Week 8: Colonial Institutions

History of Latin America
Week 8

Mon.	Cultural Nationalism: Mexico and Brazil
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:

Carmen Miranda sites: Portuguese, English, and the international language of movie posters.
The afro-bloc and Carnaval group Timbalada
The Orozco murals painted at Dartmouth College, 1932-34.
the Mexican charro film industry
Communist Yugoslavia's adoption of the Mexican revolutionary corrido

And on the transition to the Cold War:

Guatemala in 1954: reports on Arbenz's posthumous homecoming in 1995, and a depiction of Arbenz's exile from Time magazine, and some National Security Archive declassified documents from the coup.
Wikipedia's article on Operation PBSuccess is thorough and accurate, and has a nice picture of Arbenz on the cover of Time to go with the article above! The connection between this and Operation Ajex (1953) in Iran is worth contemplating--especially given the common, anti-imperialist cause of Venezuela and Iran today.
ECLA (now ECLAC since the Caribbean has join in), founded 1947 and still going....

History of Latin America Week 8

History of Latin America
Week 8