ANNOUNCEMENTS:FINAL EXAM REVIEW
IS CURRENT AND FINAL
MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN
Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours: T-Th 9:30pm-10:15am , and by
appointment.
HM 443
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834
THIS WEBPAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 7/21/2010 at 10:00am
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN |
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II. IMPORTANT DATES
| Term Paper Proposals Due | Tuesday (Week 8) |
| Exam # 1 Review Posted | |
| Exam #1 | Tues (Week 7) |
| Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review | Thurs
(Week
15) Print and bring with you this peer review |
| Term Papers Final Draft Due | Thurs (Week 16) (DECEMBER 10, 2009) |
| FINAL
EXAM: |
Final
Exam
IN CLASS 12/14/10,
2:30-4:20; ESSAY SUBMITTED TO ISIDORE |
III. WEEKLY SCHEDULE
| I. ORIGINS
Week 1 (8/26) |
TOPIC:
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| Week 2 (8/31) | THURSDAY DISCUSSION--READ: Las Casas, A Short
Account of the Destruction
of the
Indies; Knight, Chpt 1
TOPIC:
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| II. CONQUEST AND COLONY
Week 3 (9/6--Monday--Labor Day No Classes) |
READ: Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction
of the
Indies; Knight, Chpt 2-3, TUESDAY: FILM: Conquistadores
TOPIC:
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| Week 4 (9/14) | READ: Knight, Chpt 4-5 Lecture #2: Conquest and Settlement: Becoming The Backwater of Empire THURSDAY DISCUSSION--READ: “Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires” by Patricia Seed The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 183-209 JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2947269 Lennox Honychurch, “Crossroads in the Caribbean: A Site of Encounter and Exchange on Dominica,” World Archaeology 28, 3 (1997):291-304. JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/125020 |
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| Week 5 (9/21) | READ: Knight, Chpt. 7 TOPIC: Lecture
#3:
The Sugar Revolution, from Indentured Servants to Slaves THURSDAY DISCUSSION--READ pp 23-32 ONLY :
Title: An
inquiry
into
the
causes
of
the
insurrection
of
the
negroes
in
the
island
of St. Domingo Author: Garran de Coulon, Jean
Philippe, 1749-1816
Guadet, Marguerite Elie, 1758-1794 France -- Assemblée nationale Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Johnson ( London ) Format: 32 p. : ; 21 cm. Hilary Beckles, “Plantation Production and White Protoslavery: White Indentured Servants and the Colonization of the English West Indies,” Americas: A Review of Inter-American Cultural History 41, 3 (1985): 21-45. JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1007098 |
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| Week 6 (9/28) | TUESDAY: Lecture
#4:
Black
Independence
or
Slave
Rebellion?
The
Haitian
Revolution,
1790-1804 FILM: Haiti: Land of Tragedy, Land of Hope THURSDAY: EXAM REVIEW |
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| III. SUGAR AND SLAVERY
Week 7 (10/5) |
TUESDAY: EXAM 1 THURSDAY: NO CLASSES (MID TERM BREAK) |
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| Week 8 (10/12) |
READ: Knight, Chpt 6 TUESDAY: DISCUSSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS AND CHICAGO STYLE THURSDAY: Lecture/Discussion #5: Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico (based on articles below) 1--Franklin W. Knight,
“Origins ofWealth and the Sugar Revolution in Cuba, 1750-1850,”
Hispanic American Historical Review 57, 2 (May 1977):231-253.
2--W.C.V. Norman, “The Process of Cultural Change among Cuban Bozales during the Nineteenth Century,” Americas 62, 2 (October 2005):177-207. |
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| Week 9 (10/19) | Lecture #6: Emancipation, Nationhood, and Cuban
Independence TUESDAY: THURSDAY: Jose Marti's Letter to the editor, New York Evening Post, March 25, 1889
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| Week 10 (10/26) |
TUESDAY: Lecture #7: Cuba: Revolution and Nationalism THURSDAY: READ: Barry Carr, “Identity, Class, and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism, and the Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934,” Hispanic American Historical Review 78, 1 (February 1998):83-116 TOPIC:
Cuba Timeline |
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| IV. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Week 11 (11/2) |
TUESDAY:
THURSDAY:
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| Week 12 (11/9) | READ: Knight 8-11 Nationalism and Decolonization Kate Ramsey, “Without One Ritual Note: Folklore Performance and the Haitian State, 1935-1946,” Radical History Review 84 (Fall 2002): 7-42. Anne S. Macpherson, “Citizens vs. Clients: Working Women and Colonial Reform in Puerto Rico and Belize, 1932-45,” Journal of Latin American Studies 35 (2003):279-310. |
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| Week 13 (11/16) | READ:
Lecture
#8:
From
Colony
to
Colony:
Puerto
Rico FILMS FOR CLASS: |
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Week 14 (11/23) (Thanksgiving on Nov 26--NO CLASSES) |
ORAL PROGRESS REPORTS ON TERM PAPER PROGRESS--about 2 minutes each: PRESENT THE FOLLOWING:
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| IV. CONCLUSION
Week 15 (11/30) |
TUESDAY: The Hand That Stirred the Pot: African Foods in the Americas Borderless: The Lives of Undocumented Workers THURSDAY: FIRST DRAFT OF TERM PAPERS DUE--ABSOLUTELY NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED. YOU MUST BE IN CLASS WITH YOUR PRINTED PAPER. Also, print and bring with you this peer review |
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Week 16 (12/7)
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TUESDAY: FINAL EXAM
REVIEW THURSDAY: --FINAL DRAFT OF PAPERS ARE DUE TURN IN: 1--Final Paper to isidore.udayton.edu 2--In Class you will turn in the First Draft, Peer Review, and Final Draft 3--You will present to the class, in about 2 minutes:
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