ANNOUNCEMENTS:FINAL EXAM IS
CURRENT
MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN
Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours: By appointment, generally in ZH 301/302; contact Paula.Braley@notes.udayton.edu or +1-937-229-2765
Office Phone: (937) 229-2765
THIS WEBPAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 8/25/2011 at 10:00am
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN |
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II. IMPORTANT
DATES
| Exam # 1 Review Posted | Tuesday (Week 6) |
| Exam #1 |
Tues (Week 7) |
| Term Paper Proposals Due | THURSDAY
(Week 8) |
| Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review | Thurs
(Week 15) Print and bring with you this peer review |
| Term Papers Final Draft Due | Tues (Week 16) |
| FINAL
EXAM: |
Final Exam ESSAY SUBMITTED TO ISIDORE THURSDAY 12/15/11 at 2:30 |
III. WEEKLY
SCHEDULE
| I. ORIGINS OF THE
CARIBBEAN
Week 1 (8/25) |
TOPIC:
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| Week 2 (8/30) | READ: A
Concise History of the Caribbean, Chapt. 1 and
2; Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction
of the Indies; TUESDAY: Native Peoples of the Caribbean THURSDAY DISCUSSION--READ: Camila Townsend, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," American Historical Review 108:3 (June 2003): 659-687 [Full-Text on History Cooperative] and ensuing debate on H-LATAM. TOPIC:
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| II. CONQUEST AND COLONY
Week 3 (9/6--Monday--Labor Day No Classes) |
READ: A
Concise History of the Caribbean, Chapt. 3;
Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the
Indies;
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY DISCUSSION: Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies; TOPIC:
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| Week 4 (9/13) | READ: 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 Lecture #2: Conquest and Settlement: Becoming The Backwater of Empire THURSDAY DISCUSSION: “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 (9/20) | READ: A Concise
History of the Caribbean, Chapt. 4; 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
TOPIC: Lecture #3: The Sugar Revolution, from Indentured
Servants to Slaves THURSDAY DISCUSSION
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 (9/27) | READ: 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. 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 (10/4) |
TUESDAY: EXAM 1 THURSDAY: NO CLASSES (MID TERM BREAK) |
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| Week 8 (10/11) |
READ: 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. TUESDAY: DISCUSSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS AND CHICAGO STYLE THURSDAY: Lecture/Discussion #5: Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico (based on articles above) |
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| Week 9 (10/18) | READ: A
Concise History of the Caribbean, Chapt. 5 Lecture #6: Emancipation, Nationhood, and Change in the 19th Century TUESDAY: THURSDAY: Jose Marti's Letter to the editor, New York Evening Post, March 25, 1889
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| Week 10 (10/25) |
TUESDAY: A Concise History of
the Caribbean, Chapt. 6 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:
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| IV. THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY Week 11 (11/1) |
TUESDAY:
THURSDAY:
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| Week 12 (11/8) | READ: A Concise History of the Caribbean,
Chapt. 7 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 (11/15) | READ:
Lecture
#8: From Colony to Colony: Puerto Rico FILMS FOR CLASS: |
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Week 14 (11/22) THURSDAY IS THANKSGIVING--NO CLASSES |
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT FOR TUESDAY TBD |
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| IV. CONCLUSION
Week 15 (11/29) |
TUESDAY: The Hand That Stirred the Pot: African Foods in the Americas Borderless: The Lives of Undocumented Workers in Canada 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 (12/6)
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TUESDAY: FINAL
EXAM REVIEW AND 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 |