Social History Flashcards
Florencia Mallon
Florencia Mallon, “The Promise and Dilemma of Subaltern Studies: Perspectives from Latin American History” Florencia Mallon, for example, argues that when the Revolution began to decline, the Sandinistas lost control in Chile, and Peruvian leaders began slaughtering their own peoples the “most important and inspiration historical narratives have come undone.”
Ida Altman
Ida Altman, Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century emigration from Spain to the New World, view the Iberian diaspora from the perspective of peasants.
William Taylor
Drinking, homicide & rebellion in colonial Mexican villages 1979. As part of his investigation of a wide variety of sources he sought to uncover the lived experiences of peasants in Colonial era Mexico because “crime is also what documents preserve”. He structures his 1979 work by digging into three general social phenomena: drinking, homicide, and resistance
Pablo Piccato
Pablo Piccato City of suspects: crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931, 2001 used the same archival sources as Taylor but brought the focus to the urban environment instead of rural regions and on the criminals and their victims instead of the peasantry.
Douglas Cope
The Limits of Racial Domination:Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 He argues that Spain only managed to retain its power during the Colonial Era through the elite system of ethnic classification because “ideology could take the place of force.” Yet, he also balances his examination by centering how Indians resisted Hispanic cultural ideas.
Richard Boyer
in Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico, 1995 examines two hundred bigamy cases brought before the Mexican Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition dating from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century.
Alida Metcalf
in Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico, 1995 examines two hundred bigamy cases brought before the Mexican Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition dating from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century.
Nara Milanich
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 explores the social and political changes in Chile from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.
George Reid Andrews
Afro-Latin America: 1800 – 2000 , 2004 writes to understand how “how Latin American societies have used ideas about race to reserve wealth and power for those members defined as ‘white’ and to deny those goods to members defined as ‘black’ and ‘brown’.”
Peter Wade
Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia describes the evolution of racial ideas in Colombia from a social anthropology perspective. He explores the narrative of racial democracy that arose in the 1940s.
Jan Hoffman French
Legalizing Identities Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast found that many freed slaves curiously self-identified as quilombo, or indigenous, rather than black.
Richard Graham
Richard Graham has argued that “the racial theories prevailing in European, North American, and Latin American thought from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1920s…decidedly shaped public politics on any number of important issues.”
Brooke Larson
Brooke Larson studies the indigenous people of the Andes in the nineteenth century beginning with the independence wars. With the rise of liberal ideas the common people were both acted upon but also acted to maintain their cultural identities.
Charles Bergquist
pointed to a significant change in the role of labor in Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina after the 1880s. As Latin American countries entered the global capitalist system, elites seized upon and developed export commodities production.
David Sowell
The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogota, 1832-1919, examines the political participation of artisan labor organizations.
