoreña en la lucha. Ediciones Era: Mexico D.F., Mexico. 1983.
Cabezas, Omar. Fire from the Mountain, the Making of a Sandinista. Translated by Kathleen Weaver. Crown Books: New York, N.Y. 1985.
Hooks, Margaret. We Guatemalan Women Speak. Introduction by Rigoberta Menchú. Ecumenical Program on Central American and the Caribbean: Washington, D.C. 1993.
I, Rigoberta Menchú, an Indian Woman in Guatemala. Edited and introduction by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. Translated by Ann Wright. Verso: New York, N.Y. 1984.
Lievens, Karin. El quinto piso de la alegría. Tres años con la guerrilla. Ediciones Sistema Radio Venceremos, 1988.
Martínez, Ana María. Las cárceles clandestinas de El Salvador. Prologue by René Cruz. Casa el Salvador: Mexico. 1992.
Tijerino, Doris María with Margaret Randall. Inside the Nicaraguan Revolution: "Somos millones.." La vida de Doris María combatiente nicaragüense. Mexico: Editorial Extemporáneos.
These are harder to find. Pick a country and do a search for keywords like "chile allende documents" This should produce both the White Book and Black Book of documents on the Overthrow of the Allende government, for example.
Other examples:
The official CIA history the overthrow of Guatemala's elected government in 1954
The FBI files on Che Guevara
Secret Dossiers
etc
Let me know if you need help finding something you are interested in!!