HISTORY 115—SECTION 5116 SPRING SEMESTER 2025 PROFESSOR OSCAR CAÑEDO GUIDELINES FOR NACLA ASSIGNM ...
HISTORY 115—SECTION 5116 SPRING SEMESTER 2025 PROFESSOR OSCAR CAÑEDO GUIDELINES FOR NACLA ASSIGNMENT #1 FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, YOU ARE TO READ CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT LATIN AMERICA FROM THE WEBSITE FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS OF LATIN AMERICA (NACLA) AND SUBMIT THREE SHORT REVIEWS DURING THE SEMESTER. PLEASE SUBMIT ONE REVIEW PER DUE DATE. EACH REVIEW IS TO BE AT LEAST 3-4 PAGES AND EACH DUE DATE CORRESPONDS TO A REGIONAL TOPIC IN LATIN AMERICA. THE DUE DATES FOR THESE REPORTS ARE FEBRUARY 18; MARCH 14 AND 25. HERE ARE THE REGIONAL TOPICS CORRESPONDING TO EACH DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 18 (NEW DUE DATE DUE TO PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY): MEXICO, BORDER ISSUES AND IMMIGRATION, UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, AND LATINX COMMUNITIES MARCH 14: THE CARIBBEAN (CUBA, HAITI, PUERTO RICO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ETC.), AND CENTRAL AMERICA (GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, EL SALVADOR, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, NICARAGUA, AND BELIZE). MARCH 25: SOUTH AMERICA (BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHILE, PERU, URUGUAY, ECUADOR, COLOMBIA, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, AND VENEZUELA) PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR REPORTS THROUGH CANVAS IN EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING FORMATS: DOC, DOCX OR PDF (IF YOU ARE USING GOOGLE DOCS OR APPLE PAGES TO COMPOSE YOUR REVIEW, PLEASE BE SURE TO CONVERT YOUR PAPER TO DOCX OR PDF BEFORE SUBMITTING IT). LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR EACH SUBMISSION, BUT ONLY FOR ONE WEEK AFTER THE ASSIGNED DUE DATES AND WILL BE ASSESSED A FULL GRADE DEDUCTION. PLEASE INCLUDE A WORKS CITED PAGE, WHILE A TITLE PAGE IS OPTIONAL (NEITHER OF THESE PAGES COUNT TOWARD YOUR 3 PAGES OF TEXT). THESE 3 REPORTS WILL COUNT AS A COMBINED 30% TOWARD YOUR FINAL GRADE. IN YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE, COMPOSE YOUR ARTICLE ENTRY IN A FORMAT LIKE THIS: EMILIO GODOY, "MEXICO BANS GLYSOPHATE BUT TOLERATES OTHER AGROCHEMICALS," NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS WEBSITE (JANUARY 28, 2021). IN TERMS OF THE CONTENT OF EACH REPORT, I AM LOOKING FOR TWO MAIN POINTS OF DISCUSSION. FIRST, YOU SHOULD DEVOTE THE FIRST HALF OF THE REPORT TO A SUMMARY OF THE MAIN POINTS IN THE ARTICLE THAT YOU SELECTED. TO HELP YOU TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, CONSIDER SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS: WHAT IS THE MAIN ISSUE BEING DISCUSSED? (I.E. IMMIGRATION, ELECTIONS, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, WOMEN'S ISSUES, CRIME, ETC.) WHO ARE THE MAIN PERSONALITIES MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE? (I.E. MEXICAN PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, PRESIDENT TRUMP, VICE-PRESIDENT VANCE, FORMER PRESIDENT BIDEN, ETC.) HOW DOES THE ISSUE AFFECT THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE? DOES THE ISSUE HAVE ANY CONNECTION WITH UNITED STATES INTERESTS? AND FOR THE SECOND POINT OF DISCUSSION, PLEASE ANALYZE THE ARTICLE THAT YOU SELECTED AND PRESENT YOUR POINT OF VIEW ON THE STORY. FOR EXAMPLE, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE STORY? HOW DID THIS ARTICLE CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT MODERN LATIN AMERICA? AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE ARTICLE? HOW DOES THIS TOPIC RELATE TO ANY CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL, ECONOMIC OR CULTURAL THEMES IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY? HERE IS A LIST OF ARTICLES FROM THE NACLA WEBSITE PERTAINING TO REGIONS FOR YOUR FIRST DUE DATE. THE DATES LISTED IN PARENTHESIS CORRESPOND TO THE PUBLICATION DATE OF THE ARTICLE. EVERYBODY, JUST PICK ANY ONE ARTICLE FROM THIS LIST FOR YOUR FEBRUARY 14 REVIEW. YOU WILL REPEAT THE SAME PROCESS FOR YOUR REVIEWS ON CENTRAL AMERICA/THE CARIBBEAN, AND A SOUTH AMERICAN NATION. THESE ARTICLES RANGE IN DATE FROM JANUARY 2022 TO JANUARY 2025. United States Foreign Policy, Border Issues and Latinx Communities: A STRATEGIC CROSS-BORDER LABOR ALLIANCE (FEB. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. A TAPESTRY OF MISSING MIGRANTS STITCHES A MEMORY OF THE DISAPPEARED (JULY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. BOOK TALK ON CUBAN IMMIGRATION GETS HEATED IN MIAMI (JAN. 2023) CARIBEÑOS AT THE TABLE (BOOK REVIEW) (MAY 2022) CARNE Y ARENA (VIRTUALLY PRESENT, PHYSICALLY INVISIBLE) (MAR. 