Intro to Latin American Humanities

PART 1: What Is Latin America?

First Stop, the Present
JOHN CHARLES CHASTEEN

Latin America in Caricatures
JOHN J. JOHNSON

PART 2: Empires of the Sun

The Early Great Styles and the Rise of the Pre-Columbian Civilizations
GORDON R. WILLEY

The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
RALPH L. ROYS

The Sacred Book of the Maya: The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality
POPOL VUH

PART 3: Latin America Emerges

To Roosevelt
RUBÉN DARÍO

José Martí: An Introduction

Versos sencillos
JOSÉ MARTÍ

The Dead Man
HORACIO QUIROGA

PART 4: Nationalism and Art in Mexico

La Raza Cósmica: A New Race and a New Ideal
JOSÉ VASCONCELOS

Mexico: Four Women and One Man
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH

Realism, Pop Art and Surrealism
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH

PART 5: Social Revolution

Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture
JULIE BUNCK

An Introduction to Modern Cuban Painting, CA. 1927-1950
JUAN A MARTÍNEZ

PART 6: Literature

The Baroque and the Marvelous Real
ALEJO CARPENTIER

Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature
LUIS LEAL

Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction
ANGEL FLORES

PART 7: Music of Latin America

The Bolero: The Birth, Life, and Decline of Mexican Modernity
MARK PEDELTY

Popular Music in Puerto Rico: Toward an Anthropology of Salsa
JORGE DUANY

The "Nueva Canción" Movement and Its Mass-Mediated Performance Context
JANE TUMAS-SERNA

La "Nueva Trova": New Cuban Song
RINA BENMAYOR

PART 8: Latinos in the United States

The Gravitas of Spanglish
ILAN STAVANS

The Sounds of Spanglish
ILAN STAVANS

Life in the Hyphen
ILAN STAVANS

From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
JUAN FLORES

Dropping the Hyphen? Becoming Latino(a)-American through Racialized Assimilation
TANYA GOLASH-BOZA