Los Angeles | The Urban Experience |
Changing Demographics
"Los Angeles was the problem." (p.3)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Books
Bedolla, Lisa García. (2005). Fluid borders: Latino power, identity, and politics in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press. F869.L89 S753 2005
Corwin, Miles. (2003). Homicide special: a year with the LAPD’s elite detective unit. New York: Henry Holt. HV8148.L55 C67 2003
Davis, Mike. (2006). City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles. London: Verso. HN80.L7 D38 2006
Davis, Mike. (2002). Dead cities, and other tales. New York: New Press, Norton. HT123 .D43 2002
Davis, Mike. (2000). Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the U.S. city. London: Verso. E184.S75 D36 2000
Davis, Mike. (1998). Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books. HN80.L7 D37 1998
Fitzpatrick, Kevin M., and Mark LaGory. (2000). Unhealthy places: the ecology of risk in the urban landscape. New York: Routledge, 2000. RA566.3 .F58 2000
Fulton, William B. (1997). The reluctant metropolis: the politics of urban growth in Los Angeles. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press. HT384.U52 C245 1997
Gottlieb, Robert. (2005). The next Los Angeles: the struggle for a livable city. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. HN80.L7 N49 2005
Greenberg, Michael R., and Dona Schneider. (1996). Environmentally devastated neighborhoods: perceptions, policies, and realities. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Library ebook
Hamilton, Nora. (2001). Seeking community in a global city: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. F869.L89 G824 2001
Hohm, Charles F., and James A. Glynn. (2002). California's social problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. HN79.C2 C36 2002
Hylen, Arnold. (1976). Bunker Hill, a Los Angeles landmark: recorded in words and pictures by Arnold Hylen. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop. F869.L88 H9
James, David E. (Ed.). (2003). The sons and daughters of Los: culture and community in L.A. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. F869.L85 S65 2003
Klein, Norman K. (1997). The history of forgetting: Los Angeles and the erasure of memory. London: Verso. F869.L857 K53
Newmark, Harris. (1970). Sixty years in southern California, 1853-1913: containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge.
F869.L8 N48 1970
Ochoa, Enrique C., and Gilda L. Ochoa (Eds.). (2005). Latino Los Angeles: transformations, communities, and activism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. F869.L89 S7537 2005
O’Connor, Alice, Chris Tilly, and Lawrence D. Bobo (Eds.). (2001). Urban inequality: evidence from four cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. HT123 .U7454 2001
Rieff, David. (1991). Los Angeles: capital of the third world. New York: Simon & Schuster. F869.L85 R54 1991
Riposa, Gerry, and Carolyn G. Dersch (Eds.). (1992). City of angels. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. HN80.L7 C58 1992
Sawhney, Deepak Narang. (2002). Unmasking L.A.: third worlds and the city. New York: Palgrave. Reordered
Scott, Allen J., and Edward W. Soja. (1996). The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century. Berkeley: University of California Press. HN80.L7 C57 1996 and Library ebook
Silva-Corvalan, Carmen. (1994). Language contact and change: Spanish in Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press. PC4829.L58 S55 1994
Weaver, John Downing. (1980). Los Angeles: the enormous village 1781-1981. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press. F869.L857 W4
Videos / DVDs
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Made in L.A. HD2339.U6 .M334
Story of three Latina immigrants working in the sweatshops of Los Angeles.
Web Resources
City of Los Angeles. L.A. history and facts.
http://www.lacity.org/lacity32.htm
University of Southern California. Los Angeles and the problem of urban historical knowledge.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/historylab/LAPUHK/
1992 Los Angeles Riots
“Anyone could be caught in the crossfire of the war of the painted children.” (p. 201)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Books
Alan-Williams, Gregory. (1994). A gathering of heroes: reflections on rage and responsibility: a memoir of the Los Angeles riots. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers. F869.L89 N4 1994
Delk, James D. (1995). Fires and furies: the L.A. riots, what really happened. Palm Springs, CA: ETC Publications. F869.L857 D45 1995
Hazen, Don (Ed.). (1992). Inside the L.A. riots: what really happened, and why it will happen again: essays and articles. New York: Institute for Alternative Journalism. F869. L857 I5 1992
Los Angeles Times Staff. (1992). Understanding the riots: Los Angeles before and after the Rodney King case. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times. F869.L89 N4
Madhubuti, Haki R. (1993). Why L.A. happened: implications of the ’92 Los Angeles rebellion. Chicago: Third World Press. F869.L857 W58 1993
Smith, Anna Deavere. (1992). Twilight: Los Angeles. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. PS3569.M465 T95 1994
Tervalon, Jervey (Ed.). (2002). Geography of rage: remembering the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Los Angeles: Really Great Books. F869.L89 A2577 2002
Videos / DVDs
Note: Available at the Library Media Center, Library North 3rd Fl.