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT SECURES NEW PROCEDURAL PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN IN FEDERAL IMMIGRATION DETENTION (DEC. 2022)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. DISPATCH FROM A HAITIAN JOURNALIST IN SPRINGFIELD (OCT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. FOR HEMISPHERIC UNITY, A CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IS NEEDED (APR. 2022) FREE TRADE FIREPOWER: THE GROWING HEMISPHERIC GUN TRADE (NOV. 2023) GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM (BOOK REVIEW) (MAY 2023) IN GENTRIFIED ALPHABET CITY, A NEW LATINO SOCIAL CLUB AND ART SPACE OPENS ITS DOORS (FEB. 2023) IN THE U.S. SOUTH, LATIN AMERICAN DIASPORA ORGANIZES FOR PALESTINIAN LIBERATION (DEC. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. (LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE.) INTEGRATION WITH THE UNITED STATES OR LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE? (APR. 2022)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY IN ACTION (BOOK REVIEW) (FEB. 2022) LATIN AMERICA AND THE NEW NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT (APR. 2022) LATIN GRAMMYS DEBUTS IN SPAIN AGAINST A BACKDROP OF LATINOPHOBIA (NOV. 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LATINX PODCASTS ON THE RISE (MARCH 2022) LICENCIAS HOY, PAPELES MAÑANA: DRIVER’S LICENSES AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN INDIANA (APR. 2023) MAKING MEXICAN CHICAGO: FROM POSTWAR SETTLEMENT TO THE AGE OF GENTRIFICATION (BOOK REVIEW) (DEC. 2022) NARRATIVES OF CARCERAL COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE (BOOK REVIEW) (MAR. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. NEW YORK CITY IS EVICTING MIGRANT FAMILIES: “THIS IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS” (JAN. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. ORGANIZING AGAINST ANTI-HAITIANISM BEYOND BORDERS (SEPT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. PUERTO RICAN WOMEN PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF LATINX ART AND CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY (JULY 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS UNDERLINES WIDESPREAD DISCONTENT WITH U.S. POLICY (JUNE 2022) THE BANALITY OF HENRY KISSINGER (NOV. 2023) THE CASE FOR OPEN BORDERS: A BOOK REVIEW FROM THE BANKS OF THE RIO GRANDE (BOOK REVIEW) (MAY 2024) THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY NEEDS ANOTHER MARCH ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE (NOV. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: HOW U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ENDANGERS THE WORLD (BOOK REVIEW)(OCT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE STRIKERS OF COACHELLA: A RANK-AND-FILE HISTORY OF THE UFW MOVEMENT (BOOK REVIEW) (SEPT. 2023) TRACING THE ANTI-HAITIANISM BEHIND THE SPRINGFIELD SCAPEGOATING (SEPT. 2024) UNSETTLED BORDERS: THE MILITARIZED SCIENCE OF SURVEILLANCE ON SACRED INDIGENOUS LAND (BOOK REVIEW) (NOV. 2022) (LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE.) U.S. IMMIGRATION DETENTION SYSTEM: “A LIVING HELL” (FEB. 2022) VIVA PALESTINA! NYC STUDENT ENCAMPMENTS SPARK NATIONAL REBELLION (MAY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. “WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?” BUILDING PALESTINE SOLIDARITY THROUGH MUSIC (SEPT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. “YOU’RE ONE OF THE DISAPPEARED?” HOW I CAME TO ACCEPT MY PLACE IN HISTORY (JULY 2024) (LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE.) (LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE.) (Links to an external site.) Mexico: (Links to an external site.) 15 YEARS OF LAND DEFENSE AND COMMUNITY BUILDING IN XAYAKALAN (AUG. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. A NEW LIFE FOR MEXICO'S OLDEST UNION (FEB. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. AN INDEPENDENT UNION WINS LANDSLIDE VICTORY AMONG MEXICAN GM WORKERS (FEB. 2022)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. (LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE.) ARTISTS RALLY AGAINST ERASURE OF MEXICO CITY’S ICONIC STREET ART (AUG. 2022) CONTROVERSIAL MAYA TRAIN UP AND RUNNING AS MEXICANS CAST THEIR BALLOTS (MAY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. CROSSING THE STORM: EZLN MARKS 30 YEARS WITH A 120-YEAR PLAN (JAN. