History 5763.01, Mondays 6:00-8:50
Taught by Sara Fanning, Assistant Professor

This graduate course surveys Latin America from colonial times to the present.  Topics include conquest and contact; slavery and abolition; national independence movements; and problems of modernization. Special emphasis on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. We will also examine the revolutions in Cuba and Haiti.  Credit: 3 hours.

The readings may include the following:
DuBois, THE AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD
Miller, BRITAIN AND LATIN AMERICA
Meade, GENDERED WORLDS OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WORKERS
Gonzales, THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
Sweig, INSIDE THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
Magnus, RACE MIXTURE IN THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Canizares-Esquerra, HOW TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD

The instructor for this course, Dr. Sara Fanning, comes to TWU from the University of Texas at Austin where she completed her PhD in History.  She has been living in the New York City area for a number of years teaching and researching. Her areas of interest include migration, race, nation-building, U.S. and Latin American relations.