STUDY GUIDE FOR MIDTERM LATI 50 Introduction to
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STUDY GUIDE FOR MID-TERM LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America
ABOUT THE MIDTERM (i) • Coverage: Weeks 1 -5 • Grade share: 33% (without optional paper) • Format: closed-book exam (no electronic devices) • Date: Thursday, February 18 (note: changed from February 16) • Duration: 80 minutes (12: 30 -1: 50 pm) • Bring blue books and writing materials
ABOUT THE MIDTERM (ii) • Readings: – Modern Latin America, introduction + chapters 1 -5, 9 -10, 12 -13 – MLA website, Documents 10, 15, 37, 39 – García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold • Videos: – “Builders of Images” (partial) – “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Argentina) • Class Notes: – Lectures 1 -10 (outlines on-line)
STUDY GUIDE (a) Identify and state the significance of: – – – – Santiago Nasar Bayardo San Román Emiliano Zapata Evita Perón The “boom” ISI César Augusto Sandino Mestizaje Platt Amendment NAFTA Bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes Augusto Pinochet Hispanidad
STUDY GUIDE (b) • Compare the Spanish American path to independence with that of Brazil. What difference did it make? • How does Chronicle of a Death Foretold exemplify the phenomenon of “magical realism”? • Compare the Mexican Revolution with either (a) the Cuban Revolution, or (b) the revolution in Nicaragua. • Compare economic strategies in Chile and Argentina. • Describe Latin America’s patterns of democratization during the course of the twentieth century. What are the implications of these trends?