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. DELIVERING THE FUTURE: MIDWIVES WIN BREAKTHROUGH IN MEXICO (JULY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. DESPITE INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE, MEXICO AUTHORIZES MINING CONCESSIONS IN PROTECTED AREAS (JAN. 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. DOWNTOWN JUÁREZ (BOOK REVIEW) (MARCH 2022)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. ESTADIO AZTECA AND THE 2026 WORLD CUP IN MEXICO (SEPT. 2023) FACES OF WATER: WOMEN WATER DEFENDERS IN MEXICO AND URUGUAY (AUG. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. HOW MEXICAN FEMINISTS BECAME ENEMIES OF THE STATE (APR. 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. HOW TO DESTROY AN INVESTIGATION FROM THE INSIDE: AYOTZINAPA AND THE LEGACIES OF IMPUNITY (NOV. 2022) IN TAPACHULA, THOUSANDS OF HAITIAN MIGRANTS WAIT TO BE RESETTLED (JAN. 2022)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. IS THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT PROTECTING THE ARMY? (SEPT. 2022)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. ISRAEL, CYBERSURVEILLANCE, AND THE CASE OF THE AYOTZINAPA 43 (SEPT. 2022) LA ENCRUCIJADA’S DILEMMA: GREENWASHING OIL PALM IN CHIAPAS (APR. 2022) LOVE AND DESPAIR: HOW CATHOLIC ACTIVISM SHAPED POLITICS AND THE COUNTERCULTURE IN MODERN MEXICO (BOOK REVIEW)(SEPT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. LOVE, COMMUNITY, AND ALIENATION IN NUDO MIXTECO (FILM REVIEW)TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. MEXICAN ACTIVIST PROTESTS FEMICIDE AT OAXACAN FESTIVAL (AUG. 2022) MEXICO HEADS TO POLLS AMID RECORD VIOLENCE (MAY 2024) (LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE.) MEXICO’S MILITARY KNEW AYOTZINAPA 43 WERE KIDNAPPED, THEN COVERED IT UP (APR. 2022) LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. MILITARIZED SECURITY AND A CARTEL APOLOGY IN MATAMOROS (MAR. 2023) MURDER OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY PRIEST SENDS CHILL THROUGH CHIAPAS (OCT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. NEARSHORING AND THE MILITARIZATION OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER (JAN. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. NO ELECTORAL SOLUTION IN SIGHT FOR MEXICO’S WATER JUSTICE CRISIS (MAY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. PARAMILITARY RESURGENCE DRIVES MASS DISPLACEMENT IN CHIAPAS (AUG. 2024) “PINCHE ESTADO, COUNT THEM WELL”: IN MEXICO, THE STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH AND MEMORY CONTINUES (OCT. 2024) PROPOSED REGULATIONS THREATEN THE FUTURE OF MIDWIFERY IN MEXICO (OCT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. REAPPEARING THE MEMORY OF MEXICO’S TWICE DISAPPEARED (JUNE 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. TEN YEARS OF IMPUNITY: AMLO AND THE BETRAYAL OF AYOTZINAPA (SEPT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE CAUSES BEHIND THE CIUDAD JUÁREZ MIGRANT DETENTION CENTER FIRE (APR. 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE DRIVE BEHIND TESLA’S NEW MANUFACTURING PLANT IN MEXICO (APR. 2023) THE FORCE OF WITNESS: CONTRA FEMINICIDE (BOOK REVIEW)(OCT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE INE DEBATE AND THE FORMATION OF THE NEOLIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO (APR. 2023) THE MEXICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF AMLO (JUNE 2022) THE MEXICO OF CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM (JUNE 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE NEW PUBLIC ART: COLLECTIVITY AND ACTIVISM IN MEXICO SINCE THE 1980’S (BOOK REVIEW) (APR. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE REBIRTH OF OMAR GARCÍA HARFUCH (JULY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. THE SHADOWY MINING SECTOR MAKING ACCIDENTS IN COAHUILA ALL TOO COMMON (SEPT. 2022) TRAMPLED BY TRANSFORMATION: MEXICO’S TREN MAYA (JULY 2023)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. VERACRUZ DECRIMINALIZED ABORTION, BUT ACTIVISTS REMAIN CRUCIAL IN ENSURING ACCESS (JUNE 2022) “VIOLENCE IS DEEPLY INTERTWINED WITH THE STATE” (SEPT. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. YAHRITZA Y SU ESENCIA AND THE MEXICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO (JAN. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. WAR IN WORDS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE “NARCO” IN MEXICO (BOOK REVIEW) (AUG. 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. WHAT’S LEFT OF MORENA? (JULY 2024)LINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. ZAPATISTAS AT 30: BUILDING AND INSPIRING AUTONOMY (DEC. 2023)
