LOCATION: The World Affairs Council Headquarters, 312 Sutter Street, btwn Grant and Stockton Streets. BART to Powell street. Parking available at Sutter/Stockton garage.
TIME: 5-7 pm
The 2008-9 meeting dates scheduled below.
October 15 - A Brief History of Central America by Perez-Brignoli
Tuesday, November 18 - Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois.
Wednesday, December 17 - BANANAS: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, by Peter Chapman.
Wednesday, January 14 - Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel
Wednesday, March 11- Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under US Imperial Rule, by Michel Gobat
Wednesday, April 22 - After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution by Brian Latell
1. A Brief History of Central America by Perez-Brignoli - Oct 15
2. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois - Nov 18
Other possible readings under consideration in no particular order:
- The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
Review: Murder in Guatemala
By CAROLYN CURIEL
BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | September 30, 2007 The novelist Francisco Goldman investigates the real-life killing of a Roman Catholic bishop.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Curiel-t.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
- Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul by Michael Reid
Review: Hello, Neighbor
By CAROLYN CURIEL
Why doesn’t the U.S. pay more attention to Latin America?
BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | February 3, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Curiel-t.html?emc=eta1
- BANANAS: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, by Peter Chapman.
Review: Big Fruit
By DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN
A U.S. company, Latin America and the dark side of the banana business.
BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | March 2, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Kurtz-Phelan-t.html?emc=eta1
- The Doubtful Strait (El Estrecho Dudoso) by Ernesto Cardenal, John Lyons
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr, ISBN 025320903X (0-253-20903-X)
- Ambivalent Conquests by Inga Clendinnen
- One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta (Bill Brow, Translator), (Vintage, 1991).
Day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador.
- Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde - novel - set in Guadeloupe by author of Segu. (New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1995.)
- The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers) by Paula Pettavino, Jon Anderson, Miguel Barnet, and Lynn Geldof (Paperback - Jan 2004)
Short books:
- Joan Didion, Salvador. (Vintage, 1994).
- Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988)
- Forrest D. Colburn, My Car in Managua (Univ. of Texas Press, 1991).
- The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
POLITICAL MAPS
Central America and the Carribean (U. Texas)
Central America - Shaded Relief Map (National Geographic)
Central America (Small Map - Lonely Planet)
Carribean Sea ( IBBP)
Haiti (United Nations) [PDF]
Haiti (1998 National Geographic)
OUTLINE MAPS
Caribbean [Central America and the West Indies] (Florida Geographic Alliance) [pdf]
Central America - Political - no labels (Education Place) [pdf]
The Globalizing World History is a study group for Bay Area teachers meeting to discuss new trends and scholarship in the teaching of World History. The group has examined various topics related to global interconnectedness, ranging from the causes and effects of the African Diaspora to the Modern Middle East to Global Trade during the Renaissance to Global Poverty, Politics and Power. The group chooses five or six books per school year dealing with an annual theme; the book discussions are facilitated by Alan Karras, author and professor in the International and Area Studies department at University of California, Berkeley.
Our topic this year is Central America and the Caribbean.
The group is open to all Bay Area classroom teachers, grades K – 12. Space is limited to 20 teachers.
If you are interested in joining the group please contact Michele Delattre at the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at orias@berkeley.edu or by calling 510/643-0868.
Contact: Michele Delattre at the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at orias@berkeley.edu or by calling 510/643-0868.