Posted: September 16th, 2017

Violence

Professors Instructions Below:

Write on on Violence. Use  the sources indicated to illustrate the suggested theme of your essay, integrating as many as possible of the readings and films listed.  You can write about the readings or films in any order that you like.  No quotes summary is fine. i don’t want a novel.
What you are trying to demonstrate is the breadth and thoroughness of your reading (that you did all of the required readings and can link any of them to the given  theme of violence that runs through the first half of the fall term)  The best grades will go to those who can tie into the selected theme most of the suggested sources below, even if only writing briefly on each one (that is, a medium-length  paragraph on each). Do not make the mistake of writing more than one page on a couple of these sources in the expectation that I will think that you simply ran out of time to consider more than these few readings.  This is not the conclusion that I will draw.  As a general rule, do not write more than three-quarters of a page on any of the sources so that you will have time to write something on the greatest possible number of those indicated below. Half a page for a particular reading or film should be sufficient to show your thorough acquaintance with any of the sources.  


Violence ( different forms of violence, incidence of violence, absence of violence, consequences of violence) ,

Eric Wolf,  “Iberians in America,” Oscar Lewis’s Pedro Martinez, Sidney Mintz’s Taso,  Pozas’s Juan the Chamula, Wolf and Mintz’s discussion of “sanctions,” the Haitian slaves in Carolyn Fick’s article, the Quemada slave population in the film “Burn!”;  the world of cane cutters in “Sugar Cane Alley”;,  the Mexican Revolution in Hellman’s  Mexico in Crisis, chapter 1, Judith Adler Hellman,  “Invasion and Resistance in the Dominican Republic: A Life in Santo Domingo and Upper Manhattan,”  Michael McLean Ayearst,  “A Life on the Miskitu Coast During the Nicaraguan Revolution,”  Lorenzo Vargas, “Winding Road of Fear: The Years of Conflict in Colombia Through the Eyes of a Truck Driver,” Juan Manuel Vidal, “Civil War and Peace in El Salvador”;  Nadine Ramharack, “Resilience:  Life in Rural Trinidad,”  Ashleigh Philips,  “Race, Class, Revolution and the U.S. Invasion of Grenada,”