Holland, Randy. The fire this time. FLIC87804
An examination of conditions in inner city Los Angeles leading to violence and rioting in the past.
Web Resources
British Broadcasting Corporation. BBC On This Day – Stories from April 29, 1992.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2500000/2500471.stm
CNN. Los Angeles Riot still echoes a decade later– CNN Archives.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/04/28/la.riot.anniversary/index.html
Loyola Marymount University, Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles. 2007 Los Angeles Riots: 15th anniversary resident follow-up survey report.
http://www.lmu.edu/AssetFactory.aspx?did=23081
Central American Diaspora | Immigration | Return Migration
“Antonio was used to being tall. In Guatemala he towered above family and friends. But Los Angeles made him short. It made him stoop and it cast him out with its untouchables, the lifters of dirty dishes, the silent sweepers of bathroom floors, the men and women who placed their hands in the city’s toilets and urinals, scrubbing everything antiseptic-clean.” (p. 53)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Books
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (2007). Occupied America: a history of Chicanos. New York: Pearson Longman. E184.M5 A63 2007
Arreola, Daniel D. (Ed.). (2004). Hispanic spaces, Latino places: community and cultural diversity in contemporary America. Austin: University of Texas Press. E184.S75 H5843 2004
Bedolla, Lisa García. (2005). Fluid borders: Latino power, identity, and politics in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press. F869.L89 S753 2005
Davis, Mike. (2000). Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the U.S. city. London: Verso. E184.S75 D36 2000
Ember, Melvin, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard (Eds.). (2004). Encyclopedia of diasporas: immigrant and refugee cultures around the world. New York: Kluwer. Reference North 1st JV6225 .E53 2004
Figueredo, D.H. (2007). Latino chronology: chronologies of the American mosaic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Reference North 1st E184.S75 F543 2007
Gonzalez, Juan. (2000). Harvest of empire: a history of Latinos in America. New York: Viking. E184.S75 G655 2000
Kohpahl, Gabriele. (1993). Voices of Guatemalan women in Los Angeles: understanding their immigration. New York: Garland. F869.L89 G825 1998
North, Liisa, and Alan B. Simmons. (1998). Journeys of fear: refugee return and national transformation in Guatemala. JV7416 .T39 1998
Taylor, Clark. (1998). Return of Guatemala’s refugees: reweaving the torn. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. JV7416 .T39 1998
Tobar, Héctor. (2005). Translation nation: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States. New York: Riverhead Books. E184.S75 T63 2005
Videos / DVDs
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Discovering Dominga. FLIC87881
Denese Becker, born Dominga Sic Ruiz, is a survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro massacre in Guatemala and an American adoptee raised in Iowa. She returns to Guatemala almost twenty years after the massacre and becomes a victims-rights advocate for survivors at great personal cost.
La ciudad: the city. FLIC87132
A picture of present day immigrant life in New York City. The film's four stories center on “a group of day-laborers scavenging for bricks; two teenagers from the same hometown who meet in the projects and fall in love; a homeless father who tries to enroll his daughter in school; and a garment worker who seeks justice in the sweatshops.”
Chicano! History of the Mexican American civil rights movement. FLIC86483-6
Chronicles various aspects of the struggles for equal rights by Mexican Americans.
Yo soy Chicano. FLIC87012
Portrays the Chicano experience from its roots in pre-Columbian history to the present.
