I.  ANNOUNCEMENTS:

IMPORTANT DATES:
 

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE:

TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM

"Plagiarism consists of any of the following: quoting directly from any source of material--including other students' work and materials purchased from research consultants-- without appropriately citing the source and identifying the quoted material;  knowingly citing an incorrect source, using ideas (i.e., material other than information that is common knowledge) from any source of material--including other students' work and materials purchased from research consultants-- without citing the source and identifying the borrowed material" (Student Handbook, p. 42).

Copying other student's work in any way, cheating on exams or any assignments, and any other form of academic dishonesty, no matter how minute or extensive, will result in an automatic grade of "F" for the course and automatic referral to the Dean's office for possible disciplinary action by the university.

II.  READINGS AND RESOURCES:

REQUIRED READINGS:

Franklin Knight.  The Caribbean:  Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism.  Oxford, 1990.
Cesar Ayala. American Sugar Kingdom.  U. of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Marifeli Perez-Stable. The Cuban Revolution. Oxford, 1993.
Documents TBD available on my webpage.

1.  GENERAL RESOURCES
• Search the Internet
• U. of Dayton Library and Online Resources from Ohiolink
• U. of Dayton Department of History Homepage
• H-NET Humanities Project
• History Computerization Project


2.  COURSE RESOURCES:

• Document Analysis Worksheet
• Written Work Guidelines


3.  OTHER RESOURCES:

• Peer Review Worksheet
• Citations:  Chicago Manual of Style
• Citations:  Internet Sources

The Caribbean was the location of the first encounter, conquest, and colonization of Native American peoples by Europeans after 1492.  After the annihilation of native populations, however, Europeans began an extraordinary slave trade the reults of which later came to define Caribbean society.  After the United States and Brazil, the Caribbean is the largest center of slavery in the new world.  In later centuries the Caribbean became a center of bitter rivalries between European imperial powers and ultimately the "American Lake" of the United States. The Caribbean's strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes, and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial societies that emerged in the region. The vast experience of African slavery, the later "indentured" migration of hundreds of thousands of Asians to some colonies, and the migration of similar numbers of Europeans (especially to the Hispanic Caribbean), have shaped deeply yet unevenly the nature of Caribbean societies since the sixteenth century, giving the Caribbean a complex multi-ethnic yet also heavily "Western" multi-cultural landscape.

1.  GENERAL:
Reading all the assignments by the beginning of the assigned week, regular attendance to lectures, TBD document reviews, a term paper, two exams, and a comprehensive final exam.  All students are strongly encouraged to ask questions throughout the lectures, and ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN DISCUSSION--DISCUSSION participation is worth 10% of the final grade which WILL often make the difference between one grade and another.

Due dates are cast in stone! There will be no make up exams and late assignments, including assignments not turned in at the beginning of class the day they are due because of absence, will not be accepted resulting in a failing grade for that assignment/exam.  Only in the case of extreme family or personal emergency, with prior discussion and a written doctor's letter, will I even begin to consider a deviation from this policy.

2.  ATTENDANCE:
There is no attendance policy.  However, students are required to attend classes regularly and should not miss more than three classes during the semester. Please remember that the lectures, discussion, and the readings are the core of this course.

3.  CLASS EVALUATION:
DISCUSSION/DOCUMENT REVIEWS    10% ( 50 points)
TERM PAPER PROJECT                           20% (100 points)
EXAMS                                                       40% (200 points)
FINAL EXAM                                             30% (150 points)
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TOTAL                                                        100% (500 points)

The grading scale is:
450-500 points = 90-100% = A
400-449 points = 80-89%   = B
350-399 points = 70-79%   = C
300-349 points = 60-69%   = D
299-below                           = F
STUDENT PROGRESS WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION!

VI.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE:

Week 1 (August 20)

• Course requirements and introduction

• Geography of the Caribbean
• Native Peoples--Caribs, Arawaks, and Tainos
• Is there One Caribbean?  Is the Caribbean both colonial and "Western"?

• Conquest and Settlement:  Imperialism, Plantation Slavery and the Slave Trade, 16th-18th centuries.
• Discussion: Caribbean History, Fiction, and Memory.

• The Slave Trade

    THURSDAY:  Blacks in the Caribbean

Week 6 (September 24)
READ:  Knight, Chpt. 7, Ayala Chpts. 3-4

• Sugar & Slavery: Profits, Markets and Capitalism
• THURSDAY: The non-Spanish Caribbean

• Black Independence or Slave Rebellion?  The Haitian Revolution, 1790-1804
• Cuba:  Mediated Sovereignty, Monoculture, and Development

Week 8 (October 8)
READ: Perez-Stable Chpts. 2-3
Jose Marti's Letter to the editor, New York Evening Post, March 25, 1889

• Origins of the Cuban Revolution, 1900-1958
• Revolution and Nationalism, 1958-1961

Week 9 (October 15)
READ:  Perez-Stable Chpts. 4-Conclusion

• War of 1898

Week 10 (October 22)
READ:  Knight, Chpt. 9

• The Cuban Revolution
• Cuba Timeline

• From Colony to Colony:  Puerto Rico

THURSDAY Discussion:  Marifeli Perez-Stable. The Cuban Revolution. Oxford, 1993.

• The United States and the Caribbean:  American Sugar Kingdom to American Tourist Kingdom?

THURSDAY DISCUSSION:  Cesar Ayala. American Sugar Kingdom.  U. of North Carolina Press, 1999.

• The Aftermath of Slavery:  The Contemporary Caribbean

DISCUSSION:  Cesar Ayala. American Sugar Kingdom.  U. of North Carolina Press, 1999.

***EXAM 2 ON THURSDAY OF WEEK 13***
TERM PAPER DRAFT TUESDAY FOR IN-CLASS PEER REVIEW
PEER REVIEW DUE THURSDAY

Week 15 (November 26)

• "Too Far from God and Too Close to the US:"  The United States and the Caribbean
• Discussion: Caribbean History, Fiction, and Memory Revisited

Week 16 (December 3)

• The Future of the Caribbean

THURSDAY IS THE LAST DAY OF CLASS!!!