SPAN 301/302: Advanced Spanish

The history of the Caribbean island from its pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Includes aspects of the Revolution, Castro's relationship with the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet years.

Perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. Provides a look at Cuba in relation to the rest of the world: the effect of its revolution on Latin America and the Caribbean, its alliance with the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, and its relationship with the United States. The Cuba Reader also describes life in the periodo especial following the cutoff of Soviet aid and the tightening of the U.S. embargo.

Surveys Cuban history, focusing on the twentieth century and the revolution led by Castro up into the 1990s.

Recounts the saga of the 1994 refugees, tracing the origin of the crisis to the pervasive turmoil produced in Cuba by the 1989-1991 collapse of the USSR and the resulting cut-off of Soviet economic subsidies.

Analyzes and documents the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades.

Comprehensive study of US policy towards Cuba in the post-Cold War era.

Ten original essays by an international team of scholars specializing in Cuba, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Latin America focus on the fall of communism in Europe and the transition to a market economy. Major themes of this study are the impact of the USSR's collapse on Cuba, how the historic events in Europe have affected the Central and South American Left, their implications to Cuba, Cuba's policies for confronting the crisis, and potential scenarios for the political and economic transformation of Cuba.

Comprehensive reference work detailing the political, economic and military interconnections between the United States and the countries of Latin America, including Mexico and the nations in Central America, the Caribbean and South America.

This book analyzes the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.

The Mothers began in the 1970s as a group of housewives visiting prisons and barracks in search of their missing children. This book traces the history of the Mothers, their current agenda and their continuing struggle to bring the murderers of their children to justice.

Puts the struggle of the Mothers of the Disappeared in the context of modern Argentine history and compares their experience with the resistance of other Latin American women.

"In this comprehensive, balanced examination of Argentina's Dirty War, Lewis analyzes the causes, describes the ideologies that motivated both sides, and explores the consequences of all-or-nothing politics."

Focuses on state terrorism in Chile under General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and in Argentina during the Dirty War (1976-1983).

An examination of the way the Argentinian military dictatorship was able to commit human rights abuses because it was abetted by the willingness of Argentine civilians to either ignore or assist their perpetration.

This title divides the 48 districts of the Buenos Aires into nine sectors and then proceeds neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood to offer descriptions of 202 known 'sites of state terrorism' and 38 additional places where people were illegally detained, tortured, and killed by the government.

Collection of essays that examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina at the peak of its popularity (from the mid-1960s to the coup d' tats in the mid-1970s), considering their different political stances and musical deportments.

First in-depth study of an officially sanctioned group of Argentine former political prisoners, the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Córdoba, which organized in 2007. Using ethnographic methods, anthropologist Rebekah Park explains the experiences of these survivors of state terrorism and in the process raises challenging questions about how societies define victimhood, what should count as a human rights abuse, and what purpose memorial museums actually serve.