Web Resources
Center for Immigration Studies.
http://www.cis.org/
Los Angeles Times. A surge south of Mexico – Archive for May 1, 2005.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/may/01/world/fg-immig1
Migration Information. Central America: crossroads of the Americas.
http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?id=386
North American Congress on Latin America. Reflections on immigration fromGuatemala.
http://nacla.org/node/4758
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
U.S. Involvement in Latin America | School of the Americas
“Tell me about your training. Did you get to work with the Americans, with the Green Berets? You know, we have a battalion like yours in El Salvador. They’re called the Atlatacl Battalion… The American training is simply the best, isn’t it? These gringos know what they’re doing. Just look at their soldiers, real warriors.” (p. 29)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
The United States has a lengthy history of involvement in Latin America. Has U.S. activity there been in the best interests of the United States?
Books
Dent, David W. (2005). Historical dictionary of U.S.-Latin American relations. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Reference North F1418 .F457 2005
Galeano, Eduardo. (2003). Las venas abiertas de América Latina. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Catalogos. HC125 .G253 2003
Galeano, Eduardo. (1974). Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent. New York: Monthly Review Press. HC125 .G25
Gleijeses, Piero. (1992). Shattered hope: the Guatemalan revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. E183.8.G9 S48 1992
Jonas, Susanne. (1991). The battle for Guatemala: rebels, death squads, and U.S. power. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. F1466.5 .J66 1991
Landau, Sam. (1993). The guerrilla wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. New York: St. Martin’s. F1439 .L36 1993
Rosenberg, Mike. (2007). The United States and Central America: geopolitical realities and regional fragility. New York: Routledge. On order
Saxon, Dan. (2007). To save her life: disappearance, deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. On order
Schlesinger, Stephen and Kinzer, Stephen. (2005). Bitter fruit: The story of the American coup in Guatemala. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. F1466.5 .S34 2005
Videos / DVDs
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Broken promises: the untold story of America’s retreat from commitment. FLIC86400
Looks at Latin American history from the arrival of the Europeans to modern times.
Devils don't dream! FLIC86021
In September 1954 Jacobo Arbenz, the President of Guatemala who had led a revolt against the country’s military dictatorship a decade earlier, is betrayed by foreign powers and overthrown. Arbenz was not a member of any party, but he had begun to fulfill his election promise to give farmers their own land.
The war on democracy. F1418 .W37
Examines American involvement in Latin America for the past half century.
Web Resources
Center for International Policy. Just the facts: a civilian’s guide to U.S. defense and security assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean.
http://ciponline.org/facts/
Central Intelligence Agency. Frequently requested documents – Guatemala.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/guatemala.asp
Farah, Douglas. Papers Show U.S. role in Guatemalan abuses. Washington Post, March 11, 1999.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/march99/guatemala11.htm
Human Rights Watch World Report 1989 – Guatemala.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1989/WR89/Guatemal.htm#TopOfPage
National Security Archive: George Washington University. Guatemalan Police Archives.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB170/index.htm
School of the Americas Watch.
http://www.soaw.org/
United States Southern Command – Partnership for the Americas.
http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/pages/about.php
State-Sponsored Terrorism | Counterinsurgency
“During the day, soldiers dressed as civilians came to kidnap professors and students; after the sun fell, graffiti artists worked until dawn to cover the university walls with the spray-painted names of the dead: Professor Juan Peralta, Ana Saravia, Julio Gomez Asturias… The walls seemed to have an insatiable appetite for the names of dead students.” (p. 87)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Why would a country use systematic and random violence against its own citizens?
