Mon. | Cultural Nationalism: Mexico and Brazil |
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Wed. | Transition to the Cold War: Puerto Rico and Guatemala |
Fri. | NO LECTURE - Discussion Sections meet; Mid-Term Current Events Reports Due! |
Readings: | **Arevalo, "The Shark and the Sardines" |
Latin America had been an exporter of coffee and sugar in the nineteenth century; in the twentieth, many Latin American countires also proudly exported their national arts and culture. The Argentinian tango, Brazilian feijoada, Cuban son--all these became fashionable abroad as well as within the nation in the 1930s and '40s. To the right, a romantic expression of Mexican indigenismo from Diego Rivera.
On Latin American cultural nationalism:
And on the transition to the Cold War: