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Lecturer Regina Nockerts rnockert@du.edu Office: King Center room 509 Office hours: Mon/Wed 3:00-4:00, after class with

Lecturer Regina Nockerts rnockert@du.edu Office: King Center room 509 Office hours: Mon/Wed 3:00-4:00, after class with notice, other times by appointment. Class Requirements Attendance: 10% Midterm Exam: 25% Final Exam: 25% Policy Papers: 40% (10% each, 4 papers)

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Lecturer Regina Nockerts rnockert@du.edu Office: King Center room 509 Office hours: Mon/Wed 3:00-4:00, after class with

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  1. Lecturer Regina Nockerts • rnockert@du.edu • Office: King Center room 509 • Office hours: Mon/Wed 3:00-4:00, after class with notice, other times by appointment. Class Requirements • Attendance: 10% • Midterm Exam: 25% • Final Exam: 25% • Policy Papers: 40% (10% each, 4 papers) Required Textbook: Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001).

  2. What Is "Latin America"? Do the countries that make up Latin America have enough in common for us to talk about the region as a cohesive entity?

  3. Geography • Physical continuity • Geographic diversity Geography explains very little about Latin America.

  4. People and Culture • Languages • European: Spanish, Portuguese, French/Creole, English • Indigenous • Ethnicity • European • Mixed Race: Mestizo, Mulatto, etc • Black, Afro-Brazilian • Amerindian • Customs • Patterns of social hierarchy, or domination • Patronismo, Patriarchy, Class, Race Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

  5. People and Culture • Religion • Roman Catholic • Protestant • Santeria, etc. • Indigenous • Mixed

  6. Politics • Ideology • Nationalism • Marxism, etc. • Liberation Theology • Liberalism • Political Structure • Authoritarianism and the military • Populism • Socialism • Democracy

  7. Economic Structure • Colonial Exploitation • Export-Oriented Growth • Import-Substitution Industrialization • Communism • Liberalism • Socialism

  8. Conclusions • Latin America experienced history in “waves” that tended to impact the region as a whole or in close succession. • Why “Politics and Markets”? The two aspects are inextricably linked such that in trying to explain one you must inevitably involve the other.

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