Books
Afflitto, Frank M. and Paul Jesilow. (2007). The quiet revolutionaries: seeking justice in Guatemala. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. HV6322.3.G9 A34 2007
Brenner, Bruce and Arthur Campbell (Eds.). (2000). Death squads in global perspective: murder with deniability. On order
Dewever-Plana, Miguel. (2007). La verdad bajo la tierra: Guatemala, el genocidio silenciado. Barcelona: Blume. On order
Friedrichs, David O. State crime. (1998). Aldershot/ Brookfield, VT: Ashgate. HV6322 .S73 1998
Giannakos, S.A. (ed.). (2002). Ethnic conflict: religion, identity, and politics. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. HM1121 .E74 2002
Goldman, Francisco. (2007). The art of political murder: who killed the Bishop? New York: Grove Press. On order
Guatemala, never again! (1999). REMHI, Recovery of Historical Memory Project: the official report of the Human Rights Office, Archdiocese of Guatemala. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. HV6433.G8 G813 1999
Guatemala, nunca más: informe. (1998). Proyecto Interdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica. Guatemala: ODHAG. HV6433.G8 G8 1998
Hayner, Priscilla B. (2001). Unspeakable truths: confronting state terror and atrocity. New York: Routledge. JC571 .H363 2001
Huggins, Martha (Ed.). (1991). Vigilantism and the state in modern Latin America: essays on extralegal violence. New York: Praeger. HN110.5.Z9 V58 1991
London, Douglas and Taxa London. (2007). We were taught to plant corn not to kill: secrets of the silence of the Mayan people. Guilford, CT: Back Up Books Human Rights Press. On order
Manz, Beatrice. (1988). Refugees of a hidden war: the aftermath of counterinsurgency in Guatemala. Albany, NY: State University of Albany Press. F1465.3.G6 M36 1988
Manz, Beatrice. (2004). Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. F1465.2.Q5 M36 2004
May, Rachel. (2001). Terror in the countryside: campesino responses to political violence in Guatemala, 1954-1985. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. HN150.Z9 V543 2001
Moller, Jonathan. (2004). Our culture is our resistance: repression, refuge, and healing in Guatemala. New York: PowerHouse Books. F1466.5 .M57 2004
Montejo, Victor. (1987). Testimony: death of a Guatemalan village. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press. F1466.5 .M66
Nordstrom, Carolyn.(1997). A different kind of war story. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. On order
Perera, Victor. (1993). Unfinished conquest: the Guatemalan tragedy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. F1466.7 .P47 1993
Schirmer, Jennifer. (1998). The Guatemalan military project: a violence called democracy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. F1466.5 .S33 1998
Sluka, Jeffrey A. (Ed.). (1999). Death squad: the anthropology of state terror. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. On order
Stoll, David. (1993). Between two armies in the Ixil towns of Guatemala. New York: Columbia University Press. F1466.5 .S76 1993
Wilkinson, D. (2002). Silence on the mountain: stories of terror, betrayal, and forgetting in Guatemala. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. F1466.7 .W55 2002
Videos / DVDs
Note: Available at the Library Media Center, Library North 3rd Fl.
If the mango tree could speak. FLIC88023
A documentary about children, 12 to 15, and war in Guatemala and El Salvador.
Legacies of war. FLIC88693
An analysis on the devastating aftermath of war.
Maria's story: portrait of love and survival in El Salvador's civil war. F1488.42.S47 M3713
Documentary based on life and work of Maria Serrano, leader in the guerrilla movement in El Salvador. Shows Serrano teaching guerrillas, and planning and carrying out military attacks on government positions.
Web Resources
Historical Clarification Commission. Guatemala: memory of silence.
http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/report/english/conc1.html
International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defenders/hrd_guatemala/hrd_cicig.asp
Guatemala | Maya
“Now he is walking toward her through rows of corn. Leaves brush his face, cool and moist. Rainbow-colored trousers hang loosely from his waist, fabric she wove at the loom. On his feet are sandals, strips of old leather held together with wire and twine.” (p. 301)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Longoria's ethnicity is indigenous, but he rejects it. Why?
