Reading and Writing about Latin America
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Goals for this library session: Learn how to find scholarly journal articles in the Cornell University Library. Use a variety of resources--web sites, encyclopedias, books,and articles--to find more information about course topics. Explore and navigate both the digital and physical libraries at Cornell. Critically assess and evaluate the information that you find for your course assignments. Ask your questions.
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Course Readings
The following citations identify journal articles from your course syllabus that you need to read:
“ The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Spanish America” by Piero Gleijeses in Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Oct., 1992), pp. 481-505.
“Education and Class in the Mexican Revolution” by Mary Kay Vaughan Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 2, Mexico: The Limits of State Capitalism (Summer, 1975), pp. 17-33.
“Love and Misery in Cuba” by Alma Guillermoprieto. New York Review of Books, Volume 45, number 10, June 11, 1998.
Sheila Walker’s “ Africanity versus Blackness: Race, Class, and Culture in Brazil” in NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 35. May 2002. No 6.
“Nationalism and Civil Rights in Cuba: A Comparative Perspective, 1930-1960” by Darien J. Davis In The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. 35-51.
“Developing Sustainable Peripheries: The Limits of Citizenship in Guatemala City” by Edward Murphy in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 6, (Nov., 2004), pp. 48-68
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