Latin America in the World

Daniel J. Greenberg is a professor of Latin American History and director of Latin American Studies at Pace University, USA. He is a Fulbright and Albert Beveridge fellow, and winner of the Presidential Award for Teaching Diversity. He has published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Canadian Studies, and The History Teacher, and contributed the Foreword and Scholarly Commentary to Antonio Tôta’s The Seduction of Brazil (Texas, 2009).Antonia Garcia-Rodriguez is the chair of the Modern Languages & Cultures Department at Pace University in New York City, UAS. She has published many articles in her area of expertise: Latin American, Spanish Caribbean, and Latino literature. She recently published Jesus “Tato” Laviera: An Exploration of the Transnational Poet.

• Part One: Overview 1. Overview: Latin America and Its Subregions 2. Latin American Studies: A Multidisciplinary Field Comes of Age Part Two: Fundamentals 3. History 4. Language Part Three: The Global Context 5. Globalization in Latin America: Background 6. Globalization in Latin America: A Tale of Four Countries Part Four: Case Studies 7. Introduction to the Case Studies 8. Change Agents: Women and the Mexican Revolution 9. The Dissident Cosmos: The Andean World Across Cultural Productions 10. The New Latin American Cinema: The Movement and Its Aftermath 11. Magical Realism: The World Within and Beyond Latin America 12. La Malinche: A Look at Gender in the History of Mexico 13. Globalization and Neoliberal Reform: A Case Study of Mexico and Argentina 14. The Socialist Alternative: Cuba and Venezuela 15. Hard-to-Pick Fruit: Transforming the Landscape of Poverty in Brazil