Books
Asturias, Miguel Angel. (1990). El senor presidente. Madrid: Alianz Editorial. PQ7499.A75 S4 1990
Asturias, Miguel Angel. Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, trans. (1997). Espejo de Lida Sal (The mirror of Lida Sal: tales based on Mayan myths and Guatemalan legends). Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press. F1434.2.R3 A7713 1997
Benz, Stephen Connely. (1996). Guatemalan journey. Austin: University of Texas Press. On order
Berger, Susan A. (2006). Guatemaltecas: the women's movement, 1986-2003. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. HQ1236.5.G9 B47 2006
Castillo, Otto René. (1971). Let's go! Vamonos patria a caminar. New York: Cape Goliard Press. PQ7499.2.C38 V313
Castillo, Otto René. (1984). Tomorrow triumphant: selected poems of Otto René Castillo. San Francisco: Night Horn Books. PQ7499.2.C38 A24 1984
Few, Martha. (2002). Women who live evil lives: gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas. HQ1480.A58 F49 2002
Fischer, Edward F. (2001). Cultural logics and global economies: Maya identity in thought and practice. Austin, TX: University of Texas. F1435.3.E72 F57 2001
Fischer, Edward F., and R. McKenna Brown (Eds.). (1996). Maya cultural activism in Guatemala. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. F1435.3.E72 M39 1996
Grandin, Greg. (2000). The blood of Guatemala: a history of race and nation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. F1465.2.Q5 G73 2000
Handy, Jim. (1984). Gift of the devil: a history of Guatemala. Boston: South End Press. F1466.35 .H36 1984
Houston, Stephen D., David Stuart, and Karl Taube. (2006). The memory of bones: body, being, and experience among the classic Maya. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. F1435.3.A7 H68 2006
Jones, Oakah L. (1994). Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. F1466.4 .J66 1994
Moller, Jonathan. (2004). Our culture is our resistance: repression, refuge, and healing in Guatemala. New York: PowerHouse Books. F1466.5 .M57 2004
Tedlock, Dennis, translator. (1996). Popol Vuh: the Mayan book of the dawn of life. New York: Simon & Schuster. F1465 .P813 1996
VanKirk, Jacques. (1996). Remarkable remains of the ancient peoples of Guatemala. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. F1445 .V36 1996
Woodward, Ralph Lee. (1992). Guatemala. Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Press. On order
Woodward, Ralph Lee. (1999).Central America: a nation divided. New York: Oxford University Press. F1436 .W66 1999
Woodward, Ralph Lee. (2005). A short history of Guatemala. La Antigua, Guatemala: Editorial Laura Lee. On order
Videos / DVDs
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Popol vuh: the creation myth of the Maya. F1465 .P829
Portrays the creation myth of the Quiché Maya of ancient Guatemala. Gives life to the mystic history and art of the Maya, using animated drawings taken directly from classic Maya pottery.
Web Resources
Folkart.com. Mayan Folktales translated by Fernando Peñalosa.
http://www.folkart.com/folktale/
Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Early Maya
murals at San Bartolo, Guatemala.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/sanbartolo.htm
The Maya astronomy page.
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html
University of Missouri Museum of Anthropology. Mayan costumes of Guatemala.
http://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/minigalleries/guatemalatextiles/intro.shtml
Latin American Politics | Protest Movements
“She drew his attention to the string of words that ran underneath [a mural of] Che, painted on a long white ribbon held aloft by a crudely drawn dove: ‘The revolutionary is guided in all his actions by great feelings of love.’” (p. 90)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Books
Anderson, Thomas P. (1988). Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. On order
Bethell, Leslie (Ed.). (1995). Latin America since 1930: ideas, culture, and society. New York: Cambridge University Press. Reference North 1st F1410 .C1834 1984
Bethell, Leslie (Ed.). (1995). Latin America since 1930: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press. Reference North 1st F1410 .C1834 1984 v.7
Brockett, Charles D. (2005). Political movements and violence in Central America. New York: Cambridge University Press. F1488.3 .B73 2005
Dent, David W. (2005). Historical dictionary of U.S.-Latin American relations. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Reference North F1418 .F457 2005
Galeano, Eduardo. (2000). Days and nights of love and war. New York: Monthly Review Press. PQ8520.17.A4 D513 2000
Guevara, Ernesto. (2003). The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey. Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Press. F2224 .G7813 2003
Kapiszewski, Diana, and Alexander Kazan (Eds.). (2002). Encyclopedia of Latin American politics. Westport, CT: Oryx Press. Reference North 1st F1410 .E56 2002
McCleary, Rachel M. (1999). Dictating democracy: Guatemala and the end of violent revolution. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. JL1490 .M35 1999
Rosenberg, Tina. (1992). Children of Cain: violence and the violent in Latin America. New York: Penguin. On order
Smith, Joseph. (2007). Historical dictionary of United States-Latin American relations. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Reference North 1st F1418 .S638 2007
Trudeau, Robert H. (1993). Guatemalan politics: the popular struggle for democracy. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. JL1496 .T78 1993
Vanden, Harry E., and Gary Provost. (2006). Politics of Latin America: the power game. New York: Oxford University Press. JL960 .V36 2006
Videos / DVDs
Note: Available at the Library Media Center, Library North 3rd Fl.
