Seminar powerpoint
Questions
- How did urbanization affect Latin America?
- How did mass consumer culture affect Latin America?
- Plus:
- On Perlman: what techniques and methods does she use? What was the origin of the city's favela growth? How has "marginality" been perpetuated across the generations in Rio? How does consumption relate to marginality/ poverty?
- On Aguilar-Rodriguez: what can the history of food tell us about Latin American history more generally? How did the attempted 'modernisation' of eating affect gender roles in Mexico City?
Required Reading: ONE of:
- Aguilar-Rodríguez, Sandra. “Cooking Modernity: Nutrition Policies, Class, and Gender in 1940s and 1950s Mexico City.” The Americas, vol. 64, no. 2, 2007, pp. 177–205.
- Janice E. Perlman, “The Metamorphosis of Marginality: Four Generations in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 606, Chronicle of a Myth Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin America (Jul., 2006), pp. 154-177.
Further Reading
- Alexis McCrossen, Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands Duke:2009 (Chapters 1 and 2)
- Courtney Campbell, Region Out of Place: The Brazilian North-East and the World, 1924-1968 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022): Chapter 1 on migration from the North-East, and chapter 4 on US consumer culture, are useful for this week's topics.
- Milanesio, Natalia. Workers Go Shopping in Argentina : The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
- Oscar Lewis, "Urbanization without Breakdown: A Case Study" The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jul., 1952), pp. 31-41.
- Moreno, Julio. Yankee Don't Go Home! : Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950, University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Oscar Lewis, Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty 1970
- Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family. 1962
- Larissa Lomnitz, Networks and Marginality. Academic Press, 1977.
- Janice Perlman, The Myth of Marginality. University of California Press, 1976.
- Joel Wolfe. Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity, Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2010.