The war on democracy. F1418 .W37
Examines American involvement in Latin America for the past half century.
Web Resources
The Brookings Institution. Is Latin America going radical?
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2006/0301globaleconomics_graham.aspx
Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network. Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/arl/
International Monetary Fund. Central America aims for stronger growth.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2007/car082b.htm
Project Allende.
http://www.projectallende.org/
Rebelión.
http://www.rebelion.org/
United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
http://www.eclac.cl/
Yahoo News – Latin America news.
http://news.yahoo.com/i/734
Homelessness
“Frank’s shelter was on a choice piece of real estate where the little plateau of Crown Hill dropped off sharply, providing a panoramic view of the Harbor Freeway, the Financial District, and City Hall, a stubby white stone building dwarfed by towers of glass and steel. Frank and his companions had set up an old couch on the edge of the cliff to take in the view. Frank was sitting there now, leaning back and stretching his legs, like a suburbanite entertaining a guest in his living room.” (p. 45)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Books
Abbarno, G. John M. (1999). The ethics of homelessness: philosophical perspectives. Amsterdam: Rodopi. HV4493 .E84 1999
Arnold, Kathleen. (2004). Homelessness, citizenship, and identity: the uncanniness of late modernity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. HV4493 .A76 2004
Falvo, Alfredo. (2006). Lost angeles: a photographic impression of Skid Row, Los Angeles. Antwerp: Stockmans. TR820.5.F26 2006
Lopez, Steve. (2008). The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music. New York: Putnam’s. ML418.A96 L66 2008
Marvasti, Amir B. (2003). Being homeless: textual and narrative constructions. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. V4493 .M37 2003
Passaro, Joanne. (1996). The unequal homeless: men on the streets, women in their place. New York: Routledge. HV4506.N6 P37 1996
Quigley, John, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky. (2001). Homelessness in California. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. HV4506.C2 H68 2001
Ruddick, Susan. (1996). Young and homeless in Hollywood: mapping social identities. New York: Routledge. HV4506.L67 R83 1996
Steinberg, James B. (Ed.). (1992). Urban America: policy choices for Los Angeles and the nation. Santa Monica, CA: Rand. HT168.L6 U72 1992
Underwood, Jackson. (1993). The bridge people: daily life in a camp of the homeless. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. HV4506.L67 U53 1993
Videos / DVDs
Note: Available at the Library Media Center, Library North 3rd Fl.
Sunshine-smile: a true story. FLIC85390
Ronald "Sunshine" Price is a mentally ill homeless man living part-time at Cal State, Los Angeles. Interviews are done with his family, and students and faculty who have interacted with him.
Web Resources
Bring LA Home. Homeless in Los Angeles.
http://www.bringlahome.org/
Fleming, Daniel, Patrick Burns, and Brent Haydamack. Homeless in LA: final research report.
http://bringlahome.org/docs/HILA_Final.PDF
Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center. Homelessness in Los Angeles: a summary of recent research.
http://www.bringlahome.org/docs/Homelessness_rsch.pdf
Inter-University Consortium Against Homelessness. Ending homelessness in Los Angeles.
http://college.usc.edu/geography/ESPE/documents/WEB_Research.pdf
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. 2007 Greater Los Angeles homeless count.
http://www.lahsa.org/2007homelesscountreport.asp
Martinez, Joseph and Bill Pitkin. Homelessness in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles: Center for Community Research and Solutions.
http://www.unitedwayla.org/getinformed/rr/Documents/NovemberResearchPolicyBrief.pdf
National Alliance to End Homelessness.
http://www.endhomelessness.org/
National Coalition for the Homeless.
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Homes and communities: homeless.
http://www.hud.gov/homeless/index.cfm
Violence and Its Effects | Gangs
“There were reasons this work had to be done, even though you started to forget the reasons as time passed. When you actually had to do the deed, the reasons were what carried you forward, the speeches the officers made, what you learned about the enemy. A virus, a plague. An infection spread by ideas, a disease carried on the spoken word.” (p.170)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Violence runs throughout the book. What motivates characters to engage in violence? What are the effects of these forms of violence?
Books
Das, Veena (Ed.). (2000). Violence and subjectivity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. HM886 .V56 2000
Korem, Danny. (2005). Rage of the random actor: disarming catastrophic acts and restoring lives. Richardson, TX: International Focus Press. HV8073.5 .K67 200
Moser, Caroline, and Cathy McIlwaine. (2001). Violence in a post-conflict context: urban poor perceptions from Guatemala. Washington, DC: World Bank. HN150.Z9 V545 2001
Robben, C.G.M., and Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco. (2000). Cultures under siege: collective violence and trauma. New York: Cambridge University Press. HM886 .C85 2000s
Videos / DVDs
Note: Available at the Library Media Center, Library North 3rd Fl.
Rage to revenge: the science of violence. BF575.A5 R34
What goes on in the human body when a person becomes angry? Case histories demonstrate the self-damaging impact of hate and the positive power of forgiveness. Evidence is also provided which indicates that venting - long believed to relieve anger - can actually reinforce aggressive behavior.
A history of violence. FLIC87182
Violent images in life lead to a hate crime and suicide.
Just a game. GV1469.35.G7353 I88
Explores the psychological effects of violent video games.
The mind: the violent mind. FLIC85646
Volume 9 of the series. Suggests that changes in anatomy and chemistry of the brain can cause violent behavior. Scientific data raises questions about the punishment of criminals.
Terror at home: domestic violence in America. HV6626.2 .T47
Follows the stories of seven women over several months as they struggle to free themselves from abusive relationships.
Understanding teenage violence. FLIC87869
Anger is a volatile emotion, and all too often, it results in acts of violence. Knowing how to deal directly with our anger and learning how to channel it in positive ways can help us to make the best of a bad situation.
Web Resources
American Psychological Association. Is youth violence just another fact of life?
http://www.apa.org/ppo/issues/pbviolence.html
Annual Reviews. The effects of family and community violence on children.
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.51.1.445
California Wellness Foundation. New thinking can help defeat gang violence.
http://www.tcwf.org/op-ed_archive/new_thinking.htm
Gift From Within: PTSD resources for survivors and caregivers. Questions and answers.
http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/qna.html
Homeboy Industries. History.
http://www.homeboy-industries.org/history.php
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. What is traumatic stress?
http://www.istss.org/resources/what_is_traumatic_stress.cfm
International Victimology.
http://www.victimology.nl/
Los Angeles Police Department. LAPD, Local, State, and Federal Officials Announce Reduction in 2007 Gang Crime (press release).
http://www.lapdonline.org/home/news_view/37314
National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Community violence.
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/ncdocs/fact_shts/fs_comm_violence.html
National Public Radio. South L.A. gang violence claims young victims.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88045529
Forgiveness | Reconciliation | Peace
“All the brooms on the streets now—they were definitely an act of love. The sweeping and the sweeping, strangers meeting to collect a treasure of shimmering shards. We are cleaning now. Here is the true brotherhood of the city. But the brooms could not do their work without the fields of broken glass, without the soggy ashes that covered the sidewalks.” (p. 306)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
There is some medical evidence that people who can forgive lead healthier lives than those who are resentful. So why are we at such a loss to forgive other people?
What is required in the act of forgiveness?
Books
Arnson, Cynthia J. (1999). Comparative peace processes in Latin America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. F1414.2 .C573 1999
Biggar, Nigel. (2001). Burying the past: making peace and doing justice after civil conflict. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. JC578 .B49 2001
See the chapter by Alexandra Barahona de Brito, “War, peace, and the politics of memory in Guatemala.”
Hardimon, Michael O. (1994). Hegel's social philosophy: the project of reconciliation. New York: Cambridge University Press. B2949.S6 H35 1994
Jonas, Susanne. (2000). Of centaurs and doves: Guatemala's peace process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. F1466.7 .J66 2000
Long, William. (2003). War and reconciliation: reason and emotion in conflict resolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. JZ5597 .L66 2003
Minow, Martha. (1998). Between vengeance and forgiveness: facing history after genocide and mass violence. Boston: Beacon Press. Library ebook
Rigby, Andrew. (2001). Justice and reconciliation: after the violence. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. JC578 .R54 2001
Schimmel, Solomon. (2002). Wounds not healed by time: the power of repentance and forgiveness. New York: Oxford University Press. BJ1476 .S34 2002
Videos / DVDs
Note: Available at the Library Media Center, Library North 3rd Fl.
Forging peace in Guatemala. FLIC87417
Presents portraits of three Mayan women and their efforts on behalf of peace as a result of a 36-year civil war in Guatemala.
Making peace. HT1521 .M25
v. 1 Soul survivors -- v. 2 Youth struggling for survival -- v. 3 Ending domestic violence -- v. 4 The Sheenway experiment -- v. 5 Turn-a-lot-around -- v. 6 The underground railroad -- v. 7 Facing racism
Rigoberta Menchu: broken silence. FLIC87352
Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Web Resources
Carnegie Council. History, education and reconciliation in Guatemala.
http://www.cceia.org/resources/articles_papers_reports/4996.html
International Center for Transitional Justice. What is transitional justice?
http://www.ictj.org/en/tj/780.html
Nobel Foundation. Rigoberto Menchú Tum – Nobel peace prize laureate 1992.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html
Nonviolence United.
http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/
Restorative Justice Online. Resources.
http://www.restorativejustice.org/resources/docs/
United Nations Peacebuilding Commission.
http://www.un.org/peace/peacebuilding/
United Nations. Statement by the Delegation of Guatemala before the Security Council on the question of ‘National reconciliation in post-conflict situations: the role of the United Nations’.
http://www.un.int/guatemala/english/speeches/security_council/un%20role.htm
United States Institute of Peace.
http://www.usip.org/
United States Institute of Peace: Peace Agreements Digital Collection – Guatemala.
http://www.usip.org/library/pa/index/pa_guatemala.html
Body Art
“He had broken some sort of taboo, crossed a boundary. Something about this snarling jaguar hinted at madness, unpredictability, bouts of rage. … Longoria was pleased to discover that his tattoo had these unexpected powers.” (p. 242)
Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Books
Aldama, Arturo J. (Ed.) (2003). Violence and the body: race, gender, and the state. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. HM1116 .V557 2003
Atkinson, Michael. (2003). Tattooed: the sociogenesis of a body art. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. GN419.3 .A84 2003
Benthien, Claudia. (2002). Skin: on the cultural border between self and the world. New York: Columbia University Press. GN191 .B4613 2002
Burton, John. (2001). Culture and the human body: an anthropological perspective. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. GT495 .B878 2001
DeMello, Margo. (2000). Bodies of inscription: a cultural history of the modern tattoo community. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. GT2346.U6 D45 2000
DeMello, Margo. (2007). Encyclopedia of body adornment. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. On order
Durfee, Dale. (2000). Tattoo. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. GN419.3 .D87 2000
Featherstone, Mike (Ed.). (2000). Body modification. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. GT2343 .B63 2000
Houston, Stephen D., David Stuart, and Karl Taube. (2006). The memory of bones: body, being, and experience among the classic Maya. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. F1435.3.A7 H68 2006
Saltz, Ina. (2006). Body type: intimate messages etched in flesh. New York: Abrams Image. GT2345 .S25 2006
Sullivan, Nikki. (2001). Tattooed bodies: subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure. Westport, CT: Praeger. GN419.3 .S85 2001
Thomas, Nicholas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas (Eds.). (2005). Tattoo: bodies, art, and exchange in the Pacific and the West. Durham, Duke University Press, 2005. GN419.3 .T37 2005
Web Resources
Tattoojoy.com. Tattoo History – Maya.
http://tattoojoy.com/tattoo_history/maya.htm
Villanova University Office of Health Promotion. About body art and piercing.
http://www.villanova.edu/studentlife/healthandwellness/resources.htm?page=bodyart_piercing.htm
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Bodies of culture.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/online_exhibits/body_modification/bodmodintro.shtml
Smithsonian. AnthroNotes Winter 2001.
http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/anthnote/Winter01/anthnote.html